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
• Tuesday 12 april 2011
• For a printable version of the programme, please click here

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

Benoeming Birgit Abels in Göttingen

Universiteit Göttingen

Dr. Birgit Abels is voorgedragen voor de positie van hoogleraar Culturele Muziekwetenschap/ etnomusicologie aan de Georg August Universiteit te Göttingen en zal, indien zij de voordracht aanvaardt, per 1 maart benoemd worden. Birgit heeft in de afgelopen tweeënhalf jaar bij ons colleges "Inleiding wereldmuziek", "Music of the Pacific" en "Music, Space, Place" verzorgd en bijdragen geleverd aan "Wereldmuziek onderzoek", "Transformaties in de Muziek van de Twintigste eeuw", "Culturele muziekwetenschap", "Postcoloniale muziekwetenschap" en bij het opzetten van "Popular musics of the world". Daarnaast heeft ze veel onderzoek gedaan (inclusief verschillende veldwerkperiodes in Borneo) en was medeorganisator van verschillende symposia en congressen. Daarnaast heeft ze het college "Wereldmuziek" aan de Universiteit van Leiden twee jaar gegeven.

Muziekwetenschap - Instrumentenmuseum

Veel van onze studenten hebben tijdens de colleges die ze heeft gegeven wel gemerkt dat Birgit heel veel in haar mars heeft en dat ze vroeger of later een interessante aanbieding zou krijgen. Maar dat ze op zo jonge leeftijd al tot hoogleraar benoemd zou worden is toch wel heel uitzonderlijk. De "Georgia Augusta", zoals de Universiteit van Göttingen wordt genoemd, is met een 43ste plaats op de internationale ranglijst van Time de hoogste geclassificeerde universiteit van Duitsland (Nederlandse univeristeit komen daar niet eens in voor...). Het is een universiteit die 45 nobelprijswinnaars heeft voortgebracht, en dan rekenen we niet eens mee dat Göttingen eeuwenlang als het wiskundige centrum van de wereld werd beschouwd. Als er in de wiskunde een nobelprijs zou bestaan zou dat aantal ongetwijfeld nog veel groter zijn. Ook muziekwetenschap, dat in Göttingen onder de filosofische faculteit valt, heeft grote namen voortgebracht, waaronder Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749-1818).

auditorium 

Maar de culturele muziekwetenschap in Duitsland kan wel wat vernieuwing en verjonging gebruiken en daar zal Birgit ongetwijfeld een belangrijke bijdrage aan leveren. Zoals onze studenten en docenten gemerkt hebben houden Birgit en ikzelf niet zo van de kunstmatige scheiding tussen 'klassiek, pop, jazz en wereldmuziek studies' en dat gedachtegoed viel in Göttingen in vruchtbare aarde en het is te verwachten dat de ontwikkelingen daar heel interessant zullen zijn. Het is natuurlijk bijzonder spijtig dat we haar niet voor Amsterdam hebben kunnen behouden, maar we zullen een nauwe samenwerking tot stand brengen en ze zal nog met enige regelmaat bij ons opduiken.

stadsbeeld centrum

Bake winter meeting

De Bake society for the Performing Arts World Wide has its winter meeting on saturday december 11 at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Starting at noon, the program is exhilarating and scintillating as usual. Don't miss! All musicology students are welcome!

promotie drs Alma van der Berg

Op woensdag 8 december a.s. om 13.00 zal drs Alma van der Berg haar proefschrift
‘Oh Infelice! Oh Misero! Een literaire, metrische en musicologische analyse van het lamento in Ariosto en Tasso'
verdedigen in het openbaar in de Aula van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Singel 411.
Open voor iedereen, voor studenten en docenten Muziekwetenschap in het bijzonder.

oratie Henkjan Honing

Op woensdag 1 december a.s. om 16.00 uur
zal de oratie van dr Henkjan Honing
bij het aanvaarden van zijn ambt als hoogleraar Music and Cognition,
plaatsvinden in de Aula van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Singel 411.
De titel luidt: De ongeletterde luisteraar.

lezing

Gastdocent dr Andrew Shenton van Boston University (VS) zal een lezing houden over de opera Die Soldaten op maandag 22 november a.s. om 17.30 uur, in het instituut ND16.

Opera Die Soldaten

Als appetizer voor de gemeenschappelijk opera-module in het 2e semester organiseren Muziekwetenschap en Theaterwetenschap UvA op dinsdag 23 november a.s. een gezamenlijk bezoek voor studenten en docenten van de resp. leerstoelgroepen aan de opera Die Soldaten van Zimmerman uitgevoerd door
de Nederlandse Opera in het Muziektheater Amsterdam.

2-9-2011 Rhythm Changes: Jazz and National Identities - Call for Papers

Rhythm Changes: Jazz and National Identities - Call for Papers 

2-4 September 2011, Amsterdam

An international conference hosted by the Rhythm Changes research project and the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

Keynote Speakers 

Professor Bruce Johnson (Universities of Macquarie, Turku and Glasgow) Professor Ronald Radano (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 

Conference outline 

Throughout its history, jazz has played an important part in discourses about national identity, politics and cultural value; indeed, the music continues to play a complex role in the cultural life of nations worldwide. Within this context, jazz is an ideal cultural form from which to explore a number of critical questions bound up with national identity, from the development of national sounds and ensembles to the politics of migration and race, from the impact of globalisation and the hybridisation of musical styles to the creation of social institutions and distinct communities, from jazz’s shifting aesthetic status from popular to canonical ‘art’ music. Jazz has developed in a range of national settings through different influences and interactions, so is ideally placed to explore wider issues surrounding identity and inheritance, enabling unique perspectives on how culture is exchanged, adopted and transformed. 

Rhythm Changes is a three day multi-disciplinary conference that brings together leading researchers in the fields of jazz studies, media and cultural studies. The Conference committee invites papers and panel proposals that feed into the Conference theme and is interested in featuring perspectives from a range of international contexts. Although not restricted to specific themes, possible topics could include: 

• National identity and jazz 
• Trans-national or post-national jazz sounds 
• Jazz nationalism and nationalistic movements 
• The musical McDonalds? Jazz and the politics of globalisation 
• Migration and trans-cultural exchange 
• Jazz as quintessentially American music 
• Media dissemination and the spread of jazz culture 
• Jazz as classical, folk or popular music 
• Venues, festivals and the dynamics of culture 
• Jazz and the cold war 
• Exploring sonic identities (African American, the Nordic Tone, South African jazz) 
• Jazz and ‘frontier’ myths 
• National jazz criticism 
• Jazz in urban and rural spaces 
• Interrogating the ‘Afrological’ and ‘Eurological’ 
• Jazz racisms, censorship and propaganda 
• Cultural memory and jazz 
• National ensembles and/or trans-national collectives 
• Postcolonial settings for jazz 
• Origins, mythology and the construction of jazz history 
• Modernism, postmodernism and jazz 

The Conference committee welcomes individual papers and proposals for panels and round table discussions. For individual papers, abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted. Panels and round table proposals should include a session overview, participant biographies and description of individual contributions. Abstracts and proposals (as well as event queries) should be sent to Professor Walter van de Leur (W.vandeLeur@uva.nl) by 25 February 2011. 

Conference Committee 

Nicholas Gebhardt (University of Lancaster), George McKay (University of Salford), Walter van de Leur (Conservatory of Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam), and Tony Whyton (University of Salford). 

Keynote speaker biographies 

Professor Bruce Johnson 

Bruce Johnson’s work focuses on the history of the modern era as an acoustic phenomenon: the role of sound in the confrontations which generated modernity as mapped through such demarcations as class, gender, nation state and race. Johnson’s full career publication list runs to nearly 400 items, from encyclopedia entries to major reference works including The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz (Nominated “Outstanding Academic Book. 1988-89” by the academic review Choice), and The Inaudible Music: Jazz, Gender and Australian Modernity (Currency 2000). 

Professor Ronald Radano 

Ronald Radano’s primary work is that of an Americanist with special interests in cultural theory, race, globalization, popular music and the history of North American black music. He is author and editor of three books, New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique (1993), Music and Racial Imagination (2000; co-edited with Philip V. Bohlman) and Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music (2003), all published by the University of Chicago Press. 

Rhythm Changes 

This conference forms part of the Rhythm Changes: Jazz Cultures and European Identities (www.rhythmchanges.net) research project. Rhythm Changes is a three year research project which examines the inherited traditions and practices of European jazz cultures. The project has been funded as part of the Humanities in the European Research Area’s (HERA) theme, ‘Cultural Dynamics: Inheritance and Identity’, a joint research programme funded by 13 national funding agencies to ‘create collaborative, trans-national research opportunities that will derive new insights from humanities research in order to address major social, cultural, and political challenges facing Europe.’ For further information on the Rhythm Changes project, please contact the Project Leader, Dr Tony Whyton t.whyton@salford.ac.uk 

Rhythm Changes is financially supported by the HERA Joint Research Programme (www.heranet.info) which is co-funded by AHRC, AKA, DASTI, ETF, FNR, FWF, HAZU, IRCHSS, MHEST, NWO, RANNIS, RCN, VR and The European Community FP7 2007-2013, under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities programme. 

Music Theorist in Residence

Op uitnodiging van het Conservatorium Amsterdam en Muziekwetenschap UvA zal Susan McClary de Music Theorist in Residence 2010 zijn.
Zij geeft twee seminars aan het Conservatorium over de analyse van 17de eeuwse muziek.
Op donderdag 21 oktober 's avonds om 20.00 zal zij een lezing geven voor Muziekwetenschap UvA getiteld 'The bodies of Angels'.

Het vindt plaats in CREA, Turfdraagsterpad 17, Amsterdam, zie http://www.crea.uva.nl/contact.php

24-09-2010 Promotie Jaël Kraut

Promotie

Jaël Kraut zal haar proefschrift

From Silence to Muteness:

Music and Philosophy in the 20^th Century

verdedigen op vrijdag 24 september 2010

om 13 uur

in de Aula van de Universiteit van Amsterdam

Singel 411, 1012 WN Amsterdam

Promotores:

Prof.dr Rokus de Groot (muziekwetenschap)

Prof.dr Hent de Vries (wijsbegeerte)

Film screening Sayaw sa alon - Dancing on the Waves

Film Screening: Sayaw sa Alon (Dancing on the Waves)

The Philippine documentary film Sayaw sa Alon (Dancing on the Waves) portrays the life and performing arts of the Bajau people, also known as the Sama Dilaut, who traditionally live on boats in the Sulu and Celebes Seas in the borderlands between Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. On a parallel cinematographic level, "modern traditional" dance is woven into the plot in order to connect the historical and contemporary trajectories. Rounding off an academic symposium on the music and dance of the Sama Dilaut, organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden and the University of Amsterdam (UvA), this film will be screened on 9 September, 2010, at 4 pm in the University Theatre of the University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16. Writer and director of the film, Nannette Matilac, will be present and introduce the film, the screening of which will be followed by a discussion. Entry is free, visitors are welcome.
For a trailer of the film, see http://web.me.com/babels/Birgit_Abels/News/Entries/2010/9/4_Film_screening__Sayaw_sa_Alon_%28Dancing_on_the_Waves%29.html

Film Abstract

A thousand years ago, the Bajau built magnificent sea vessels; fifty years ago, they still navigated the seas with beautiful houseboats. Now, there are no more trees from which to make their houseboats and they are forced to live on land. They are also threatened by war, western acculturation and globalization.

The Bajau, or sea gypsies, of the Philippines used to dance and play music in everyday life. Sayaw sa Alon (Dancing on the Waves) captures the remaining remnants of such cultural heritage which reside in the memory of the elders, like Hadji Musa Malabong who mourns for the loss of their houseboats; Ennura Domingo who is now blind and can no longer dance and play bamboo clappers; the ageing kulintangan musicians of Sitangkai who still play during weddings and full moon rituals; and Jahurra, the medicine woman who can still chant and heal the sick.

Sayaw sa Alon (Dancing on the Waves) traces the rapid transformation of the Bajau from a seafaring people to a land-based nomadic group living in slums along railroad tracks. Through ritual, dance and music, they struggle to hold on to their ethnic identity. How can they save their invaluable wisdom about the sea, their arts and their beliefs in the face of new hostile environments?

The documentary combines the traditional dances and music of the Sulu Archipelago to dramatize the rapid transformation of the Bajau from sea dwellers to land-based nomads. The dance documentary follows the Bajau migration from the Sulu Archipelago to the slums along the railroad tracks of Laguna.

Running time: 60 min

Writer and Director: Nannette Matilac · Narration: Cecilia B. Garrucho · Cinematography: Neil Daza and Egay Navarro, with additional footage by Manie Magbanua and Cynthia Paz· Production Manager: Cynthia Cruz-Paz · Editor: Milo Alto-Paz · Musical Scoring: Isha Abubakar · Artistic Consultant: Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa · Dancers: AlunAlun Dance Circle and Tambuli Cultural Troupe of Tawitawi


Produced with the support of the NCCA and UNESCO Philippines

Oceans of Sound symposium: final program ready

The final program for the Oceans of Sound symposium (9 September) is ready:

Oceans of Sound: Sama Dilaut Performing Arts
Thursday, 9 September 2010, Amsterdam
Registration (9.30 - 10.00)

Session 1 (10.00 - 11.00)

Paul van der Velde (IIAS): Opening Remarks

Birgit Abels (IIAS & Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands): Opening

Nicole Revel (CNRS, Paris, France): Literature of the voice, Kata-kata and Kissah: Sama Dilaut Epics and Ballads sung in Tawi-Tawi - "Philippine Oral Epics Archive"

- Coffee -


Session 2 (11.30 - 12.30)
Hanafi Bin Hussin (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia): Balancing the Spiritual and the Physical World: Experiencing the Rituals of the Sama dilaut (Bajau) in Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi, Southern Philippines and Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia

Matthew Santamaria (Asian Centre, University of the Philippines, Manila): Expanding Knowledge, Extending Ties: Sama Dilaut Music and Dance in the 21st Century

-Lunch-

Session 3 (14.00 - 15.30)
Benny Baskara (Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia): “Gambus”, the traditional music of the Bajo people in Wakatobi Islands, South East Sulawesi, Indonesia

Judeth John Baptist (Senior Assistant Curator of Sabah Museum, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia) & Patricia Regis (formerly director of Sabah Museum): Magpa-igal Jin: a ritual dance, linking the Past with the Present among the Sama Dilaut of Sabah

Chandra Nuraini (Université de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France): Iko-iko, the epic songs of the Kangean archipelago Bajo people

- Coffee -

Session 4 (16.00 - 18.00)
Film screening
Nannette Matilac (Filmmaker, Manila): Sayaw Sa Alon: Dancing on the Waves
With introduction and discussion.

Birgit Abels (IIAS & Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands): Concluding Remarks


- Dinner -

Oceans of Sound: Sama Dilaut Performing Arts

9 September 2010

Registration 9:00 A.M, Program 9:30 - 18:00 

The conference wil be hosted by the International Institute for Asian Studies and the University of Amsterdam. 

Venue
University of Amsterdam
University Theatre, Theatre Hall
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16
1012 CP Amsterdam

The maritime Sama peoples make up one of the most widespread cultural groups within the southeast Asian island region. They can be found in the Philippine Sulu Archipelago, southwestern Mindanao, Sabah, Borneo, east Kalimantan, and Sulawesi, and across many of the eastern Indonesian islands. One specific, so-called "sea-nomadic" Sama group refers to itself as the “Sea Sama” (Sama Dilaut, also known as Bajau Laut).

In this conference, we will look at the Sama Dilaut's performing arts, focussing onkulintangan and other types of instrumental music, song repertoire, and dance. Music and dance are central to the Sama Dilaut’s identity negotiation and maintenance of cultural memory. Music and dance are direct tools in the processes of identity negotiation that localise the Sama Dilaut ‘in-between’ rather than ‘here’ or ‘there’. ‘In-between’ like the beach is in-between the land and the sea, which is difficult to define sharply because of a constant coming and going of high and low tides that blurs the line between the one and the other; but also ‘in-between’ like the present is a bridge between yesterday and tomorrow. This ‘in-between’ is, at the same time, the clear space of the Sama Dilaut’s ‘Own’.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME Oceans of Sound: Sama Dilaut Performing Arts
Thursday, 9 September 2010, Amsterdam
Registration (9.00 - 9.30)

Session 1 (9.30 - 11.00)
Birgit Abels (IIAS & Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands): Opening

Nicole Revel (CNRS, Paris, France): Kata-kata: Sama Dilaut epics, collected in the last decade of the 20th century for "Philippine Oral Epics Archive", Ateneo de Manila University

Matthew Santamaria (Asian Centre, University of the Philippines, Manila): Expanding Knowledge, Extending Ties: Sama Dilaut Music and Dance in the 21st Century

- Coffee -
Session 2 (11.30 - 12.30)
Hanafi Bin Hussin (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia): Balancing of Spiritual and Physical World: Experiencing the Rituals of the Sama dilaut (Bajau) in Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi, Southern Philippines and Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia

Bernard Ellorin (University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, USA): From the Kulintangan to the Electronic Keyboard: Sama Traditional and Contemporary Music in the Southern Philippines and Malaysia Timor

- Lunch -

Session 3 (14.00 - 15.30)
Benny Baskara (Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia): “Gambus”, the traditional music of the Bajo people in Wakatobi Islands, South East Sulawesi, Indonesia

Judeth John Baptist (Senior Assistant Curator of Sabah Museum, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia) & Patricia Regis (formerly director of Sabah Museum): Magpa-igal Jin: a ritual dance, linking the Past with the Present among the Sama Dilaut of Sabah

Chandra Nuraini (Université de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France): Iko-iko, the epic songs of the Kangean archipelago Bajo people

- Coffee -

Session 4 (16.00 - 18.00)
Documentaries:
1) Birgit Abels (IIAS & UVA) & Judeth John Baptist (Sabah Museum): Oceans of Sound: Sama Dilaut performing arts

2) Lamberto Avellana (†): Badjao (1957)

3) Nannette Matilac (Filmmaker, Manila): Sayaw Sa Alon, Dancing on the Waves

Afwezigheid dr Wim van der Meer

Wim van der Meer is tot en met 14 september a.s. in het buitenland.
Het eerste college Musico-logica vervalt. De module begint woensdag 15 september.
De module Culturele Muziekwetenschap zal gewoon op dinsdag 7 september a.s. beginnen en gegeven worden door dr Birgit Abels.

Voor vragen over de studie graag mailen naar : meer@uva.nl
Het spreekuur begint op maandag 20 september 2010 om 15.00 uur (kamer 213).

7 september a.s. : kennismakingsbijeenkomst Muziekwetenschap

De gelegenheid voor eerstejaars studenten Muziekwetenschap om kennis te maken met de stafleden en veel informatie te krijgen over het onderwijs in het eerste jaar, is de bijeenkomst op dinsdag 7 september om 11.00 uur in het Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16 in Amsterdam.
Dit is ook het Instituut waar Muziekwetenschap is gehuisvest.

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