EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop is proud to announce our 5th annual graduate symposium, to take place on Saturday, May 24. This year’s theme is: Musical Meaning and its Media[tion]. See below for our preliminary schedule. The program runs from 9:30am until 6:00pm, and takes place in Classics 110. Highlights include:
- Eleven papers presented by University of Chicago graduate and post-doctoral students
- A live, interactive demo of the Rock Band video game
- Complimentary lunch and dinner with your pre-registration by May 21
- Keynote speaker Charles Carson
Admission is free, and pre-registration is recommended but not required. To pre-register, please email ethnoisesymposium2008@gmail.com with your name, affiliation, and any dietary restrictions. Please direct any questions or inquiries to this email address as well.
A .pdf of our flier is available for re-distribution, you can download it here: 2008 Symposium Flier
Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please call Andrew Mall at 773-677-4410
EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop
2008 Symposium: Musical Meaning and its Media[tion]
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Classics 110, University of Chicago
8:45-9:30 Registration / Breakfast
9:30-11:00 Panel #1: Musical Identity as Mediation
- Gesa F. Hartje, “From Music Ministry to Music Industry and Back – The Vineyard Churches”
- Rumya Chatterjee, “Country-Rock, Emmylou Harris and ‘Real’ Country Music”
- Feng-Shu Lee, “Moral and Aesthetic Dimensions of Musical Appropriation: A Case Study in Lisztomania“
11:15-12:15 Panel #2: Digital Gaming and its Musical Media[tion]
- Peter Shultz, “Death Jingles and Musical Networks in Super Mario Bros.”
- Roger Moseley, “Rock Band and the Birth of Ludomusicology”
12:15-1:15 Lunch / Rock Band demo
1:15-2:45 Panel #3: Sonic Structure and Social Meaning
- David Bashwiner, “Musical Syntax and Musical Meaning: An Evolutionary Perspective”
- Brian A. Horne, “Rethinking Fidelity: Reflections on Noise in Underground Soviet-Era Russian Bardic Recordings”
- Jonathan De Souza, “Musical Categories in Everyday Life: Genre, Cognition, and (Extra)musical Meaning”
3:00-4:30 Panel #4: Versioning and Interpretation of Meaning
- James Steichen, “The Metropolitan Opera Goes Public: Peter Gelb and the Institutional Dramaturgy of the Met ‘Live in HD'”
- Jaime Jones, “‘Remain Calm and Sing Their Words’: Extensions and Extractions of Bhakti Liturgy Through Song”
- Nathan Bakkum, “A Soul of Its Own: Dancers, Musicians, and the Embodiment of Difference at the Park Plaza, 1940-1950”
4:45-6:00 Keynote: Charles Carson, “‘Race is the Place’: Negotiating Blackness, from Hard Bop to Smooth Jazz and Beyond”
6:00-7:00 Dinner