DAY 1 – MAY 16, 2018, 10AM–6.30PM
10:00–10:15
Welcome Address
10:15–12:30
PANEL 1: SITUATIN SCIENCE – SITUATING LISTENING (History of Ethnomusicology)
Chair: James Davies
Anna Maria Busse Berger, University of California
In search of medieval music in Africa: Marius Schneider and the Catholic missionaries
Thomas Christensen, University of Chicago
The Limits of Philology: Brittany and the Barzaz Breis
Henry Spiller, University of California
Between two worlds: Jaap Kunst, R.M.A. Kusumadinata, and theories of the genesis of Sundanese scales and modes
Robert Stephen Blum, City University of New York
E.M. von Hornbostel as Listener and Scientist
12:30–13:30
Lunch break
13:30–15:45
PANEL 2: "THE SUDDEN REALIZATION THAT ONE HAS GONE BACK IN TIME": Robert Lachmann's Recording Journeys through Berlin, Cairo, and Jerusalem
Chair: Ricarda Kopal, Ethnologisches Museum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Gila Flam, National Library of Israel
Robert Lachmann in Jerusalem: Between Arabic and Jewish Arabic Music
Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago
“Understanding of Oriental Music Lies in the Earliest Stages of Its Development”: Robert Lachmann’s Lieux d’histoire and the Historical Record
Mili Leitner, University of Chicago
Racialization on the Radio: Lachmann’s Oriental Music Broadcasts in Comparative Perspective
A.J.Racy, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
The Joint Legacy of Maḥmūd al-Ḥifnī and Robert Lachmann
15:45–16:15
Coffee break
16:15–18:30
PANEL 3: MUSIC IN GLOBALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION
Chair: Lars-Christian Koch, Ethnologisches Museum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Harry Liebersohn, University of Illinois
Voyage Round the World: Musical Reflections on a Travelers’ Genre
Martin Rempe, Universität Konstanz
Preservering Sounds in the Era of Decolonization: The UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World
Giovanni Giuriati, Sapienza Università die Roma
Local dynamics and global processes: the case of the tarantella of Montemarano (Southern Italy)
Daniel Morat, Freie Universität Berlin
Selling Sounds. Carl Lindström and the Emerging World Music Market, 1904–1929
DAY 2 – MAY 17, 2018, 10AM–5.30PM
10:00–12:45
PANEL 4: SOUND ARCHIVE, COMMERCIAL BACKLIST, AND CULTURES OF LISTENING. Interfaces of academic and commercial music recording practices
Chair: Sebastian Klotz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Stefanie Alisch, Bayreuth/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Broken Beat in London – transitioning between sonic media, transforming markets
Tobias Robert Klein, Berlin/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Recording Music: On the Intersection of Tapes and Transcriptions
Saida Daukeyeva, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Don’t Nomads Throat-Sing? Academic Research, Commercial Recordings and the Rise of a World Music Scene in Kazakhstan
Michael Denning, Yale University
‚A Noisy Heaven and a Syncopated Earth': The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music
12:15–13:30
Lunch break
13:30–15:45
PANEL 5: MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (MIR) AND THE ETHICS OF DIGITAL PHONOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES
Chair: Julia Kursell, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Julia Kursell, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Digital Access to Wax Cylinder Recordings after a Century of Silence – the Experimental Recordings in the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv
Reinier de Valk, zuletzt DANS/KNAW
MIRchiving: Challenges and opportunities of connecting MIR research and digital music archives
Joséphine Simonnot, Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie
Music Information Retrieval and “Musée de l’Homme” Sound Archives: How an ethnomusicological audio database offers the opportunity to develop computational analysis tools
Barbara Titus, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Retrieving What for Whom? Thoughts about Prospects, Opportunities and Impediments of Digital Sound Archiving
15:45–16:15
Coffee break
16:15–17:30
Final discussion