SEMSCC

Saturday, February 22

8:30-9:00 Coffee and Registration (Patio).

9:00-9:10 Welcoming Remarks (Room 158)

Mary Shamrock, Acting Chair, CSUN Music Department

9:15-12:15 Concurrent Session I: Trance (Room 158) Jihad Racy, Chair

• "'An Experience Beyond Sound': Keith Jarrett and the Sensual-Sacred in Contemporary Instrumental Music," David Ake, UCLA
  
• "Music, Metaphor, and Mysticism: Avant-garde Jazz Saxophone and the Ecstatic State," David Borgo, UCLA
  
• "Music, Time, and Trance: Altered States of Consciousness and the Temporal Organization of Music," Dale Chapman, UCLA

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• "Trance, Delusion, and Power in the Performance of Diamanda Galas," Angeles Sancho-Velazquez, UCLA
  
• "'Cuando Pones Te una Rosa': Exploring the Ecstatic Dimension of the Son Huasteco," Sarah Lee Truher, UCLA
  

9:00-12:15 Concurrent Session II: Nations (Room 105) Timothy Rice, Chair

• "Music in the Iranian American Comrnunity: Cultural Reinterpretation and Change," Wendy S. Deflano, UCSB
  
• "Jeannie Robertson to Loreena McKennitt: Weeping Voices," Ellen Sinatra, UCLA
  
• "Arsenjo Rodriguez and 'Bruca Manigu a': Towards an Understanding of Pre-Revolutionary Race Relations in Cuba," David F. Garcia, UCSB

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• "The Ethical Relevance of Music to the Building of the Modem Nation: The Case of Japan," Christian Molstrom, UCLA
  
• "Music and Language in Traditional Japanese Music in California," Minako Waseda, UCSB
  

9:00-10:30 Concurrent Session III: Instruments (Rooms 103 and 110) Kobla Ladzekpo, Chair

• "Kogiri (Xylophone of the Lobi) and Its Use in Society," Kakraba Lobi, University of Ghana and Visiting Artist, CalArts
  
• "The History and Performance Practice of the Steel Drum," Gigi L. Rabe, UCLA and CSUN
  

10:45-12:15 Concurrent Session IV: Bali (Room 103) I Nyoman Wenten, Chair

• "Contemporary Balinese Music: I Komang Astita at UCLA, February 1995," Elaine Barkin, UCLA
  
• "Taksu: Music in the Life of Bali" (film presentation), Jann Pasler, UCSD

12:30-1:30 Lunch (Room 102 ) -- tickets available at registration desk

1:30-2:15 Business Meeting (Room 158)

2:30-3:30 Plenary Address (Room 158) Bess Lomax Hawes

• "Archives and Activism: Aspects of Reciprocity Between Scholarly and Local Communities"

3:45-5:00 Panel Discussion (Room 105): "On a Reciprocity between Research and Teaching,"
Scott Marcus, UCSB, presiding; Paul Humphreys, CSUN; Jihad Racy, UCLA; Ankica Petrovic, UCLA; Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate School; Deborah Wong, UCR.

5:00-7:30 Dinner -- list of area restaurants attached

8:00 Concert (Recital Hall): Cal Arts Javanese Garnelan Ensemble,
I Nyoman Wenten and Djoko Walujo, Directors -- tickets available at registration desk

Sunday, February 23

9:00-10:30 Concurrent Session I: Music and Spirituality (Room 158) Paul Humphreys, Chair

• "'Bis-mil-rah-man al raheme,' 'In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful: The Abiding Connection between Islam and Algerian Andalusian Music," Nancy Elizabeth Currey, UCSB
  
• "Buddhism and Music in Sri Lanka," Scott Marcus, UCSB
  
• "'Why Should We Understand? It is the Language of Spirits!': Interpretive and Methodological Ramifications of the Link between Songs and Spirits in Central Borneo," Gini Gorlinski, CSU San Marcos
  

9:30-10:30 Concurrent Session II: Analysis and Aesthetics (Room 105) Amy Stillman, Chair

• "Taiwanese Opera (gezaixi) and its Seven-Word Tune Type," Wen-Hsiung Yen, UCLA
  
• "Why does 'Modern' Music Fail to Excite the Transports that 'Ancient' Music Induced?" Robert Stevenson, UCLA
  

10:45-11:45 Film Presentation: "Hmong Musicians in America" (Room 158)
Amy Catlin, UCLA; Respondant, Terry Liu, Long Beach Regional Folk Arts Program