XV European Seminar in Ethnomusicology
12-15 November 1999
British Forum For Ethnomusicology
13 november 1999
Friday, November 12
17.00 John Blacking Memorial Lecture
Chair: Udo Will
Gerhard KUBIK (Austria): Age-sets, initiation and masked performances in the eastern Angolan culture area. Analysis of audio-visual field-documents 1965-1987.
Saturday, November 13
CHANGING SOUNDSCAPES AND CONTINUITY OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
(Joint one-day conference with the British Forum for Ethnomusicology)
9.30 – 11.00 Round table
Coordinator: Francesco Giannattasio
Simha AROM (France):A conservative point of view
Jean Michel BEAUDET (France):An old way for ethnomusicology of tomorrow: making ethnomusicology by listening to the musicians
Ramon PELINSKI (Spain):Ethnomusicology in the postmodern age: new rhetorics of cultural representation
Ruediger SCHUMACHER (Germany) Crazy for Pure Products? Continuity and Change in Ethnomusicology
Jonathan STOCK (UK): Value Judgements–Ethnomusicology, Musical Worth and Music Criticism
14.30 – 16.00
Chair: David Hughes
- Anna CZEKANOWSKA (Poland): How to Best Approach the Truth. A Reflection for the End of the Century
- Christina JAREMKO-PORTER (Latvia): Latvian Ethnomusicology since 1991
- Jehoash HIRSHBERG and Roni GRANOT (Israel): From a Case Study to a Cognitive Research: Durational Units in the Responsorial Singing of the Karaite Jews
16.30 – 18.00
- Maria-Antonia JUAN (Spain): Ceremonial Dances in the Catalan Society
- Laudan NOOSHIN (UK): From Prayers at Dawn to Techno in the Park: Iran’s Changing Soundscapes
18.15 Music from Thailand and China
Sunday, November 14
MUSIC and SPACE
9.00 – 10.30
Chair: Giovanni Giuriati
Bernard LORTAT-JACOB (France): Chant ? ou champ de conquete ?
Amatzia BAR-YOSEF (Israel): Musical Time and Space Concept: a Cross-cultural Model of Structural Analogy
Razia SULTANOVA (UK): Female Rites as a Musical Performance in Uzbekistan
11.00 – 12.30
Chair: Anna Czekanowska
- Ruth ROSENFELDER (UK): May I sing now ? Perceptions of Women’s Private and Public Performance in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Communities of London
- Loraine Elizabeth SCHNEIDER (USA): Stolen Spaces, Sacred Songs: Coptic Liturgy in Jerusalem
- Ingrid GJERTSEN (Norway): Music and Space in Lutheran Folk Song Practice in Norway. Cultural and Musical Implications.
- Giuseppina COLICCI (Italy, multimedia presentation): Sound Map of a Ritual: the Madonna di Custonaci, Erice and Custonaci in West Sicily.
14.30 – 16.00
Chair: Frank Kouvenhoven
- Ruediger SCHUMACHER (Germany): Concepts of Space and its Meaning in Balinese Musical Theory and Performance
- Richard WIDDESS (UK): Spatial concepts and musical form in a Nepalese Stick-dance
- Dana RAPPOPORT (France): Singing without being together: juxtaposed music for an invisible public
16.30 – 18.00
Chair Bernard Lortat-Jacob
- Jean-Michel BEAUDET (France): Mouvement musical – mouvement choréographique. Une ethnographie amazonienne
- Domenico DI VIRGILIO (Italy): Aspects of space-music relationship in folk-singing from Central Italy
- Il-woo PARK (Korea): The Concept of Space in Irish Traditional Fiddle Playing
Monday, November 15
9.00 – 10.30
Chair: Martin Clayton
- Sarah MANASSEH (UK): The Need for Continuity in a Changing Soundscape: the Iraqi-Jewish Religious Song in Israel
- Katalyn KOVALCSIK (Hungary): Folklore Musicians, Revivalists and ‘Electronic Gypsies’. Classification of Stage Performers and Musics in Southwest-Hungarian Boyash Gypsy Communities
- Iren KERTESZ WILKINSON (UK): Study of Roma Music and Ethnomusical Theories
11.00 – 12.30
Chair: Jeremy Montagu
- Igor BOGDANOV and Alexander KHARUTO (Russia): Musical Folklore and Computer Sound Analysis
- Elena PUSHKAREVA (Russia): Interacting Supernatural Creatures, People and Werewolves in Nenets Folklore
- Katalin LAZAR (Hungary): Performance in Ostyak Shaman Ceremonies and Bear Feasts
14.30 – 16.00
Chair: Richard Widdess
- John O’CONNELL (Ireland): A Space in Time: Learning a Lesson in Turkish Music History
- Selina THIELEMANN (Germany): Haveli samgita: music, space and ritual in the Vaisnava temples of North India
- Frank KOUVENHOVEN (The Netherlands): Love Songs and Temple Festivals in Northwest China