The Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the
SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER

February 26-27, 1999
University of California-Riverside Department of Music

Friday, February 26

12-1:00 pm--Registration: $10 ($5 SEMSCC Membership, $5 Meeting), Concert tickets: $7/4 (optional), Lunch: (free to all registered members)

1:00-1:20 pm--Welcome Reception, with refreshments (Olmsted 421)

Panel 1: Reading Popular Music: Ideology and Interpretation (Olmsted 1417), Nancy Guy, chair

1:30 Alyssa Lightbourn (UCLA), "Alternate Notions of Femininity: Reappropriating Pop and Punk"

2:00 David Gould (UCLA), "Perpetuating the Past in Music Video and the Angelique Kidjo Example"

2:30 Nancy Wills (UCLA), "Created Flamenco Communities: An Exploration of Three Distinct Ideologies"

3:00 Charles Sharp (UCLA), "Where is the Riot in 'Zoot Suit Riot'?"

Panel 2: Russians, Roma, and Ritual in Eastern Europe (Olmsted 421), Tim Rice, chair

1:30 Julie Banzi (UCSB), "What Color is Music?"

2:00 David Malvinni (UCSB), "On the Final Hour of Folk Music: Bartok's Contribution to Hungarian Ethnomusicology"

2:30 Ildar Khannanov (UCSB), "Nomadic Aspects of the Russian Folk Music: Stravinsky's Folk Sources"

3:00 Timothy Cooley (UCSB), "Folklore Festivals as Calendric Ritual in Southern Poland"

Panel 3: Locating the Composer(s) (Olmsted 421), Scott Marcus, chair

4:00 Kenneth Igarashi (UCLA), "Death of the Composer: John Zorn's 'Road Runner'"

4:30 Brian Schrag (UCLA), "Situated Musical Competence: Insights from the Composition of Three Songs in Northwestern Congo"

5:00 Vasana K. de Mel (UCLA), "Contextualizing Music Piracy: Issues of Ownership and Control"

5:30-8:00 pm--Dinner on your own (see restaurant guide).

8:00 pm--Concert: Musical Treasures of Southern California, University Theater: $7 general, $4 students and seniors. Tickets may be purchased at registration or the door.

Saturday, February 27

8:00-9:00 Student Meeting (Olmsted 421)

Panel 4: Musics of Multicultural California (Olmsted 421), Terry Liu, chair

9:00 Jesse Mills (UCLA), "'Creole Trombone': Kid Ory and Early Jazz in Los Angeles"

9:30 Lois Musmann (UCR), "Cross-Cultural Transmission of California's Early Music"

10:00 Gigi Rabe (UCLA/CSUN), "'Pan in a Rage': An Ethnography of Steel Drum Musicians in Southern California"

10:30 Mark Tusler (UCSB), "Japanese American Taiko Drumming in California: Issues of Identity and Articulation"

11:00-12:00 noon--SEMSCC Membership Meeting

12:00-1:30 pm--Catered Lunch (free to all registered members)

1:30-2:30 pm--Keynote Address, George Lipsitz (UCSD), "The Changing Scene: Anxiety and Ethnomusicology" (Olmsted 421)

Panel 5: Technocultural Change, Rene Lysloff, chair (Olmsted 421)

3:00 Alfred Cramer (Pomona), "Romantic Music and Literacy in the Nineteenth Century's Information Age"

3:30 Gina Fatone (UCLA), "Rave as Technologically-Mediated Ritual Process and the Techno-Primitive Aesthetic of the San Francisco Rave Scene"

4:00 Bradley Shank (UCLA), "The End of Music as We Know It?: MP3 and the Challenge to the Established Order"

4:30 Eric Martin Usner (UCR), "Community, the Internet, and Music Ethnography"

Panel 6: Intercultural Expression, Deborah Wong, chair (Olmsted 1417)

3:00 Loren Chuse (UCLA), "Nuevo Flamenco: Salsa meets African Kora in a Mediterranean Mix"

3:30 Jason Stanyek (UCSD), "Transmissions of an Interculture: Pan-African Collaborations"

4:00 Brana Mijatovic (UCLA) and Elsie Ivancich Dunin, "Cross-Cultural Music Making: Drumming For a Different Dancer" (UCLA)

4:30 Scott Perez (CSUN), "Chicano Influences on Cuban-Based Salsa"