11th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities

Uppsala, Sweden, 25 – 29 October 2021

Symposium Address:
Institutet för Språk och Folkminnen
(Institute for Language and Folklore)
Von Kraemers allé 21, Uppsala
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Svenskt visarkiv (Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research) will be the primary institution organizing the symposium. Founded in Stockholm in 1951, Svenskt visarkiv, is a public institution involved in collecting, preserving, researching and publishing in the fields of instrumental and vocal traditional music as well as older popular songs and Swedish jazz. Svenskt visarkiv is one of five institutions forming Musikverket (the Swedish Performing Arts Agency).

The three collaborating institutions, all based in Uppsala, will be The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture, Institutet  för  språk  och  folkminnen, ISOF (Institute for Language and Folklore) and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University. Institutet för språk och folkminnen is a governmental agency researching folk traditions and minority languages in Sweden whereas the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology specializes in understanding new ethnicities, modes of urbanism and multiculturalism.

The symposium will be held at Uppsala Arkivcentrum (the Institute for Language and Folklore), von Kraemers allé 21, 752 37 Uppsala, Sweden.

Schedule

Monday 25 October

9:00 – 10:30 Registration and coffee
Symposium Venue:
Institutet för Språk och Folkminnen
(Institute for Language and Folklore)
Von Kraemers allé 21, Uppsala 

10:30 Opening Ceremony

Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee; 
Svanibor Pettan Study group chair and Chair of the Program Committee; 
Emma Rung State Secretary at the Swedish Ministry of Culture

Martin Sundin General director Institute for Language and Folklore; 
Dan Lundberg General director Swedish Performing Arts Agency; 
Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius Hosting manager

11:00 – 12:00 Music of minorities as national cultural heritage

Krister Malm From outcast to national instrument – the elevation of the steel pan

Gretel Schwörer The bronze drum of the Zhuang people as national cultural heritage of China

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:30 New Research

Saida Yelemanova, Fatima Nurlybayeva Traditional music of the Tatar minority in Kazakhstan.

Jonas Ålander Music and migrants in Swedish news reporting

Jasmina Talam Music and identity construction: The example of Bosnians in Sweden

Fatima Nurlybayeva Ethnic minorities in ethnomusicological research of Kazakhstan folklore: history and politics of collections

15:30 – 16:00 Fika

16:00 – 18:00 Roundtable: Theoretical and methodological considerations

Ursula Hemetek and Marko Kölbl On definitions and guiding principles in ethnomusicological minority research (inspired Adelaida Reyes)

17:05-18:00 Memorial session for Adelaida Reyes (1930-2021)

Svanibor Pettan
 

We will walk to the reception together after the memorial session.

18:30 Welcome reception by invitation of the governor at Uppsala Castle

Tuesday 26 October

8:30 – 10:30 New Research

Jakub Kopaniecki Music of rebellion during the 10th Wrocław Equality March

Hande Sağlam Continuity of cultural memory: Transmission traditions of Alevi and Sunni Âşıks in Sivas

Nico Mangifesta Is it possible to perform gamelan music wearing a hijab during odalan or Christian ceremonies in contemporary Bali?

Bożena Muszkalska Music as an expression of virtual Jewishness in contemporary Poland

10:30 – 11:00 Fika

11:00 – 13:00 Panel: Music of minorities as national cultural heritage

Politics of representations: Minority music, affect and resistance (Digital)

Fulvia Caruso Past and present minorities in Italian policies. An overview and some thorough examination of musical displays

Yuiko Asaba A ‘minority’ dance-music?: The institutionalisation of tango in post-war Japan

Thea Tiramani “What is our music?”: colonialism, nationalism and generational conflicts in contemporary Sikh kirtan in the diaspora

Alma Bejtullahu “We need a presentable Albanian music in diaspora”: Rethinking/rebuffing transnational music

Alenka Bartulović Musical tensions: Affective renegotiation of sevdalinka in post-Yugoslav Slovenia

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 New Research/Music of minorities as national cultural heritage

Ieva Tihovska Minorities in the frame of the state: Organization and categorization of musical performances

Gerda Lechleitner Archives’ responsibilities in collecting, maintaining and presenting the music of minorities

Manoj Alawathukotuwa Changing patterns of music of the Sri Lankan aboriginal community known as Veddas

16:00 – 16:30 Fika

16:30 – 17:00

Dan Lundberg Joik as a Unesco Memory of the World

Wednesday 27 October

On Wednesday there will be a possibility to get acquainted with Swedish traditional music. We will visit the Eric Sahlström Institute, where we will have a chance to learn more about the Swedish national instrument, the keyed fiddle and get the opportunity to attend a live concert. Lunch will be included into the excursion.

The keyed fiddle, an important Swedish instrument

Departure from Uppsala at 9:00

We expect to back in Uppsala at 18:00

Thursday 28 October

8:30 – 10:30 Panel: New Research (Digital)

Kaarina Kilpiö, Johannes Brusila, Kim Ramstedt The impact of digitalization on minority music: The Swedish-speaking minority of Finland as a case study

10:30 – 11:00 Fika

11:00 – 12:00 Ecological issues and research on music and minorities

George Pioustin Music in the time of farm vs green debate: A study on the Syrian Christians and the Western Ghats

Dorit M. Klebe Models and spaces for survival of music cultures of refugee communities in Germany from 2015

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Music of minorities as national cultural heritage

Zuzana Jurková “Through music we were kept alive.” Social dynamics in minority – majority rememberings

Sarah Ross Jewish musical heritage in Germany after 1945: Between individual need and socio- political necessity

14:30 – 15:00 Fika

15:00 – 17:00 Business meeting Chaired by Svanibor Pettan

19:00 Symposium dinner for presenters

The symposium dinner, to which all speakers are invited, will be held on the top floor at the Institute for Language and Folklore.

Friday 29 October

8:30 – 9:30 New Research/Ecological issues (Digital)

Catherine Ingram A Home That Unites Us All? Global Music Media and South Sudanese Australians

Burcu Yaşin Sarigol Romanies: An Acoustic Community under the Threat of Gentrification

9:30 – 10:15 Fika

10:15 – 12:00 Presentation of the Collections at Institute for Language and Folklore

12:00 – 13.30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:30 Music of minorities as national cultural heritage

Valeriya Nedlina Traditional Music of Kazakhs: National, Local or Tribal?

Eva Fock When the minority is the majority…or…?

Ioannis Christidis Musical performances of forced migrants from Syria as a participatory experience for performing citizenship on the thresholds of Europe.

Hilde Binford Indigenous Voices at the UN Climate Change Conferences

15:30 – 16:00 Fika

16:00 – 17:30 New Research (Digital)

Essica Marks Cultural identity and Byzantine chant in a small choir of a Greek orthodox church

Kai Viljami Åberg The Finnish Romani music – A Product or process?

Xinjie Chen Returning to the cultural roots: Multimodal presentations of Sápmi in Sámi music CD productions in the 2000s

Francesca Cassio Challenging Colonial Universalism: Towards a Decolonization and De- nationalization of the Sikh Musical Heritage

17:45 – 18:15 Symposium counterpoint and including remarks Svanibor Pettan and Hande Sağlam

Symposium closing and farewell

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Local Arrangements Committee 

Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius, Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius (Chair), Mischa van Kan, Dan Lundberg, Oscar Pripp, and Gunnar Ternhag

Programme Committee 

Cassandre Balosso-Bardin, Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius, Svanibor Pettan (Chair), Adelaida Reyes, Hande Sağlam, and Jasmina Talam