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.