National Graduate Conference for Ethnomusicology

You are warmly invited to attend the National Graduate Conference for Ethnomusicology

Doing Ethnomusicology: Implications and Applications

Stewart House, University of London
20 – 22 September 2010

To register and for further details, go to http://music.sas.ac.uk/imr-events/imr-conferences-colloquia-performance-events/national-graduate-conference-for-ethnomusicology.html

Provisional programme

Monday 20 September

10.30 Registration and coffee

11.15 Welcome

11.30-13.00 Local Musics, Global Contexts

Chair: Barley Norton

• Irfan Zuberi (Jamia Millia Islamia, India), Khanqahi qawwali in a globalised context: The case of dargah 
• Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya Janna Bulmer (Dartington College of Arts), Between Hellenistic Ideal and the Internet: The Cretan Lyra in a Context of Globalisation 
• Marie Saunders (Open University), We’re All Global Citizens Now, and Yet…

13.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Musical Resistance, Political Musics

Chair: Laudan Nooshin Crossing Disciplines, Discovering Methodologies Chair: t.b.c. 

• Anna Bull (University of Cambridge), Rhythms of Resistance: A Search for the Political in Music
• Ananay Aguilar (Royal Holloway, University of London), Crossing Disciplines: A Case Study in Musical Studies 
• Yona Stamatis (University of Michigan), Resisting Europe: Defining the Greek National Soundscape Through Rebetika Performance
• Jan-Ellen Harriman (London Metropolitan University), An Ethnomusicological Approach to Understanding an Extinct Instrument 
• Kristine Ringsager (University of Copenhagen), Rap, Rights and Respect! Reflections on my Ongoing Fieldwork in Immigrant Rap Communities in Copenhagen
• Helen Southall (University of Liverpool), Locating Chester’s Musical Landscapes Across Disciplines

15.30 Tea

16.00-17.30 Roundtable: How To Get Published

Speakers to include Heidi Bishop (Ashgate Publishing Ltd) and Laudan Nooshin (Ethnomusicology Forum Journal/ City University)

18.00 Cuban Big Band concert at the Institute of Education bar

Tuesday 21 September

10.00-11.30 Analytical Methodologies Chair: Alexander Knapp Cyber-Research and Virtual Methodologies

Chair: t.b.c.

• Ryan Molloy (Queen’s University, Belfast), Microinterval Modality in Irish Traditional Music – An Empirical Approach
• Michele Banal (SOAS, University of London), African Music Blogs 
• Sarha Moore (University of Sheffield), Confusions in the Field: Asking Questions Concerning the Phrygian Second
• Polina Proutskova (Goldsmiths, University of London), E-Research in Ethnomusicology – What to Expect?
• Chloe Zadeh (SOAS, University of London), Musical Analysis, Fieldwork and the Social Significance of Thumri Style
• Francis J Ward (University of Limerick), Virtual Fieldwork: The Transmission of Music in the Irish Traditional Music Virtual Community

11.30 Coffee

12.00-13.00

Digital Technologies and Musical Practices

Chair: John Baily

Assessing the Methodologies, Assessing the Impact: Doing Ethnomusicology (I)

Chair: Simon Keegan Phipps

• Divakar Subramaniam (University of Glamorgan), Digital Technologies and Creative Music Practice in Tamil Film Songs
• Liz Mellish (University College London), Being ‘In the Field’: 21st-Century Research into Folk Ensembles in Romanian Banat 
• James Butterworth (Royal Holloway, University of London), Going Digital: VCD Music-Video Production and Distribution in the Peruvian Andes
• Paul Tkachenko (City University, London), The Real Deal: The Interaction of Musicians on a London Klezmer Scene

13.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Keynote

Tia DeNora (University of Exeter), Music’s Impact: Toward a Strongest Possible Case

15.30 Tea

16.00-17.30 Roundtable: Professional Trajectories

Speakers: Caroline Bithell (University of Manchester)(Chair), John Baily (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Simon Keegan-Phipps (University of Sheffield)

18.30 Optional Conference Dinner at Konaki Greek Restaurant

5 Coptic Street, London WC1A 1NH (www.konaki.co.uk/)

Wednesday 22 September

10.00-11.30 Activism, Interaction and Applied (African-) Musicologies

Chair: Janet Topp Fargion

• Katharine Stuffelbeam (University of California, Los Angeles), Women and Activism in the Field: Research, Responsibility and Relationships in a West African Community
• Laryssa Whittaker (University of Alberta), ‘The Second Life’: Music and the Intersubjective Construction of the HIV-Positive Identity in South Africa
• Rachel Muehrer (York University, Toronto), Ethnographic Feedback And Transmission of Ennanga Repertoire in Buganda

11.30 Coffee

12.00-13.00
Assessing the Methodologies, Assessing the Impact: Doing Ethnomusicology (II)

Chair: t.b.c.

Assessing the Methodologies, Assessing the Impact: Doing Ethnomusicology (III)

Chair: Henry Stobart

• Tom Wagner (Royal Holloway, University of London), The Suspension of (Dis)belief: Confession and Knowledge Production in the Study of Religious Music in London
• Lucia Campos (EHESS, Paris), Methodological Approaches of a Multi-Sited Ethnography: Following a Musical Tour 
• Jyotsna Joanne Latrobe (SOAS, University of London), Maria Kirtan of Rarh: Devotional Singing and the Performance of Ecstasy in the Purulia District, Bengal, India
• Farina Lim (University of Otago), Musical Experiences of International Students in New Zealand

13.00 Lunch

14.30-16.30 Roundtable: Ethnomusicology, Activism and the Public Sphere

Speakers to include Barley Norton (Goldsmiths, University of London) (Chair), Carolyn Landau (City University, London / King’s College, London), Janet Topp Fargion (British Library), Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway, University of London)

16.30 Tea and Farewell