SEMSCC PROGRAM

Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting

24-25 FEBRUARY 2001

SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER MEETING

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

Program SATURDAY Feb. 24

SESSION 1: Issues in Popular Music

Chair: Cheryl Keyes (UCLA)

10:00 "Contestations of Gendered Subjectivities in Trip Hop Music"
Amy Frishkey (UCLA)

10:30 "'Rare 45s Keepin' Me Alive': Reification and Obscurity of 7-inch Vinyl on the Northern Soul Scene"
Kimasi Browne (Whittier College)

11:00 "'Giving Birth' to an 'Indigenous Tradition': The Frame Drum in the West"
Alan Kirk (UCSB)

11:30 "Appropriate Appropriation"
Jim Grippo (UCSB)

SESSION 2A: Musical Analysis

Chair: Nina Fales (UCSB)

10:00 "Melodic Building Blocks in the Kora Playing of Alhaji Bai Konte"
Tom Grunland (UCSB)

10:30 "In Tune With the Beat: Elements of Melody in Rap Music"
Joshua Jensen (UCLA)

SESSION 2B: State of the -ologies

Chair: Dolores Hsu (UCSB)

11:00 "Systematic Musicology After a Century"
Takahiro Aoyagi (UCLA)

11:30 "The Politics of Knowledge: The Development and Current Status of Ethnomusicology in Taiwan"
Chiung-Chi Chen (UCLA)

12:00 Free Lunch in the Music Bowl.

--------& Student concerns meeting

---------& Eichheim collection of musical instruments open for viewing.

SESSION 3: Globalization

Chair: Katherine Hagedorn (Pomona College)

1:15 "East Meets West in Fairuz"
Kenneth Habib (UCSB)

1:45 "Volta do Mundo (Mundo da Volta), Camará: The Global Capoeira Academy, Deterritorialized Musics, and the Limits of Hybridity"
Jason Stanyek (UCSD)

2:15 "Musical Globalization: Turkish Music in the Whirling Dervish Ceremony of the Mevlevi Order of America"
Amy Cyr (UCSB)

SESSION 4: Music and Religion

Chair: Ali Jihad Racy (UCLA)

1:15 "Music of the World: The Significance of Buddhist Pirit Chant"
Vasana de Mel (UCLA)

1:45 "Spectrum of Sound"
Judith Quinones (UCLA)

2:15 "Reconstruction of Cultural and Spiritual Identity of Chinese Americans: A Case Study of Contemporary Chinese Christian Music"
Connie Wong (UCLA)

3:00 Business Meeting

4:00 Keynote Address, presented by Anthony Seeger (UCLA): "Who Owns Music and What Should Ethnomusicologists Be Doing About It?"

5:00 Wine & Cheese Reception & Eichheim collection of musical instruments open for viewing.

8:00 "Grass" silent film with the UCSB Middle Eastern Ensemble

Program SUNDAY Feb. 25th

SESSION 5: Musical Cultures in California

Chair: Steven Loza (UCLA)

9:00 "Contradance, Northern Music, Old-Time Music, and Ideology in Contemporary Los Angeles"
Juniper Hill (UCLA)

9:30 "The Music of Home: 100 Years of Cantonese Opera in Los Angeles"
Charles Sharp (UCLA)

10:00 "Dancing Toward Aztlan"
John Donahue (UC Riverside)

10:30 "The Sea Chantey Sing-Along: A Folk Music Subculture in the San Francisco Bay Area"
Revell Carr (UCSB)

SESSION 6: Musical Creation of National Identities

Chair: Nancy Guy (UCSD)

9:00 "(Re)Imagining brasilidade in Rio de Janeiro: Aquarela Carioca, cosmopolitanism and música instrumental brasileira"
Andrew Connell (UCLA)

9:30 "Five Rivers, Endless Identities: The Musical Kingdom of Panjabiat"
Gibb Schreffler (UCSB)

10:00 "Dulawaran: Composing the Filipino Nation"
Christi-Anne Castro (UCLA)

10:30 "'The Anthem is Dead! Long Live the Anthem!': Reflections on Music and Meaning in Contemporary Russia"
Martin Daughtry (UCLA)

SESSION 7: Challenges of Tradition

Chair: Scott Marcus (UCSB)

11:30 "The Subtle Revolution: 'Stereo' and Syrian Druze Wedding Music"
Kathleen Hood (UCLA)

12:00 "'We Call it the "HBO" of the Muslims': Dayunday Performances in a Magindanao Migrant Community in Metro Manila"
Mary Talusan (UCLA)

12:30 "The Manifestation and Mediation of Cognitive Dissonance in Toba Batak Women's Lamentation Songs"
Robert Hodges (UCSB)

SESSION 8: Music in the Multi-Media Realm

Chair: Rene Lysloff (UC Riverside)

11:30 "Creating 'Polish Mountain Dance,' an Instructional Video"
Tim Cooley (UCSB)

12:00 "Using Music Video to Conflate Old and New in West Java, Indonesia: 'Goyang Karawang' by Lilis Karlina"
Henry Spiller (California Polytechnic State University, SLO)

12:30 "Quake Sounds: The Video Game as Multimedia Work of Art"
Jeff Packman (UC Riverside)

FILM SHOWING

1:00 Ankica Petrovic (UCLA) will show her new film "The Key from Spain: The Songs and Stories of Flory Jagoda" (40 mins.). She will be available for discussion.