Symposium: Musics Matter!


Ethnomusicology and its Socio-political Relevance today


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28 – 30 September 2017:
The symposium marks the transfer of the ICTM Secretariat from Ljubljana to Vienna. The ICTM is the largest international ethnomusicological society worldwide with a 70-year history. The board is elected by the membership and mirrors the diversity of the ICTM.


Programme


The programme is also available as PDF document:


Thursday, 28 September, Joseph Haydn Hall
 

  • 5.00 pm: Registration
     
  • 6.30 pm: Opening Ceremony


Friday, 29 September, Fanny Hensel Hall
 

  • 10.00 – 11.30 am: Paper Session
    • Salwa El Shawan Castelo-Branco
      ​The Politics and Ethics of Music Heritage
       
    • Naila Ceribašić
      Policy in the Field: On Brokerage and Other Services to National and International Agencies
       
    • Dan Lundberg
      Music Archives, Identity and Democracy
  • 11.30 – 12.00 am: Coffee Break
     
  • 12.00 am – 1.00 pm: Paper Session
    • Beverly Diamond
      How Indigenous Sociopolitical Resurgence and Ontological Encounters Might Change Ethnomusicology
       
    • Naila Ceribašić
      Policy in the Field: On Brokerage and Other Services to National and International Agencies
       
    • Bernd Brabec de Mori
      "Ethno" Constructions in Sound Ontologies of Contemporary Medicine and Therapy: Relevance and Criticism
  • 1.00 – 2.30 pm: Lunch Break
     
  • 2.30 – 4.00 pm: Paper Session
    • Tom Solomon
      Postcolonialism and Ethnomusicology: Issues, Challenges, and Prospects
       
    • Tina K. Ramnarine
      Music, Labour Histories and Decolonising Scholarship
       
    • Rasika Ajotikar
      Caste-ing Music: Decolonising Knowledge in Postcolonial India
  • 4.00 – 4.30 pm: Coffee Break
     
  • 4.30 – 5.30 pm: Paper Session
    • Cornelia Gruber
      The Politics of Women Dancing in Madagascar: Juxtaposing Perspectives on Gender in Ethnomusicology
       
    • Selena Rakočević
      Practicing Ethnomusicology/Ethnochoreology within Post-Socialist Realities. Some Comparative Experiences from Serbia
  • 7.00 pm: Book Presentation
    European Voices III. The Instrumentation and Instrumentalization of Sound. Local Multipart Music Practices in Europe.
    Edited by Ardian Ahmedaja


Saturday, 30 September, Fanny Hensel Hall
 

  • 10.00 – 11.30 am: Paper Session
    • Samuel Araujo
      Music, Research and Public Interest: A Dialogical Praxis for Social Justice
       
    • Philip V. Bohlman
      "And from the Ruins of Time They Blossom" – On the Moral Imperative in Ethnomusicology
       
    • Tan Sooi Beng
      Mediating Inclusion and Intercultural Dialogue through Community Music and the Arts in Malaysia
  • 11.30 – 12.00 am: Coffee Break
     
  • 12.00 am – 1.00 pm: Paper Session
    • Adelaida Reyes
      The Beneficence and the Tyranny of Paradigms: Refugees, Nation-States, and Musical Life
       
    • Svanibor Pettan
      Religions Matter! Exploring Ethnomusicology of Religion
  • 1.00 – 2.30 pm: Lunch Break
     
  • 2.30 – 3.30 pm: Paper Session
    • Ana Hofman
      "All in one voice": Politicness of Music and Sound in a Time of Uncertainty
       
    • Britta Sweers
      The Position of University-Based Ethnomusicology from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
  • 3.30 – 5.00 pm: Coffee Break
     
  • 5.00 pm: Book Presentation
    Performing Sexual Identities. Nationalities on the Eurovision Stage
    Edited by Magdalena Fürnkranz and Ursula Hemetek
     
  • Closing Event at the Croatian Center with Buffet & Music


Free admission!
Please register via e-mail at: krammer@mdw.ac.at


Musics Matter!
Ethnomusicology and its Socio-political Relevance Today
28 – 30 September 2017
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Joseph Haydn Hall and Fanny Hensel Hall
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Vienna