[AMS-announce] CONF: Music and Globalization, Eastman School of Music, Univ. of Rochester, 19-20 Sep 2008

[Announcements for the AMS]

Music and Globalization Symposium and Concerts
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, September 19-20, 2008
 
The Eastman Musicology Department presents a two-day event that focuses on issues of 
cultural self-representation through changing and overlapping musical styles.  The symposium will approach the subject through scholarly and creative work, and it will feature the music of Chinese-American composer Chen Yi. 
Supported by the Central New York Humanities Corridor and the Mellon Foundation.
 
For more information: http://www.esm.rochester.edu/globalization/
 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
 
9:30 am                       Sumanth S. Gopinath, University of Minnesota
“Trajectories of the Political Ringtone: Hugo Chávez and the Referendum of 2007”
 
10:15 am         Carol A. Muller, University of Pennsylvania
“Diasporic Listening and the Creation of a World of South African Jazz” 
 
11:15 am         W. Anthony Sheppard, Williams College
“Global Exoticism and Modernity: The Case of Chinese-Language Pop Music”
 
12:00 pm         Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music
“Musical Conversations in Bali”
 
2:00 pm                       Composer presentation: Chen Yi
 
3:15 pm                       Round Table Discussion. Martin Scherzinger, New York University, moderator