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CMSC 2009
The sixth annual Columbia Music Scholarship Conference takes place on March
7, 2009. The theme of this year's conference is Sound in Circulation:
Technologies, Histories, Methods, and Practices. Saturday, March 7—301
Philosophy Hall Columbia University
Keynote Speaker:
Ned Sublette -author of The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish
Silver to Congo Square (Lawrence Hill Books, 2008) and Cuba and Its Music:
From the First Drums to the Mambo (Chicago Review Press, 2004; paperback,
2006), and the forthcoming The Year Before the Flood: Music, Murder, and a
Homecoming in Louisiana (Chicago Review Press, 2009). An essay, "The
Kingsmen and the Cha-Cha-Chá," was included in the anthology Listen
Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music (ed. Eric Weisbard, Duke University
Press, 2007)
Schedule
10am-11:30am Panel 1: Transnational
Circulations, Ana María Ochoa, Moderator
Jamie Stager, York University (Toronto)
“Latin Jazz, Improvisation, and Transnational Flow: Hal Crook’s Performance
of ‘Brazil’”
Roxanne O’Connell, Roger Williams University
“Your Grannie’s Gramophone: A Cross-Atlantic Musical Conversation”
Shannon Garland, Columbia University
“The Edge of the Internet: Chilean Music Websites and the International
World of Indie Music”
11:30am-1pm Panel 2: Transmission in context, Emily
Wilbourne, Moderator
Katie Harvey, Tufts University
“Embalming the Dead: Taping, Tape
Trading, and the Grateful Dead”
Margarita Restrepo, Brandeis University
“The Cost of Transmission: Francisco Guerrero and Printing in
Sixteenth-Century Spain”
Deborah Lubken, University of Pennsylvania
“Signal, Music, Noise: Interpreting the Sabbath Bell in Nineteenth-Century
Philadelphia”
1pm-2:30pm Lunch (catered for all)
2:30-4pm Panel 3: The Politics of
Digital Re/Compositions, Elizabeth Keenan, Moderator
Sean Hallowell, Columbia University
“Adorno contra Girl Talk? The Mashup
as Cultural Critique”
Maura Klosterman
“Whatcha Gonna Do With That Beat?: LoopBased Composition and Performance Practices”
Madison Moore, Yale University
“I AM SASHA FIERCE”
4:15pm Keynote: Ned Sublette. “The
Movement of Music Through the Afro-Atlantic World in the Prehistoric Era
Before Sound Recording”Christopher Washburne, Introduction
5:15pm Closing remarks and reception
All events are free and open to the public.
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