ICTM Colloquia

Colloquia, organized by invitation since 1981, focus on selected themes intensively discussed by smaller groups of musicologists and representatives from related fields.

Some Recent ICTM Colloquia

1981 Kolobrzeg, Poland

1984 Wiepersdorf, German Democratic Rep.

1984 Testour, Tunisia

1985 Tokyo, Japan

1986 Kingston, Jamaica

1986 Lisbon, Portugal

1988 Dolna Krupa, Czechoslovakia

1988 Townsville, Australia;

1988 La Habana, Cuba

1990 Falun, Sweden

1990 Florianopolis, S.C., Brazil

1999 Visby, Sweden

1999 Oviedo, Spain

2004 Cambridge, USA

2004 Limerick, Ireland

2006 Middletown, USA

2008 Toronto, Canada

2008 Cambridge, UK

Colloquium Announcements

Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and its Jewish Diasporas

Corpus Christi College Cambridge, 20-23 July 2008,

18th ICTM Colloquium

Sunday 20 July

Arrive at Corpus Christi College.

Monday 21 July

9.30 Welcome

9.45 – 10.30

Hilary Pomeroy (University College London): ‘The Light of the East’: Islamic Influence on Sephardi Culture.

10.30 – 11.30

Dwight Reynolds (University of California, Santa Barbara): Paper with presentation of images:

Contact, Influence, or Hybridization?: Jews, Muslims, and Christians and the Formation of medieval Andalusian Music.

11.30 – 12 Tea/coffee break

12 – 1

Judith Cohen (York University, Toronto): Recital Paper:

Remembering the graceful doe: Jewish, Christian and Muslim women and music in medieval Andalusia and beyond.

1 – 2.15 Lunch

2.15 – 4.30

Mark Kligmam (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, NewYork): Arab Music and Aesthetics in the Syrian Jewish Sabbath Liturgy.

John Plemmenos (Ionian University, Corfu): Synagogue Music of the Romaniote Jews: The Case of the Ioannina Community.

Piergabriele Mancuso (University of Padua): “Il canto dei figlioli di Israele”. Jewish music in Sannicandro Garganico (south Italy).

4.30 – 5 Tea/coffee break

5 – 6.30

Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago): Enlightenment Andalus - Herder’s Search for Mediterranean Modernity in the Jewish Past.

Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Islands of Musical Memory: The Journey of the Selihot according to Siftei renanot from Lucena (Al-Andalus, 11^th century), to Djerba and Tripoli (16^th century), and to Netivot and Tel Aviv (Israel, 21^st century).

8 Dinner in restaurant

Tuesday 22 July

9 – 11.15

Vanessa Paloma (Brandeis University): Music and Gender in the liturgy of Northern Morocco: the role of Andalusian and Judeo-Spanish melodies.

Jehoash Hirshberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Sefardi as Source and as an Icon in Israeli Art Music.

John Morgan O'Connell (Cardiff University): Continental Rift: Ashkenazi and Sephardic Musicians in Turkey (1923-38).

11.15 – 11.45 Tea/coffee break

11.45 – 1.15

Tony Langlois (University College Cork): Jewish Musicians in the ‘Musique Orientale’ of Oran, Algeria.

Goffredo Plastino (Newcastle University): The lacerating expulsion: Al-Andalus, Mediterranean jazz and world music strategies in contemporary Italy.

1.15 – 2.15 Lunch

2.15 – 2.45 Judith Cohen (York University) with Dwight Reynolds (University of California, Santa Barbara): Report and Discussion: “Just make it as medieval Sephardic as possible, please": Constructing medieval music worlds for the "three cultures" of "medieval Spain."

2.45 – 3.30 Marcello Sorce Keller: Report and Discussion: The ICTM Study Group Anthropology of Music of Mediterranean Cultures.

3.30 – 4.30 Tea/coffee break followed by walk through King’s College to University Library.

4.30 – 6 Visit Cairo Genizah collection in the University Library. Introduced by Director Ben Outhwaite.

6.45 – 7.45 Buffet supper at Corpus Christi College

8 – 9.15 Concert by Joglaresa in Corpus Christi College Chapel

Wednesday 23 July

9 – 10.30 Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago): Convener

Salwa Castelo-Branco (The New University of Lisbon), Ruth Davis (Cambridge University),

Iain Fenlon (Cambridge University), John Morgan O’Connell (Cardiff University), Merav Rosenfeld (Cambridge University): Mediterranean City Profiles: Cairo, Tunis, Venice, Istanbul, Jerusalem.

10.30 – 11 Tea/coffee break

11 – 1 Stephen Blum (City University of New York): Colloquium discussion session.

Lunch

End of Colloquium

Indigenous Music and Dance as Cultural Property: Global Perspectives

Emmanuel College, Victoria University of the University of Toronto

Preliminary Program

May 2-4, 2008

Emmanuel College, Victoria University within the University of Toronto

Thursday, May 1

6:00 p.m Reception for conference participants and members of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus of the Creators Rights Alliance. Sponsored by the Institute for Canadian Music, University of Toronto.

Friday, May 2

8:45 – 9:15 – Opening Ceremonies

9:15 – 9:30 – Defining a Good Path

Beverley Diamond – Project objectives. Preliminary discussion of ways to best achieve outcomes.

9:30 – 10:30 Contemporary Saami Music and the Challenges of Globalisation

Tina Ramnarine. Authorship and Ownership in Saami Joik Performance: Considering Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa and his Legacy.

Tom Hilder. Musical Appropriation, Ownership and Globalisation: Joik in the World Music Industry

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 12:15 (Parallel Session): Respectful Contemporary Practice: Particular Challenges of Powwows

Anna Hoefnagels. Exploring “public” expressions of Native culture.

Chris Scales. ‘A White Guy Shows Me a Contract, I Stick a Knife in It’: Race, Culture, and Ethics in the Powwow Recording Industry.

Tara Browner. Defining the Boundaries of Song Performance: Appropriation, Borrowing, Simulation, and Appreciation.

10:45 – 12:15 (Parallel Session): New Music from Old: Native American Issues

Paula Conlon. The Contemporary Native American Flute: Bending or Breaking Tradition?

Klisala Harrison. Canada’s Aboriginal Music Lab: Negotiating Indigenous Customary Practices and Legal Systems in Contemporary First Nations, Métis and Inuit Music.

Celia Cain. TBA

12:15 – 2:15 Lunch:

2:15 – 4:15 (Parallel Session): I—Teaching and Producing New Music from Old

Jennifer Newsome. From Colonial to Collaborative Teaching at University of Adelaide

Randie Fong (Hawaiian). Lights, Camera, Faction!: Negotiating Hawaiian Tradition Onstage.

Lyn Costigan. Title TBA.

Karl Neuenfeldt. Who 'Owns' Torres Strait Islander Music and Dance?: The Challenges of Producing a Collaborative CD/DVD Project
2:15 – 4:15 (Parallel Session): I-- New Music from Old

Sarah Pocklington. Inter-cultural and Cross-cultural communication through contemporary Aboriginal music in Canada. (Exact title TBA)

John Carlos Perrea (Apache). A Saxophone Can Complicate Things: Expectation, Anomaly and Jim Pepper.

Brenda Romero. Matachines. Hybrid musical genres and their challenge to issues of cultural property.

Richard Jones Bamman. TBA

4:15 – 4:30 Break

4:30 – 5: 30 Teaching Across Cultures and Genres: Saami joik

Frode Fjellheim (Norwegian Saami) and Ulla Pirttijarvi (Finnish Saami).

Dinner

8:00 – 10:00

Toby Mills and Moana Maniapoto., Guarding the Family Silver (or Ripping off the Natives),

Maori film showing and discussion

Saturday, May 3

8:30 – 10:00 Issues of Archival Access: National and Transnational Projects

Per Niilas Stalko (Saami). Saami concepts of song ownerhips and the Yoik Archive Project.

Judith Gray. Opportunities and Challenges: making archival historical recordings available to and in communities of origin.

Allan Marett. The National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:45 Issues of Archival Access: Local / Regional Initiatives and Issues

Amy Stillmann (Hawaiian). Accessing Archival Resources: A Key to Reclaiming the Right to Know History.

Victoria Lindsay Levine. Archives and Access to Indigenous Songs:
Dilemmas for the Twenty-First Century.

Laurel Sercombe. The Swinging Gate: Resolving Access Issues in Archival Collections.

12:45 – 2:00 Lunch (sign-up for Sunday talking circles on specific issues including traditional Indigenous knowledge; archive programs and policy; CD Production; copyright law; website development; festivals; education)

2:00 – 3:00 (Parallel Session): New Modes of Transmission for Archival Resources

Amber Ridington. Who Owns Dane-zaa Dreamers’ Songs? Rights and Protocols in the Digital Age.

Janice Esther Tulk. Welta’q—It sounds good: Community Consultation and Collaboration in the Production of a Documentary Sound Recording.

2:00 – 3:00 (Parallel Session): More Perspectives on Archival Issues

Panelists: Brian Wright-McLeod, David Samuels, Sam Cronk .

3:00 – 3:15 Break

3:15 – 4:15 Festivals and Broadcasting

Panel discussion with Rhoda Roberts, Denise Bolduc., Fran Williams.

4:15 – 5:00 Plenary Discussion: Issues of Archival Access

5:00 – 6:00: Teaching Across Cultures and Genres

Sadie Buck (Haudenosaunee) and Russell Wallace (Lilloet) – The Aboriginal Music and Dance Programs at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Dinner

8:00 – 10:00 International Initiatives: WIPO and UNESCO (Open Session)

Panel: Peggy Bulger. The World Intellectual Property Organization and the Quest for Cultural Conservation.

Stephen Wild. Australian Implications of the UNESCO Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Anthony Seeger. UNESCO and Intangible Cultural Heritage

Facilitator and Respondent: Greg Young-Ing (Aboriginal delegation to WIPO)

Sunday, May 4

9:30 – 11:00 Traditional Indigenous Song/Dance Knowledge: Aboriginal Australian Perspectives

Aaron Corn and Neparrnga Gumbula (Yolngu). The Manikay Tradition and Yolngu Cultural Survival in Arnhem Land, Australia.

Stephen Patrick Jampajinpi (Walpiri) and Stephen Wild. Cultural revival in Lajamanu, Australia.

11:00 – 11:15 Break

11:15 – 12:45 Traditional Indigenous Song/Dance Knowledge: Indigenous People of the Americas

Miguel Garcia. Music and Dreams in Pilaga Society (Argentina)

Charlotte Frisbie. The Navajo Nation and NAGPRA.

Anthony Seeger. ‘This is our song!/ Is this our song?’ The effect of the protection of indigenous knowledge on indigenous performance practice in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

12:45 – 1:45 Working Lunch Talking Circles on Specific Issues

1:45 – 3:45 Systems to Regulate Song and Dance: Community Protocols and Legal Systems

Greg Young-Ing (Cree). Ethical and Legal Issues in the Transformation of Indigenous Knowledge

<Kwak’waka’wakw participant>: TBA

Taqralik Partridge (Inuit). Inuit throat singers concerns about appropriation.

Lindsay Marshall (Mi’kmaq). The Mi’kmaq Ethics Watch

3:45 – 4:00 Break

4:00 – 5:30 Plenary Discussion: Traditional Indigenous Song and Dance – Issues and Protocols; Next Steps – Reports from Talking Circles and Plans for the Achievement of Workshop Outcomes.

5:30 – 5:45 Closing Ceremony

6:00 Dinner

7:30-- 10:00 Global Indigenous Showcase Concert – Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Featured Performers: Per Niilas Stalka, John-Carlos Perea, Amy Stillman, Taqralik Partridge, Moana Manipota, Frode Fjellheim and Ulla Pirttijarvi.