[AMS-announce] CONF: Music and Postcolonial Studies, Columbia Univ., Feb 3 2007

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"MUSIC AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES"

Columbia Music Scholarship Conference 2007
Saturday, February 3, 2007
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University

Program:

10:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session 1. Professor Walter Frisch, moderator

"Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Constable, and the Idyllized/Idolized
English Landscape"
DAN BLIM, University of Michigan

"Imagined Mimicry: Artificial Imitation in Ravel's _Chants Populaires_"
SINDHU REVULURI, Princeton University

(coffee break)

 "'Dvorak’s _Armida_ and the Czech Oriental 'Self'"
MARTIN NEDBAL, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music

"The Stain of Whiteness: Ivory's Journey from 'Darkest Africa' to the
Pianos of Victorian American Parlors"
SEAN MURRAY, City University of New York, Graduate Center

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12:15-1:30 p.m.
lunch

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1:30-3:00 p.m.
Session 2. Professor Aaron Fox, moderator

"Unconsummated Penetrations: Gay Russian Men, Russian Popular Music,
Western Popular Music"
STEPHEN AMICO, City University of New York, Graduate Center

"Praying Eastward, Rapping Westward: The Rise of Bosniak and Albanian
Rap and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia"
PETER McMURRAY, Brandeis University

"A Postcolonial Encounter: Mali's Festival of the Desert and the Art of
Musical Reconciliation"
MELISSA REISER, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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3:00-3:15 p.m.
break

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3:15-4:15 p.m. Session 3. Professor Ellen Gray, moderator

"Theater of the Modern: World Music Vocal Pedagogy in the United States"
AMY FRISHKEY, University of California, Los Angeles

"'We Were Commies for the Right and Elite for the Left': Paradoxes of
Political Identity among Latin American Composers in the 1960s"
EDUARDO HERRERA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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4:30 p.m.
Keynote Address by JAIRO MORENO (New York University)

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5:30 p.m.
Reception

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Registration and a light breakfast will begin at 9:00. Paper abstracts
and other information will soon be available at the conference website,
<http://mail.google.com/hosted/ams-net.org/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cmsc>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cmsc.
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