XVII ESEM 5-9 September 2001
Rauland, Norway
Thursday September 6th
10.00 Opening ESEM 2001 –
Udo Will (President of ESEM)
Arvid Gjengedal (Rector of Telemark University College)
Frode Nyvold (Chair of conference)
10.30-13.30 Session I Colloquy: Musical instruments – construction and cultural significance in a comparative perspective.
Theme: Musical instruments in changing contexts, i.e. the migration and globalization of local musical instruments, and the adaptability of traditional instruments to a new media situation.
Chair: Ewa Dahlig (Poland)
- Dan LUNDBERG (Stockholm, Sweden): From local to local. Folk music instruments on the move.
- Shui-Cheng CHENG (Hiroshima, Japan): Musical instruments in changing contexts. The case of the Japanese biwa.
- Lars-Christian KOCH (Kerpen-Horrem, Germany): Surbahar and sitar in the 20th century – playing, technique, construction, material and the concept of sound-aesthetic.
- Bjørn AKSDAL (Trondheim, Norway): From shepherds pipe to Meråker clarinet. The case of the Norwegian traditional clarinet.
- Jeremy MONTAGU (Oxford, UK): Survival of instrumental types around the Baltic.
15.00-15.30 Concert Austbø hotel
Excursion to Møsvatn – Concert in Hovden church
Dinner Rauland Academy – Social gathering with music and dance at Rauland Academy
Friday September 7th
09.00-12.30 Session II: Open theme: Structure, style and performance in traditional music and the problem of continuity and change
Chair: Britta Sweers (Germany)
- Katalin LÁZÁR (Budapest, Hungary): Lullabies in Hungarian folk music tradition.
- Susanne FÜRNISS (Villejuif, France): Rocking the baby, embodying musical structures.
- Ingrid GJERTSEN (Bergen, Norway): The vocal wave of today – the question of continuity and change in performing situations and styles.
Chair: Susanne Fürniss (France)
- Rimantas ASTRAUSKAS (Vilnius, Lithuania): Structure, style and performance of traditional calender songs in Southeastern Lithuania.
- Marin MARIAN-BALASA (Bucharest, Roumania): Dying architectures and mathematics: the case of Romanian traditional carols.
- Britta SWEERS (Hamburg, Germany): Change through revival – the transformation of English folk song.
13.30-17.00 Session III
Chair: Martin Clayton (England)
- Udo WILL (Versonnex, France): Stability and variability in Australian Aboriginal song performances: the case of M3-type small songs.
- Francesca CASSIO (Rome, Italy):The Dhrupad vocal tradition of North India: its problem of continuity and change (with particular reference to Dagar gharaanaa).
- Karin ERIKSSON (Gothenburg, Sweden): Folk music from Halland and the organised fiddlers’ movement during the 20th century.
Chair: Udo Will (France)
- Jean-Jacques CASTÉRET (Bordeaux, France): La quête de la communion et sa transposition musical dans la polyphonie pyrénéenne.
- Giovanni GIURIATI (Rome, Italy): Continuity and change in the performance of carnival tarantella in Montemarano (Southern Italy).
- Bernard GARAJ (Slovakia): Instrumental folk music in Slovakia and its change after the fall of communism.
17.15-18.45 Session IV: Open theme: Free papers
Chair: Jan-Petter Blom (Norway)
- Daniel Winfree PAPUGA (Oslo, Norway): Music and mortality: Aural aspects of death in multicultural Norway.
- Gjermund KOLLTVEIT (Oslo, Norway): Christian Leden (1882-1957) – a forgotten ethnomusicologist of Arctic peoples.
- Ånon EGELAND (Rauland, Norway): A practical approach to understanding the constructional peculiarities and musical possibilities of the bone flute.
21.00-22.00 Concert at Rauland Academy: Janosi ensemble (Hungary)
Social gathering with music and dance at Rauland Academy
Saturday September 8th
09.30-13.00 Session V: Open theme: The social construction of tradition (part I: panel session)
Chair: Jeremy Montagu (England)
Panel session I (Sigbjørn APELAND e.a., Norway)
How we built «our» music – the construction of the concept Norwegian folk music.
11.00 Panel session II: In time with the music: The concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology.
Chair: Rüdiger Schumacher (Germany)
Martin CLAYTON e.a., England
15.00-15.30 Poster session
- Giovanni GIURIATI: A presentation of the on-line edition of the Proceedings of the XV ESEM held in London in 1999.
- Marin MARIAN-BALASA: A public release of the 8th volume of the yearbook European Meetings in Ethnomusicology.
16.00-17.15 John Blacking Memorial Lecture
Chair: Dan Lundberg (Sweden)
Jan LING (Gothenburg, Sweden): Is world music the Viennese classicism of our time?
21.00-22.00 Concert at Rauland Academy: Gabriel FLIFLET and Ole HAMRE (Norway)
Social gathering with music and dance at Rauland Academy
Sunday September 9th
10.00-13.00 Session VI: Open theme: The social construction of tradition (part II)
- Ewa DAHLIG (Warsaw, Poland): Polish rhythms in Scandinavia. Shared or double identity?
- Shai BURSTYN (Tel-Aviv, Israel): The making of a folk song tradition in Israel.
- Richard C. OKAFOR (Enugu, Nigeria): Traditional music as a vehicle of local identity.
12.00 Session VI, cont.
Chair: Giovanni Giuriati (Italy)
- Maria SAMOKOVLIEVA (Plovdiv, Bulgaria): The role of educational institutions for the development of Bulgarian folk music.
- Laura LEANTE (Rome, Italy): Reconstructing tradition through world music.