Spaces of Violence, Sites of Resistance: Music, Media and Performance /
Espaces de Violence, Sites de Résistance: Musique, Media et Performance
Preliminary Program / Programme préliminaire
The University of Regina / L’Université de Régina
THURSDAY, 3 JUNE 2010 / JEUDI 3 JUIN 2010
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
8h30 – 17h00
Registration / Inscription – Center for Kinesiology and Health Studies (CKHS) Atrium
8:30 am – 10:00 am
8h30 – 10h00
Session A – Ed 191
Cultural Renewal & Community Responsibility: Three Case Studies of Aboriginal Music-Making in Canada /
Renouveau culturel et la responsabilité de la communauté: trois études de cas de confection musicale par les Autochtones
Chair: Beverley Diamond (Memorial University)
Musical Practices, Rituals and Funeral Videos: Remembering the Living in a Mi’kmaw Community
Gordon Smith (Queen’s University)
Aboriginal Women’s Hand-Drumming Circles: Empowerment and Renewal
Anna Hoefnagels (Carleton University)
Reluctant Warrior(s)?: Indigeneity, Gender, and Politics in the Music of Hip Hop Artists Kinnie Starr and Eekwol
Charity Marsh (University of Regina)
Session B – Ed 193
Aesthetics, Performance and Authenticity /
Esthétique, performance et authenticité
Chair: Kaley Mason (University of Chicago)
1.He Minds Choppin’ Wood: Authenticity and Performance in The Band
Henry Svec (University of Western Ontario)
2.The Minor Key Songs of Townes Van Zandt
Paul McCorriston (University of Regina)
3.An American Beauty: “Truckin’,” the Grateful Dead, and the Construction of their National Identity
Michael Ethen (McGill University)
10:00 pm – 10:15 pm
10h00 – 10h15
Coffee Break / Pause-Café – CKHS Atrium
10:15 am – 11:45 pm
10h15 – 11h45
Session A – Ed 191
Global Conflict, Violence and Genocide /
Conflit mondial, violence et génocide
Chair: Nicholas Grecco (Providence University)
1.Music in relation to conflict and violence: A case study of Arsi Oromo Women’s Music in Ethiopia as Conflict Resolution in a Patriarchal Society
Leila Qashu (Memorial University)
Real to Reel: Filmic Constructions of Hip Hop Culture(s) and Hip Hop Identities
Jesse Stewart (University of Ottawa)
Attack: System of a Down, Affective Protest, and the Armenian Genocide
Paul Aitken (University of Leeds)
Session B – Ed 193
Anxieties, Spectacles and Traditions in Jazz /
Anxiétés, spectacles et traditions du jazz
Chair: David Brackett (McGill University)
“That Vital, Spontaneous Spark”: Jam Sessions as Broadcast Spectacle
Christina Baade (McMaster University)
Musical Ko-Ryu: Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz and the Nature of Lineal Taditions in Jazz
Marian Jago (York University)
(Un)Seen? Jazz, Gender, and Representation in Toronto
Robin Desmeules (Carleton University)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
12h00 – 13h00
Lunch / Déjeuner – Riddell Center
(CSTM/SCTM Board Meetings / Réunion du conseil d’administration) –
RC 050
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
13h00 – 15h00
Session A – Ed 191
Microphones and Mash-ups: Theorizing Performance, Genre, Technologies /
Micros and “Mash-up”: Théorisez performances, genres et technologies
Chair: Rachelle Viador-Knowles (University of Regina)
1.Microphone Practice on Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)
Amanda Lewis (University of Western Ontario)
2.Too much information? Nymphomatriarch, sex and the problem of the microphone
Stacy Allison (York University)
3.Play your part: Mapping the grain, bodily intensities, and the jouissance of listening in Girl Talk’s mash-ups
Michael Audette-Longo (Carleton University)
4.Glenn Gould vs. Girl Talk: A theoretical treatment of mash-ups as counterpoint
Anthony Cushing (University of Western Ontario)
Session B – Ed 193
Language as/for Resistance in Music /
Langage comme/pour résistance dans la musique
Chair: Jocelyne Guibault (University of California, Berkley)
1.Meta-Subjectivity and Lyrical Identity in Tiga’s Mix-CDs
Stéphane Girard (L'Université de Hearst)
2.Jamaican Dancehall Music as Resistance
Denese Gascho (York University)
3.Wang Leehom and his “chinked out” fans in Canada: an anomaly or a boon
Norman Stanfield (University of British Columbia)
4.There’s No ‘E’ in Fuck: Language and Alliances in Saint-Etienne’s Music Scene
Scott Henderson (Brock University)
Workshop / Atelier – CKHS 185
How Did I Get Here? Discovering the Philosophical Roots of our Teaching Values /
Comment ai-je abouti ici? Découvrir les racines philosophiques de nos valeurs d'enseignement
Judith Klassen (Independent), Heather Sparling (Cape Breton University), Gillian Turnbull (Ryerson University)
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
15h00 – 15h15
Coffee Break / Pause-Café – CKHS Atrium
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
15h15 – 16h15
Workshop 1 / Atelier 1 – RC 049 (IMP Labs Beat-making Studio)
MPC Beat making Workshop / Atelier création de “beat” MPC
DJ Bedhead (University of Regina)
Workshop 2 / Atelier 2 – RC 025.1 (IMP Labs DJ Pod)
DJ Workshop / Atelier de DJ
DJ Hippo (University of Regina)
Workshop 3 / Atelier 3 – ED 222.1 (Dance Studio)
Breakdance workshop / Atelier de Breakdance
B-Boy Retaliate (First Nations University of Canada)
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
16h30 – 18h00
Session A – Ed 191
Michael Jackson: The Construction of an Icon /
Michael Jackson: la construction d'une icône
Chair: Annie Randall (Bucknell University)
1.“You Can’t Win, Child, but You Can’t Get Out of the Game”: Michael Jackson, Genre, Gender and Race
Jacqueline Warwick (Dalhousie University)
2.Black or White? Michael Jackson and the Idea of Crossover
David Brackett (McGill University)
3.Queering Genre: Michael Jackson’s Undoing of Pop Music Convention
Susan Fast (McMaster University)
Session B – Ed 193
History, Canons, Class: On Theorizing Popular Music /
Histoires, canons, classes: sur la théorisation de la musique populaire
Chair: Kip Pegley (Queen’s University)
1.Popular Music Analysis and Music Theory: Bridging the Gap
Robin Attas (University of British Columbia)
2.‘List Culture’: Historiography, Canonization, and Tastemaking in Popular Music
Liam Young (Trent University)
3.Popular Music and the Middle Class: Potentials and Problems in the Study of ‘Dominant’ Cultural Formations
Chris McDonald (Cape Breton University)
6:00 pm
18h00
Réception d’ouverture / Opening Reception – Crave Kitchen and Wine Bar
(1925 Victoria Ave)
Performances and Open Mic / Performances et Open Mic
La Raquette à Claquette
FadaDance
FRIDAY, 4 JUNE 2010 / VENDREDI 4 JUIN 2010
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
8h30 – 17h00
Registration / Inscription – Center for Kinesiology and Health Studies (CKHS) Atrium
8:30 am – 10:00 am
8h30 – 10h00
Session A – Ed 191
Music as Politics of Resistance: Gender/Performance and the Voice /
La musique comme politique de résistance: genre/performance et la voix
Chair: Line Grenier (L'Université de Montréal)
“Your Voice it might Say ‘No’”: Violence In and Through Singing
Nicholas Greco (Providence University)
“I told you she didn’t have a dick”: Lady Gaga and Gender Performativity
Meredith Evans (Dalhousie University)
Screaming Away Death and Violence: Alice Bag, Yoko Ono, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Karen Sunabacka (Providence University)
Session B – Ed 193
Embodied Politics and Perceptions of the Self /
Politiques incarnées et les perceptions de soi
Chair: Heather Sparling (Cape Breton University)
“We Want A Chance To Create Even If It’s Poorly”: Stringband Music Practices in Western Canada as Non-Politicized Sites of Resistance
Graham Blair (Memorial University)
<<Moi je préfère danser et me taire >> : un engagement altermondialiste désengagé
Jade Préfontaine (Concordia University)
The God-Shaped Phallus: Identity Retention in the Transnational Christian Metal Scene
Eric Smialek (McGill University)
10:00 am – 10:15 am
10h00 – 10h15
Coffee Break / Pause-Café – CKHS Atrium
10:15 am – 11:45 am
10h15 – 11h45
Session A – ED 191
La performance des musiques traditionnelles au regard des mutations contemporaines /
Traditional music performances in contemporary contexts
Chair: Judith Cohen (York University)
1.Impact de nouveaux espaces de performance sur la pratique musicale gwoka
Marie-Hélène Pichette (L'Université de Montréal)
2.Rôle et impact de l’enregistrement sonore dans le revivalisme musical judéo-espagnol
Jessica Roda (L'Université de Montréal)
3.La paranda garifuna en Amérique centrale; de sa redécouverte à son internationalisation grâce au studio d’enregistrement
Ons Barnat (L'Université de Montréal)
Session B – Ed 193
Gender, Locality and Freedoms /
Sexes, localités et libertés
Chair: Peter Navráez (Memorial University)
The dynamics of ‘freedom’ and gender in jazz: A comparative analysis of Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane
Melvin Backstrom (McGill University)
Living Off My Music? Saskatchewan Arts Funding Agencies and Female Singer-Songwriters
Alexa Woloshyn (University of Toronto)
The Transnational Ancestry of Georgian Polyphony: Other Practitioners of Traditional Georgian Songs and Narratives of the Past
Andrea Kuzmich (York University)
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
12h05 – 13h30
Lunch / Déjeuner - University Club (CW 215)
(CSTM/SCTM Annual General Meeting / Assemblée générale annuelle)
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
13h30 – 15h00
Session A – Ed 191
Interactive Media: Globalization, Responsibility and Resistance /
Médias interactifs: mondialisation, responsabilité et résistance
Chair: Randal Rogers (University of Regina)
“Step Three, Chord Progression”: Rivers Cuomo, YouTube, and the pedagogical cultivation of the Weezer audience
Brian Locke (Western Illinois University)
“United Breaks Guitars:” Examining <Corporate Responibility> in Anti-Corporate Protest Music
Megan O’Bryne (The University of Utah)
L’utilisation de Myspace.com comme forme de resistance a l’ere de la globalization
Alex Perreault (L'Université de Montréal)
Session B – Ed 193
Sites of Resistance: Performing Bodies and Technologies /
Sites de résistance: corps performants et technologies qui performent
Chair: Jacqueline Warwick (Dalhousie University)
“I’ll pull your crooked teeth, you’ll be perfect just like me”: Reconditioning the vampire in The Smashing Pumpkins “Ava Adore” (1998)
Marlie Centawer (Brock University)
Identity, Antagonism and Terre Thaemlitz
Thom Blake, et al. (University of York, U.K.)
Improvising Bodies, Sites of Resistance
Ellen Waterman, et al. (University of Guelph)
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
15h00 – 15h15
Coffee Break / Pause-Café – CKHS Atrium
3:15pm – 4:45 pm
15h15 – 16h45
Session A – Ed 191
A Question of Violence /
Une question de violence
Chair: Chris McDonald (Cape Breton University)
Christian Death Metal as Sonic Assault and Cultural Offence. A test Case for Musical Semiotics and Foucaultian Discourse Analysis
Timothy Kitz (Carleton University)
Musical Psychedelia and Violence: An historical and genre-theory perspective
William Echard (Carleton University)
“The lust awoke to kill, to kill. . . then the music stopped with a crash”: Violence in Canadian musicals
Lauren Acton (York University)
Session B – Ed 193
Negotiating (In)Visible Borders: Space, Technology and Mobility /
Negocier les frontieres (in)visibles: espace, technologies et mobilite
Chair: Ellen Waterman (University of Guelph)
Borders and Place-making in the Online Music Community of CBC Radio 3
Elizabeth Curry (University of Regina)
49th Parallel Breakdown: Canadian Musicians and the Spatial Practice of Border Crossing
Andrew Vincent (York University)
“Bluetooth Beats” and the Infrastructure of Mobile Music Making
Owen Chapman (Concordia University)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
17h00 – 18h00
Plenary – ED 191
Music, Violence and Geopolitics: Towards a Theoretical Framework /
Musique, violence et géopolitique: vers un cadre théorique
Susan Fast (McMaster University), Kip Pegley (Queen’s University),
Martin Daughtry (New York University) – Respondent
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
18h00 – 19h00
Festschrift Launch for Dr. Beverley Diamond – University Club (CW 215)
8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
20h00 – 23h00
Session/ Concert – Cultural Exchange 2431 8th Avenue
Mapping Memories: Community Neighbourhood Projects /
Cartographier les mémoires: projets de communautés de quartier
Performance at the Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange
MC: Chris Beingessner (University of Regina) and Def3
Performances by / par:
Def3 and Oye! (Saskatchewan)
Scott Collegiate/IMP Labs Hip Hop Project V.3.0 (Saskatchewan)
Liz Miller (Concordia University) and “No Bad Sound” (Montreal)
DJ Quartz (Saskatchewan)
SATURDAY, 5 JUNE 2010 / SAMEDI 5 JUIN 2010
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
8h30 – 17h00
Registration / Inscription – Center for Kinesiology and Health Studies (CKHS) Atrium
8:30 am – 10:00 am
8h30 – 10h00
Session A – Ed 191
Responding to Crisis: Creative Sites of Local Resistance and Resurgence /
Répondre à la crise: des sites créatifs de résistance et de réapparition locales
Chair: David Gramit (University of Alberta)
1.Against the Neoliberal Grain: The Resurgence of Tango and the Reaffirmation of Identity in 1990s Argentina
Alberto Munarriz (York University)
2.Straddling 1989: Changing Politics and Musical Opportunities in Southern Poland
Louise Wrazen (York University)
3.Marxist Musical Responses to Political Violence in South India Kaley Mason (University of Chicago)
Session B – Ed 193
Performing Identities: Race, Class and Gender /
Performer les identités: races, classes et genres
Chair: Christina Baade (McMaster University)
1.“The Darkies” and “The St. John’s Amateur Minstrels” – Blackface and Minstrelsy in 1860s Newfoundland
Kelly Best (Memorial University)
2."Larger Than Life": Boy Band Masculinity
Craig Jennex (Dalhousie University)
3.“I may be a white boy but I can be bad too”: The MC5 and the political performance of black masculinity
Mark MacAulay (Dalhousie University)
10:00 am – 10:15 am
10h00 – 10h15
Coffee Break / Pause-Café – CKHS Atrium
10:15 am – 11:45 am
10h15 – 11h45
Session A – Ed 191
Constructing Identity: Transformations in the Traditional Music of Québec /
Construire l'identité: transformations dans la musique traditionnelle québécoise
Chair: Martin Lussier (Memorial University)
1.Je me souviens des talons hauts. Memory and Omission in a Song by Robert Charlebois
Evan Ware (University of Michigan)
2.Approaches to Genre in Traditional Québecois Intrumental Music
Laura Risk (McGill University)
3.La performance de << tounes croches >> dans la musique traditionnelle de Québec: un enjeu identitaire?
Jean Duval (L'Université de Montréal)
Session B – Ed 193
National/Regional Vernaculars: Identity, Song and Symbolism /
Dialectes nationaux/régionaux: identité, chanson et symbolisme
Chair: Gordon Smith (Queen’s University)
1.The Satirical Song Tradition of the Northeast, Collective Consciousness and Labour Song: A Newfoundland Example
Peter Narváez (Memorial University)
2.Gordon Lightfoot’s “Canadian Railroad Trilogy”: Canadian Nationalism and Folk Music in the 1960s
Jennifer Higgs (University of Toronto)
3.‘National Song’ and National Identity: A Transatlantic Comparison
David Gregory (Athabasca University)
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
12h00 – 13h30
Lunch / Déjeuner – University Club (CW 215)
(IASPM Canada AGM)
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
13h30 – 15h00
Session A – Ed 191
Music as Torture, Music as Shield /
Musique comme torture, musique comme bouclier
Chair: Owen Chapman (Concordia University)
“Silent” Alarm: The Mosquito Youth Deterrent and the Politics of Hearing
Mitchell Akiyama (McGill University)
Towards a Cultural Theory of Noise as a Musical Weapon
Robert McGray (University of Alberta)
Noise/Politics: Defining Minor Music
David Jackson (University of Western Ontario)
Session B – Ed 193
Cultural Transformations, Cultural Resistance /
Transformations Culturelles, Resitances Culturelles
Chair: Louise Wrazen (York University)
Reconfiguring Narratives of Colonial Encounter: Style, Stories, and Sources of The “MicMac Square Dance”
Janice Tulk (Cape Breton University)
(Re)Defining the Metis Nation: Competitive Metis fiddling in Manitoba
Monique Giroux (York University)
Feminine, Masculine, or Something In-Between: Gendered Movement in Ottawa Valley Step Dancing
Sherry Johnson (York University)
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
15h00 – 15h15
Coffee Break / Pause-Café – CKHS Atrium
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm
15h15 – 16h45
Session A – Ed 191
Inclusion/Exclusion: Metal and the Politics of Gender and Authenticity /
Inclusion/Exclusion: le metal et les politiques de genre et d'authenticité
Chair: Susan Fast (McMaster University)
1.Looks that Kill: the dialectics of Mötley Crüe and the field of metal
Hélène Laurin (McGill University)
2.Queen of Scream? Melissa Cross’s Reconstruction of Metal Masculinity
Eric Hardiman (Dalhousie University)
3.The Gender Metal Battle: Women’s Experiences in Edmonton’s Underground Extreme Metal Scene
Gabby Riches (University of Alberta)
Session B – Ed 193
Festivals and Collective Identity /
Festivals et identité collective
Chair: Anna Hoefnagels (Carleton University)
Public Policy and the Mariposa Folk Festival: Shared Ideals in the 1960s and 1970s
Sija Tsai (York University)
In the Defense of Becoming Folk: How I learned from Deleuze the importance of making love in a tent at a western folk festival
Michael MacDonald (University of Alberta)
“World Music” or a Taste of Home?: West African Music at Les FrancoFolies
Carinna Friesen (University of Alberta)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
17h00 – 18h00
Keynote Address / Discours principal – RIC 119
Discordant Beats of Pleasure Amidst Everyday Violence:
The Work of Party Music in Trinidad
Dr. Jocelyne Guilbault (University of California, Berkley)
7:00 pm - late
19h00 - late
Party Chez Marsh - 2251 McTavish St.
Performances by / par:
Little Miss Higgins (Saskatchewan)
Eekwol (Saskatchewan)
DJ Hippo (Saskatchewan)
SUNDAY, 6 JUNE 2010 / DIMANCHE 6 JUIN 2010
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
8h30 – 17h00
Registration / Inscription – Center for Kinesiology and Health Studies (CKHS) Atrium
8:30 am – 10:00 am
8h30 – 10h00
Session A – Ed 191
Regional Music Scenes and Constructions of Authenticity /
Les scènes musicales régionales et la construction d'authenticité
Chair: Gillian Turnbull (Ryerson University)
“Music Lives Here”: Trying to Engineer a Local Music Scene in Calgary Richard Sutherland (University of Calgary)
Constructs of Authenticity in the Performance and Reception of Bluegrass Music in Toronto
Marc Finch (Memorial University)
Small music venues in Montreal. Local Politics Beyond Resistance
Line Grenier (L'Université de Montréal) and Martin Lussier (Memorial University)
Session B – Ed 193
Global Identities of Resistance in Hip Hop Culture /
Identités globales et résistance de la culture hip hop
Chair: Christine Ramsay (University of Regina)
1.“Can’t Tell me Nothing”: Kanye West, Symbolic Violence, and Education
Chris Richardson (University of Western Ontario)
2.Globalization, Identity, and Youth Resistance in Kenya’s Hip Hop Parliament Sheila Petty and Charity Marsh (University of Regina)
3.Aboriginal Hip Hop’s Challenge to Euro-North American Leisure
Karen Fox and Sarah Pocklington (University of Alberta)
10:00 am – 10:15 am
10h00 – 10h15
Coffee Break / Pause-Café – CKHS Atrium
10:15 am – 11:45 am
10h15 – 11h45
Session A – Panel – Ed 191
Reinvention, Resistance and the Politics of Sound /
Réinvention, résistance et les politiques du son
Chair: Scott Henderson (Brock University)
1.The risk of reinvention: Kid A and the question of creative freedom
Mickey Vallee (University of Alberta)
2.Resistance through Sound: Chad VanGaalen and Final Fantasy’s Reinvention of Tradition Through Experimental Sonic Explorations
Kate Galloway (University of Toronto)
3.What Makes Music Sound Political: A Case Study of Bruce Cockburn
Alison Notkin (L'Université de Montréal)
Session B – Roudtable / Table Ronde – RIC 119
Chair: Regula Qureshi (University of Alberta)
How does participation in CSTM and IASPM-Canada shape our engagement with community, whatever the music we study? /
Comment la participation au sein de SCTM et d'IASPM-Canada forme-t-elle notre implication dans la communauté, quelque soit la musique que nous étudions?
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
12h00 – 13h30
Lunch and closing reception / Déjeuner and réception de cloture –
University Club (CW 215)