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 

                       Palestine”

                             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

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