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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2005
Pre-Conference Symposium
ATLANTA, SHERATON MIDTOWN ATLANTA, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
Race & Place: Invoking New Music Identities
This symposium features lecture presentations by Dwight Andrews (music, Emory University) on jazz and spirituality, Peter Brown (anthropology, Emory University) on healing and the social body, Marva Carter (music, Georgia State University) on early twentieth-century African American Broadway theater, Jonathan Dueck (music, University of Maryland at College Park) on shape-note singing in the South, Jean Kidula (music, University of Georgia at Athens) on gospel music and race in the South, Bobbi Patterson (religion, Emory University) on music and intercultural understanding in an international school in Atlanta, Brett Pyper (music, New York University) on jazz and race in South Africa, Dianne Stewart (religion, Emory University) on the theology of the body in nineteenth-century African American religious expressions, and also presentations by Regula Qureshi (music, University of Alberta, Kay Kaufman Shelemay (music, Harvard University), and Deborah Wong (music, University of California at Riverside). After the lunch hour Thomasina Neely-Chandler (Atlanta) will present a lecture-performance on the music and worship practices of the Church of God in Christ in Grand Ballroom South.
Organized by the Department of Music and co-sponsorsed by ICIS (Institute for Comparative and International Studies) and the Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2005
Concert: Creative Processes of Korean Music
GRAND BALLROOM NORTH, SHERATON MIDTOWN ATLANTA, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
This concert will feature both traditional music and contemporary development of Korean music in the last fifty years through a wide range of repertory from sanjo to computer-generated music. The six specially invited performers are Hwang Byungki (gayageum, 12-stringed zither), Ji Aeri (12- and 25-stringed gayageum), Moon Hyun (sijo, poetic song), Kim Jeongseung (daegeum, large bamboo flute), Kim Woongsik (jango, hourglass drum), and Jo Jeonghee (pansori, narrative sung-drama). Renowned photographer Koo Bohnchang, whose prolific output includes still photos used as cover posters for such well-known Korean films as Seopeonje and Chunhyang, as well as photographs of Korean mask dancers, will provide live interactive visual imagery for the concert.
A panel paralleling the concert, also titled “Creative Processes of Korean Music” will explore several aspects of preservation of Korean traditional music and contemporary innovations influenced by the traditional music. Hwang Byungki will speak on the new compositions for traditional instruments, Andrew Killick will present on creative processes in pansori and chang-geuk (pansori based musical drama), Jinmi Huh Davidson will comment on traditional music influenced Western-style compositions and Robert Provine will remark on the 50 years of Korean music research.
Funding by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Korea), Foundation for Cultural Exchange (Korea), Korea Foundation (Korea), and Asian Council for Arts (USA), with additional sponsorship from the Program for Asian Studies, Department of Music, Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2005
Concert: Gullah Music Performed by the Georgia Sea Islands Singers
Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
EMORY UNIVERSITY
Discover the coastal Georgia Gullah heritage of the Golden Isles through song as Frankie Sullivan Quimby and Douglas Quimby sing in English, African, and Gullah dialect. Audience participation, clapping, and Doug's lightning quick hands that turn his body into a musical instrument are highlights along with the escape songs, call-and-response songs, sea chanties, shouts, and lyrics containing coded messages once used by slaves. Treasures of Georgia, the Quimbys have performed for heads of state and at major world events, including multiple Olympic Games.
Tickets underwritten by the Department of Music at Emory University, with additional sponsorship from the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship, Department of Anthropology Speakers Fund Series, Institute for African Studies, Institute of Liberal Arts, and Program for African American Studies at Emory University. Transportation will be provided.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2005
An Evening of Tango
GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH, SHERATON MIDTOWN ATLANTA, 9:30 pm – 12:00 am
Hosted by Tangueros Emory, this tango milonga will be led by Horacio Arcidiacono. From 9:30 to 10:00 pm, Horacio and members of Tangueros Emory will teach the basic steps of tango to SEM members. From 10:00 pm onward, Atlanta’s tango community will join SEM members and dance the night away. Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Emory University. Admission: $10; free for SEM conference participants (show your conference badges at the entrance). Cash bar available.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2005
Contemporary Javanese Shadow Puppet Theater: KAM, an Interactive Shadow Play
ATLANTA, SHERATON MIDTOWN ATLANTA, 9:30 pm – 12:00 am
KAM is based on the sixteenth-century Javanese legend of Ki Ageng Mangir and the modern play Mangir by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Performed by the Emory Gamelan Ensemble and guest musicians from SEM, with Midiyanto, University of California at Berkeley, as dhalang. Music and design by Steve Everett, Emory University. In combining traditional Javanese and contemporary Western art forms, KAM explores the cyclical nature of current and past sociopolitical dynamics in Indonesia through a traditional wayang kulit form. KAM provides a modern glimpse into this intriguing episode in Javanese history. Movement, shadow puppets, and music are able to interact with the use of several computer-based audio and video programs. Original shadow puppets of the characters in the play have been created in Java for this production. The story is spoken and sung by Midiyanto in English, Bahasa Indonesia, and Javanese. This event is free for SEM conference participants.
