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7B: Daily Ethnomusicologies: Or, ethnomusicologists are everywhere and why that matters.
Time:
Saturday, 19/Oct/2024:
10:00am - 12:00pm
Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
Session Abstract
This roundtable will open up a dialogue around ethnomusicologists’ roles within daily lives beyond the normative academic and applied professions. Ethnomusicologists are everywhere. Many years after the groundbreaking work of recognizing the shadows we cast in the field (Barz and Cooley, 1997), we invite conversation around the impact we have, individually and collectively, at home. Does ethnomusicological training shift our being-in-the-world in ways that are worth noting and have the potential to serve in a crisis-laden age on fire with othering? Five scholars will briefly share how they engage in distinctive—and perhaps surprising—ways as ethnomusicologists in their daily lives, asking: How do we activate our training within our worlds, both in our everyday interactions and in ways that resonate in our wider communities? Are there distinctive features of ethnomusicological training and engagement that resound beyond academic contexts? And how might we collaborate, share, and learn from one another and our communities? What is the role of ethnomusicology in our efforts to impact the world(s) around us?
Presentations
Daily Ethnomusicologies: Or, ethnomusicologists are everywhere and why that matters.
Chair(s): Maria Guarino (Independent Scholar)
This roundtable will open up a dialogue around ethnomusicologists’ roles within daily lives beyond the normative academic and applied professions. Ethnomusicologists are everywhere. Many years after the groundbreaking work of recognizing the shadows we cast in the field (Barz and Cooley, 1997), we invite conversation around the impact we have, individually and collectively, at home. Does ethnomusicological training shift our being-in-the-world in ways that are worth noting and have the potential to serve in a crisis-laden age on fire with othering? Five scholars will briefly share how they engage in distinctive—and perhaps surprising—ways as ethnomusicologists in their daily lives, asking: How do we activate our training within our worlds, both in our everyday interactions and in ways that resonate in our wider communities? Are there distinctive features of ethnomusicological training and engagement that resound beyond academic contexts? And how might we collaborate, share, and learn from one another and our communities? What is the role of ethnomusicology in our efforts to impact the world(s) around us?
Presentations in the Session
Roundtable Participant
Maria Guarino Independent Scholar
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Umi Hsu Public Humanist and Audio Producer
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Roundtable Participant
janice mahinka Harford Community College
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Michael Bishop Independent songwriter, vocalist, and performer
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Kyle Chattleton Education Specialist, The Durham Museum
