Program
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Thursday, June 11 / Jeudi 11 juin
5:30 — 6.30: Registration Table Opens / Table des inscriptions ouverte, IASPM-CA Executive Committee Meeting / Rencontre du comité exécutif de l’IASPM-CA
7:00: Executive Committee Dinner / Souper du comité exécutif
Henry House (1222 Barrington Street). Others are welcome. Tous sont bienvenus.
Friday, June 12 / Vendredi 12 juin
8:30 — 9:30: Registration Table Opens / Table des inscriptions ouverte
Arts Centre, 4th Floor / Arts Centre, 4e étage
9:00 — 10:30: Session 1, Welcome and Plenary Session / Séance de bienvenue et plénière
Arts Centre Room 406
“Popular Music Studies: A Dialogue Across the Disciplines”
Beverley Diamond, Memorial University of Newfoundland,
David Brackett, McGill University
Line Grenier, Université de Montréal
10:30 — 11:00: Coffee Break / Pause Café
11:00 — 12:30: Session 2
Session 2A: Music and Canadian Popular Culture / Musique et Culture Populaire Canadienne
Moderator / Modératrice: Susan Fast
Arts Centre Room 406
11:00 Andrew Vincent, York University, “Continuing Divisions: Cultural Policy and the Space of Canadian Popular Music”
11:30 John Higney, Carleton University, “The Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Recordings (FACTOR): Reconciling Culture and Commerce in Canada’s ‘Music Industry’”
12:00 Robin Attas, University of British Columbia, “Song Structure and Sarah McLachlan: Innovations and Norms in Popular Songwriting Structure”
Session 2B: Exploring Auteurship / Explorer l’Auteur
Moderator / Modérateur: Peter Narvaez
McCain Building Room 2016
11:00 Michael Audette-Longo, University of Ottawa, “Kevin Barnes-as-Georgie Fruit: The Limitations of Resistance and Co-Optation for Indie Rock Identities and the Identities of Indie Rock”
11:30 Marlie Centawer, Brock University, “Re-claiming autonomy: Billy Corgan and TheFutureEmbrace (2005)”
12:00 Nicholas Greco, Providence College and Seminary, “‘I Feel It All’: Cruising the voice of Feist”
Session 2C: Former Centres, Changing Centres / Centres Anciens, Centres Changeants
Moderator / Modérateur: David Brackett
Arts Centre Room 406
11:00 Sarah Feltham, SUNY Stoney Brook, “Taking the Piss and Mourning the Empire: Irony, Nostalgia, and British Identity in Music of the Kinks”
11:30 Michael Ethen, McGill University, “The Festival that Wasn’t: Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival and Black Oak Arkansas”
12:00 Scott Henderson, Brock University, “‘I Don’t Want To Be Friends With You’: Rethinking Subculture in the Digital Age”
12:30 — 1:30: Buffet Lunch in the Arts Centre Sculpture Court / Buffet dans la Cour de Sculptures de l’Arts Centre
1:30 — 3:00: Session 3
Session 3A: Theoretical Reflections / Réflexions théoriques
Moderator / Modérateur: Todd McCallum
McCain Building 2016
1:30 Mickey Vallee, University of Alberta, “Turn Me On, Dead Man!’: Backmasking and the Inaudible Tissue of Reversability”
2:00 Paul Jasen, Carleton University, “Bass Cultures and the Sensory Construction of the Audio-Social”
2:30 Tara Rodgers, McGill University, “Revisiting Atlantis: Waves, Tides, and Voyage in Epistemologies of Sound”
Session 3B: Assimilation / Indigenization / Assimilation / Indigénation
Moderator / Modératrice: Beverley Diamond
Arts Centre Room 409
1:30 Alan Karass, College of the Holy Cross / Open University, “Festivals in Tunisia: Music, Cultural Identity, and Geography”
2:00 Peter Narvaez, Memorial University of Newfoundland, “From the Blues to an Inaugural Benediction: Changed Usages of Racial Designations in African-American Expressive Culture”
2:30 Gerry McGoldrick, York University, “From ‘My Blue Heaven’ to ‘Nowhere Man’: Foreign language covers in Japan”
Session 3C: Beyond the Local: Musical Scenes Across Canada / Au-delà du Local: les Scènes Musicales à travers le Canada
Moderator / Modératrice: Line Grenier
Arts Centre Room 406
1:30 Henry Adam Svec, University of Western Ontario, “Songs from Nowhere: Torontopia, Old Man Luedecke, and Critical Utopianism”
2:00 Johanne Melançon, Laurentian University, “La chanson en milieu minoritaire et la reconnaissance de l’autre”
2:30 Ian Dahlman, Ryerson University, “‘A big, Beautiful Mess’: Multitudinous Perspectives from the Centre and Peripheries of Broken Social Scene’s Membership”
3:00 — 3:30: Coffee Break, Registration Table Open / Pause Café, Table des inscriptions ouverte
3:30 — 5:00: Session 4
Session 4A: Roles of Music in Film and Theatre / Les Rôles de la Musique au Cinéma et au Théâtre
Moderator / Modératrice: Christina Baade
Arts Centre Room 409
3:30 Janice Esther Tulk, Cape Breton University, “Converging Peripheries: Musical Exoticism and the Aesthetic of Ambiguity in Walt Disney’s Brother Bear”
4:00 Lauren Acton, York University, “Middlebrow Entertainment? Broadway, Hollywood and the Musicalization of Popular Films”
4:30 Emily Gale, University of Virginia, “Yacht Rock and the ‘Raw Power of Really Smooth Music’”
Session 4B: European Centres, European Peripheries / Centres Européens, Périphéries Européennes
Moderator / Modérateur: Cory Thorne
McCain Building 2016
3:30 Renata Pasternak-Mazur, Rutgers University, “Hiphopolo or Silencing through Mainstreaming: Shifting Centers in Polish Hip-Hop”
4:00 Chris McDonald, Cape Breton University, “Celtic Fringes, Oriental Sojourns: Searching for the Elemental in Celtic Pop”
Session 4C: New Centres, New Peripheries?: The Roles for Digital Technology & Cyberspace / Nouveaux Centres, Nouvelles Périphéries?: Les Rôles des Technologies Numériques et du Cyberespace
Moderator / Modératrice: Charity Marsh
Arts Centre Room 406
3:30 Jeremy Morris, McGill University, “Making Technology Behave: Music and Metadata”
4:00 Barbara Ching, University of Memphis, “Songcatching, Cyberspace, and the Point of Purchase”
4:30 Tom Artiss, Memorial University of Newfoundland, “‘We Learned Our Throat Songs from YouTube’: Tracing the Cybernetic Journey of an Inuit Throat Song”
Evening Events / Événements de soirée
6:00 – 7:00: Keith’s Brewery Tour
Keith’s Brewery, 1496 Lower Water Street.
Cost: $13.95/person. Approx. 55 minutes in length.
A walking group will leave the Dalhousie Arts Centre at 5:25.
7:00 - Late: Dinner & East Coast Hospitality at The Lower Deck Pub
1869 Upper Water Street (in the Historic Properties).
Cover charge of $5 in effect after 7:30.
Menu available: www.lowerdeck.ca
Saturday, June 13 / Samedi 13 juin
8:00 — 9:00: Registration Table Opens / Table des inscriptions ouverte
9:00 — 10:30: Session 1
Session 1A: American Music: Historical Views of Class and Status / Musique Américaine: Vues Historiques sur les Classes et les Statuts
Moderator / Modérateur: Jason Haslam
McCain Building Room 2016
9:00 Steve Baur, Dalhousie University, “Rhythm, Percussion, and the Performance of Social Class in the Blackface Minstrel Show”
9:30 Jonathon Bakan, Ryerson University, “Untangling ‘America’s Classical
Music’”
10:00 Peter Brown, Mount Allison University, “The Centre at the Periphery: American Exceptionalism in California Punk, ca. 1977-1983”
Session 1B: Querying the Boundaries: Politics, Aesthetics, and Judgements / Interroger les Frontières: Politique, Esthétique et Jugements
Moderator / Modérateur: Chris McDonald
Arts Centre Room 409
9:00 Charles Mueller, Florida State University, “Musicology and Subculture Social Theory: An Interdisciplinary Perspective”
9:30 Eric Smialek, McGill University, “Breathing Fire: Timbral Expression in the Extreme Metal Voice”
10:00 Hélène Laurin, McGill University, “Rock Criticism’s Judgments Concerning Heavy Metal”
Session 1C: Gender & Sexuality in Popular Music / Genres et Sexualités en Musique Populaire
Moderator / Modératrice: Barbara Ching
Arts Centre Room 406
9:00 Barry Promane, University of Western Ontario, “‘Let Me Live’: The AIDS Crisis, Homophobia and Rock Ideology”
9:30 Cindy Boucher, University of Alberta, “Theorizing Queer Music”
10:00 Mark Laver, University of Toronto, “Black and White Night: Roy Orbison, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen and the Theatrics of Masculinity”
10:30 — 11:00: Coffee Break, Registration Table Open / Pause Café, Table des inscriptions ouverte
11:00 — 12:30: Session 2
Session 2A: Centres and Peripheries in Mediation and Dissemination / Centres et Périphéries dans la Médiation et la Dissémination
Moderator / Modératrice: Jacqueline Warwick
McCain Building Room 2016
11:00 Cory Thorne, Memorial University of Newfoundland, “Street Vendors, Music Piracy, and the Embargo: CD culture in Cuba”
11:30 Gillian Turnbull, York University, “$10K, No Strings Attached: Controlling the Marginal on Commercial Radio”
12:00 Sandria P. Bouliane, Université Laval, “From New York City à la ville de Montréal: Behind the translation, le « making of » d’une appropriation musicale”
Session 2B: Jazz and Pop: Shifting Relationships / Jazz et Pop: Relations Mouvantes
Moderator / Modérateur: Paul Aitken
Arts Centre Room 409
11:00 Michael Jarrett, Pennsylvania State University, “Choragraphy: A Better Metaphor (and the Case of Mainstream vs. Avant-Garde Jazz)”
11:30 Peter Johnston, York University, “From Mainstream to Downstream: Jimmy Giuffre and the Deconstruction of the Jazz Art World”
12:00 Alan Stanbridge, University of Toronto, “Setting Standards: Hybridity and Synthesis in Contemporary Music”
Session 2C: Interactive Media and Performance: Reflections on IMP Research / Média Interatifs et Performance: Réflexions sur la Recherche IMP
Moderator / Modérateur: None / Aucun
Arts Centre Room 406
11:00 Charity Marsh, University of Regina, “Masculinity, Indigeneity, and Media Representations of (Gangsta’ Rap in) Regina”
11:30 Marcia Ostashewski, University of Regina, “Mixed Music: Cultural Production of Canada’s Aboriginal-Ukrainians”
12:00 Graham St. John, University of Regina, “Fear and Raving: Panic and Desire in Electronic Dance Music Culture”
Sightseeing Activities / Activités touristiques
1:30 – 4:30: City Walking Tour, meet in front of the Arts Centre
1:30 – 4:30: Bus trip to Peggy’s Cove, meet in front of the Arts Centre
Each trip returns in time for the general meeting at 5:00pm
5:00: General Meeting, Arts Centre Room 406 / Rencontre générale, Arts Centre Room 406
Evening Events / Événements de soirée
7:30 — 10:00: Party at 1546 Chestnut Street, Halifax
Sunday, June 14 / Dimanche 14 juin
9:00 — 10:30: Session 1
Session 1A: Music, Art, and Words / Musique, Art et Mots
Moderator / Modérateur: Scott Henderson
Arts Centre Room 409
9:00 Pat Brennan, Memorial University of Newfoundland, “Art Rock: Canadian Collaborations”
9:30 Heather Sparling, Cape Breton University, “Judging Albums by Their Covers: An Analysis of Gaelic Album Art & Liner Notes”
10:00 Kip Pegley, Queen’s University, “‘The Best Theory’: Critical Reflections on the Student Contributions to Musical Traditions, Cultures and Contexts: Essays in Honour of Beverley Diamond”
Session 1B: Heroes and Icons / Héros et Icônes
Moderator / Modérateur: Alan Stanbridge
Arts Centre Room 406
9:00 Christina Baade, McMaster University, “Between the Lines: ‘Lili Marlene’, Sexuality, and the Desert War”
9:30 Kalliopi Stiga, University of Athens, Greece, “Mikis Theodorakis: le dernier “dieu” Grec ou un symbole diachronique de Liberté?”
10:00 Holly Everett, Memorial University of Newfoundland, “Harry Choates as Cajun Cultural Hero”
10:30 — 11:00: Coffee Break / Pause Café
11:00 — 12:30: Session 2
Session 2B: Musico-Cultural Borrowings and Transformations / Transformations et Emprunts Musico-Culturels
Moderator / Modérateur: Steven Baur
Arts Centre Room 406
11:00 Erin Walker, University of Kentucky, “Bulgaria, Bartók, and Belgian Rock: Musical Syncretism in Univers Zéro’s Ceux du Dehors”
11:30 Anthony Cushing and Matthew Rohweder, University of Western Ontario, “Sad, mad, and murderous: Tracking Reflections of Victorian Sea Narratives in The Decemberists’s revised Sea Shanty: ‘The Mariner’s Revenge Song’”
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