Transforming Ethnomusicological Praxis through Activism and Community Engagement

University of Limerick, 13-16 September2015 

Sunday, 13 September 

8:30–9:00                      Registration

9:00–9:30                      Welcome and Opening Remarks from SEM and ICTM

9:30–10:30                    INVITED PLENARY: Angela Impey (ICTM/SEM) -- The Arts of Transitional Justice: Song, Truth-telling, and Memory in South Sudan

10:30–10:45                 Refreshment break

10:45–12:45   Paper Session A – Activism and Advocacy 

Violeta Ruando-Posada: Activism as methodology: collaborative music research projects to further a political cause, the Saharawi case

Therese Smith: Transforming Ethnomusicological Praxis through Activism with Community Engagement

Laryssa Whittaker: “Ubuhle bendoda ‘zinkomo ‘zayo:”  Evaluating the impact of music development programmes on the multidimensional wellbeing of participants

10:45–12:45  Paper Session B – Decentering Media Production

Jocelyn Moon and Zachary Moon: Matepe Music Mediation: Cultural Stigmas and Issues of Access from Online to On-the-Ground Music Networking Projects in Northeastern Zimbabwe

Megan Collins:  Ethnomusicology and Community Engagement on radio in New Zealand

Randal Baier: Processing the Acoustic Archive: Diegetic and Non-diegetic Soundscapes in the Mountains of West Java, Indonesia

10:45–12:45   Paper Session C -- Ethical Challenges of Negotiating Institutional and Community Values      

Oliver Shao: Representing Music Research for Reformulating Refugee Camp Policies in Kenya               

Colin Quigley: Romani dance music and collaborative scholarship: Redrawing ethnic-national boundaries in Transylvania

Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg: Ethnomusicology, Anthropology and Ethics: A practical, applied and philosophical perspective

12:45–14:00                         Lunch

14:00–16:00      PLENARY Paper Session   –  Decolonizing Education: Part 1  

Jennifer Newsome: Collaboration and Community Engagement in Indigenous Music Education: A Case Study and Model from South Australia

Andrea Emberly: Dancing domba: Intersections of ethnomusicology, music education, and research with children and young people

Rana El Kadi.  Cultural empowerment and antiracism education for immigrant and refugee youth: Developing an ethnomusicological methodology for the Canadian classroom

16:00–16:15                      Refreshment Break

16:15–18:15   PLENARY Paper Session -- Decolonizing Education: Part 2

Marcia Ostashewski:  Strategies, challenges and productive outcomes of cross-sector collaborative projects in Canadian case studies: Changing contexts, changing roles

T.M. Scruggs: El Sistema in Venezuela and the U.S.: social transformation, the Euro-classical canon, and other musics

Danielle Treacy: Appreciative Inquiry and teacher collaboration as a strategy for envisioning inclusive music education in Nepal 

18:15–20:00                      Dinner  break

20:00–21:30                      Possible meeting times

Monday, September 14

8:45–10:15                    Paper Session A – Environmental Issues

Chad Hamill: The Earth Is (Still) Our Mother: Indigenous Adaptation in the Era of Climate Change

Mark DeWitt: When Music May Not Be Enough: Songwriting, Environmentalism, and the Louisiana Oil Industry 

8:45–10:15                    Paper Session B – Community Engagement in Intercultural Religious Contexts

Katherine Morehouse: Ethnomusicology, Activism, and Community Engagement in Worldwide Christian Worship

Carol  Muller and Nina Ohman: On Not Knowing: Academically Based Community Service, Faith Based Organizations, and the Training of Ethnomusicology Students

10:15–10:30                                          Refreshment break

10:30–12:30           Paper Session A – Sustainability Praxis and Research

Javier Campos Calvo-Sotelo: Real Communities, non-Invented Traditions: Towards an Ethnomusicology beyond the Bounds of Deconstruction

Simon McKerrell: Traditional music and cultural sustainability in Scotland

Sarah Ross: Theoretical Perspectives on a Sustainability Science in Ethnomusicology and its Implication for Applied Ethnomusicology 

10:30–12:30        Paper Session B -- Participatory Action Research: Toward Better Models of Collaboration?

Vincenzo Cambria: Crossing the ocean: some considerations on practical and methodological challenges within a joint collaborative research project between Brazil and Portugal.

Will Faber: Sound, Improvisation, and the Anti-Violence Futurity  in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood       

Michael Frishkopf: Music for Global Human Development

12:30–14:00             Lunch

14:00–16:15      INVITED PLENARY: Indigenous Cultural Issues and Research Approaches

Amos Key (Haudenosaunee): TBA  

Harald Gaski (Sámi): Attuned and Accountable. Indigenous Methodologies and the Research on Sami Joik.

Rhoda Roberts (Burulung): The Modernity of the Songline. 

16:00–16:15                      Refreshment break

16:15–17:15      INVITED PLENARY: Anthony Seeger – Changing Praxis and Ethical Practice: Lessons for Ethnomusicology from Applied Anthropology

17:15–19:30                      Dinner break

19:30–20:30        INVITED PLENARY: Svanibor Pettan and Jeff Titon -- Applied Ethnomusicology: Pasts and Futures

Tuesday, September 15 

9:00–10:30        Paper Session A –Recovering from Conflict and Violence. Problematizing Reconciliation in the Dialogue for Change

Allison Singer: Dance, songs and stories of the heart - the use of the arts in post-war psychosocial work

Fatu Gayflor, Selina Morales, and Toni Shapiro-Phim: The Liberian Women's Chorus for Change

9:00–10:30       Paper Session B – Community Engagement in Media Production

Zoe Sherinian: Community Filmmaking as Ethnomusicological Fieldwork Among Dalit Women Drummers in India.

Akiko Nozawa: Negotiation of Musical Knowledge for Recording:a case of SELONDING Shooting Project in Bali, Indonesia

9:00-10:30       Paper Session C --  Mapping and Negotiating Public Space 

Aileen Dillane and Tony Langlois: Reflections on Limerick Soundscapes: Sonic Mapping, Critical Citizenship, and Social Activism

Rebecca Liebman: Praxis through Honk: the rise of politically active, pedagogically inclusive street brass bands in the United States

10:30–10:45            Refreshment Break

10:45–12:45            PLENARY Paper Session  – Power and Real World Intervention

Sooi Beng TAN: Activist Research as Intervention: Participatory Strategies for  Collaboration and Dialogue

Samuel Araujo: Reengaging Sound Praxis in the Real World; Politico-Epistemological Dimensions of Dialogue and Collaboration in Knowledge Production.

Ana Hofman: Epistemic power games and collaborative research in ethnomusicology under neoliberalism 

12:45–14:00               Lunch break

13:00–14:00      Lunchtime Concert

14:00–16:30                  PLENARY Paper Session – Museums, archives and public memory 

Denise Barata: Black songs’ sacred territories

Kwasi Ampene: Negotiating Ethnomusicological and Institutional Praxis: Collaborative Strategies in Researching and Publishing Over Five Hundred Years of Tangible and Intangible Heritage of Regalia in Ghana

Diane Thram: Archives, Heritage Activism, and Engaged Ethnomusicology: Sustaining African Musical Heritage through Outreach, Education and Repatriation                

Sally Treloyn: Cultural maintenance in the discomfort zone: intercultural collaboration and repatriation in the Australian settler state (Kimberley, Western Australia[SC5] )

16:30–16:45 – Refreshment break

16:45–17:45 – INVITED PLENARY: Eric Luke Lassiter – Collaborative Ethnography: Recent Developments and Opportunities

17:45–20:00 – Dinner break

Wednesday September 16

8:15–8:45                  ESEM Registration

8:45–9:00      ESEM Opening

9:00–11:30  Paper Session A – Facing Poverty and Other Urban Problems: Scholarly Engagement and the Musical Enactment of Change

Klisala Harrison: Cultural Rights and Musical Values in Urban Poverty

Rebecca Dirksen: Zafè Fatra (The Affair of Trash) and the Affair of Scholarly Engagement: Can Music (and Music Scholarship) Really Clean Up the Streets of Port-au-Prince?

Andrew MdGraw: Sounding Utopia in the Richmond City Jail

Jamie Wong: Beyond the Bars: Sounding Out a Road to Rehabilitation through Music for Ex-Offenders 

9:00-11:30        Paper Session B -- Health and Well-being

Brian Schrag: Ethnoarts community therapy:  local artistry, imagination, and appreciative inquiry in the service of justice and well-being

Denise Gill: “We Can’t Mourn Until the Voice of Justice is Heard”: Medical Ethnomusicology and Protest Music-Making as Social Healing in Ferguson, Missouri

Bonnie McConnell: Ntolu mang haani feng soto (“we don’t have anything”): Applied Ethnomusicology as Strengths-Based Intervention

James B Morford.: Sounding for Silence: The Challenges of Community-Driven Aid Work in Response to the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in Guinea, West Africa

11:30-11:45                   Refreshment break

11:45-12:45                  INVITED PLENARY: Deborah Wong Witnessing: A Methodology

12:45–14:00                    Lunch

14:00–16:00                     PLENARY Paper Session – Policy Challenges and Ethnomusicological Praxis

Jorge Franco and Gloria P Zapata: PPFIM Cultural diversity and social inclusion in music research in Colombia:  debates, perspectives and challenges

Robin Harris: Applied Ethnoarts Training: New Approaches, Resources, and Collaborative Partnership

David A McDonald: Sincerely Outspoken: Towards an Activist-Oriented Critical Ethnomusicology

16:00-16:15                      Refreshment break

16:00-17:00                     INVITED PLENARY: TBA

17:00–18:00                      WRAP-UP DISCUSSION

18:00–19:30                            Concert

20:00–22:00                    Banquet