Symposium Schedule

9:00-9:30 a.m.
Welcome and overview: René T.A. Lysloff and Deborah Wong

9:30-10:30 a.m.
Panel discussion, "Musical Icons and Musical Coherence Systems."
Marc Benamou
Dane Harwood
R. Anderson Sutton
Judith Vander
Susan Pratt Walton

10:30-10:45 a.m.
Coffee break

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Discourse: Culture, Theory, Criticism (paper presentations)
Kyra D. Gaunt, "The Exception Proves the Rule: Social Constructions of Gender in Black Musical Discourse."
Timothy D. Taylor, "Music, History, Culture: A (Gentle) Polemic."
Maria Paula Survilla, "Movable Boundaries and Cultural Cohesion: Dilemmas of Representation in the Study of
Contemporary Belarusan Music."

12:00-1:45 p.m.
Lunch on your own

1:45-2:45 p.m.
New Ethnographies and New Histories of Musical Practices (paper presentations)

Inna Naroditskaya, "The Virtual Dervish as Women’s Creation in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan."
Jocelyne Guilbault, "Aesthetics as Politics: Moving in Style in the Calypso Music Scene."
Tracey Laird, "Segregated History, Segregated Music: Southern Grassroots Music Before the Age of Commercial
Categories."
Kay Kaufman Shelemay, "Of Sacred Music and its Secret Practices: Musicians as Healers."

2:45-3:00 p.m.
Coffee break

3:00-4:30 p.m.

Panel discussion, "Negotiating the Differences: Ethnomusicology and Musicology."
Karen Ahlquist
René T.A. Lysloff
Mark Slobin
Deborah Wong

4:30-5:00 p.m.
Coffee break

5:00-6:00 p.m.
Judith Becker: Thoughts and responses
(Introduced by Joseph S.C. Lam)

6:00-7:00 p.m.
Reception