Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern California Chapter
Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting
Held Jointly with the Pacific-Southwest Chapter
of the American Musicological Society

Saturday 26 February

8:00 - 10:00

Registration and coffee

8:30 - 9:30

Panel 1: Music and Communitas, David Trasoff, Chair (Manchester Center, room 202)

Ellen B. Weller (UCSD), "Directories: Constructing Virtual 'World Music' Communities"

Loren Chuse (UCD), "Passionate Culture: Flamenco Saetas as Emotional Discourse and Religious Devotion in Southern Spain"

Panel 2: Sounding out Paradigms of Intercultural Composition, (chair to be announced) (Manchester Center auditorium)

Christopher Adler (SDU), "Musical Self as Other and Other as Self: Khaen Performance as a Medium of Cultural Interpretation"

Paul Humphreys (LMU), "Ghanaian Xylophone as a Basis for 'African Pianism'? A Performance-based Inquiry"

9:45 - 11:45

Panel 3: Gypsies, Deadheads, and Jazz Cats: Perspectives on the Process of Improvisation, Scott Marcus, Chair (Manchester Center auditorium)

Revell Carr (UCSB), "Listening for the Secret: Improvisation and Interpretation in Grateful Dead Performances"

Thomas Grunland (UCSB), "'When the Dog's Away, the Cats Will Play': A Look at Techniques for Streamlining Model Density in Jazz Improvisation"

David Malvinni (UCSB), "Gypsiness in Music and the Nomadic Logic of Improvisation"

Maiko Kawabata (UCLA), "Improvisation and 'Improvisatory-ness': The Case of the Romantic Violin Concerto"

Panel 4: Ethno/musicology and the Academy, René T.A. Lysloff, Chair (Manchester Center, room 202)

John Vallier (UCLA), "Path to Be-Bop Righteousness? Penal System as Model for Music School"

Angeles Sancho-Velázquez (UCLA), "Works, Music, and the Gap between Them"

Romulus Masterson (UCR), "Fixing the Ephemeral: The Role of Recording Technology in the Genealogy of Ethnomusicology and Musicology"

René T.A. Lysloff (UCR), "Class Wars: Ethnomusicology and Its Others"

11:45 - 1:00

Lunch--box lunches available or lunch on your own

1:00 - 2:00

SEMSCC Membership Meeting (Manchester Center auditorium)

2:15 - 3:45

Panel 5: Approaches to the Study of Musical Change, Edward O. Henry, Chair (Manchester Center, room 202)

Gibb Schreffler (UCSB), "Imploding Dualistic Concepts: The Positive Effect of Establishing Multiple Labels Within the Subject of Musical Change"

David Trasoff (UCSB), "The Modernization of Performance Time in Hindustani Classical Music"

Jim Grippo (UCSB), "From 'Ud Players to Cell Phones: Evolving Issues of Modernization in Present-Day Egypt"

Panel 6: Music and the Nation, Deborah Wong, Chair (Manchester Center auditorium)

Robert Hodges (UCSB), "The Plastic People of the Universe: An Icon of Democracy and Impetus for Political Change in Soviet Era Czechoslovakia"

Sonia Tamar Seeman (UCLA), "'You're Roman!' Musical Practice and the Creation of Social Categories among Roman (Gypsy) Communities of Western Turkey"

Roberto Catalano (UCLA), "The Arab, the Europena, and the Quest for Identity: Experiencing Sicilian World-Music"

4:00 - 5:30

Forum: Musicologies at the Millenium--Development or Recapitulation?, Paul Humphreys, Chair (Manchester Center auditorium)

Linda Burman-Hall (UCSC)
René Lysloff (UCR)
Jann Passler (UCSD)
Robert Walser (UCLA)

5:30 - 6:30

Joint Reception co-sponsored by PSW-AMS and SEMSCC (Manchester Center Foyer)

6:30 - 7:30

I Nyoman Sumandhi (KOKAR/SMKI, Denpasar, Bali), Performance of "Topeng Pajegan" followed by discussion. (Camino Hall, room 153)

Sunday 27 February

8:00 - 9:30

Coffee and Registration (Manchester Center foyer)

8:00 - 8:30

Shona mbira music with Ric Alviso and Friends (Manchester Center foyer)

8:30 - 10:30

Panel 7: Musical Revivals, Cheryl Keyes, Chair (Manchester Center auditorium)

Kimasi L. Browne (CSULB), "Ritual, Music, and Class on the Northern Soul Scene"

Joanna Demers (UCSD), "Brothers Gonna Work It Out?: Echoes of Blaxploitation in Hip-hop and Film"

Jack Bishop (UCLA), "Just as Sweet the Second Time Around: The Re-popularization of the Baião"

Eduardo Contreras (UCLA), "Spanish Traditional Music in a New Key: Celtic Revival and Nationalism in Galicia"

Panel 8: Sound and Meaning, Nancy Guy, Chair (Manchester Center, room 211)

Amy Frishkey (UCLA), "The Sacralization of the Soprano: Negotiated Realities in the Symbolic Mode"

Tara Browner (UCLA), "Gender Roles and Tradition in Native North American Musical Expression"

Kenneth Igarashi (UCLA), "The Third Meaning of Toru Takemitsu's November Steps"

Chris Alberding (UCR), "It's Not NOT Music!: Ethnomusicology and Film Sound Design"

10:45 - 11:45

Panel 9: Music and Local Communities, Timothy Cooley, Chair (Manchester Center auditorium)

Ricardo J. Alviso (CSUN), "Feel the Power: Music in a Spanish-Language Pentecostal Church"

Charles Sharp (UCLA), "The Los Angeles Creative Music Scene: An Ethnography of a Local Cultural Industry"