BRITISH FORUM FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
National Graduate Conference 2012
12 -14 September 2012,
Institute of Musical Research, London UK
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Bull, University of Sussex
The booking form can be found on the SAS Website.
Final Programme (download here)
Theme: Music and Movement
Wednesday 12 September
10.30 Registration and coffee
11.15 Welcome
11.30-13.00 Music and the Body I
Room A, Chair: TBA
Christoffer de Graal – MovingSound; embodiment presence and resonance; What new information can the symbolic content of improvised music and movement can tell us.
Greet Verhaert, Josien Storme and Wiske Renders – Expressive Movement Influences Interpretation of Musical Expressiveness in Children
Aaron Holloway-Nahum – Music through Space
11.30-13.00 Music and Improvisation
Room B, Chair: Christine Dettmann
Nancy Murphy – “Do You Want to Play?”: Breaking from the Groove in Capoeira Angola Music.
Christian Weaver – Los Gemelos: the music and movement of music and movement.
13.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30
Music and the Body II
Room A, Chair: Steve Cottrell
Liz Mellish – Dancing movements in the city of Timisoara, south west Romania
Jun Zubillaga-Pow – Performing Perversity: Musicality, Physicality, Plasticity
Emily Granozio - Classical Violinist and Folk Fiddler: Same Musical Instrument, Two Musical Perspectives
15.30 Tea
16.00-17.30 Roundtable/Workshop: Research Ethics
Room A
Laudan Nooshin (City University), Andrew Rawnsley (Teesside University), Muriel Swijghuisen-Reisersberg
Moderator: Muriel Swijghuisen-Reigersberg
18.00 Abstract Writing Workshop
Muriel Swijghuisen-Reigersberg
Thursday 13 September
9.30 Late registration
10.00-11.30
Music, Conflict and Politics
Room A, Chair: Hettie Malcomson
Miranda Crowdus – Palestinian-Israeli Music in the Tel-Aviv-Yafo Underground: Transforming the System through Collective Rap
Violeta Ruano – Polisario vencerá? The role of music in conflict revolution and new identities in Saharawi culture
Andrew Green – R to the B to the E to the B to the L: Rage against the Machine, the Zapatistas, and Resistance as Performed
Migration and Musical Change
Room B, Chair: ShzrEe Tan
Manimugdha Choudhury – Mishing Musical Heritage: An Anthropological Appraisal
James Butterworth – Singing Songs of Suffering: The Lyrics and Discourse of Bad Romance in Urban Peruvian Huayno Music
Jun Zubillaga-Pow – The Transcultural Turn of the Sundanese Angklung in Singapore and Germany
11.30 Coffee
12.00-13.00
Rethinking Listening
Room A, Chair: Katherine Schofield
Matthew Gilmore – The Embodied Critical Faculty: A Moving Target 2006
Jo Miller – Moving between learning environments: practices among members of a community-based traditional music group in Scotland
13.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Publishing Presentation
Vicki Cooper - Cambridge University Press (Room A)
15.30 Tea
16.00-17.30 Keynote address
Michael Bull – University of Sussex (Room A)
18.30 Optional Conference Dinner
Konaki Greek Restaurant
Friday 14 September
9.30 Late registration
10.00-11.00
Music and Identity
Room A, Chair: TBA
Bart Paul Vanspauwen – Promoting language-based alliances through music: cultural entrepreneurs in Lisbon since 2006
Mark Porter – Moving into praise: taste and identity in the musical lives of contemporary worshippers
11.00 Coffee
11.30-13.00
Rethinking Tradition and Transmission
Room A, Chair: TBA
Ronnie Gibson – The transmission of Scottish fiddle music
Iva Nenic – From woman to woman: female gusle players in Serbia
Lucy Wright – Can dance be ethnomusicology? Can ethnomusicology be art?
Music Transported
Room B, Chair: Keith Howard
Veronika Seidlová - Journey of Mantra from India to the Czech Republic: Contribution to Ethnography of Music and Globalization
Diane Temme - The Development of Inauthentic Argentine Tango: Buenos Aires Milongas to London Tea-Time Tango
Thomas Western - “For the Purposes of Broadcasting”: The Institutionalised Movement of British “Folk” Music
13.00 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Closing Discussion/Feedback Session
Room A, Moderators: James Butterworth and Tom Wagner
15.30 Tea and Farewell
The Call for Papers was the following:
Theme: Music and Movement
People and music are always moving. Whether across the dance floor, across town, or across borders, neither rests. Sometimes this movement is intentional, other times it is not.
Musical movement may benefit some groups but be to the detriment of others. Music can mediate our experiences of movement and movement can mediate our experiences of music. Ultimately, the study of musical movement is the study of social relations.
This conference seeks to explore how the metaphor of movement can unite different theoretical paradigms and afford new possibilities in ethnomusicology.
Themes that might be addressed include, but are by no means limited to:
• Bodily/embodied musical movement.
• Technological and mediated musical movement.
• Instrumental movement.
• Music and geographic movement (travel, migration, pilgrimage).
• Music and social movement (i.e. within and between ethnic, racial, or socioeconomic groups).
Some other issues/questions that might usefully be explored are:
• Where does music exist when it is not heard?
• How is music transformed as it travels?
• What does music carry as it moves?
• Music and stasis.
Presentations should be limited to 20 minutes, allowing an additional 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts of 300 words or less should be submitted to name/email by January 31, 2012 to Tom Wagner (thomas.wagner[at]bfe.org.uk).