Conference Information
Twelfth Annual Conference
College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, April 20-21, 2001, 2001
General Information
This Twelfth annual conference will be a joint meeting with the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology. A highlight of the conference will be the keynote address by Professor Kofi Agawu of Princeton University titled Analyzing African Music: Ethnomusicological versus Music-Theoretical Imperatives. In addition, there will be two major concert events each evening (most free) as well a joint reception on Friday evening, and a joint banquet on Saturday evening.
Keynote Abstract
A highlight of the conference will be the keynote address by Professor Kofi Agawu of Princeton University , and author of African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective and Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music.Agawu, professor of music, works in the areas of music analysis and theory, semiotics and music, music of the 19th century, and West African music. He has diplomas in musicianship, theory and the teaching of singing from the Royal Academy of Music, as well as a 1977 BA from Reading University, a 1978 MMus from Kings's College, London, and a 1982 PhD from Stanford University.
He has been a professor at Princeton since 1995 and was recently a visiting scholar at the University of Ghana. He previously taught at Cornell for six years, at King's College, London for three, at Duke for one and at Haverford College for two years.
Among his many publications are African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective (1995) and Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music (1991), which won the 1994 Society for Music Theory Young Scholar Award. A Guggenheim Fellow in 1990-91, Agawu received the 1992 Dent Medal from the Royal Musical Association and the International Musicological Society.
Location
Conference registration will begin on Friday, April 20 at 8:00 a.m. in Emery Hall on the West Main Campus (see the enclosed campus map). Conference sessions will be held in Emery Hall and other locations within the CCM village. For further information, please contact Frank Samarotto, the local arrangements coordinator, at (513) 556-9503 or by email at frank.samarotto@uc.edu
Conference Events
There are four concerts coinciding with this meeting. Friday evening will include a performance by our Concert Orchestra, Chamber Choir & Chorale featuring Brahms's Schicksalslied, and Mahler's Das Klagende Lied (tickets $8 for conference attendees), as well as a concert by North Indian Sitar virtuoso Ustad Shahid Parvez (free; reservations required). Saturday evening will include our Philharmonia Orchestra in music of Dvorak, Rachmaninoff, Hindemith, and Michael Torke (free; American Classical Music Hall of Fame Induction Concert), as well as Brazilian Jazz Duo Richard Boukas & Jovino Santos Neto (free; reservations required). Please be sure to indicate you desire for reservations on your pre-registration form. For additional information, visit www.worldmusic.uc.edu and www.ccm.uc.edu
A buffet dinner is scheduled for Saturday, April 21, from 5:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. in the Faculty Club. The cost is $25.00. The buffet will include escalopes of chicken marsala, sicilian eggplant parmesan, fresh vegetables with walnut pesto, and radiatore pasta with wild mushrooms in a roasted garlic asiago cream sauce. (For any special dietary needs, please contact Frank Samarotto at frank.samarotto@uc.edu and we will make every effort to accommodate.) Please include payment for the dinner along with your pre-registration fee for the conference.
Travel
Accommodations
For this conference we have reserved rooms at the University's new Kingsgate Conference Center, located on the East Main Campus, a brief shuttle ride from the conference site. Please reserve your room by March 27 by calling (888) 720-1299 and identifying yourself as attending MTMW/SEM. The conference rate is $74 for a single or a double; rooms may be available after March 27, at a rate of $79.
The Kingsgate Conference Center is a modern facility accessible to everyone; those with special needs should not hesitate to request special rooms. For additional information, visit www.uc.edu/kingsgate
The Graduate Students Association of CCM has volunteered to help visiting students find other arrangements. Students may contact Carl Serpa at CarlSerpa@aol.com.
Local Information
Local Arrangements Chair: Frank Samarotto (University of Cincinnati)
Online Program
The online program can be found here once it is available.