Conference Announcement: Music and Indigeneity in the Americas

PLEASE NOTE RECENT CHANGES TO SCHEDULE AND LOCATIONS 9/27/10

The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce our upcoming conference entitled Music and Indigeneity in the Americas. Featuring scholars, activists, and artists from North and South America, the conference will present panels on topics ranging from repatriation and indigenous cultural rights, to law, media, and education, to new forms of collaborative research on popular and traditional music in the context of community-based cultural activism.

The conference will also feature a concert entitled "Native Sounds: North and South" featuring Native Alaskan Hip Hop artist AKU-MATU, Apache Country and Western balladeer Boe Titla, and Inocencio Ramos and Carlos Miñana performing Nasa flute music from the Colombian Andes. The concert will be held on Friday, October 1st at 7:00 pm in the Glicker-Milstein Theater at the Diana Center, Barnard College, 117th and Broadway. Admission is free.

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES (Sat. Oct. 2,  11 a.m.—12:30 p.m.) - Davis Auditorium

Indigeneity, Music and Rights: Mapping New Territories
Rosemary Coombe, Senior Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Culture, York University

Pütchipü'ü Men Who Have the Word as their Job
Wieldler Guerra, Anthropologist (Wayùu)

Additional support for this event generously provided by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University (CSER).

The full program follows below:

MUSIC AND INDIGENEITY IN THE AMERICAS
A conference and concert organized by
The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University

Friday, October 1
Sindeband East 414

9 – 11 a.m.    REPATRIATION AS COMMUNITY ACTIVISM

Moderator: Audra Simpson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

Aaron Fox, Associate Professor of Music and Chair, Department of Music, Columbia University
Chie Sakakibara, Faculty Fellow in Geography, Appalachian State University
Trevor Reed, PhD student in Ethnomusicology, Columbia University (Hopi)
Allison Akootchook Warden, Independent performing artist, Anchorage, Alaska (Iñupiaq)
Fannie Akpik, Assistant Professor, Iñupiaq Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Iñupiaq)

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
A CONVERSATION ABOUT MUSICAL BIOGRAPHIES

David Samuels, Associate Professor Music, New York University Lambert Titla, Musician (Apache)

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break

1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Davis Auditorium (with coffee break) MODES OF MEDIATION AND COLLABORATION

Moderator: Frances Negro?n-Muntaner, Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race; Associate Professor, Departments of Latino/a Studies and English, Columbia U.

Indigenism, Performance and Politics in Nicaragua: Transnational and Transregional Perspectives
Alvaro Baca, Adjunct Lecturer and Supervisor of the International Human Rights Clinic, University of Oklahoma College of Law
Amanda Minks, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Honors College, University of Oklahoma

Collaboration, Kindness and Control: Avoiding the Binaries
Beverley Diamond, Canada Research Chair in Traditional Music/Ethnomusicology, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Bones: An Aboriginal Dance Opera - Collaboration, Appropriation or Something?
Sadie Buck, Songwriter, Composer, Performer (Seneca, Turtle Clan)

Saturday, October 2, Davis Auditorium

9a.m.–11a.m. SCHOOLS, THE LAW, AND OTHER INSTITUTIONAL MEDIATIONS

Moderator: Klisala Harrison, Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow, Ethnomusicology, University of British Columbia School of Music

Nasa puyiwejxa, piyayat, tuhkana fxi'zenxi: Music, School and the Nasa Indigenous Movement (Colombia)
Carlos Min?ana, Anthropologist, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Inocencio Ramos, Linguist, Indigenous Educator (Nasa)

Practices of Indigenous Music Research in the Brazilian Amazon
Deise Lucy Montardo, Professor of Anthropology, Federal University of Amazonas

11 a.m.—12:30 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Indigeneity, Music and Rights: Mapping New Territories
Rosemary Coombe, Senior Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Culture, York University

Pu?tchipu?'u? Men Who Have the Word as their Job
Wieldler Guerra, Anthropologist (Wayu?u)

12 :30– 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break

1:30 – 5:00 p.m. (with coffee break) MEDIA AND PLACE

Moderator: J. Kehaulani Kauanui , Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University; Producer and Host of "Indigenous Politics" Radio, WESU (Kanaka Maoli)

Collaborative Indigenous Film: OWNERS OF THE WATER
Laura R. Graham, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Iowa

Ethnicity and territory in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia: Palabras Mayores: revelaciones desde el corazo?n del mundo (Exalted Words: Revelations from the Heart of the World)
Pablo Mora, Anthropologist, Audio-Visual Collective Zhigoneshi Amado Villafan?a, Videographer (Arhuaco)

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Closing Discussion