Vienna - Gablitz, Austria 2003

XIXth European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM) Vienna - Gablitz, September 17-21

Institute Of Musicology Of The University Of Vienna

Society Of Friends Of The Institute Of Musicology Of The University Of Vienna

Conference Program

Thursday, September 18
9:45 - 10:00: Opening of the XIXth European Seminar in Ethnomusicology

10:00 - 11:30: Session 1: Music to be seen: On the impact of visualisation

Chair: Rüdiger Schumacher (Germany)

• Slawomira ZERANSKA-KOMINEK (Poland): Orality, literacy, visuality. Ethnomusicology in transition
• Lucian ROSCA (Romania): Limits of the faithful transcriptions: ornamentics' and phraisings' problems
• Katalin LÁZÁR (Hungary): About some questions of ethnomusicological transcriptions
• Gerlinde HAID (Austria): On the musical concepts of traditional musicians

11:45 - 12:30 Session 2: Music to be seen: On the impact of visualisation

Chair: Frank Kouwenhoven (The Netherlands)

Panel Session: "Why (not) change tune? - Continuity and change in Chinese and Estonian folk song, and the continued importance of music transcriptions as research tools”

Antoinet SCHIMMELPENNINCK (The Netherlands), Taive SÄRG (Estonia)

14:00 - 15:30 Session 3: Folk - Popular - World Music(s): Changing perspectives in European ethnomusicology

Chair: Krister Malm (Sweden)

• Giovanni GIURIATI (Italy): Cambodia and the world music: exoticism, primitivism, sense of guilt. Is there a role for ethnomusicology?
• Rinko FUJITA (Austria/Japan): The interaction between the traditional and popular music in Japan
• Susana WEICH-SHAHAK (Israel): Creativity and hybridization in the Sephardic musico-poetic repertoire in the 20th century

15:45 - 16:45 Session 4: Folk - Popular - World Music(s): Changing perspectives in European ethnomusicology

Chair: Dan LUNDBERG (Sweden)

Panel Session: "Fundamental processes in localization of music. Examples: African rap/reggae - Swedish 'bonnjazz' - The nyckelharpa reaches Belgium”

Krister MALM (Sweden), Gunnar TERNHAG (Sweden)

17:00 - 18:30 Session 5: Folk - Popular - World Music(s): Changing perspectives in European ethnomusicology

Chair: Amnon Shiloah (Israel)

• Susanne ZIEGLER (Germany): Traditional music? Reconsidering historical recordings of the Berlin Phonogram Archive
• Shai BURSTYN (Israel): YA HI LI LI: The Hebrew conversion of an Arabic folksong
• Britta SWEERS (Germany): Between tradition and world music - modern folk music in northern Europe

18:30 Departure to "Heuriger Hirt", Kahlenbergerdorf - Reception by the Niederösterreichische Landesregierung (Landeshauptmann Dr. Erwin Pröll) Neue Wiener Concert-Schrammeln feat. Peter Havlicek

Friday, September 19

9:00 - 10:30 Session 6: Folk - Popular - World Music(s): Changing perspectives in European ethnomusicology

Chair: Anna Czekanowska (Poland)

• Dalia COHEN / Ruth KATZ (Israel): Characterizing various styles of world music
• Rimantas ASTRAUSKAS (Lithuania): Mass folkloric forms at the end of the XXth century in Lithuania: changes of paradigm
• Hans-Hinrich THEDENS (Norway): Norwegian folk music studies today - How to look at heritage, modern society, cultural politics, and media
• Auste NAKIENE (Lithuania): Local music styles in XXth and XXIst centuries. Their visible and invisible links with traditions

10:45 - 12:15 Session 7: Folk - Popular - World Music(s): Changing perspectives in European ethnomusicology

Chair: Ursula HEMETEK (Austria)

Panel Session: "Gypsy musicians as the innovators in traditional music?"

Marin MARIAN-BĂLAŞA (Romania), Christiane FENNESZ-JUHASZ (Austria), Svanibor PETTAN (Slovenia)

14:00 - 15:30 Session 8: Folk - Popular - World Music(s): Changing perspectives in European ethnomusicology

Chair: Ursula Hemetek (Austria)

• Speranta RADULESCU (Romania): Whose musics are these musics?" or "New popular musics in contemporary Romania
• Katalin KOVALCSIK (Hungary): Categories of the musical representation of identity in a Romanian Rudar community
• Ignazio MACCHIARELLA (Italy): 'La vera tradizione siamo noi': The a tenore song in sardinian radio and television broadcasting
• Ian RUSSELL (United Kingdom): Image and self-representation in the flute band traditions of north-east Scotland

15:45 - 16:45 Session 9: Folk - Popular - World Music(s): Changing perspectives in European ethnomusicology

Chair: Ewa Dahlig (Poland)

• Liv Lande LUND (U.S.A./Norway): The transmission and apprenticeship system of iemoto in Japanese traditional music today: Complex and conflicting processes of continuity and change
• Ausra ZICKIENE (Lithuania): The combination of three layers of the musical culture in Lithuanian rites glorifying the dead
• Maria SAMOKOVLIEVA (Bulgaria): Popular world music: Some new processes in Bulgaria

17:00 - 18:30: Session 10: Folk - Popular - World Music(s): Changing perspectives in European ethnomusicology

Chair: Svanibor Pettan (Slovenia)

• Michael WEBER (Austria): 'Folklike Music', 'New Folk Music', and 'Fun Pop' - Some remarks concerning the hybridization of traditional 'Folk Music' with popular music in Austria
• Naila CERIBASIC (Croatia): Research subjects and approaches in Croatian ethnomusicology of today: Local communities in the complex society
• Ardian AHMEDAJA (Austria): On changing perspectives in European ethnomusicology. Time, tempo, pulse, sound, and space in Albanian free rhythm traditional music

Saturday, September 20

9:00 - 10:30 Session 11: Music to be seen: On the impact of visualisation

Chair: Rimantas Astrauskas (Lithuania)

• Anna CZEKANOWSKA (Poland): Traditional Music as it may have been interpreted. Transcription - theory - interview
• Jehoash HIRSCHBERG (Israel): The constant and the variable in Karaite responsorial chant
• Shiva KAVIANI (Iran): How can we see the 'silence' of music! Visualization of music and the creative energy of 'sounds'

10:45 - 12:15: Session 12: Music to be seen: On the impact of visualisation

Chair: Regine ALLGAYER-KAUFMANN (Austria)

Panel Session: "From the innocent to the exploring eye. Transcription on the defensive"

Martin CLAYTON (United Kingdom), Gerd GRUPE (Austria), Gerda LECHLEITNER (Austria)

14:00 - 15:00 Session 13: Music to be seen: On the impact of visualisation

Chair: Giorgio Adamo (Italy)

• Domenico DI VIRGILIO (Italy) / Davide Tiso (Italy): An image of sound by means of computer, shall we trust it?
• Triinu OJAMAA (Estonia): Throat rasping: Problems of notation
• Rytis AMBRAZEVICIUS / Ruta Zarskiene (Lithuania): If we hear what we think we hear? Tuning of skuduciai

15:15 - 16:15: Session 14: Music to be seen: On the impact of visualisation

Chair: Franz Födermayr (Austria)

• Wim VAN DER MEER (The Netherlands): Visions of Hindustani music
• Nicolas MAGRIEL (United Kingdom):Representing khyal songs
• Selina THIELEMANN (India):The visual experience: Transcription and Indian music

16:30 - 17:30 John Blacking Memorial Lecture

Chair: Giovanni Giuriati (Italy)

• Franz FÖDERMAYR (Austria):Music as a problem posed to the humanities/social sciences and the natural sciences

20:30 "Hungarian Dance House" at Gablitz:

Ensemble Gajdos (Music), Zoltán Gémesi (Instructor), Fritz Oberhofer (Introduction)

Sunday, September 21

9:00 - 10:00 Poster Session

• Emil H. LUBEJ (Austria): Emap.FM - InternetR@adio for World Wide Ethno Music & Reports
• Emil H. LUBEJ (Austria): Emap sound analysis
• Dana RAPPOPORT (France): Interactive listening for traditional music
• Astrid RESSEM (Norway): Medieval ballads in Norway at the internet
• Olav SÆTA (Norway): Norwegian Folk Music - Editions of transcriptions as books and on the internet
• August SCHMIDHOFER (Austria): A database of Malagasy music

10:00 - 11:30 Session 15: Music to be seen: On the impact of visualisation

Chair: Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann (Austria)

• Alla SOKOLOVA (Russia): The traditional instrumental music as the audio-visual syncretism. The visual aspect of the Adygh instrumental music

• Charlotte VIGNAU (Germany): On videography in ethnomusicology

• Il-woo PARK (Korea): 'Scoring the body': The 'lived body' as virtual score for the musical non-literate. A comparison between an Irish reel and hornpipe

• Jan-Petter BLOM (Norway): Confirming folk conventions of rhythm through practice: Visual representations and the dance/music interface

11:45 - 12:45 Session 16: Music to be seen: On the impact of visualisation

Panel Session: "Glossing over rhythmic style and musical identity: The case of polish dance rhythms and western notation”

Rebecca SAGER (USA), Bjørn AKSDAL (Norway), Ewa DAHLIG-TUREK (Poland), Dan LUNDBERG (Sweden)

12:45 - 13:15 Final Discussion and Closing Ceremony