MACSEM 2010 Annual Meeting

March 13, 2010 - 11:45am
  • Saturday & Sunday March 13 & 14 2010
  • Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia
  • Registration fee

The McIntire Department of Music will host the annual meeting of MACSEM, the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, on March 13-14, 2010. The conference brings together scholars, students, and interested parties from around the region. The meeting begins at noon on Saturday, March 13th and will feature an exciting array of presentations and discussions. All are welcome. There will be a small registration fee, but MACSEM membership is not required for conference attendance

SATURDAY MARCH 13-14 2010
11:45 to 12noon
Old Cabell Hall Lobby
Welcome, coffee and snacks  
12:00–1:30
107 Old Cabell Hall
Paper session: Embodied Experience as Socially and Spiritually Transformative 
 Chair: Richard Will (University of Virginia)
Dean Reynolds (Cuny Graduate Center) “Feel It in the One Drop”: Music and Movement in Roots Reggae”
Will Boone (UNC Chapel Hill) “Going to Another Level: Music and the Holy Spirit in a Charismatic Christian Church in Durham, N.C”
Emily Kate Oleson (University of Maryland) “OTHHER: Old-Time Hip-Hop Exchange for Reconciliation”
 
12:00–1:30
113 Old Cabell Hall
Paper session: Music, Dance, and the Politics of Identity in the (North) Americas  
 Chair: Julia Cook (University of Virginia)
Susan M. Taffe (Cornell University) “Colonization’s Chain: Tracing the Links that Bond Communities Through the Delaware Skin Dance”
Megan Banner Sutherland (College of William and Mary) “Powwows in Virginia”
Gary Galván (La Salle University) “A New Soul for Old Things: Mexican Musical Identity and the ‘Group of Four’”
 
1:45-3:45
107 Old Cabell Hall
Paper Session: Musical Communities: Negotiating Institutions and New Technologies 
 Chair: Wendy Hsu (University of Virginia) Laura Schnitker (University of Maryland) “Alone Together: Technology and Social Practice in the Indie Community”
Thomas H. Greenland (Independent Scholar) “Jazz Internet-works: Improvising Imagined Communities”
Benjamin Pachter (University of Pittsburgh) “Bringing World Music to the Community: Creating a Japanese Taiko Ensemble at the University of Pittsburgh”
Tanya Lee (Univerity of Illinois) “Room for Experiment: Building Participation in Chicago’s Folk Revival”
 
1:45-3:45
113 Old Cabell Hall
Panel: Facets of the Film Score: Synergy, Psyche, and Studio  
 Chair: Allison Robbins (University of Virginia)
Melanie Pinkert (University of Maryland) “Keeping Score: The Music of the Hollywood Western”
Ying Diao (University of Maryland) “PreisnerKieslowski: The Art of Music-Image Synergy and Musical Understatement in The Double-Life of Veronique”
Michaela Cahoon, (University of Maryland) “I just start dreaming and it all becomes music’: The musical versus the reality in Dancer in the Dark.”
Emily Robertson, (University of Maryland) “It looks Like Sound”
 
4:00-5:15
113 Old Cabell Hall
Film screening and discussion: James Burns (Binghamton University) “Liberating the relics of ethnographic films: Symbiotic uses of digital filmmaking in Ethnomusicology “  
4:00-5:15
107 Old Cabell Hall
Workshop: Aurie Hsu (University of Virginia) Contemporary Tribal Belly Dance (with an introduction to Basic Middle Eastern Rhythm) 

6:15
(directions to private home given at registration)

Dinner and jam session 



SUNDAY MARCH 14

9:00-10:30
107 Old Cabell Hall
Paper Session: Paradigms of the Feminine/Feminist Paradigms 
 Chair: Matt Jones (University of Virginia)
Yuko Eguchi (University of Pittsburgh) “The Art of the Geisha: Constructing Feminine Identity and Social Class”
Lauron Kehrer (Eastman School of Music) “Balancing Revolution and Capitalism: Lesbian Community Building and Goldenrod Music”
Discussant Matt Jones (University of Virginia)
 
9:00-10:30
113 Old Cabell Hall

Paper Session: Musical Identities: Crete and the Armenian Diaspora
 
 Chair: Anne Elise Thomas (Jefferson Center)
Maria Hnaraki (Drexel University) “Souls of soil: Island Identity Through Song”
Burcu Yildiz (Istanbul Technical University) “Music, Identity, and Cultural Memory: Armenian case in Turkey”
Sylvia A. Alajaji (Franklin and Marshall College) “Situating Self: Music, Trauma, and Political Identity in the Armenian Diaspora”
 
10:30-11:15
107 Old Cabell Hall
MACSEM Business Meeting (all are invited to attend) 
11:30-12:30
107 Old Cabell Hall
Keynote discussion: Elizabeth McAlister (Wesleyan University) Scholarship and the call to Advocacy: Responding to and Explaining the Disaster in Haiti (with a focus on issues concerning music, dance, and religious performance) 
 Moderator: Michelle Kisliuk (University of Virginia) Panel to spark discussion: Maria Guarino, Wendy Hsu, Julia Cook, Elizabeth Sapir (University of Virginia) and other MACSEM members 
12:30-1:45Lunch Break  
2:00-4:00Paper Session: Spirituality, Ethnicity, and Change in South Asia and its Diasporic Musical Practices
Chair: Katharine Blumenthal (University of Virginia)
 
 Noé Dinnerstein (CUNY Graduate Center) ”Ladakhi lu: songs, cultural representation, and change in Little Tibet”
Jan Protopapas (University of Maryland) “Kirtan Chaunki: Affect, Embodiment, and Memory”
Ajay Sherring (Norfolk, VA) “Fostering the Community Through Ethnic Oral Tradition”
Scott Robinson (Philadephia, PA) “Singing the Lord’s Song in a Foreign Land: Music in the South Indian Churches of Philadelphia”
 

Address

UVA Department of Music
112 Old Cabell Hall
P.O. Box 400176 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4176

Email: music@virginia.edu