ICTM Ireland Annual Conference 25-26 February 2017, Maynooth University Keynote speaker: Jeff Todd Titon Sponsored by the Anthropological Association of Ireland Conference Programme Saturday, 25 February 9.00am Registration 9.30am Welcome address 9.45am 1A. Music Revival Michalis Poupazis 1B. Collections from 19th Century (chair) Ireland Seán McElwain (chair) “Revival or Reclamation” “In Search of ‘Patrick Quin – The John Millar, University College Dublin Armagh Harper’ (1745-1812?)” Sylvia Crawford, Dundalk Institute of Technology “Singing Þjóðtrú: Nordic Folklore in “The Déise Music Archive: An Viking and Folk Metal” exploration of one Irish region’s musical George Nummelin, SOAS, University of legacy” London Christopher Mac Auliffe, Waterford Institute of Technology “Let’s put up a stage: Experiencing “Reimagining Bunting: Belfast’s Lost Speyfest and a Scottish Music Revival” Sounds” Daithí Kearney and Adèle Commins, Conor Caldwell, Queen’s University Dundalk Institute of Technology Belfast 11.15am Tea/coffee 11.30am 2A. Cultural Sustainability (a) Daithí 2B. Music and Memory Steve Coleman Kearney (chair) (chair) “Cultural and Environmental “Antonis’ Wedding: The Moment, The Sustainability in Florianopolis, Brazil” Music and Rites Between Tradition and Jamie Corbett, Brown University Modernity in Cyprus” Michalis Poupazis, University College Cork “The UNESCO resilience-based “Can I walk Beside You? Life Before approach to safeguarding of intangible and After the Woodstock Music and cultural heritage (ICH) in Jordan: a case Arts Fair, 1969” study on audiovisual archiving in the Cormac Sheehan, University College Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan” Cork Sabrina Maria Salis, UNESCO 12.30pm 3A. Film. Singing Hari Bolo in a north east Indian village: A Praise music tradition revived by Jyosna La Trobe, Independent Scholar 1.00pm Lunch 2 2.00pm 4A. Roundtable. Irish traditional music: Continuing and evolving the revival process Adrian Scahill (chair) Aibhlín McCrann, Cruit Éireann Grace Toland, Director, Irish Traditional Music Archive Antaine Ó Faracháin, Sean-Nós Cois Life Terry Moylan, Archivist, Na Píobairí Uilleann Fintan Vallely, Adjunct Professor, University College Dublin 3.30pm Tea/coffee 3.45pm 5A. Technologies of Mediation Tony 5B. Tradition and Authenticity Conor Langlois (chair) Caldwell (chair) “Music for the Masses: The Promotion of “Who Dares Speak of Authenticity? Radio in 1950s Vietnam” Reimagining Cultural Authenticity in st Lonán Ó Briain, University of the 21 Century” Nottingham Éamonn Costello, University of Limerick “Home Away from Home: Sustaining the “(E)merging traditions: new perspectives Fieldwork Enterprise” on sean nós and contemporary music Thérèse Smith, University Colllege collaborations” Dublin Stephanie Ford, Maynooth University 4.45pm Tea/coffee 5.00pm 6. Keynote. “Eco-Trope, Eco-Tripe, Sound Cultures, Sustainability and Revival” (introduction by Professor Thérèse Smith) 6.30pm ICTM Ireland AGM 7.30pm Conference dinner Sunday, 26 February 10.00am 7A. Cultural Sustainability (b) Aoife 7B. Cultural Resilience Lonán Ó Briain Granville (chair) (chair) “Sufi Music in Morocco and UK: The “Success in the Culture Industries: Sustainability of a Cultural Tradition” Entrepreneurial Neoliberal Rhetoric and Tony Langlois, Mary Immaculate Resilience” College Leah O’Brien Bernini, Cultural Roadmapp “Taking the Traditional Irish Pub “Cultural Resilience and Irish Traveller Session into Europe: An ethnographic Music” look at conflicting concepts and Noelle Mann, Trinity College Dublin consequences of political interventions” Rina Schiller, Queen’s University 3 Belfast 11.00am 8A. Film. A Train Back: Contemporary Popular Music and Antiquated Recording Technology by Michael Lydon, National University of Ireland, Galway 11.15am Tea/coffee 11.30am 9A. Reviving, Performing, Imagining Elizabeth K Neale (chair) “Revival and Re-enactment: Transformations in Cornish carolling traditions in California and South Australia” Elizabeth K Neale, Cardiff University/University of Exeter “Song of the Western Men: Performing Trelawny and the Celtic Revival in Cornwall” Garry Tregidga, University of Exeter “Transcultural Approaches in the Cornish Nos Lowen Movement” Lea Hagmann, Universität Bern 1.00pm Close ‘A’ panels will be in the Bewerunge Room ‘B’ panels will be in the O’Callaghan Room The keynote presentation will be in the Renehan Hall 4 Keynote Lecture Eco-Trope, Eco-Tripe, Sound Cultures, Sustainability and Revival Jeff Todd Titon, Brown University Since 1964 when William K. Archer proposed that ethnomusicologists consider ecology when analyzing music within its cultural context, the idea that ecologies bear on our understanding of music and sound cultures has gained increasing traction. Acoustic ecologists warn of noise pollution, while soundscape ecologists study the interactions of sound in specific landscapes. Indigenous ecological knowledge places sound closer to the center of life than does Western science. Ecologies offer an epistemology based in relations and systems; some ethnomusicologists, including this writer, have proposed that it is helpful to think of music cultures as ecosystems. Critics object that this turn to music ecology is founded on a false analogy between nature and culture; further, that it is holistic and in its environmentalism represents an unfortunate return to the grand narratives that were deconstructed in the science wars of the previous century. Sustainability in this view becomes a new grand narrative, as does climate change. However, this critique is directed at the grand narrative of the balance of nature, a paradigm that ecological scientists abandoned in the last century; moreover, complex systems analysis responds to much of this critique by acknowledging the limits of predictability and knowledge, and by devising pragmatic strategies of resilience and adaptive management. Conservation biologists partner with 5 environmentalists to apply these principles and strategies to minimize unintended and negative consequences in the face of inevitable disturbance and change. Applied to sound cultures, sustainability, and revival, these insights promise not only greater understanding of music but also a re-centering of sound connections as a basis for sound communities, sound economies, and a sound ecology. Biography Jeff Todd Titon received the B.A. from Amherst College, and the M.A. (English) and Ph.D. (American Studies) from the University of Minnesota, where he studied ethnomusicology with Alan Kagan, writing his dissertation on blues music. He taught at Tufts University (1971-1986), where he co-founded the American Studies program, and held appointments in the departments of English and music. In 1986 he moved to Brown as professor and director of the doctoral program in ethnomusicology, a position he held until retirement in 2013. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Early Downhome Blues (1977; 2nd edition, University of North Carolina Press, 1994), which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award; Worlds of Music (six editions since 1984, with translations into Italian and Chinese); Powerhouse for God (a book, record, and documentary film); Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (University Press of Kentucky, 2001), American Musical Traditions, (Gale, 2002), and the Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology (Oxford Univeristy Press, 2015). Titon has been a visiting professor at Carleton College, Amherst College, Berea College, the University of Maine, and Indiana University. From 1990 to 1995 he was editor of Ethnomusicology, the Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology. He is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society and a member of their Executive Board. His fieldwork has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Since his retirement in 2013 he has remained active, publishing several essays, editing one book, and giving numerous lectures and keynote addresses. His current research in ecomusicology may be tracked on his blog at http://sustainablemusic.blogspot.com. In the spring 2016 semester he held the Basler Chair of Excellence for the Integration of the Arts, Rhetoric and Science at East Tennessee State University. While in residence, he offered a series of public lectures on his current project, a book on a "sound ecology." In addition to his current research and writing in ecomusicology, his ongoing projects include musical conservation partnerships with Old Regular Baptists in eastern Kentucky, with whom he has produced two CDs for Smithsonian Folkways (1997 and 2003); the first of these was selected in 2015 for permanent recognition on the National Recording Registry. Other works in progress include a second book volume and a website on the life and preaching of the Rev. C. L. Franklin, father of the singer Aretha Franklin, which will include Titon's video footage of Franklin's whooped sermons. In addition to his scholarly research and teaching, Titon is a musician. For two years he was the guitarist in the Lazy Bill Lucas Blues Band, a group that appeared in the 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival; in the 1980s he took up the fiddle and banjo, and most of his music-making today involves old-time string band music from the upper South. 6 List of Abstracts 1A. Music Revival Revival or Reclamation John Millar, University College Dublin As a genre that trades in invocations of the past, country music in Dublin today sits at a nexus of nostalgia and contemporaneity. As multiple scenes have developed,