Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast Chapter Program

Feb 21-22, 2004

Saturday. February 21^st

8:00-8:30 Registration, coffee

8:30-10:00 —Composers Bridging “East” and “West”

            Michael Bakan, Chair

Davidson, Jinmi Huh —Korean Music: What Is its Future?

Bakan, Michael B. —An Analytical Portrait of Trilok Gurtu’s “Living Magic”

Green, Edward —The Music of Zhou Long: Traditional Chinese Music in a Contemporary Context

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-12:15 —Adaptation and Negotiation, Chair TBA

Goertzen, Chris —Emerging Regional Styles in American Contest Fiddling

Ku, Eunice —Chinese Theater and the Negotiation of Culture: The Social Significance of kunqu in China

Shearon, Jonathan —A Blessing and a Curse: Technology in Southern Baptist Worship Music

Pruett, David B. —Reconstructing Cultural Experience in the Popular music classroom

12:15-1:30 Lunch (SEMSEC Business Meeting)

1:30-3:30 Music and Religion—Strangers Yet Bedfellows

 Gregory Barz, Chair

James R Newell —The Power to Enchant: Meaning and Context in African American and Turkish Religious Music

Jeffrey Sheehan—Knowing Culture: The Interdisciplinary Study of Music and Religion

David Horace Perkins—Spiritual Aphrodisiac: Praise and Worship Music and the Re-enchantment of Western Culture

Gregory Barz—“‘My Children Must Know About HIV/AIDS!’: Music, Memory, and Identity in Uganda”

3:40-4:40 Embodying Sound Culture—followed by Tango workshop,

Chair TBA

Kidula, Jean —Isugudi: Logooli Traditional dance/drum negotiating Christian Religious Practice

Wendland, Kristin —Argentine Tango: Music in the Body

4:40-5:00—Break (or continue dancing)

5:00—6:00 Keynote Address—Regula Qureshi

“Sina-ba-Sina (From Father to Son): Writing the Culture of Discipleship in Indian Music”

Evening:

7:00—Indian Music Concert—Emory University Campus

9:30 —Tango Milonga

DOCUMENTARY VIDEO Martha Ellen Davis: "Pap· Liborio: el santo vivo de Maguana"

Sunday, February 22^nd

8:00-8:30 Coffee

8:00-9:30—Diasporan Musics, Alison Arnold, Chair

Beckmann, Rainer —The Berimbau de Barriga: An African Musical Bow and its Repertoire in Migration

Arnold, Alison —The Creation of a Diasporic Tradition: the Gwalior Gharana in North Carolina

Olsen, Dale —Music, Memory, and Ingenuity: Pathways to Cultural Survival in Japanese Diasporic Subcultures in South America

9:45-11:15—Northern/Eastern Europe, Chair TBA

Sager, Rebecca —Rhythmic subtlety, musical identity, and regional diversity in contemporary performances of traditional Polish, Swedish, and Norwegian polska dance music

Hoesing, Peter J. —Estonian National Song Festivals: Modern Identity Negotiation in a Post-Soviet State

Gay, Leslie —Bernhard Christensen and Denmark’s rytmisk musik

11:30-1:00— Music and the Global/Local Nexus, Chair TBA

Eldridge, Erin —Altered Environments and Changes in Drum Technologies in the Lower Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa

Fisher, Joshua —Retentions and Transformations of the Mande Griot Tradition

Wissler, Holly —The Story of an Andean Accordion: The Q’ero Community and Musical Modernization in the Andes