SEMSCC 2007
University of California, Riverside
February 24-25, 2007

Program

Saturday, Feb. 24

9:30 a.m.

Coffee and Rolls, Registration Opens (ARTS 159)

 

Session 1A - 10:00 - 11:30 (ARTS 136)

Ritual, Mysticism, and the Sacred

Rob Hodges, Chair (University of California, Santa Barbara)

“Music and Rituals in San Mateo del Mar”

Veronica Pacheco (University of California, Los Angeles)

“Rethinking Añá: Challenging the Exclusive Status of an Afro-Cuban Drum Deity”

Kevin Delgado (San Diego State University)

“Quaker Mysticism and Music-Making”

Brigita Sebald (University of California, Los Angeles)

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Session 1B - 10:00 - 11:30 (ARTS 157)

Music in “Other” Media

Ellen B. Weller, Chair (Palomar College)


“Sonically Targeting Consumers:  Music and Race in Alcohol Advertising”

Kara Attrep (University of California, Santa Barbara)


“The Borat Effect: Musical Conflation and Dislocation in Borat: Cultural Learnings for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”

Megan Rancier (University of California, Los Angeles)


“Singing in Color: Music in the Work of African American Graduate Student Artists”

Lara D. Rann (University of California, Los Angeles)

 

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LUNCH: 11:30 - 1:00

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Session 2A - 1:00 - 2:00 (ARTS 157)

An Ethnomusicology of Affect and of Small Sounds

Katherine Hagedorn, Chair (Pomona College)

“Affect, Turkish Musical Practices, and the Depressive Position”

Denise R. Gill (University of California, Santa Barbara)

 

“Ethnomusicology and the Study of Small Sound”

René T.A. Lysloff (University of California, Riverside)

 

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Session 2B - 1:00 - 2:00 (ARTS 136)

The Venue, the Audience

Kathy Meizel, Chair (University of California, Santa Barbara)

 

“Participation and Play: Strategies for Collective Ecstasy and Social Solidarity”

Yong Ha Jeong (University of California, Los Angeles)

“We Will Be Serving Tea and Ta`miyya”: The Discursive Formation of a Music Venue in Cairo”

Lillie S. Gordon (University of California Santa Barbara)

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Session 3 - 2:15 - 3:15 (ARTS 157)

Roundtable Panel

 

“Navigating the Academic Job Market”

Roundtable Facilitator: Elizabeth McLean Macy, SEMSCC Student Concerns Committee Co-Chair

Discussants include: Nancy Guy, Tanya Merchant Henson, YouYoung Kang, Joshua Pilzer, Timothy Rice, and Deborah Wong.

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3:30 - 4:30 (ARTS 157)

Business Meeting

 

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4:30 - 5:30 (ARTS 157)

Keynote Speaker

Josh Kun (USC Annenberg School of Communications)

“The World Begins Here: Listening to Tijuana.”

 

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5:45 - 6:45 (ARTS 157)

Reception and Performance

Short performance by Ma Xiaohui, Chinese Erhu Virtuoso

Reception catered by Mama Oi (gourmet Thai and Vietnamese cuisine)

 

6:45-last call

SEMSCC Student Concerns Committee Gathering

Following the Reception, the SEMSCC Student Concerns Committee invites students and faculty to the Getaway Cafe (a nearby pub) for further conversation, pool, pizza, and drinks.

 

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Sunday, Feb. 25th

 

Coffee and Rolls, Registration (ARTS 159)

 

Session 4A - 9:00 - 10:00 (ARTS 136)

Gender Issues

Cheryl L. Keyes, Chair (University of California, Los Angeles)

“Emansipasi or Siwanataraja: Competing Discourses Used to Empower Female Musicians in Bali”

Sonja Downing (University of California, Santa Barbara)

“Not Just an Outfit: Charro Imagery in East Los Angeles Mariachi Performance”

Jacob Rekedal (University of California, Riverside)

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Session 4B - 9:00 - 10:00 (ARTS 157)

Musical Instrument Studies

Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Chair (University of California, Los Angeles)

“The Banjo: In, But Not Of, America”

Barbara Taylor (University of California, Santa Barbara)

“Modernization of the Dhol Tradition in Post-Independence Indian Punjab”

Gibb Schreffler (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Session 5A - 10:15 - 11:15 (ARTS 136)

Politics and Music

Josh Pilzer, Chair (University of California, Santa Barbara)

 

“Fade to Black: The Catalysis of Politics and Aesthetics in Egyptian Heavy Metal”

Benjamin J. Harbert (University of California, Los Angeles)

“Fashionable Music: The Impact of the Revolution of 1979 on Musical Trends and the Popularity of Traditional Iranian Music”

Bahram Osqueezadeh (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Session 5B - 10:15 - 11:15 (ARTS 157)

Nationalism, Boundaries, Borders

Ken Habib, Chair (Cal. Poly, San Luis Obispo)

“Authenticity, Mestizaje and Hybridity: Audience Consciousness in Mariachi Music”

Leticia Soto (University of California, Los Angeles)

“Notes on Spatial Symbolism and Practice in Finnish Rock Music”

Matthew John Dorman (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Session 6A - 11:30 - 12:30 (ARTS 157)

Understanding Mashaqa’s 1840 Treatise on the Arab Modal System

Paul Humphreys, Chair (Loyola Marymount University)

 

“Mashaqa’s 1840 Treatise on the Arab modal system: Continuity and Change in Modern Arab Music Theory and Practice”

Scott Marcus (University of California, Santa Barbara)

“Cross-cultural Translation: Textual Considerations in Interpreting a Nineteenth-Century Arabic Treatise on Music”

Tess Popper (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Session 6B - 11:30 - 12:30 (ARTS 136)

Genres and Place

Revell Carr, Chair (University of California, Santa Barbara)

“‘Filling in the Pocket’–Queen City Funk of Cincinnati, Ohio”

Regina Sewell (University of California, Los Angeles)

“Sonic Treasures in a Land of Gold and Diamonds: The Music of the Sakha in Siberia”

Robin Harris (Bethel University)

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