International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance

A Non-Governmental Organization in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO

2010 - 6th Symposium of the Study Group MUSIC AND MINORITIES & 2nd Symposium of the Study Group APPLIED ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC

6th Symposium of the Study Group MUSIC AND MINORITIES &
2nd Symposium of the Study Group APPLIED ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

HANOI, VIETNAM, 19-30 July 2010

Final Program

Monday, 19/7:
Arrival Day, Registration

Tuesday, 20/7:

9.00-10.00 Opening of the Conference

Welcoming performances

Opening addresses:
Dr. Le Van Toan, Director of the Vietnamese Institute for Musicology
Representative of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Representatives of the International Council for Traditional Music

10.00-10.30 Session 1, Theme 1: Music and Minorities in Education

Larry Francis HILLARIAN (Singapore): Teaching Minority Malay Muslim Music for Greater Social. Integration in a Multicultural Society

Coffee break

11.00-13.00 Session 2, Theme 2: “Other Minorities”- Challenges and Discourses
Panel: Varieties of Musicking within a Language Minority
Chair:Pirkko Moisala
Hanna VÄÄTÄINNEN (Finland): Jumps to the Past and to the Future - Remembering as Becoming in Ethnographic Encounters of a Mother and Daughter
Pirkko MOISALA (Finland): Assemblages of Finland-Swedish Musical Lives
Ros-Mari DJUPSUND (Finland): Do People who sing live longer?

13.00-14.30 Lunch break

14.30-16.00 Session 3, Theme 3: The Role of Music in Sustaining Minority
Communities
Chair: Dan Lundberg
Elena MARUSHIAKOVA and Veselin POPOV (Bulgaria): Migration of Gypsy Songs
Zuzana JURKOVÁ (Czech Republic): Romani Worlds in Contemporary Prague
Aleksandar DIMITRIJEVSKI (Macedonia): The Role of Roma Musicians in the Creation of the Core Music Repertoire of Contemporary Macedonian Wedding Customs

Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Session 4, Theme 2: “Other Minorities”- Challenges and Discourses
Chair: Gisa Jähnichen

Timkehet TEFFERA (Germany): Mendicancy and Oral Poetry in Ethiopia: The Case of the Hamina
Olha KOLOMYYETS (Ukraine): Female Performers Within Hindustani Traditional Professional Musical Culture: New Ways of Transmission
Barbara L. HAMPTON (U.S.A.): “Kasaharee in Ga”: The Path of a Minority Hiplife Language

Wednesday, 21/7:

9.00-10.30 Session 5, Theme 1: Music and Minorities in Education
Chair: Larry Francis Hillarian
Hande SAĞLAM (Austria/Turkey): Possibilities of Intercultural Dialogue:
Bi or Multi-musical Potential of the Students at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna
Kai ABERG (Finland): The Transmission of Musical Knowledge and Music through Formal and Informal Education among Finnish Kaale (Roma)
Alla SOKOLOVA (Russia): Study of Adyghean Music in Educational Institutions of Republic of Adygea

Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Session 6, Theme 3: The Role of Music in Sustaining Minority Communities (European)
Chair: Božena Muszkalska
Dan LUNDBERG (Sweden): Reclaiming the Music - Interchange between Majority and Minority Cultures in Sweden
Gerda LECHLEITNER (Austria): “Old Wine in New Bottles” – Maintaining Tradition Through Modern Interpretation
Elena SCHISCHKINA (Russia): Specific Features of Traditional Culture of Astrakhan Kalmyks’ as a Separate Sub-Ethnic Group

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.30 Session 7, Theme 3: The Role of Music in Sustaining Minority Communities
Chair: Zuzana Jurková

Anne CAUFRIEZ (Belgium): The Female Polyphony of North Portugal

Božena MUSZKALSKA and Tomasz POLAK (Poland): Music as an Instrument of Cultural Sustainability Among the Polish Communities in Brazil

Gretel SCHWÖRER-KOHL (Germany): The Role of Music in Sustaining the Minority Communities of the Hmong, Akha and Lahu People in Northern Thailand

Coffee break

16.00-17.30 Session 8: Extended Discussion

In the evening: Performance

Thursday, 22/7:

9.00-10.30 Session 9, Theme 3: The Role of Music in Sustaining Minority Communities
Chair: Adelaida Reyes
SHEEN Dae-Cheol and KANG Yeon-Hee (Korea): The Music and Dance of Mongol Immigrant Workers’ Community Festival in Korea
Zita SKOREPOVA (Czech Republic): ZIRIAB – Arabic Music in the Czech Republic
Yoshitaka TERADA (Japan): Kulintang as a Pan-FilipinoAmerican Identity

Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Session 10: General Assembly (Business Meeting) of the Study Group Music and Minorities
Chairs: Ursula Hemetek and Svanibor Pettan

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.30 Session 11, Theme 3: The Role of Music in Sustaining Minority Communities
Chair: Yoshitaka Terada
Ko INOUE (Japan): The Praise Song to John Frum in Tanna,Vanuatu
Yoichi YAMADA (Japan): A Paradise of Pop?: The String Band Music and Cultural Invention in Vanuatu
Yoshiaki TAKEMURA (Japan): Divinity, Gulf Money and the Flourishing of Ritual Performance in Kerala, South India

Coffee break

16.00-17.30 Session 12: New Approaches
Chair: Gerda Lechleitner
Elka TSCHERNOKOSCHEWA (Germany): Do Minorities have “The Better Music”?
Shzr Ee TAN (United Kingdom): Taiwan Aborigines on YouTube: Internet Representations of Amis Song and Dance
Nanako TAKI (Japan): Ritual Music and Q’eqchi’ Maya Women in the Post-War Highland Guatemala

Friday, 23/7: Day with Vietnamese Topics at VIM

9.00-10.00 Welcoming ceremony with Vietnamese officials

Welcoming performances

Addresses:
Representative of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Representative of Vietnam National Academy of Music
The Ambassador of Norway in Vietnam
Representative of the Sponsor – the Norwegian Transposition Program

Coffee break

10.30 – 12.00 Session 13: Music and Minorities in Vietnam
Chair: Tran Quang Hai
TO Ngoc Thanh (Vietnam): Folk Music of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities: Commonality and Diversity
Gisa JÄHNICHEN (Germany): Quoting Minorities in Viet Performing Arts – a Short History of Musical Subordination
Lonan O BRIAIN (United Kingdom): Music and Sustainability in Rural Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam

10.30-12.00 Session 14: Preserving Traditional Music of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities through Fieldwork (Panel)
Chair: Yves Defrance
HO Thi Hong Dzung (Vietnam): Traditional Music of the Muong Ethnic Group in the Ngoc Lac distric, Thanh Hoa province (Northern Vietnam) and Its Role in Sustaining the Minority Community
TA Quang Dong (Vietnam): Musical Instruments of Kho mu EthnicMinority and Educational Issue
HOANG Anh Thai, PHAM Minh Huong (Vietnam): About the “Sustainability” of Folk Music in the Life of Some Minorities in Northern Vietnam through Fieldwork
NGUYEN Hien Duc (Vietnam): The Role of Folk Music in Maintaining the Sustainability of Kho me Community in Tri To district, An Giang province (Southern Vietnam)

12.00-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-15.00 Session 15: Musical Life, Teaching, and Activism
Chair: To Ngoc Thanh
BUI Trong Hien (Vietnam): Basic Artistic Features of Cồng Chiêng (Gong) in Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên)
DUONG Thi Bich Ha (Vietnam): Musical Activities in the Life of Ta Oi Ethnic Minority – Pako, Thua Thien Hue – One Beautiful Trait of Tradition
NGUYEN Binh Dinh (Vietnam): Folk Music of Thai Ethnic Minority in Son La province – Vietnam in the Recent Years and the Situation in Organization of Teaching

Coffee break

15.30 - 17.30 Session 16: Research and Application
Chair: Barley Norton
LE Van Toan (Vietnam): Collecting and Preserving Music of Ethnic Minorities: Experiences from Vietnam
NGUYEN Thi My Liem (Vietnam): Ritual Music of Ethnic Cham in An Giang, in the South of Vietnam
NGUYEN Thi Bich Van (Vietnam): Influences of Folk Songs and Traditional Music of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities in Training Program for Classical Western Musical Instruments
Geir JOHNSON (Norway): The Art of Development – the Development of Art. Transposition – A Norwegian-Vietnamese Music Project

18.00 Welcome Dinner and Performance at VIM

Saturday - Sunday, 24 - 25/7:Excursion and Shared Sessions at Hạlong Bay

Session 17: Music and Minorities
Chair: Ursula Hemetek
TRAN Quang Hai (France): Westernization and Modernization of the Gongs of the Highlanders of Central Vietnam: Are They Good for the Development of Their Music in the Globalization of World Music
Todd SAURMAN (U.S.A./Thailand): Singing for Survival in the Highlands of Cambodia
Cornelia DRAGUSIN (Australia): Tenrikyō: The Role of Music in Sustaining a Minority Community

Session 18: Applied Ethnomusicology
Chair: Svanibor Pettan
Kjell SKYLLSTAD (Norway): The Art of Sustainability. Is there a Score for Cultural Survival?
Victoria VORREITER (U.S.A.): Songs of Memory: Traditional Music of the Golden Triangle
Huib SCHIPPERS (Australia): Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures: Towards an Ecology of Musical Diversity

Monday, 26/7:

9.00 – 10.30 Session 19, Theme 1: History and Workings of Applied Ethnomusicology
Chair: Tan Sooi Beng

Brian SCHRAG (U.S.A.): Training for Advocacy in Minority Arts

Elizabeth MACKINLAY (Australia): ‘From Big Women, Bigger Things Grow’: Talking about an Ethnomusicology of the Heart and its Potential as Applied and Decolonising Work in Indigenous Australia

Kirsty GILLESPIE (Australia): ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’: Applied Ethnomusicology in the Context of a Gold Mine

Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Session 20: Applied Ethnomusicology, Cultural Heritage, Social Relevance (Panel)
Chair: Tina K. Ramnarine
Britta SWEERS (Germany): Which Cultural Heritage? Music and Modern Identity Construction in Germany and Switzerland
Barley NORTON (United Kingdom): Cultural Heritage, Music Revivalism and Vietnamese Ca Tru
Tina K. RAMNARINE (United Kingdom): Symphony Orchestras in the 21st Century: Between Social Relevance and Digital Technologies

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-16.00 Session 21, Theme 1: History and the Workings of Applied
Ethnomusicology
Chair: Britta Sweers
Claudio CHIPENDO (Zimbabwe): Re-contextualization and Transformation: Taking Mbira Music from the Village to the International Stage: The Case of Mbira DzeNharira
Leila QASHU (Canada): Arsi Oromo Women’s Music in Ethiopia as Conflict Resolution in a Patriarchal Society
Joe PETERS (Singapore): The Evolution of the Bandurria (Spain), Bunduria (Philippines) and the Bandoria (Singapore-Vietnam): A Case Study for Applied Ethnomusicology

Lasanthi Manaranjanie KALINGA DONA (Sri Lanka): Curing Arterial Hypertension with Indian Classical Music: An Experiment in Applied Ethnomusicology

Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Session 22: Talking Circle 1 (History and the Workings of Applied Ethnomusicology)
Chair: Klisala Harrison

Tuesday, 27/7:

9.00 – 10.30 Session 23, Theme 3: Performing Arts in Dialogue, Advocacy and Education
Chair: Elizabeth MacKinlay
TAN Sooi Beng (Malaysia): Engaging Communities and Empowering Youth for Change through Participatory Arts in Asia
Bernhard BLEIBINGER (South Africa): Outreach/Inreach and Changing Roles: Applied Ethnomusicology in the Context of a Project in the eastern Cape (South Africa)
Klisala HARRISON (Canada): Musical Responses to Intersectional Discrimination in Canadian Urban Poverty Situations

Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Session 24, Theme 3: Performing Arts in Dialogue, Advocacy, and Education
Chair: Bernhard Bleibinger
Rodrigo CABALLERO (Canada): Cooperative Learning through Gotong Royong: Indonesian Gamelan for the Classroom
Yoshiko OKAZAKI (Japan): Towards More Balanced Teaching Materials: The Performing Arts of Cambodia
Mary SAURMAN (U.S.A./Thailand): Culturally Relevant Songs: Teaching Tools in Education Programs

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-16.00 Session 25, Theme 3: Performing Arts in Dialogue, Advocacy, and Education
Chair: Panicos Giorgoudes
NGUYEN Thi Minh Chau, NGUYEN Thuy Tien (Vietnam): The Meeting of Past and Present Elements in ‘Street Art’ through Xẩm Singing and Hip Hop
James NAPOLI (U.S.A.): Managing New York City's Immigrant Music Traditions: Adaptive Strategies for Sustainability in the Global Cultural Economy
Davide D’ALO (Italy): Eastern European Street Musicians in Naples (Italy). Identity Negotiation through Music-making
Vanja MUHOVIĆ and Nedžad MUŠOVIĆ (Bosnia and Herzegovina): Taking Sevdalinka to “Sijelo”: Practicing Applied Ethnomusicology in Sarajevo

Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Session 26: Talking Circle 2 (Performing Arts in Dialogue, Advocacy, and Education)
Chair: Brian Schrag

In the evening: Performance

Wednesday, 28/7:

8.30-10.30 Session 27, Theme 3: Performing Arts in Dialogue, Advocacy, and Education
Chair: Yoshiko Okazaki
KHUONG Cuong (Vietnam): Xam Art of Past and Today
Esbjorn WETTERMARK (Sweden): Thang long Ca Tru: New Ways for Old Music
Panicos GIORGOUDES (Cyprus): Where are my Musicians?
Saemund FISKVIK (Norway): Adopting the WIPOCOS Software for Standardizing Music Archives and Databases

Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Session 28 General Assembly (Business Meeting) of the Study Group Applied Ethnomusicology
Chairs: Svanibor Pettan and Klisala Harrison

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.30 Session 29, Theme 2: Performing Arts and Ecology
Chair: Kjell Skyllstad
Catherine GRANT (Australia): Endangered Languages, Endangered Music: Building and Applying a Framework of Synergies and Disconnects
Hideki ONISHI and Pamela COSTES ONISHI (Singapore): Restoration and Dissemination of the Philippine Kulintang’s Improvisational Idiom: A Semiological Analysis towards the Sustainability of a Musical Tradition
Manuela MAGNO (Portugal): The Importance of Preserving the Traditional/Ethnic Music of East Timor: An Overall Account of a Six Months' Fieldwork

Coffee break

16.00-17.30 Session 30: Talking Circle 3 (Performing Arts and Ecology)
Chair: Huib Schippers
In the evening: Closing Ceremony and Farewell Party

Addresses:
Representative of the Local Organization committee
Representatives of the International Council for Traditional Music

Performances

Thursday, 29/7:

Getting to Know Hanoi Excursion (whole day)

Friday, 30/7: