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Guyana Folk Festival Symposium 2004 Page 1 of 20 GuyFolkFest.org Celebrating Our Cultural Heritage Symposium 2004 Home Page About Us Art By Guyanese Awards 2011 Awards See Thank You to sponsors here Nominations Come to My GUYANA FOLK FESTIVAL 2004 THE SYMPOSIUM KweKwe Events Calendar Columbia University, Morningside Campus, New York, NY Family Fun Day Friday, September 3 12:00 PM to 4 PM & 2011 Saturday, September 4 10 AM to 8 PM Film Festival 2011 Thank You to Symposium Participants: click here Performing Arts Festival Co -Sponsors: GCA Newsletter The Department of African American Studies, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Guyana Folk The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University, New York. Magazine eCaroh Caribbean Emporium, Boston, Massachusetts. GCA Supports The Mission Artistes Click for other years: Heritage Summer To organize an event that would contribute an Camp appreciation of the history and direction of Guyanese Symposium 2003 Literary Hang 2011 expressive culture, especially the verbal & scribal Symposium 2005 traditions. Specifically, the event will encourage the Symposium 2006 exploration and celebration of Guyanese oral traditions Merchandise and spoken word, writing (fiction and non -fiction), songs, Symposium 2007 and cartoons. Mother's Day 2011 Rationale Past Events In the dedication to the Section Edition of A Festival of Guyanese Words, the editor, Press Releases John Rickford noted: To those before us, Who kept what words they could, borrowed and made up what they needed, and buried what had outlived its usefulness. And To Sponsors those after us, who will continue the process Words have had an important place in Guyanese life throughout the ages. They define us, articulate our aspirations and our disappointments, reflect on our landscape, document our achievements, celebrate our Storytelling Night multicultural heritage, and help us envision preferable futures. Guyanese writers have contributed to Guyanese international profile. Guyanese words will help to heal the Symposium 2011 nation. Tributes http://www.guyfolkfest.org/symposium2004.htm 5/9/2012 Guyana Folk Festival Symposium 2004 Page 2 of 20 Objectives Upcoming Events Specifically, the symposium will: Vendors Support the thrust of Guyana Folk Festival 2004 Identify, discuss and demonstrate the scope of oral and scribal traditions in Guyana during the 20th century. Explore the role of radio in diffusing and promoting Guyanese words. Collect materials for dissemination in the popular Guyana Folk magazine and the academic press; and to support scholarly research, for storage in the Caribbean Collection of the University of Guyana, and for immediate use in radio and television programming Showcase current trends in Guyanese words. Guyana folk Festival Statement on Use of Copyrighted Material Guyana Folk Festival (GFF) is a Not For Profit entity committed to the preservation, propagation and promotion of the cultural heritage of the people of Guyana. In furtherance of this effort and its related activities, GFF will from time to time solicit contributions from various artists reflecting the rich mosaic of Guyana. GFF is resolute in its commitment to respect the intellectual property rights of all contributors to GFF sponsored activities. GFF will in all instances of commercial use of contributors' works seek to negotiate reasonable compensation for the contributing artists. In other instances of non - commercial use where GFF uses, adapts, translates, modifies and/or distributes the contributions of artists or any parts thereof in furtherance of its goals, GFF will endeavor to ensure that such use constitutes ""Fair Use" of such copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of Title 17 of the United States Code. Ohio University ’s Department of African American Studies College of Arts and Sciences There is an ever -increasing demand for college graduates who are equipped to work in global and multicultural environments. Ohio University's Department of African American Studies offers a distinctive program that focuses on the African American experience regionally, nationally and globally. It offers a solid program of study that draws from a range of academic fields including history, sociology, psychology, political science, economics, literature, art, music and media. Established in 1969, the Department of African American Studies at Ohio University is one of the oldest programs in the United States. For more than three decades the department has been enriching the educational experience for all students at Ohio University. Many of our majors have gone on to graduate school and carved for themselves influential careers in a variety of fields including law, the performing arts, international affairs, religion, politics, education, and business. Our faculty members have made valuable contributions to the field of African American and Africana Studies in the United States and around the world. And therefore the Department of African American Studies, Ohio University is pleased to be a sponsor of the Guyana Folk Festival 2004 Symposium, Guyanese Word: Spoken, Written, Sung, Drawn http://www.guyfolkfest.org/symposium2004.htm 5/9/2012 Guyana Folk Festival Symposium 2004 Page 3 of 20 The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University: An Archive and an Institution The Center for Ethnomusicology is a unique institution in the discipline and at Columbia University. Founded in 1967 by Professor Willard Rhodes and Prof. Nicholas England , the Center was an institutional home to the prominent mid-century music collector Laura Boulton during the late 1960s and early 1970s. A major portion of Boulton's huge collection of field recordings from around the world (but especially strong in Native American and African materials) forms the core of the Center's archival holdings, a collection known as the Laura Boulton Collection of Traditional and Liturgical Music. Some of Ms. Boulton's many recordings are also housed in other archives, at Harvard University , the Library of Congress , The University of Arizona, and the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music. In fact, Boulton's original recordings from her Columbia deposit collection (on a variety of media) are now held at Indiana, for safekeeping and access, although Columbia University maintains the rights to these materials. The Center holds reel -to-reel copies of these originals and now CD copies of most of them. An additional set of bar -coded and cataloged reel-to-reel copies is now held by the Columbia library system at an offsite storage facility under archival climate -controlled conditions. The Center also holds significant collections of historical recordings of American folk music (especially recordings made by Walter Garwick and George Hibbett), the Collection of Contemporary and Traditional Turkish music, a large collection of videotaped documents of Spanish Flamenco music, and the field recordings of many scholars who have been affiliated with Columbia's program in ethnomusicology as students or faculty members. Finally, the archive contains numerous significant commercially released folk and world music recordings, most of which are long out of print. Several current acquisition projects are now underway to add to the archive. From 1971 until 2003, the archive was directed by Professor Dieter Christensen, who oversaw extensive acquisition and systematization efforts. For most of those years the Center was also the home of the International Council for Traditional Music , of which Prof. Christensen was the Director General, and of the ICTM's flagship journal, The Yearbook for Traditional Music. (In 2001, the ICTM and its journal moved from Columbia to UCLA.) In recent years, at first under Prof. Christensen's Directorship and now under the Directorship of Prof. Aaron Fox, the Center has been moving toward a new mission, and a new model for the dissemination and use of its archives and scholarly resources. As an archive of magnetic audio and video tape and a large volume of associated paper records, the Center, like all such archives, faces a challenging and pressing set of demands to preserve its holdings and to explore means of making its holdings available to the scholarly community, the university community, and the communities in which the music it curates was recorded, while observing uncertain and emerging technological and ethical standards. We are currently involved in a major project to digitize our entire audio collection, amounting to several thousand reel -to-reel tapes, with an eventual goal of making significant portions of this archive available over university and global networks for students, scholars, and communities with interests in this material. At the same time, we are working to "repatriate" selected portions of our archive to the communities from which the music was taken, under circumstances that are sometimes ethically disavowed by contemporary scholars. The two projects, of course, are fundamentally related and are being undertaken in tandem. They also entail enormous labor and great expense, and will take us years to complete and require significant external funding. At the same time, we are seeking to acquire new collections under modern ethical standards and with agreements in place with source communities and researchers governing the digital publication of these materials. In the interim, researchers and students are always welcome to use the Center's holdings as they always have, by visiting our facilities in 701A and 701C Dodge Hall on the