Conference Programme Memory, Power and Knowledge in African Music and Beyond
June 10–13, 2015 Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA), Zanzibar, Tanzania
WEDNESday 12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
10 June 2015 14:30 – 16:00 Registration Siti binti Saad Room 16:00 – 16:45 Welcome Addresses His Excellency Seif Sharif Hamad, First Vice-President of Zanzibar Representatives of DCMA & Project Board
16:45 – 17:30 Opening Keynote Christopher Ballantine University of KwaZulu-Natal Song, Memory, Power and the South African Archive
17:30 – 19:00 Session 1 Lizabé Lambrechts Frank Gunderson Alice Aterianus-Owanga Stellenbosch University FLORIDA STATE University University of Lyon CHAIR The Archive and “Boulders, Fighting on ‘Amnesia: It’s When Louise Meintjes Memory: Towards Acts the Plain”: Reflections on a the Gabonese Forgets Duke University of Transgression World War One Era Song Everything.’ Repatriated and Musical Practice, Archives Re-Membered in Western and the Politics of Amnesia Tanzania in Postcolonial Gabon
19:00 Reception & Dinner Thursday 9:00 – 10:30 Session 2 Patricia van Imani Sanga Julio Mendívil 11 June 2015 Leeuwaarde Moonsammy University of Dar es Salaam University of Hildesheim CHAIR Siti binti Saad Room Dickinson college The Archiving of a Taarab Invented Memories: Africa as Isaac R. Amuah Black Power, Fusion, and Singer, Siti Binti Saad, an Archive and the Production University of cape coast the Sound of a New Generation in Shaaban Robert’s of Authenticity in Afro- Memory, Power in Trinidad Wasifu wa Siti Binti Saad Peruvian Popular Music and Knowledge in African Music and Beyond 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break June 10–13, 2015 Dhow Countries Music Academy 11:00 – 12:30 Session 3 Diane Thram Marta Amico Baby Doeseb ILAM, Rhodes University EHESS PARIS / University Namibian broadcasting CHAIR Archives, Heritage Education of Hildesheim corporation David Coplan and Revitalization: The ‘ILAM The Making of Tuareg Music Hauke Dorsch university of Witwatersrand Music Heritage Project SA’ through Memory and Conflict university of Mainz and Digital Return and Stolen Moments – Namibian Re-Study of Hugh Tracey Music History Untold Field Recordings
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 4 Raimund Vogels Isaac R. Amuah Godwin Siundu University of hildesheim University of cape coast University of nairobi CHAIR The Tricks of the Trade: Lyrics of Highlife Music: Music, Ethnicity and Christopher Ballantine Court Musicians in North A Commentary on ‘Hate Speech’: The Kenyan Professor emeritus Eastern Nigeria and Their Ghanaian Social Life Elections Experience University of KwaZulu-Natal Diverse Political Roles
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Session 5 Jesse W. Shipley Rob Bowman Jenny Mbaye haverford college York University, Toronto University of cape town CHAIR Celebrity Rapture: Parody Sub-Saharan African Music World Music 3.0: Bob White and Digital Mediation in Rearticulated: The Case Hip Hop Galsen and the University of Montreal West African Popular Music of Late 1960s Funk ‘Transformer Generation’
17:30 – 18:30 Break
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Concert The DCMA Taarab-Kidumbak Ensemble: A performance of Zanzibar taarab and the Zanzibar folk tradition kidumbak Conference Programme Friday 9:00 – 10:30 Session 6 John Collins Bosoma Sheriff Christiaan De Beukelaer 12 June 2015 University of Ghana at LeGon University of Maiduguri University of Leeds CHAIR Ghanaian Neo-Traditional The Power of Musical Politics and Power in Siti binti Saad Room Jesse W. Shipley Music: Modern Identity Memory in Mediating Issues Music: (Self-) Censorship Kiluwa Room haverford college Expressed through Changing in Contemporary Nigerian in Burkina Faso Traditional Music Politics
Memory, Power 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break and Knowledge in African Music and Beyond 11:00 – 12:30 Session 7 Nathan Plageman Anne Schumann Brett Pyper Wake Forest university University of Witwatersrand University of Witwatersrand June 10–13, 2015 CHAIR Dhow Countries Music Academy A Failed Showcase of Empire?: Power, Knowledge and the Jazz, Social Memory and Philip V. Bohlman Official Anxieties, Colonial Popular. Making Sense of Musical ‘Counter-Knowledge’ University of Chicago Power, and the Gold Coast Zouglou Music as Popular Art in South Africa: Reconstituting Police Band’s 1947 Tour of the Vernacular Archive under Great Britain and after Apartheid
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 JUNIOR Session 8a Tracey Stewart Charlotte Grabli Dominic Makwa Siti binti Saad Room University of virginia EHESS, Paris Stellenbosch university The Abeng: Sounding the The Uses of Radio in (Re-) thinking Preservation CHAIR Raimund Vogels Charge for Jamaican the Segregated Area of of Oral Heritage through University of Hildesheim Maroon Independence Leopoldville during the 1950s Context Archiving
JUNIOR Session 8b Eyram Fiagbedzi John W. Dankwa Cara Stacey Kiluwa Room University of Ghana University of cape coast University of cape town Borborbor Music: A Matrix for ‘G baaship’ and Medicinal & SOAS CHAIR Bala Dauda Cultural Education and Ethnic Powers: Examining a Culture Composition, Place and University of Maiduguri Re-union in Accra of Competition among Soundmarks in the Bow Xylophone Musicians in Music of Swaziland Dagaaba Funeral Ceremonies
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Session 9 Louise Meintjes Bob White Joseph Wilson Duke University University of Montreal University of Maiduguri CHAIR Post Apartheid Cultural Music as Global Encounter Music and the Freedom of Timothy Taylor Brokerage on the Expression in Nigeria: Singing University of California, Los Angeles World Music Circuit the Maladies of a Nation
17:30 – 19:30 Optional Programme Tour around Stone Town, Zanzibar
Evening Free Conference Programme Saturday 9:00 – 10:30 Session 10 Eric Otchere Violeta Ruano Posada Mahsin Basalama 13 June 2015 University of cape coast SOAS, University of London Dhow Countries CHAIR Music: Knowledge, Telling (Hi)Stories Through Music Academy Siti binti Saad Room Mitchel Strumpf Emotions and Preferences Music: The Power of Taarab Music of Zanzibar Dhow Countries Performance in the Sharawi Music Academy Refugee Camps Memory, Power and Knowledge in African Music 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break and Beyond 11:00 – 12:30 Session 11 Said N. H. el-Gheithy Hajara Njidda Florian Carl June 10–13, 2015 Princess Salme Museum, University of Maiduguri University of cape coast Dhow Countries Music Academy CHAIR Stone Town Political Power and Invention The Power to Choose: Hauke Dorsch The Music of the Zanzibar of Tradition: The Case of Music Technology University of Mainz Omani Royal Household the National Festival of Arts and Everyday Listening and Culture in Nigeria Practices in Ghana
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 12 David Coplan Christopher Mtaku Timothy Taylor university of Witwatersrand University of Maiduguri University of California, CHAIR Southern African Song: Music, Memory, and Cultural Los Angeles Diane Thram A People’s History Identity: The Significance Power, Memory, and Value ILAM, Rhodes University of the Tsinza (Xylophone) among the Bura of North eastern Nigeria
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:45 Closing Keynote Philip V. Bohlman University of chicago Africa Aporia: Ethnomusicology in Search of Lost Time
16:45 – 17:30 Final Discussion
17:30 – 19:00 Break
19:00 Farewell Dinner
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