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To watch a session after it is over, click on its “Archive URL.” Note that the Archive stream will become available approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of a session. You will need Adobe Flash Player installed in your web browser to watch these streams. Depending on your web browser, you may need to click the Flash Play button twice to start the stream. SEM gratefully acknowledges Indiana University Bloomington Collaborative Technologies for providing video-streaming services for our 2011 Annual Meeting. Thursday, November 17 8:30-10:30 am—Program Session 1 1A Freedom Ballroom E, Live Video-Streaming Room Process, Influence and Meaning in African Creativity Chair: Kofi Agawu, Princeton University 8:30 Musical Dialogues: Syntheses of Binary Musical Forms into Ewe Agbadza Music James Burns, Binghamton University 9:00 Making Sense and Making Meaning in Musical Creativity: Beyond Purely Artistic-Aesthetic Processing in Egwu Amala Ndubuisi Nnamani, University of Alberta 9:30 The Minimalist Impulse in African Musical Creativity Kofi Agawu, Princeton University 10:00 African Genealogies of Minimalism Martin Scherzinger, New York University 10:45 am-12:15 pm—Program Session 2 2A Freedom Ballroom E, Live Video-Streaming Room Dancing Matter(s): Embodied Practices in Music and Dance Chair: Tomie Hahn, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 10:45 Dancing with Sensible Objects Tomie Hahn, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 11:15 Dancing with the Drum: Teaching and Learning Sundanese Jaipongan Sean Williams, Evergreen State College 11:45 Dancing Instruments; Objectivity in Musical Performance Sally Ann Ness, University of California, Riverside Program Sessions 1 &2: Live URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/liveflash.html?filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_1 Archive URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4&folder=vic&filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_20111117_1.mp4 1:45-3:45 pm—Program Session 3 3A Freedom Ballroom E, Live Video-Streaming Room The Inter Dimensions of Musical Improvisation Chair: Michael B Bakan, Florida State University 1:45 Intercultural, Intergenerational, and Inter-Neurophysiological Encounters along the Autism Spectrum: Improvisation as a Sociomusical Process in the Music of the Artism Ensemble Michael B Bakan, Florida State University 2:15 Inter-Genre Personal Styles: Performance and Discourse in Contemporary Improvisation Siv Lie, New York University 2:45 Lingua Franca or Local Vernaculars? Jazz Hybridity in a World of Music Tom Greenland, independent scholar 3:15 “The Revolution Never Ended?”: Improvisation, Interdisciplinarity, and Social Action on the Lower East Side Scott Currie, University of Minnesota 4:00-5:30 pm—Program Session 4 4A Freedom Ballroom E, Live Video-Streaming Room “Sathima's Windsong”: Cape Jazz and the New African Diaspora Chair: Carol Muller, University of Pennsylvania Discussant: Don Yon, York University (Film screening and discussion) Program Sessions 3 and 4: Live URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/liveflash.html?filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_2 Archive URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4&folder=vic&filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_20111117_2.mp4 Friday, November 18 8:30-10:30 am—Program Session 5 5A Liberty Ballroom B, Live Video-Streaming Room Round Table—Sustaining Folk Arts in Philadelphia: Grassroots Perspectives on Advocacy and Intercultural Work Chair: Debora Kodish, Philadelphia Folklore Project Ellen Somekawa, Asian Americans United; Lois Fernandez, ODUNDE; Debora Kodish, Philadelphia Folklore Project; Dorothy Wilkie, Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble; Jeff Titon, Brown University 10:45 am-12:15 pm—Program Session 6 6 Liberty Ballroom B, Live Video-Streaming Room SEM President’s Roundtable: Medical Ethnomusicology and HIV/AIDS in Africa Chair: Gage Averill (University of British Columbia) Gregory Barz, Vanderbilt University; and Judah Cohen, Indiana University Discussants: Gavin Steingo, Columbia University; Jennifer Kyker, University of Rochester; Austin C Okigbo, Williams College Respondents from Medical Ethnomusicology and Medicine: Michael B Bakan, Florida State University; and TBA Program Sessions 5 and 6: Live URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/liveflash.html?filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_1 Archive URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4&folder=vic&filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_20111118_1.mp4 1:45-3:45 pm—Program Session 7 7A Freedom Ballroom E, Live Video-Streaming Room Moving Heaven and Earth: Yoruba Movement Systems within Transatlantic Music Traditions Chair: Amanda V Villepastour, Cardiff University 1:45 Moving Song and Singing Moves in Transatlantic Yorùbá Music Amanda V Villepastour, Cardiff University 2:15 Dancing Bàtá: Toward a Political Economy of the Aesthetics of Embodiment Debbie L Klein, Gavilan College 2:45 Revolution 2011: Blessings and Long Life at the Feet of Oyá? Katherine J Hagedorn, Pomona College 3:15 Discussant Elizabeth Sayre, Swarthmore College 4:00-5:30 pm—Program Session 8 8A Freedom Ballroom E, Live Video-Streaming Room The Body in Flow: Sport as Dance Chair: *Jonathan M Dueck, Duke University*** 4:00 The Big Dance: Sound, Gender, and Flow in Collegiate Basketball Jonathan M Dueck, Duke University 4:30 To Surf is to Dance: Hawaiian Mele and Hula and the History of Surfing Timothy J Cooley, University of California, Santa Barbara 5:00 A Wave is A Body In Motion Judy Bauerlein, California State University, San Marcos Program Sessions 7 and 8: Live URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/liveflash.html?filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_2 Archive URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4&folder=vic&filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_20111118_2.mp4 Saturday, November 19 8:30-10:30 am—Program Session 9 9A Freedom Ballroom E, Live Video-Streaming Room Listening to the Field: Sonic Presentations of Ethnographic Material Chair: Ben Tausig, New York University 8:30 Playing Under Protest: Diffusion and Decay Ben Tausig, New York University 9:00 Audio Production as Service: Sounds and Stories in the Path of I-69 Mack Hagood, Indiana University 9:30 Voice in the Box: The Politics of Affect and Acoustemology in Nagaland Senti Toy Threadgill, New York University 10:00 Discussant Deborah Wong, University of California, Riverside 10:45 am-12:15 pm—Program Session 10 10A Freedom Ballroom E, Live Video-Streaming Room South America I Chair: Dale Olson, Florida State University 10:45 Julio Jaramillo, the Pasillo, and the Cantina: The Construction of a National Myth in Ecuador Ketty A Wong, University of Kansas 11:15 Music and Tourism in Cusco, Peru Elizabeth A LaBate, Community College of Vermont 11:45 Sounding the Body, Dancing the Drum: Integrated Analysis of an Afro-Surinamese Performance Genre Corinna S Campbell, Harvard University Program Sessions 9 and 10: Live URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/liveflash.html?filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_1 Archive URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4&folder=vic&filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_20111119_1.mp4 Saturday PM Sessions: 1:45-3:45 pm—Liberty Ballroom B,C&D, Live Video-Streaming Room SEM General Membership Meeting 4:00-5:30 pm—Liberty Ballroom B,C&D, Live Video-Streaming Room SEM Seeger Lecture Randy Martin: “Complex Harmonic Movements: Politicalities of Music and Dance” Live URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/liveflash.html?filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_2 Archive URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4&folder=vic&filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_20111119_2.mp4 Sunday, November 20 8:30-10:30 am—Program Session 12 12A Freedom Ballroom E, Live Video-Streaming Room Musical Advocacy: Mediation, Creativity, and Social Engagement Chair: Carol Muller, University of Pennsylvania 8:30 Reimagining Oaxacan Heritage through Accordions and Airwaves in Central Valley, California Marié Abe, Harvard University 9:00 Process, Network, and Knowledge: Theory and Praxis of a Grassroots Music Archive in the Afro- Colombian Hinterlands Michael Birenbaum-Quintero, Bowdoin College 9:30 “Postcards from Paradise Weren’t Meant for Me”: Community Affiliation and Advocacy Work through South Asian American Hip Hop Shalini R Ayyagari, American University 10:00 Discussant Kay Shelemay, Harvard University 10:45 am-12:15 pm—Program Session 13 13A Freedom Ballroom E, Live Video-Streaming Room Workshop—Eastern Arab Maqam-Based Improvisation Leader: Scott Marcus, University of California, Santa Barbara 10:45-12:15 Program Sessions 12 and 13: Live URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/liveflash.html?filename=society_for_ethnomusicology Archive URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4&folder=vic&filename=society_for_ethnomusicology_20111120.mp4