Society for Ethnomusicology
Northwest Chapter Conference
Saturday, March 15, 2008
GSS Ballroom, University of
British Columbia
6371 Crescent Road
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2
8:00am to 9:00am - Registration
($10) and Coffee
Theories and Analysis - 9:00am
to 11:00am
1. Kirilov, Kalin. University of
Oregon. Analytical Approaches to Bulgarian Wedding Music: Meters, Melody and
Harmony.
2. Ayyagari, Shalini. UC Berkeley.
Spaces Betwixt and Between: Musical Borderlands and the Theory that Makes Them
So (Rajasthan, India).
3. Muyco, Christine. University of
the Phillipînes. Rhythmicizing
Mnemonics: How Voice/Sound Structures in Words are Transformed in the Binanog
Music-Dance Tradition of the Panay Bukidonon.
4. Sandino, Paddy. UBC. Lemayung:
Tradition and Innovation in a Modern Composition for Gamelan Semarandana
11:00am to 1:00pm - Lunch,
Concert and Business Meeting
Cultures and Identities -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
5. Ensminger, David. University of Oregon. Redefining the Body
Electric: The Queering of Punk and Hardcore.
6. Orozco, Francisco. University of Washington. Beyond Black and
White: Chicanos and the Racial Imagination in U.S. Popular Music.
7. Roditeleva-Wibe, Maria. Central Washington University. Traditional
Village Music and and the Creation of Social Status in Post-Soviet Russia: The
Case of Krasny Zilim.
8. Sunardi, Christine, University of Washington. The Production of
Senses of Locale Through Perceptions of Presentational Dance and Musical
Accompaniment in Malang, Indonesia.
Music Education and Organology
- 3:30pm to 5:30pm
9. MacKinnon, Emily, UBC. Hope in Uganda: an Instance of Music in
HIV/AID Education.
10. Morgan, Deirdre. UBC. Contemporary Jew’s Harp Studies.
11. Reed-Jones, Carol. Boston University. Ngoma Musicking, Child Culture
and the Elementary School: Constructing a Participatory Learning Model with
Roots in Ngoma.
12. Fenn, John. University of Oregon.
The Culture of “Boutique” Guitar/Music Effects Pedals.
DIRECTIONS- The conference will
be held in the Ballroom of the UBC Graduate Studies building (Thea Koerner
House):
6371 Crescent Road
Vancouver, British Columbia,
V6T 1Z2
Driving in from just about
anywhere south of Vancouver, take the I-5 freeway to
the border, which turns into
Highway 99. Below is a link to a sample
map
starting from Seattle:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=seattle,+wa&daddr=6371+cresc
ent+road+vancouver,+bc+v6t1z2&sll=49.268241,-123.257603&sspn=0.010389,0.019462&i
Attached to this email is a
general map of UBC campus.
ACCOMMODATIONS
Accommodation is available on
the UBC campus in the West Coast Suites:
http://www.ubcconferences.com/accommodation/west_coast_suites/
A little further off-campus,
Holiday Inn Broadway:
http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/hotel/yvrbw?_requestid=272826
There are many other
accommodation options in Downtown Vancouver:
http://hotels.ca/index.jsp?pageName=hotNetList&cid=78205&city=VANCOUVER&statePro
***PLEASE NOTE:
If you are not presenting but
are still planning to attend the conference,
please RSVP to Deirdre and
Paddy by Monday, March 3, 2008 (please RSVP even if you are a UBC student).
If you have any questions,
please contact us!
Deirdre Morgan
604-715-0725