DISCIPLINARY CROSSINGS
in the critical musicologies
Disciplinary Crossings in the Critical Musicologies
BU London Address, hosting event:
Boston University, 43 Harrington Gardens, London, SW7 4JU
Tel: +44 (0) 7244 6255
Wednesday, 8 March
8:30 Registration & coffee
9:00 Welcome
9:00 Michael Birenbaum Quintero (Boston University). Welcome.
9:05 Gregory Melchor-Barz: “Musicologies at Boston University: The 150th Anniversary of the CFA School of Music”
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9:30-11:00 Praxis for the Critical Musicologies
9:30 Patrick Nickleson (University of Alberta): Music Study as a Mode of Address in the Critical Musicologies: Lessons from Black and Indigenous Studies””
10:00 Amanda Hsieh (Durham University): “Slow down, the Anglo-American ‘global’ turn!
10:30 Alexander Carpenter (University of Alberta) “The Future is Already Here: Pop Music Scholarship at the Nexis of the Critical Musicologies”
11:00 Short Break (15m)
11:15-12:15 Keynote Lecture
Anna Busse Berger (University of California, Davis): “How a Little-Known Music Scholar from Sierra Leone Changed the Agenda of a German Mission Society”
Lunch 12:15-1:15
1:15-2:45 Africa in the Musicologies
1:15 Janie Cole (University of Cape Town): “Africa in the World and the World in Africa: Rethinking Entangled Music Histories in a Global and Early Modern Indigenous Knowledge System”
1:45 Gregory Melchor-Barz (Boston University): “Encountering the History and Influence of African Music in the Critical Musicologies”
2:15 Martin Scherzinger (New York University): “Precolonial African Music and the Antinomies of Colonial Time”
2:45 Short Break (15m)
3:00-5:00 Cultural, Disciplinary, and Temporal Crossings
3:00 Rachana Vajjhala (Boston University): “Lords of Dance, Gods of Blue”
4:30 Marié Abe (Boston University): “The Poetics of Mishearing: Reimagining Historical Affinities through Ethiopian and Japanese Popular Musics”
4:00 Supeena Insee Adler and Decha Srikongmuang (UCLA): “Recovering a Lost Voice from Siam’s Earliest Musical Ambassadors” (virtual, 8:00 am Pacific)
7:00 Dinner, off site.
The Coopers Arms
87, Flood Street, London, SW3 5TB
+44 (0) 7376 3120
http://www.coopersarms.co.uk/drink
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Thursday, 9 March
8:30 Coffee
9-10:30 Discipline and Musicological Labour in the Academy
9:00 Ana-María Alarcón Jimenez: “Disciplinary Walls and Music Research in Spanish Academia” (virtual, 10:00am Central European)
9:30 Natalie Farrell (University of Chicago): “On Working Through It: Labor as Theory and Praxis in Critical Musicologies”
10:00 Richard David Williams (SOAS University of London): “Early Modernists teaching Bollywood: Present Trends and Possible Futures in the Study of South Asian Musical Pasts”
10:30 Short Break (15m)
10:45-12:15 Reframing Histories I
10:45 Brian Barone (Boston University): “‘No Such Thing as Music?’ Historical Ethnomusicology and the Music Concept”
11:15 Miki Kaneda (Boston University) “The John Cage Shock was a Fiction”: The 1960s Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Music as a Transnational Practice”
11:45 Julia Byl (University of Alberta): “Sonic Ecologies of the Sumatran Highlands”
Lunch 12:15-1:15
1:15-2:45 Reframing Histories II
1:15 Michael Iyanaga (William & Mary): “Reconstructing the Life of Anna Vieira dos Santos, c. 1895-1933: Notes on Ethnography as Atlantic History” (virtual, 8:15 am Eastern)
1:45 Michael Birenbaum Quintero (Boston University): “What Is This ‘Globe,’ ‘Music,’ and
‘History’ in Global Music History? (And What Does It Mean for the Musicologies?)”
2:15 Olivia Bloechl (University of Pittsburgh): “Indigenizing Sound Materials in the Ohio Country
Fur Trade” (virtual, 9:30 am Eastern)
2:45 Short Break (15m)
3:00-4:30 Discipline, Pedagogy, and the Institution
3:00 Brett Boutwell and Blake Howe (Louisiana State University): “The Musician in Society: A Post-Disciplinary Framework for the Undergraduate Music Classroom” (virtual. 9:00am Central)
3:30 David Irving (Institució Milà i Fontanals): “Dolmetsch Between the Disciplines: Convergences and Collaborations in the Early Music Revival”
4:00 Hedy Law (University of British Columbia): “Assembling Global Music History in the Academy” (virtual, 8:00 am Pacific)
4:30 Victor Coelho (Boston University): “Translational Musicology”