NECSEM 2010 Program April 10, 2010, Harvard University
Additional information can be found at www.necsem.org
Directions to Paine Hall/Harvard Music Building: http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/parking.html
General directions to Harvard and Parking Information: http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/visit/directions.html
I. Accommodations in and around Harvard Square:
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/about/campus/directions/accommodations.html
FYI: Irving House is now fully booked. Please note that this list was compiled by the Graduate School of Education - which is located on a slightly different part of campus. The Music Building is close to the intersection of Kirkland and Oxford Streets, behind the Science Center.
II. General Directions to Harvard campus:
http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/visit/directions.html
Directions to Paine Hall/Music Building:
http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/parking.html
Fanny Peabody Mason Music Building - Google map
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Music%20Building%2C%20North%20Yard%2C%20Harvard%20University%2C%20Cambridge%2C%20MA
III. Parking in Harvard Square. General street parking is very limited in Harvard Square, and feeding the meters is not advised. We suggest that you carpool into Cambridge and park either at Alewife and take the Red Line in to Harvard Square (3 stops on the T) or share parking costs at one of the garages/lots listed below.
http://www.harvardsquare.com/Home/Services/Harvard-Square-Parking-Garage.aspx
http://www.pilgrimparking.com/facilities/holyoke/index.php
http://www.harvardstudentagencies.com/ug/listing/default.asp?Category=Shops&ListingID=1843
Here is also a link to the Alewife station that is linked to the MBTA (Red Line):
http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/lines/stations/?stopId=10029
IV. Conference Registration. The conference fee is $20 for professors and independent scholars, $10 for students, and free for individuals with Harvard University identification (Donations, however, are graciously accepted!).
NEW THIS YEAR!!! You can now pre-register and pay via Pay Pal directly at www.necsem.org (Visa, Master Card, American Express, and Discover cards accepted).
V. If you happen to arrive in Cambridge early, you are welcome to attend a Friday Lunch Talk with ethnomusicologist Jacob Edgar (Music Building, Davison Room), 12 PM.
8:30-9:00am Registration, coffee
9:00-10:30am First Paper Session
Panel 1: Room 1 Chair: Lisa Lawson Burke, Framingham State College
1A “ 'Straight Outta Cape Town' - The Negotiation and Instantiation of Identity in
Cape Town-Based Hiphop”
Warrick Moses, Tufts University
1B “‘Who Do You Think You Are, a Rockstar or Something?’ An Investigation of the
Multiple Musical Identities of Three Classically Trained String Players in Portland, Maine”
Lauren Hastings, Boston University
1C “From Threatened by Modernity to Reinvented by Modernity: The History of the History of
Indian Classical Music 1980 – 2006”
Garrett Field, Wesleyan University
Panel 2: Room 2 Chair: Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Harvard University
2A “Gender and the Body in Salsa Dance”
Aleysia Whitmore, Brown University
2B “Realness, Queerness, and Music in a Gender Performance Community”
Sarah Hankins, Harvard University
2C “Light through the Prism: (G)local Structures, Gender and Sound in the
Halveti-Jerrahi and Nur Ashki Jerrahi Tarikas”
Alia O'Brien, Tufts University
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45-12:15pm Second Paper Session or Performance Workshops
Panel 3: Room 1 Chair: Junko Oba, Hampshire College
3A “Performing Faith in Spaces Betwixt and Between: Manganiyar Music as a
Spatial Mediator at Hindu and Muslim Pilgrimage Sites (Rajasthan, India)”
Shalini Ayyagari, Dartmouth College
3B “The Beautiful Violence: Cultural Imagination of Music and Musical Instrument
as Weapon in the Taiwanese Pili Budaixi”
Po-wei Weng, Wesleyan University
3C “By notation, there are measures”: Interpreting metrical flexibility in
Turkmen music”
David Fossum, Wesleyan University
Panel 4: Room 2 Chair: Sarah Weiss, Yale University
4A “‘As We Raise Our Voices:’” Toward a Theory of Communal Singing in
American Public Life”
Sheryl Kaskowitz, Harvard University
4B “I am a Seed of Peace: Music and Israeli-Arab Peacemaking”
Micah Hendler, Yale University
4C “Dancing the Rock: Juan Luis Guerra, the Beatles and a New Dominican
Popular Music”
Angelina Tallaj, CUNY, The Graduate Center
(10:45-12:15 continued)
Vina Performance Workshop: Room G20
Richard Wolf, vina and Umayalpuram Mali, mridangam Harvard University
12:15-1:30 pm Lunch (Harvard Law School Cafeteria – purchase on your own)
1:15-1:45 Student Concerns Meeting (Cristina Cruz-Uribe and Katherine Lee)
(Davison Room)
1:30-2:15 pm Business Meeting/Student Concerns Meeting (Room 2)
2:30-4:00 pm Third Paper Session
Panel 5: Room 1 Critical Perspectives on the Sublime Frequencies Label
Chair: Michael Veal, Yale University
5A “Engineering Social Space: The ‘Silent’ Structures of Alan Bishop's RadioPalestine”
Joseph Salem, Yale University
5B “Proibidão C.V. and the Sublime Frequencies Aesthetic”
Cristina Cruz-Uribe, Yale University
5C “Multivocal Identities and Soundscapes in ‘Choubi Choubi: Folk and Pop Sounds
of Iraq”
Aaron Judd, Yale University
Panel 6: Room 2 Chair: Kiri Miller, Brown University
6A “Nisei Politics of Identity and American Popular Music of the 1930s and 1940s”
Susan M. Asai, Northeastern University
6B “When Is Turkish still Armenian? Heterogeneous Diasporic Identities and
Musical Conflict in New England’s Armenian Community”
Ian Goldstein, Tufts University
6C “Music and Indigeneity in Post Genocidal Cambodia: A Further Examination”
Stephen Mamula, Columbia University
Sambla Baan Performance Workshop: Examining a Xylophone Tradition from Burkina Faso
(Room G20)
Julie Strand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:00-5:30pm Karnatak Music Recital
Paine Hall
Richard K. Wolf, vina; Umayalpuram Mali, mridangam
5:30-6:00pm Closing Reception
NORTHE AST CHAPTER OF THE SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY 2010
MEETING CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology invites students, teachers, and
devotees of ethnomusicology to submit abstracts for its annual meeting to be
held on Saturday, April 10, 2010, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
hosted by the Harvard Music Department, chaired by Richard Wolf, with graduate
assistance from Katherine Lee.
Proposals for individual papers, organized panels (3 papers and discussant) and
lecture/performance demonstrations are welcome. We also invite proposals for short
presentations by musical ensembles (please note that time and space availability may
limit the number of ensembles we can accept). Students and scholars in all branches
of music scholarship and related disciplines are encouraged to participate. Papers
will be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes.
An abstract (see below), must be emailed by 12:00pm (Eastern Time) on Monday
February 15, 2010 to: necsem2010@gmail.com.
Please include the following information in your proposal:
- your name
- contact information (email and phone number)
- institution affiliation (students, please indicate if you are at the graduate or
undergraduate level)
- a title for your proposed project
- 250 word (maximum) abstract
- anticipated audio/visual or other technological/special requirements
Participants with accepted proposals will be notified by March 8, 2010.
Chapter prizes:
NECSEM now awards two memorial prizes for outstanding papers presented by students
at the chapter meeting: The James T. Koetting Prize (graduate) and the Lise Waxer
Prize (undergraduate). The Koetting Prize was established in 1985, and the Waxer
Prize is now in its third year.
Students whose proposals have been accepted to present at the meeting are eligible
to apply for each relevant prize. Completed papers must be formally submitted via
email to necsem2010@gmail.com by 12:00pm (Eastern Time) on Monday, April 5, 2010
(please indicate if you are submitting for the Koetting or Waxer prize).
Additional information about the meeting will be posted at www.necsem.org, and
questions regarding the meeting can be directed to eric.galm@trincoll.edu, or by
phone at (860) 297-4201.
We look forward to seeing you on April 10th at Harvard!
NECSEM Officers