2005 Conference Papers
MIDSEM April 1-3, 2005 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OHA tentative schedule:
Friday, April 1
8:00 p.m.
World Percussion Night: Performances by Kusuma Sari Balinese Gamelan, Afro-Caribbean Ensemble, UPD Korean dance drummers.
Saturday morning, April 2
8:15 – 10:15
Session 1: "Breaking into the Business: Ethnomusicologists Confront the Recording Industry"
"Globalization and Local Music-Making in Micronesia: A Media Survey." By David Huron, The Ohio State University.
"When the Tribe Goes Triple Platinum: Conducting Ethnomusicological Fieldwork in the Popular Mainstream." By David B. Pruett, Middle Tennessee State University.
"Feed the World!: Constructing Meaning in the Live Aid Project." By Ken Prouty, Indiana State University.
"Beyond imitation: Adaptations of Japanese language to Rap." By Noriko Manabe, CUNY.
Session 2: "Musical Heritage and the Poetics of Place"
"On Stage or in the Street? Bandas Filarmónicas and the Performance of Place." By Katherine Brucher, University of Michigan.
"Japanese Ainu Music Today: Tourist Attraction, Cultural Advocacy, or 21st Century Hip?" by Kelly Foreman, Wayne State University.
"Speaking Musically: The Communication of Words and Identity on the Hmong Flute." By Nicholas Poss, The Ohio State University.
"The Rondalla Segoviana Project: Preserving and Promoting Musical Heritage in Las Segovias, Nicaragua." By Steve Schley, Bethel University.
10:30 – 12
Session 3: "Music and Representation in 20th Century Cinema"
"'One Word—Qing': Emotional Sentiments in Early Chinese Film Songs and Chinese Musical Modernity (1930s)." Joys Cheung, University of Michigan.
"'Jazz Up Your Lingerie': Gender, Class, Musicality and Sexuality in Ernst Lubitsch's The Smiling Lieutenant." By Anna-Lise Pasch Santella, University of Chicago.
"How Much Fact, How Much Fiction?: Moving Pictures of Duke Ellington." By Brian D Pryor, University of Illinois at Springfield.
Session 4: "New Directions in Ethnomusicological Pedagogy"
"Atlantic Canadian Folksongs in General Music Curricula." By Lori Anne Elias, Cleveland State University.
"A Socially Responsible Pedagogy for the Classroom: Music Educators and Ethnomusicologists Working Together." By Isabel Barbara O'Hagin, Central Michigan University and David Harnish, Bowling Green State University.
"Pop Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century: Teaching the Music of the Beatles and Rolling Stones to "Millennials." By Vincent Benitez and Randal Baier, Eastern Michigan University.
Saturday afternoon:
1 – 2:30
Session 5: Panel: The Role of Contests in American Fiddle Traditions
"Sharing the Limelight at the National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest: The Case of Two Fiddling Communities." By Sharon Poulson Graf, University of Illinois at Springfield.
"Fiddle Contests in Ohio: Musical Genres as Aesthetics, Ethos, and Social Contexts." By Lucy Long, Bowling, Green State University.
Community Scholars:
Whitt Mead, Waynesville, Ohio. Ohio Arts Council Master of Old-Time Fiddle. Judge for fiddle contest at Caesar's Creek Old-Time Music festival, Waynesville, Ohio.
Dave Moore, Sr., Metamora, Ohio. Local Fiddle player; participant in BGSU PCA project on "Music Traditions in Wood County."
Dave Moore, Jr. Portage, Ohio. Local fiddle player; Judge for Old-Tyme Fiddler's Contest, Sauder's Village, Archbold, Ohio.
Session 6: "Issues of Cross-Cultural Appropriation in Western Art Music"
"ETHOS, (Etho)musicology, Ethics and the Politics of Intercultural Music." Klevor Abo, Bowling Green State University
"Edvard Grieg and the Hardanger Fiddle: Norwegian Folk Sonorities in his Piano Concerto." By JoAnn Koh-Baker, Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
"Redefining Transethnicism." By Christopher Ballengee, Bowling Green State University.
2:45 – 3:30
Session 7: Balinese dance workshop: I Nyoman Cerita
Session 8: Tejano music workshop: Jesse Ponce
TOUR OF BGSU POPULAR MUSIC ARCHIVES, limited numbers; contact David Harnish, dharnis@bgnet.bgsu.edu
3:30 – 4:15
Session 9: Appalachian string band/old time fiddle workshop: Amy Wooley and Lucy Long
Session 10: Ghanaian music and dance workshop: Kwesi Brown and Habib Iddrisu
4:30 Business meeting
5:00 Keynote Address:
Ellen Koskoff: "Out in Left Field: Changes in Ethnomusicology, 1990-2005"
7:00-8:00
Session 11: Dagara Gyil workshop: Bernard Woma
8:00-10:00
Old-time contra square-dance
9:00-12:00
Latino music by La Revancha
Sunday morning, April 3
8:15 – 10:15
Session 12: "Topics in Asian Music"
"From Mao to Now: Economic Reform and China's Long March towards the West." By Dennis Cole, Kent State University.
"Recording Consciousness and Hindustani Art Music: an audiophile lec-dem of the tabla." By Lowell H. Lybarger, independent.
"The Uncertain Evidence of Thai Musical Iconography." By Terry Miller, Kent State University
"The Influx and Decline of Chaozhou Music in Los Angeles (1982-2004)." By Wah-Chiu Lai, Kent State University.
Session 13: "Constructing Musical Communities"
"Vital Influences of a Minority on a Majority." By Zeynep Gonca Girgin, Istanbul Technical University.
"It's All 'Dulcimer' To Me: The Cimbalom World Association as Transnational Music Community." By Christie Burns, Western Kentucky University.
"Performance and the Construction of Personal and Cultural Identities: Examples From the Jaunsar-Bewar District in the Garhwal Region of India." By Hans Utter, The Ohio State University
"Shape-Note Singing: A Sense of Community." By Stephanie L. Fida, Indiana University.
10:30 – 12
Session 14: Roundtable Discussion Panel: "Whose Interests Are We Really Serving?: How We Apply Ethomusicology"
Tim Eriksen (ethnomusicological consultant and music supervisor in the music and film industry, performer)
Mirjana Lausevic (University of Minnesota/community documentation project: A World in Two Cities)
Lucy Long (Popular Culture Department, Bowling Green State University/ Folklife festival producing and presenting)
Erik Gooding (Western Kentucky University/collaborating with musicians and communities)
Miriam Gerberg (Minnesota Global Arts Institute/ community arts education & programming in the non-profit world)
Session 15: "Red State or Blues State? Music in Ohio History"
"Samuel 'Golden Rule' Jones and the Place of Music in Urban Reform." By Mary Natvig, Bowling Green State University.
"B.B. King Reflects on The Hines Farm Blues Club and the Northwest Ohio Blues Scene." By Matthew Donahue, Bowling Green State University.
"'Who Shit in Grandpa's Hat?': Kentucky's Appropriation of a Southern Ohio Fiddling Style." By Nikos Pappas, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
HOUSING AND HOTEL INFORMATION
Extensive student crash space will be available. Please contact David Harnish at dharnis@bgnet.bgsu.edu
