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MUSICOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM

18/03/2011

Negotiating 'the West' Music(ologic)ally programme


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Negotiating 'the West' Music(ologic)ally programme

Location: Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, Utrecht University

MONDAY 11 APRIL 2011

08.30-09.15
Welcome, coffee & registration
09.15-09.30
Formal opening


09.30-11.30
Session 1: Transmissions · Adaptations · Nuances

Christine Lucia (University of Stellenbosch):
‘How the West Was Won: Mohapeloa and the Sounds and Songs of Africa’

Irene Pui-ling Pang (University of Hong Kong):
‘Representing the West Musically: Concert Programs of the Shanghai Public Band, 1879-1906’

Rachel Hayward (City University London):
‘Performing “Western Music” on a Caribbean Folk Instrument’

Etienne Viviers (University of Stellenbosch):
‘Negotiating Music(ologic)al Adaptations by/of “the West”’


11.30-12.00
Coffee/Tea


12.00-13.00
Session 2: Complicating Music Historiography I

Björn Heile (University of Glasgow):
‘New Music and Critical Cosmopolitanism’

Grant Olwage (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg):
‘Paul Robeson's 1958 Carnegie Hall Recital as Cosmopolitan Critique


13.00-14.00
Lunch


14.00-15.30
Session 3: Institutions

Lizabé Lambrechts (University of Stellenbosch):
‘The Music Archive as a Methodological Conduit of Westernness’

George King (University of South Africa, Pretoria):
‘Forbidden Pleasures: Wresting “the West” from a Moribund Musicology – A Case Study from South Africa’ 

Jeremy Leong (University of Wisconsin-Madison):
‘When East Meets West: Philosophy and Cultural Politics of Chinese Music Education’


15.30-16.00
Coffee/Tea


16.00-17.00
Session 4: Complicating Music Historiography II
Eric Martin Usner (Independent Scholar):
‘Musikwissenschaft and Cosmopolitanism: Roots and Routes of Western Musicologies’

Vít Zdrálek (Charles University, Prague):
‘Situating Czech Ethno/Musicology: Between the West and Its Subject’ 


17.15-18.30
Round Table I


18.30
Welcome reception & conference dinner

TUESDAY 12 APRIL 2011

09.30-11.30
Session 5: Problematizing Binaries

Samuel Llano (University of Birmingham):
‘“Spanish Music” and Notions of French Civilisation in the Wake of the First World War’ 

Yasuko Shibata (Polish Academy of Sciences):
‘Frédéric Chopin, A ‘Colonized’ Poland and the ‘Implausible’ Messianism:A Sociological Attempt at Pluralizing the Musicological Discourse

Kathryn Olsen (University of KwaZulu-Natal):
‘What Do We Do With “the West”? What Do We Do With “Africa”?: Identity Politics in South African Popular Music’

Sarha Moore (University of Sheffield):
‘Does World Music Practice Perpetuate Political Dualisms? The Case of the Flattened Supertonic’ 


11.30-12.00
Coffee/Tea


12.00-13.00
Session 6: The Cold War Legacy

Joanna Bullivant (University of Nottingham):
‘East within West: Alan Bush’s Guyanese Opera’

Matthias Tischer (Independent Scholar):
‘East Meets West: Composing Through the Iron Curtain – The Example of Hans Werner Henze and Paul Dessau’


13.00-14.00
Lunch


14.00-15.30
Session 7: Media

Srđan Atanasovski (University of Arts, Belgrade):
‘Western Music for Banal Nation: Re-Erecting Avala TV Tower and the Role of Music in State Apparatus in Serbia’ 

Kristin McGee (University of Groningen):
‘Simulating Orientalism and Gender in Transnational Contexts: From Little Egypt to MTV’

Bhekinkosi Hlashwayo (Independent Scholar):
‘Negotiating African Identities in Post-Colonial Africa: Identity, Neo-Africanism and American Hegemony as Reflected in African Pop Music’


15.30-16.00
Coffee/Tea


16.00-17.00
Session 8: Complicating Music Historiography III

Jen-yen Chen (National Taiwan University):
‘Utopian Universalism and the Modern Idea of the West in the Reception of European Musical Culture circa 1800’ 

Jin Hyun Kim (Freie Universität Berlin) & Meebae Lee (CUNY Graduate Center):
‘Beyond Western Precepts: Toward a Post-Globalization Discussion in Musicology’ 


17.15-18.30
Round Table II


18.30
Drinks