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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.

 

CMSC 2009
when: March 7, 2009
where: Saturday, Columbia University 301 Philosophy Hall
theme:Sound in Circulation
contact: soundincirculation@gmail.com

The organizers of the CMSC would like to thank the following for their support:
Current Musicology
Department of Music
Graduate Student Advisory Council
Columbia University
The Center for Ethnomusicology