SEM and CORD Joint Annual Meeting Table of Contents Organizers ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 3-4 Boards and Staff ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Exhibitors and Advertisers ............................................................................................................................................................................ 6 General Information ............................................................................................................................................................................... 6 – 8 Seeger Lecture ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Special Events .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Schedule at a Glance. ................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Pre-Conference Symposium ......................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Annual Conference Program ................................................................................................................................................................ 13 – 57 Index of Chairs, Discussants, Panelists, Performers, Presenters ....................................................................................................... 58 – 61 Advertisements ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 62 – 77 Hotel Map .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 78 2011 Joint Annual Meeting SEM and CORD 1 November 17 – 20, 2011 • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania SEM and CORD Joint Annual Meeting Organizers 2011 Joint Annual Meeting Society for Ethnomusicology Congress on Research in Dance Moving Music / Sounding Dance November 17 – 20, 2011 ● Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Conference Host University of Pennsylvania Department of Music SEM/CORD Joint Local Arrangements SEM 2011 Program Committee CORD 2011 Program Committee Committee Sally Ness, Co-Chair Gregory Barz, Chair University of California, Riverside Carol Muller, Chair Vanderbilt University University of Pennsylvania Danielle Robinson, Co-Chair Monica Hairston York University Sylvia Alajaji Center for Black Music Research Franklin and Marshall Ana Paula Höfling University of California, Los Angeles Sarah Morelli Miriam Giguere University of Denver Miriam Phillips Drexel University University of Maryland Adriana Helberg Barley Norton Barbara Sellers-Young York University University of Pittsburgh Goldsmiths, University of London Adrienne Kaeppler Michael Ketner John-Carlos Perea Smithsonian Institution University of Pennsylvania San Francisco State University Tomie Hahn Christopher Washburne Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Allyn Miner University of Pennsylvania Columbia University Evadne Kelly York University Timothy Rommen University of Pennsylvania Anita Gonzalez State University of New York, New Paltz Kariamu Welsh Asante Justine Lemos Temple University University of California, Riverside Nina Ohman, Volunteer Coordinator Zoila Mendoza University of Pennsylvania University of California, Davis Paul Scolieri Barnard College Theresa Buckland De Montfort University 2011 Joint Annual Meeting SEM and CORD 2 November 17 – 20, 2011 • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania SEM and CORD Joint Annual Meeting Acknowledgements From the SEM/CORD 2011 Joint Local Arrangements Committee Chair From the SEM 2011 Program Chair Welcome All to SEM-CORD 2011 Joint Annual Meeting in Philadelphia! We Welcome to the program of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for are delighted to have so many of you visit Philadelphia just before Ethnomusicology. Over 400 members from throughout the world offer papers, Thanksgiving. We have several exciting events: Thursday night’s music and dance performance; Friday night’s European and Arab music performances, chair sessions, respond to panels, screen films, lead workshops, and . host both off site; and Saturday night’s Samba Party and food and fund raiser for receptions to celebrate this year’s joint conference theme with CORD Philly’s hungry and homeless. (Congress on Research in Dance), “Moving Music, Sounding Dance.” Interspersed throughout the meeting in Philadelphia are joint SEM/CORD A multitude of hearty thanks go to Miriam Giguere, Dance Professor at Drexel University (and Penn alum), who has organized a splendid performance for paper sessions as well as panels dedicated to the conference’s sub-themes: Thursday evening, and to her team of student technicians; to Ian MacMillen Where Music Meets Dance, Advocacy and Outreach, Health and Healing, (Penn) and Adriana Helberg (University of Pittsburgh), who have given us the Interculturalism, Hybridity, and Local Philadelphia Communities. Several Friday night European folk music event; Hanna Khoury (Penn), Al-Bustan, and the Arab Music Ensemble for supporting the event that honors Jihad workshops, local area walking tours, educational outreach programs, Racy on Friday; Tim Rommen (Penn) and Mike Stevens for the PhillyBloco receptions, special interest group meetings, and joint sessions with CORD Samba Party; and grad students for hosting the food and fund drive for the round out the rich, full agenda. Several film screenings are scheduled during hungry. daily sessions in addition to an evening of films. In addition, dance workshops Special thanks to graduate students in Music at the University of and parties, concerts, and university- and press-sponsored receptions (and Pennsylvania who have worked really hard to bring to you the Google map of who could resist what has quickly become an annual conference highlight, the local restaurants, performance sites, and public transportation; they have “High Tea Party” sponsored by the British Forum for Ethnomusicology). An joyfully participated in the planning and implementation of that project. They are: Suzanne Bratt, Jessamyn Doan, Laura Donnelly, Glenn Holtzman, innovative highlight introduced this year is live video streaming of panels and Brooke McCorkle, Evelyn Owens, Emily Joy Rothchild, Jessica Swanston, and workshops throughout the annual meeting. Members and non-members Lee Veeraraghavan. Director of the Penn Jazz ensembles, Wade Dean, has led throughout the world will have access to one panel per paper session, creating the ensemble you will hear Thursday evening, and has been a great contributor to grad student labor. a unique global community for the work, research, and ideas of our Society. The annual President’s Round Table focuses on the issue of Music and There is one awesome graduate student who has truly made local HIV/AIDS in Africa, highlighting the release of the volume The Culture of arrangements happen—Nina Ohman. Thank you Nina! Penn Music business AIDS in Africa (Oxford University Press). This year’s Seeger Lecturer, Randy administrator Maryellen Malek deserves a special thanks for her support of the Pre-Conference event, and helping us to manage the other special events. Martin, will address the spirit of the joint conference with a paper on the And particular thanks to the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn, politicalities of both music and dance. A big shout out must go out to the Local Rebecca Bushnell, Associate Dean Jeff Kallberg, and Department of Music Arrangements Committee chaired by Carol Muller, SEM’s executive director Chair Emma Dillon, all for the financial support for the reception and musical happenings here in Philly. The Penn Music Department and Ira Harkavy, Stephen Stuempfle, everyone in the Indiana University Conferences office, Associate Vice President and Director of the Netter Center for Community and the 2011 Program Committee (Chris Washburne, Sarah Morelli, Monica Partnerships, supported our Pre-Conference Symposium, “Music, Dance, and Hairston, Barley Noron, and John-Carlos Perea). We meet this year in Civic Engagement.” And particular thanks go to Kariamu Welsh, Miriam Philadelphia, the site of our Society’s first ever meeting back in 1956 that was Giguere, and Laura Katz who were wonderfully supportive in creating the program for the Pre-Conference Symposium, held at Penn. also hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. That first meeting’s program chair, Melville Herskovits, is surely out there smiling and impressed with the This promises to be a warm and rich gathering of a growing number of special diversity of our body and