| | Friday
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| 8:00-9:00 |
Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:00 |
Welcome and Opening Remarks Eric Usner, Conference Convener |
| 9:15-11:00 |
Panel I Chair: Michael Beckerman Respondent: George Lewis |
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"Diasporic Communities and Negotiated Identities: Alan Hovhaness's Recovery of the Armenian Folk Music Idiom" Sylvia Alajaji (Musicology, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music) |
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"Relationships Between Music and Racial Ideas in the Context of Romani Music Making in the Czech Republic: Diasporic Dimensions" Melissa Payne (Ethnomusicology, SOAS, University of London) |
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"The Whiteness of Henry Flynt" Ben Piekut (Musicology, Columbia University) |
| 11:15-1:00 |
Panel II Chair: ______ Respondent: Deborah Kapchan |
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"The Ballet Folklórico de México & the Construction of the Mexican Nation Through Dance" Sydney Hutchinson (Ethnomusicology, New York University) |
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"Imagine Me Otherwise: Ritual Drumming as Native American Daydreams" Tina Majkowski (Performance Studies, New York University) |
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"'Foreign Dancers': The Dance Club as a Field for the Construction of Collective Identity Among African Labor Migrants in Israel" Uri Dorchin (Cultural Anthropology Ben Gurion University, Israel) |
| 1:00-2:00 |
Lunch (provided) |
| 2:00-3:45 |
Panel III Chair: Tavia Nyong'o, Respondent: Arthur Jafa |
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"Recuerdos de los Repatriados: Remembrances of the Repatriated Illegal Deportation, Memory, and Performance" Lessa Bouchard ( Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago) |
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"The Taxonomy of Vocal Timbre and the Construction of Race"
Nina Sun Eidsheim Critical Studies and Experimental Practices, University of California, San Diego) |
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"Mutiny in the UK: South Asian Youth, Music, and Politics in 1970s-90s
Britain"
Vivek Bald |
| 4:00-5:45 |
Panel IV Chair:____ , Respondent: Sherrie Tucker |
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"Starring Hazel Scott as Herself: The Representation of Race and Gender in the Hollywood Films of Hazel Scott"
Monica Hairston (Ethnomusicology, New York University) |
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“Muting” Mahalia: Visual Representations of Gospel Music
Brian Hallstoos (American Studies, University of Iowa) |
| | "Great Black Music? Janis Joplin and 'Authentic' Female Blues”
Rachel Gillet (History, Northeastern University) |
| 6:00-7:00 |
Opening Keynote |
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"The Silence of Genocide"
Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago) |
| 7:00- |
Opening Reception Hosted by
Michael Beckerman, Chair, Dept. of Music |
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Saturday
|
| 9:00 |
Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:30-11:15 |
Panel V Chair: Kyra Gaunt Respondent: Ellie Hisama |
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"Hearing Hip-hop’s Jamaican Accent"
Wayne Marshall (Ethnomusicology, University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
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"Oh Bubba, Where Art Thou??: Bubba Sparxxx as Rap's White Other"
Loren Ludwig (Critical and Comparative Studies in Music, University of Virginia) |
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"What’s So German About It?: Race and Cultural Identity in Berlin’s Hip Hop Community"
Inez Templeton (Stirling Media Research Institute, University of Stirling, Scotland) |
| 11:30-1:15 |
Panel VI Chair: Greg Tate Respondent: Juan Flores |
| | "American Afrobeat: Transnational, Transcultural, and Transracial"
Matt Sakakeeny (Ethnomusicology, Columbia University) |
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"Binational Rock: Images of Self and Other in American and Mexican Rock Music"
Adriana Martinez (Musicology, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester) |
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"Kafin: The Quest For Wealth"
Iddrisu Saaka with Taisha Paggett and Kate Foley (Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA) |
| 1:15-2:15 |
Lunch |
| 2:15-4:00 |
Performance Panel Curated by Byron Au Yong
Located in 636, 6th Floor of Tisch |
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Chair: Karen Shimakawa
Du Yun
P.I.C.
Kevin So |
| 4:15-6:00 |
Panel VIII Chair: Jason King Respondent: _____ |
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"Representing Complexity: Vijay Iyer, Resistance, and In What Language?"
Niko Higgins (Ethnomusicology, Columbia University) |
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"Odd man out: Dystopia and Black Hard Rock"
Justin Patch (Ethnomusicology, University of Texas, Austin) |
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"Faders, Breaks & Scratches: Pilipino American Turntablism’s Technologics"
Christine Balance (Performance Studies, New York University) |
| 6:00-7:00 |
2nd Keynote |
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"A Manifesto for Race, Performance, and Scholarship."
Deborah Wong (University of California, Riverside) |