SEMSCC 1999
Tentative Program

12-1:00 pm--Registration: $10 ($5 SEMSCC Membership, $5 Meeting)

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

1:30-3:30--Concurrent Sessions

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

• 1:30--Alyssa Lightbourn (UCLA), "Alternate Notions of Femininity: Reappropriating Pop and Funk"
• 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'?"

Session 2: Russians, Roma, and Ritual in Eastern Europe (Olmsted 421)

• 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"

4:00-5:30 pm--Individual Session

Session 3: Locating the Composer(s) (Olmsted 421)

• 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

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

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

9:00-11:00 am--Individual Session

Session 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), "'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 (Olmsted 421)

3:00-5:00 pm--Concurrent Sessions

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

• 3:00--Alfred Cramer (Pomona College), "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"

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

• 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), "Cross-Cultural Music Making: Drumming For a Different Dancer"
• 4:30--Scott Perez (CSUN), "Chicano Influences on Cuban-Based Salsa"