Abtracts will be available soon.
| 8:30-9:00 am |
Registration, coffee |
| 9:00-10:30 am |
Paper Session One |
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Panel A (Fayerweather 113) |
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1a |
“The Musical Contributions of a Jewish Music Scholar in Republican Shanghai.”
Jeremy Leong, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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2a |
“P’ungmul, Politics, and Protest.”
Katherine I. Lee, Harvard University |
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3a |
“Mosuo Love Songs: Gender Relations in a Matriarchal Society.”
Joy Lu, Wesleyan University |
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Panel B (Fayerweather 117) |
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1b |
“Niyaz: Bridging Iran and the Diaspora through Music.”
Laila Plamondon, Smith College |
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2b |
“Urban Authenticity: Foreign Agents in Bosnian Cultural Development.”
Erica Haskell, Brown University |
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3b |
“Local Aspects of Identity in Traditional Bulgarian Song.”
Julia Poirier, Tufts University |
| 10:30-10:45 am |
Break |
| 10:45-12:15 pm |
Paper Session Two |
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Panel A (Fayerweather 113) |
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4a |
“Capping and Signifyin(g): The Cultural Exchanges of James Brown and Fela Anikulapo–Kuti.”
Jim Carroll, Smith College |
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5a |
“Talking Bush: Politics in Contemporary American Afrobeat.”
Ian Gendreau, Tufts University |
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6a |
“Development and Survival of Bachata and Merengue.”
Maho Ishiguro, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
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Panel B (Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather) |
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4b |
“Ethnic Identity Development and the Students of Pachamama Peruvian Arts.”
Naomi Sturm, Bowdoin College |
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5b |
“Gendered Performance and Music Education at the East Boston Youth Center, Zumix.”
Matthew Morin, Tufts University |
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6b |
“Warriors in the Woodwork: New York City’s Working-class Jazzers.”
Tom Greenland, Brooklyn, NY |
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Panel C (Fayerweather 117) |
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4c |
“Fernando Lopes-Graça, a Portuguese Bartók?”
Andreia Pinto-Correia, New England Conservatory |
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5c |
“Migration and Technology: Redefining the Concept of Fieldwork and the New ‘Mobile Field.’”
M. Cristina Verdesoto, Independent Scholar |
| 12:15-1:30 pm |
Lunch (Charles Pratt O’Connor Commons) |
| 1:30-2:15 pm |
Business Meeting (Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather) |
| 2:30-4:00 pm |
Paper Session Three |
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Panel A (Fayerweather 113) |
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7a |
“The Rhythmic Dialogue of Togo Atsia.”
Ryan Loud, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth |
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8a |
“Remnants of Halo Rivalry and Tension in Ewe Hayeye.”
Julie Hunter, Brown University |
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9a |
“Singing Xylophones: Speech Surrogate in Sambla baan Performance in Burkina
Faso.”
Julie Strand, Wesleyan University |
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Panel B (Fayerweather 117) |
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7b |
“Musical Mediation of Identity an at International Children’s Choir Festival.”
Lauren Holmes, Yale University |
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8b |
“He Shall Swede His Flock: Handel’s Messiah and Swedish Identity in Lindsborg, Kansas.”
Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, Brown University |
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9b |
“Singing the Postvernacular: Strategies and Textures of Performative Translation among Contemporary Yiddish Singers.”
Shayn Smulyan, Brown University |
| 4:15-5:15 pm |
Workshop and Masterclass (choose one) |
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“‘It is difficult but we will play it’: An Excerpt from Adjogbo, a Music from Benin.” (Fayerweather 113)
Faith Conant, Director, Five College West African Music Ensembles |
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“Introduction to Shape Note and Sacred Harp Singing.” (Fayerweather 117)
Tim Eriksen, Hampshire College and Dartmouth College |
| 5:15-6:00 pm |
Closing Reception (Lewis-Sebring Commons) |