We had a wonderful conference in Tucson - those of you who were there know it and those of you
who weren't missed out on a lot of fun. The SEM presentations given are listed below.
AMS/SMT/SEM - Regional Meeting - April 19-20 1996
Friday/Saturday April 19-20, 1996
1: 20 p.m. Rm. 114
Welcome to The School of Music and Dance
Prof. Gary Cook, Interim Director of
The School of Music and Dance.
Session One - 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Ethnographic Film Session: "Violin Voices of the Old Pueblo." Chair, Janet Sturman (University of Arizona)
Introduction and discussion by filmmakers David Betts, Jennie G. Crouch, and John Crouch
Session Two - 3:30-5:00/5:30 PM
Asian Traditions in Transition.
David S. Merrill (University of Colorado), "Kodo and their Influence on North American Taiko Ensembles" (Mail to: merrild@colorado.edu)
Larry Shumway (Brigham Young University), "Variation in Stereotype Melodies as a Method of Compositions: A Japanese Example." Mail to: larry_shumway@byu.edu
Wendy S. DeBano (Arizona State University), "Music in the Iranian-American Community: Cultural Reinterpretation and Change." Mail to: wendy.debano@asu.edu
Saturday, April 20
Sesssion Three - 8:30-10:30 AM
Percussion Practice in Africa and the New World. Chair, Matt Darling (University of Arizona)
Dave Walton (University of Arizona), "Examining the Meaning of Authenticity: Steel Drum Performance in Trinidad and the United States."
Mark Sunkett (Arizona State University), "An Introduction to the Sabar Drums of Senegal: Drums with Total Community Integration." Mail to: (Internet) iemes@acvax.inre.asu.edu
Timothy Griffin (Arizona State University), "Baka for Ndeupp: Drum Language in Healing Ritual."
Mail to: timothy.griffin@asu.edu
All Societies -Joint Keynote Address - 11:00-11:45 AM - Holsclaw Hall
Panel Response to Keynote, 11:45-12:30;
AMS Respondent, Richard Agee (Northern Colorado University);
SEM Respondent, Richard Haefer, (Arizona State University);
SMT Respondent, Bob Clifford (University of Arizona)
Session Four - 3:00-5:00 PM - Room 121 - Emic and Etic Perspectives in Native American Music. Chair, Blase Scarnati (Northern Arizona University)
Brenda Romero (University of Colorado), "Native Composers Discuss American Indian Sources in Concert Music." Mail to: romerob@spot.Colorado.EDU
William Burkhart (University of Colorado), "An Examination of Notational Practices of Native Composers."
Stephen F. Duncan (Eastern New Mexico University), "The Kiowa Tia Piah Society Annual: An Emic Perspective." Mail to:Duncans@email.enmu.edu
David Shaul, (Tucson, Arizona) "Music and Dance in the Pimeria Alta During the 1700s."
Evening Events
5:00-11 PM Waila Festival
Tohono O'dham Social Dancing and Music
Arizona Historical Society
Second at Park Ave.