Post date: Oct 18, 2012 3:2:47 PM
SEM Special Interest Group for Improvisation
Events Scheduled for SEM 2012 (New Orleans)
SEM Session 1-7 Thursday 11/1 8:30–10:30 Sheraton: Bayside C
Innovation through Time: Latin America and the Jazz
Steven Loza (University of California, Los Angeles), Chair
James Newton (University of California, Los Angeles), Discussant
Steven Loza (University of California, Los Angeles), “New Orleans, the Latin Caribbean, and Louis Armstrong”
Leon Garcia (University of California, Los Angeles), “‘El Trío Romántico y el Jazz’: Romancing the Past, Disappointed with the Present”
Alex W. Rodriguez (University of California, Los Angeles), “Urban Spaces and Jazz Improvisation: Hearing the Hang in the U.S., Chile, and Argentina”
SEM Session 2-7 Friday 11/2 8:30–10:30 Crowne Plaza: Astor Grand A
Jazz’s Changing Configurations in the New Europe
Kristin McGee (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), Chair
Kristin McGee (University of Groningen), “Popular Jazz, Digital Aesthetics, and Transnational Networks in the New Europe”
Therese Smith (University College Dublin), “Jazz in Ireland: Historicity versus Intermusicality”
Barbara Rose Lange (University of Houston), “Multiethnic Femininity and Hungarian ‘Gypsy Jazz’”
Thomas Zlabinger (York College, CUNY), “‘Free From Jazz’: The Jazz and Improvised Music Scene in Vienna (1971–2011)”
SEM Session 2-27 Friday 11/2 10:45–12:15 Sheraton: Southdown
Workshop: Eastern Arab Maqam in Performance—The Case of Maqam Hijaz
Sponsored by the Society for Arab Music Research and the Improvisation SIG
Scott Marcus (University of California, Santa Barbara), Presenter
SEM Session 3-36 Saturday 11/3 10:45–12:15 Crown Plaza: Astor Ballroom I
Varying Takes on Improvisation
Ben Brinner (University of California, Berkeley), Chair
Carlos Odria (Florida State University), “Social Improvisation and the Ethics of Innovation: Performing Urban Pasacalles in the Wastelands of Lima”
Mark Laver (University of Guelph), “Improvise!™: Ethics and the Improvising Business”
Jason Robinson (Amherst College), “Thomas Mapfumo and Wadada Leo Smith: Improvisation and Transdiasporic Collaboration”
Saturday Noontime Meetings
12:30–1:30 SEM/SMT Music Improvisation SIG/IG (Crown Plaza: Astor Ballroom I)
SEM Session 3-47 Saturday 11/3 1:45–3:45 Crowne Plaza: Astor Ballroom I
Improvisation as Embodied Cultural Practice: Thinking About Ethnomusicology Through Improvisation
Sponsored by the Improvisation SIG
Ellen Waterman (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Chair
Ellen Waterman (Memorial University of Newfoundland), “Improvising Subjectivity: Negotiation and the Audibility of Difference in Canadian Experimental Music”
Mark Lomanno (University of Texas at Austin), “Taganana, Alabama, and Improvising Near-Rhyme: Translating Canarian Dixieland Jazz”
David Borgo (University of California, San Diego), “Agency in Coaction: A Material-Semiotic Approach to Understanding Electro-acoustic Improvisation”
Judith Olson (American Hungarian Folklore Centrum), “Improvising Hungarian Legenyes in a New Age: How Far Can You Go?”
AMS/SEM/SMT Session 4-18 Sunday 11/4 9:00–11:00 Sheraton: Oak Alley
Improvisation: Object of Study and Critical Paradigm
Scott Currie (University of Minnesota), Chair
Julie Cumming (McGill University), Roger Moseley (Cornell University), Bruno Nettl (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Laudan Nooshin (City University London), August Sheehy (University of Chicago), Paul Steinbeck (Washington University in St. Louis)
George E. Lewis (Columbia University), Respondent