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  • MACSEM 2016 Annual Meeting - March 5-6, Charlottesville, Virginia

    MACSEM 2016 MEETING INFORMATION - March 5-6, Charlottesville, VA   --  Updated 2/22/16

    Keynote Speaker: Anthony Seeger  (Emeritus Professor of Ethnomusicology, UCLA)

    UVA Campus

    VENUE: MACSEM will be hosted by the University of Virginia (UVA)  and will be held at OpenGrounds in Charlottesville. 1400 University Avenue. (http://opengrounds.virginia.edu/directions.php)

    REGISTRATION: Registration will be available in advance at the MACSEM website and at the door. See the bottom of this page for a Paypal link to register online. Suggested donation is $10 or $20. 

    LODGING: The Graduate Hotel in Charlottesville, 2 blocks from the meeting site, is open for booking at a group discount for MACSEM members until February 26th. The address is 1309 W Main Street. Look to the Facebook page for other student accommodation options.

    SCHEDULE: Click here to download the MACSEM 2016 Program (NEWLY updated 2/29/16)  

    LODGING for MACSEM 2016 in Charlottesville is the Graduate Hotel:
    The Graduate
    1309 West Main Street 
    Charlottesville, VA 22903
    http://graduatecharlottesville.com
    434.295.4333

    Rates: $109 / night for single, double, triple or quadruple occupancy (same rate applies)


    Reservations must be made by 5pm on Friday February 26, 2016 in order to secure the discounted rate.

    PayPal Link: 
    Suggested Donation

  • MACSEM 2015 Conference Program (Preliminary, Released 3/5/15)


    MACSEM 2015 Preliminary Program - Direct Download (PDF)Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology 34th Annual Conference

    New York University March 28-29

    All MACSEM 2015 events take place in

    ROOM 320, 3rd Floor
    Silver Center, 31 Washington Place, NYC

    SCHEDULE OF EVENTS  read more »

  • MACSEM 2014 Annual Meeting - University of Pennsylvania, March 29-30, 2014

    MACSEM 2013 Logo







    Please note that this page is an archive of the 2014 annual meeting; the deadlines and information here are now expired. Stay tuned to this site for news about MACSM's 2015 meeting and the call for papers for that meeting!


    The 2014 annual meeting of MACSEM will take place on March 29-30, 2014 at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA





    MACSEM 2014 Keynote Speaker:     Kate Pourshariati

    Keynote Title: FILM SOUND/SOUND FILM: Some preliminary notes on the histories of sound in documentary and ethnographic film.

    Download the Full Conference Program (PDF).




    ACCOMMODATIONS IN PHILADELPHIA
    (recommended by the local arrangements committee)

    $139/night @ Homewood Suites by Hilton - University City
    4109 Walnut Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104
    www.universitypennhotel.com

    $224/night @ SHERATON PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY CITY HOTEL
    3549 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
    https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/MACSEMConference

    Keynote Speaker Bio:
    Kate Pourshariati is a film archivist at the Penn Museum where she works with a range of culturally and historically significant motion picture films, dating from 1913 to the 1990s. Kate has been involved with restoration of (likely) the first documentary sound film, Matto Grosso, the Great Brazilian Wilderness (1931), the seminal series Navajo Film Themselves (1966) and Native Life in the Philippines (1913). In addition to the cataloging, restoration and digitization of films, she has been working with source communities to share back the Museum's historic film materials for re-interpretation and revision. Most recently, she has been curating cultural documentary screenings at the Museum, including a new occasional series called Live From the Archives! which consists of films made using Museum archival footage. Kate studied visual anthropology with several principal filmmakers of the field; Jean Rouch, Richard Leacock, and Tim Asch, at Harvard. Among other works, she has written on the film works and photographs of the anthropologist Frank Speck, for an upcoming festschrift. She is currently also working with the Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson films of Bali and Papua New Guinea for the Library of Congress.
    For a preview or background on the topic of the talk, please visit the Matto Grosso site.
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    More information can be found on MACSEM's Facebook page.

    U Penn Dept of Music
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    Call for papers (deadline now expired):
    The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology ( http://ethnocenter.org/MACSEM ) will hold its annual meeting between March 28-30, 2014 at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. The Program Committee invites proposals from ethnomusicologists as well as music scholars working in related fields, including historical musicology, anthropology, media studies, folklore, performance studies, and cultural studies. Graduate and undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to submit abstracts. MACSEM awards the Hewitt Pantaleoni Prize each year to the best student paper delivered at the annual meeting.
     
    Options for presentations include scholarly papers (20-minute presentation,10-minute discussion), organized panels of three or four papers, poster sessions, lecture-demonstrations, film/video screenings, and workshops. Paper proposals should include an abstract of no more than 250 words. Those proposing panels should submit one 200-word abstract for the entire panel as well as individual abstracts for each presenter. Please include with your proposal: the name(s) of the presenter(s), institutional affiliation(s), title of presentation, format of presentation (paper, panel, poster, workshop, etc.), A/V equipment requirements, e-mail address, and phone number.

    Please send abstracts by e-mail to: Fernando Rios (Program Committee Chair) at frios@umd.edu, with the subject line: MACSEM 2014 Proposal Submission.

    *Deadline:* February 9, 2014 (Early submissions are strongly encouraged!)

    Notifications will be made by the end of February.

  • Prof. Ellen Gray Publishes "Fado Resounding"



    The Center for Ethnomusicology congratulates Professor Ellen Gray on the publication of her book Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life (Duke University Press). This ethnography of fado, Portugal's most celebrated popular music genre, shows how a musical genre can sediment, circulate, and transform affect, sonorously rendering history and place as soulful and feeling as public.

    The book's introduction is currently available for preview and free download on Scribd.

     "Lila Ellen Gray positions Lisbon's amateur fado scene in terms of all the contestation about what fado is and where the action is taking place. This positioning is a unique and valuable contribution to music ethnography, and Gray does major and convincing intellectual work arguing for 'amateur' scenes as paths into the deepest musical and ethnographic understandings of genre, style, performance, poesis, and the ways that sociality is lived and experienced through sound."—Steven Feld, author of Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana

    Readers in the USA can receive a 20% discount on the book when ordering directly from Duke University Press (use code P13GRAY at checkout). 
    http://www.dukeupress.edu/Fado-Resounding

    In Europe, the book is available through Combined Academic Publishers with a 30% discount (use the code CS1113FADO).
    www.combinedacademic.co.uk

    In Lisbon, the book is available at the bookstore Fabula Urbis:
    http://www.fabula-urbis.pt/

    http://www.dukeupress.edu/Fado-Resounding/

    https://www.facebook.com/FadoResounding



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  • Ethnomusicology PhD Candidate Adam Kielman Wins Three Major Prizes!














    The Center for Ethnomusicology congratulates Columbia Ethnomusicology PhD candidate Adam Kielman, who has won three prestigious prizes for papers presented at academic conferences, in addition to a major research fellowship (Fulbright DDRA) for his work in China.

    The prizes awarded to Mr. Kielman include:

    The Hewitt Pantaleoni Prize  -- Awarded by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology (MACSEM) for the best student paper presented at their annual meeting held March 23-24, 2013 in Richmond, VA. Paper title: " 'Sounds like Home': Language and Place in Guangzhou's Modern Folk."

    The Martin Hatch Award  -- Awarded by the Society for Asian Music (SAM) for the best student paper on Asian music presented at the annual Society for Ethnomusicology national meeting held November 1-4, 2012 in New Orleans, LA. Paper title: "Xiandai Minyao: 'Modern Folk' in Guangzhou."

    The Barbara Barnard Smith Prize -- Awarded by the Association for Chinese Music Research (ACMR) to recognize an outstanding student paper in the field of Chinese music, broadly defined, presented at the annual Society for Ethnomusicology national meeting held November 1-4, 2012 in New Orleans, LA. Paper title: "Xiandai Minyao: 'Modern Folk' in Guangzhou."
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    Mr. Kielman, who is also an alumnus of Columbia College (EALAC major, LAJPP performer), has also just successfully defended his doctoral dissertation proposal, entitled "Sounding Configurations of Difference in Postsocialist China."  He is preparing to depart for field research in China with support from a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, awarded in September 2013.
    Congratulations to Mr. Kielman!


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  • CU Alum Amanda Minks Publishes "Voices of Play: Miskitu Children's Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua"


    The Center congratulates PhD program alumna Prof. Amanda Minks (University of Oklahoma, PhD in Ethnomusicology, 2006), who has just published Voices of Play: Miskitu Children's Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua with the University of Arizona Press' First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies series (2013).

    While indigenous languages have become prominent in global political and educational discourses, limited attention has been given to indigenous children's everyday communication. Voices of Play  is a study of multilingual play and performance among Miskitu children growing up on Corn Island, part of a multi-ethnic autonomous region on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.

    Corn Island is historically home to Afro-Caribbean Creole people, but increasing numbers of Miskitu people began moving there from the mainland during the Contra War, and many Spanish-speaking mestizos from western Nicaragua have also settled there. Miskitu kids on Corn Island often gain some competence speaking Miskitu, Spanish, and Kriol English. As the children of migrants and the first generation of their families to grow up with television, they develop creative forms of expression that combine languages and genres, shaping intercultural senses of belonging.

    Voices of Play is the first ethnography to focus on the interaction between music and language in children's discourse. Minks skillfully weaves together Latin American, North American, and European theories of culture and communication, creating a transdisciplinary dialogue that moves across intellectual geographies. Her analysis shows how music and language involve a wide range of communicative resources that create new forms of belonging and enable dialogue across differences. Miskitu children's voices reveal the intertwining of speech and song, the emergence of "self" and "other," and the centrality of aesthetics to social struggle.

    Amanda Minks is Associate Professor in the Honors College and is affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and with the programs in Native American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Oklahoma University. She earned the PhD in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University in 2006.

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  • David Novak Publishes "Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation"


    The Center congratulates Columbia Ethnomusicology PhD program alumnus David Novak.  Prof. Novak (UCSB) has just published Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Duke University Press, 2013).


    Visit the Japanoise website

    Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top performances, Noise has captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience.

    For its scattered listeners, Noise always seems to be new and to come from somewhere else: in North America, it was called "Japanoise." But does Noise really belong to Japan? Is it even music at all? And why has Noise become such a compelling metaphor for the complexities of globalization and participatory media at the turn of the millennium?

    In Japanoise, David Novak draws on more than a decade of research in Japan and the United States to trace the "cultural feedback" that generates and sustains Noise. He provides a rich ethnographic account of live performances, the circulation of recordings, and the lives and creative practices of musicians and listeners. He explores the technologies of Noise and the productive distortions of its networks. Capturing the textures of feedback—its sonic and cultural layers and vibrations—Novak describes musical circulation through sound and listening, recording and performance, international exchange, and the social interpretations of media. read more »

    David Novak is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and earned the PhD in Ethnomusicology in 2006, after which he served as a postdoctoral fellow in Columbia's Society of Fellows.

  • Matthew Sakakeeny publishes "Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans"


    Roll With It Cover ImageMatthew Sakakeeny (Tulane University) has just published Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans (with artwork by Willie Birch)

    Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. The gripping narrative moves with the band members from back street to backstage, before and after Hurricane Katrina, always in step with the tap of the snare drum, the thud of the bass drum, and the boom of the tuba.

    Matt Sakakeeny is an ethnomusicologist and journalist, New Orleans resident and musician. An Assistant Professor of Music at Tulane University, he initially moved to New Orleans to work as a co-producer of the public radio program American Routes.  He earned the PhD in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University in 2008, where his field research was funded by the National Science Foundation.

    Read the introduction to Roll With It on Scribd.

    Roll With It also features a supplementary website.

    Published by Duke University Press in their Refiguring American Music Series
    2013
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  • Indian Music Week! Yogi Trivedi on Some Principles of Hindustani Music

    The ARChive of Contemporary Music&The Center for Ethnomusicology
    at Columbia University present:

    Some Principles of Hindustani Music
    A lecture by:
    Yogi Trivedi
    (Dept. of Religion, Columbia University)

    In celebration of India Music Week 2013!

    This lecture was delivered to the Columbia University course:  Music V3321y "Musics of South&West Asia"

    For more on India Music Week see:
    http://indiamusicweek.org
    http://indiamusicweek.wordpress.com

    Lecture text Copyright and All Rights Reserved by Y. Trivedi 2013

    Yogi Trivedi is a doctoral student in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, and the Teaching Assistant for the course "Musics of South and West Asia," in Columbia's Music Department for Fall 2013.  

    Yogi is a trained Hindustani classical, devotional, and folk singer.  He has performed at various venues around the world, including the Continental Airlines Arena, Carnegie Hall, and Alexander Palace.

    His research focuses on the expressions of Bhakti or the devotional strand of Hinduism through music in Early Modern Gujarat, India.  He works primarily with the bhakti-poetry of the Swaminarayan Sampraday. His background as a broadcast journalist also allows him to assist in teaching courses at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

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  • Center Repatriation Projects Featured in Columbia News and Soundcheck Stories

    The Center for Ethnomusicology's projects to "repatriate" recordings of collector Laura Boulton,  conducted in collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native communities, are featured in a story in Columbia News, and in a video feature on the Columbia University home page.
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