Music and Social
Justice
28th National Conference of the
Musicological Society of Australia
Presented jointly with the Sydney
Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney
Wednesday 28 September – Saturday
1 October 2005
Sydney Conservatorium of Music,
Macquarie Street, Sydney
Program
Wednesday 28 September
9.30 am – 10.15 am opening session
(Recital Hall East)
Chair: Jennie Shaw
Acknowledgement of Country: Jeff Dunn
University Welcome: Justice Kim Santow, Chancellor, The University of Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium of Music Welcome: Kim Walker, Dean, Sydney Conservatorium
of Music
10.15 am – 11.00 am: Morning break:
Complimentary refreshments provided by The University of Sydney Union
Music Café, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Atrium
11.00 am - 12.00 pm: Plenary Session I (Recital Hall East)
Mandawuy Yunupingu, Yothu Yindi Foundation. Issues of Social Justice
in the Music of Yothu Yindi
Chair: Allan Marett
Discussant: Aaron Corn
12.00 pm - 2.00 pm: Lunch break, lecture recital and committee meetings
12.00 pm – 1.00 pm: Renegotiating Musicology workshop meeting (Room
2174)
Chair: Aaron Corn
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm: Lecture Recital
I (Recital Hall West)
Chair: Kerry Murphy
Michael Halliwell, The University of Sydney, Rudyard Kipling: Bard of
Empire or
dangerous outsider?
Baritone – Michael Halliwell
Piano – David Miller
2.00 pm- 4.00 pm: Parallel Sessions
1a – 1d
Session 1a. Aboriginal Song and Country
Recital Hall East)
Chair: Stephen Knopoff
Katelyn Barney, The University of Queensland. “We’re women we fight for freedom”:
Examining how Indigenous Australian women use contemporary music as a vehicle
for expressing social justice
Margaret Gummow, Canberra, Songs and social justice in Aboriginal
Australia:
Sing-you-down songs from South Eastern Australia
Sally Treloyn, The University of Sydney. “Out of the life of the Wanjina”: junba
composition/performance through musical analysis
Session 1b. Opera I: Carmen and Colonialism (Recital Hall West)
Chair: Peter McCallum
Kerry Murphy, University of Melbourne. Carmen 'the limpidezza of
sunny lands'
Elizabeth Kertesz, University of Melbourne. Bringing
Carmen home: National
identity and early Spanish productions of Bizet's opera
Michael Christoforidis, University of Melbourne. Carmen's stepdaughters:
Spanish
entertainers and fin-de-siècle representations
of Bizet's opera
Session 1c. The Politicisation of Modernism (Verbrugghen Hall)
Chair: Richard Toop
Linda Kouvaras, University of Melbourne. Exploring the "spaces between
the
notes": The postmodern embodying of the string quartet
David Bennett, University of Melbourne. Kronos, modernism and the politics
of
world music
Stephen Loy, The University of Sydney. Music,
activism, and tradition; Louis
Andriessen’s Nine Symphonies of Beethoven
Cecilia Sun, The University of Sydney. Experimenting with politics:
Frederic
Rzewski’s Attica pieces
Session 1d. Japan: Tradition and Modernity (Room 2174)
Chair: Lewis Cornwell
Benjamin Carson, University of California, Santa Cruz. The significance
of
modernity in musicologies of Osaka and London
Kimi Coaldrake, The University of Adelaide. Miki’s Autumn Fantasy:
Negotiating
tradition within contemporary compositional practice.
Hugh de Ferranti, The University of New England. Taiko Dreaming:
Japanese
drumming for Australians
Marika Leininger-Ogawa, The University of Adelaide. Shunsuke’s
space: social and
musical interaction in a Tokyo live house
4.00 pm - 4.30 pm: Afternoon break:
Complimentary refreshments provided by The University of Sydney Union
Music Café, Sydney Conservatorium
of Music Atrium
4.30 pm – 6.30 pm:
Parallel Sessions 2a-2c
Session 2a. Panel: National Recording Project for Indigenous performance
in
australia (Recital Hall East)
Panelists: Linda Barwick, The University of Sydney, Aaron Corn, The
University of Sydney, Allan Marett, The University of Sydney, Mandawuy
Yunupingu, Yothu Yindi Foundation
Session 2b. Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Century Studies (Recital Hall West)
Chair: John Phillips
Mary Buck, The University of New England. Absolutism and the imagination:
Descartes and Hobbes on music and the human condition
Jennifer Cable, University of Richmond. On the pleasures of the
town: An
Englishman responds to the influence of Italian opera on the English
stage
Neal Peres Da Costa, The University of Sydney.
The Recordings of Pianist Etelka Freund (1879-1977):
A Neglected Source for the Study of Brahms Performing Practice
Session 2c. Copyright, Ownership and Music Technology (Room 2174)
Chair: David Bennett
David Carter, Griffith University. The day the Net turned Grey:
Sampling,
copyright law and civil disobedience
Megan Evans, The University of Sydney. Whose line is it anyway?
Ownership
issues in popular song recording
Bruce Johnson, The University of New South Wales. The right to bear arms?
Music
as lethal weapon
6.30 pm – 7.30 pm: MSA National Committee
Meeting (Room 2135)
Chair: Victoria Rogers
Thursday 29 September
9.00 am - 11.00 am: Parallel Sessions 3a – 3d
Session 3a. Empirical
Research in Music Performance I (Recital Hall East)
Chair: Dianna Kenny
Dianna Kenny ,
ACARMP, The University of Sydney
and Helen Mitchell,
ACARMP, The University of Sydney. Acoustic and perceptual appraisal
of vocal gestures in the female classical voice
Thomas Millhouse ACARMP, The University of Sydney, and Frantz Clermont,
The University of New South Wales. Observations of sung and spoken vowels
in the acoustic-auditory domain
Lynda Moorcroft, ACARMP, The University of Sydney. How do you rate?
Controlling vibrato rate in the singing voice
Elizabeth Willis ACARMP, The University of Sydney and
Dianna Kenny, ACARMP, The University of Sydney. Adolescent voice: A time of change
Session 3b.Contemporary Culture:
Production and Construction (Recital Hall
West)
Chair: Guthrie Ramsey
Charles Fairchild, The University of Sydney. The grinding gears
of a neo-liberal
state: Community radio and local cultural production
Aline Scott-Maxwell, Monash University. Kamahl: Otherness and ordinariness
within the mainstream
Peter Tregear, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. Musical
decadence and
degeneracy in popular cinema
Tony Mitchell, University of Technology, Sydney. Australian hip hop, pedagogy,
epistemology and social justice
Session 3c. Opera II: Ethical and Social Issues (Verbrugghen Hall)
Chair: Nicholas Routley
Michael Ewans, The University of Newcastle. Do Janácek's operas empower
women?
Mary Ingraham, University of Alberta. Beyond the ‘Cultural Cringe’: Opera
in
Canada, 1950-1967
Michael Halliwell, The University of Sydney. Viva la liberta: opera
and the law
Session 3d. Dualism, Humanism and Sonorism in Recent Music (Room
2174)
Chair: Christine Logan
Kheng Koay, National University of Singapore. Dualism and unification in
Sofia Gubaidulina’s String Quartet No. 2
Marguerite Boland, Canberra. Themes of humanism in Elliott Carter’s
compositional aesthetic
Anya Maslowiec, The University of Sydney. The Polish
avant-garde and the birth
of ‘sonorism’ considered against the background of political and
cultural events
11.00 am – 11.30 am: Morning break: Complimentary refreshments provided by
the University of Sydney Union Music Café, Sydney Conservatorium
of Music Atrium
11.30 am - 12.30 pm: Parallel Sessions 4a – 4d
Session 4a. Empirical
Research in Music Performance II (Recital Hall East)
Chair: Emery Schubert
Mara Kiek, ACARMP, The University of Sydney. Kate Reid, ACARMP, The
University of Sydney. Jonathon Livesey, ACARMP, The University of Sydney. Dianna
Kenny,ACARMP, The University of Sydney. Pamela Davis, ACARMP, The Universityof
Sydney. The power of the Bulgarian singing voice
Gemma Turner, Dianna Kenny , ACARMP, The University
of Sydney and Jenny Alison,
The University of Sydney
. The relationship between spontaneous physical
movements and vocal intensity In western contemporary popular
singing styles.
Session 4b. Issues in Music Education
(Recital Hall West)
Chair: Kathy Marsh
Nathan Scott, The University of Newcastle. Music, technology and
education: The
challenges of teaching technology
Jaime Alberts, Boston Conservatory. Sing the revolution: Why music education
can and should help change the world
Session 4c. Opera III: Opera and
Anti-Semitism (Verbrugghen Hall)
Chair: Peter Tregear
John Phillips, The University of Adelaide. Composing hatred? Wagner
and antisemitism
Joseph Toltz, The University of Sydney. Music,
an active tool of deception? The
case of Brundibar in Terezin
Session 4d. Australian Music in the Twentieth
Century I (Room 2174)
Chair: Victoria Rogers
Kate Bowan, Australian National University. “… that keen interest
we have for the
strange and the rare…”: The musical fantasy world of Hooper Brewster-Jones
David Symons, The University of Western Australia. Before Corroboree:
Fresh Perspectives on the Early Works of John Antill
12.30 pm – 2.00 pm: Lunch break,
lecture recitals and committee meetings
1.00 pm - 2.00 pm Lecture Recital II (Recital
Hall West)
Chair: Charles Fairchild
Sonia Bennett, Sydney. Mend the Torn Air (In memoriam Denis
Kevans)
Voice and
guitar – Sonia
Bennett
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Music and Technology Study Group – open
meeting (Room
2174)
Chair: Gavin Carfoot
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm: Parallel Sessions 5a – 5d
Session 5a. Empirical
Research in Music Performance III (Recital Hall East)
Chair: Ian Cross
Jennifer Barnes, ACARMP, The University of Sydney, Jennifer Oates,
La Trobe University, and Michael Halliwell, The University of Sydney. The
power of the operatic soprano voice
Joanne Callinan-Robertson,
ACARMP, The University of Sydney, and Dianna Kenny, ACARMP, The University
of Sydney. An investigation of the Marchesi pedagogical
model of head tone
Sam Ferguson, The University of Sydney, Andrew Vande Moere, The University
of Sydney, and Densil Cabrera, The University of Sydney. Seeing your performance:
Enhancing visual feedback technology for musicians with information
visualisation
Session 5b. Opera III Panel Session: Opera and Social Justice:
Composers'
Perspectives (Recital Hall West)
Chair: Michael Ewans
Andrew Schultz, University of Wollongong. "Child don't you
study revenge": Voice
in Black River
Alan John, Sydney. Opera, the Opera House, and the elite
Nicholas Routley, The University of Sydney. How to write Mahabharata:
the
question of refugees
Drew Crawford, The University of Sydney. The Eugene Goossens scandal and
social stigma
Session 5c. Music and Social Justice Community
Projects (Verbrugghen Hall)
Chair: Peter Dunbar-Hall
Martin Jarvis, Charles Darwin University. Social justice flows
from music in the
community: A practical example in the Northern Territory
Richard Petkovic, Sydney. The beat of Blacktown: Finding, creating
with,
showcasing and empowering the marginalised
Eric Usner. New York University. Towards a pedagogy of witnessing:
Ethnomusicology, service learning and social justice
Session 5d. Australian Music in the Twentieth Century II (room 2174)
Chair: David Symons
Helen English, The University of Newcastle. Peggy Glanville-Hicks:
music and text
Christine Logan,
The University of New South Wales
and Cherie Watters-Cowan, The University of New South
Wales. Concerns of a twentieth century Australian composer: Margaret Sutherland’s
lectures, other writings and private correspondence
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm: Afternoon break: Complimentary refreshments provided by
The University of Sydney Union Music Café, Sydney
Conservatorium of Music Atrium
4.30 pm – 5.30 pm: Parallel Sessions 6a – 6c
Session 6a. Empirical
Research in Music Performance IV (Recital Hall East)
Chair: Dorottya Fabian
Respondent: Dianna Kenny
Margaret Osborne, ACARMP, The University of Sydney, Dianna Kenny,
ACARMP, The University of Sydney, and John Cooksey, Performance Edge Consulting. Cognitive-behavioural
intervention for performance anxiety in gifted adolescent musicians
Claire Kahn,
The University of Sydney
and Dianna Kenny, ACARMP, The University of Sydney. Enhancing
the
perception of emotion
in music performance: A study of one
musician’s attempt to develop the emotional communication of their
music performance
Session 6b. The State, Church and
Social Justice (Recital Hall West)
Chair: Kathleen Nelson
Kelvin Hastie, Sydney. "Wesley's 'humble poor': Social aspects of
Methodist music-making in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Bruce Cohen, Humbolt University, Berlin, and University of South Australia
Youth music behaviour and perceived injustices in Berlin
Session 6c. Music’s role in the Industrial
and Social Revolutions of Nineteenth
Century England (Room 2174)
Chair: Elizabeth Kertesz
Poppy Fay, University of Melbourne. Manchester manufacturers, music and
Elizabeth Gaskell's novels of the ‘north’
Paul Watt, The University of Sydney. The reporting of music
in The Speaker
(London), 1890–1907
5.30 pm – 6.30 pm: Alfred Hook Reception
and book launch, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Atrium
6.30 pm – 8.00 pm: Plenary Session
II: Alfred Hook Lecture (Verbrugghen Hall)
Chair: Anne Boyd
Guthrie Ramsey, University of Pennsylvania. In Walked Bud: Genius, Genre,
and
Earl "Bud" Powell's Modern Jazz Challenge
Piano – Guthrie
Ramsey
Bass – Mike Majkowski
Drums – Tim Firth
Friday 30 September
9.30 am – 11.00 am: Parallel Sessions 7a – 7d
Session 7a. Song and Society I (Recital Hall East)
Chair: Kimi Coaldrake
Helen O’Shea, Victoria University of Technology. Playing with gender
in the Irish traditional music session
Timothy Kinsella, University of Washington. “Burning the Flag”: Appropriation,
deconstruction, and mockery as sonic resistance to the war in
Vietnam
Session 7b. Social Justice and Social Change in South East Asia and
the Pacific
(Recital Hall West)
Chair: Aline Scott-Maxwell
Peter Dunbar-Hall, The University of Sydney. Music and terrorism:
an
interpretation of musical responses to the Bali bombings
Kirsty Gillespie, Australian
National University. Music
and social change in a
Highland Papua New Guinea community
Margaret Kartomi, Monash University. The art of body percussion
as a Cross-
cultural phenomenon and expression of identity and social change in
Aceh
Session 7c. Music and War (Verbrugghen
Hall)
Chair: Michael Halliwell
Graham Hair, Glasgow University. The formation of Matyas Seiber’s
musical
identity in the context of political oppression, war, displacement
and
exile, and its influence on his approach to the teaching of composition
and the transmission of musical values to his students
Wendy Hiscocks, Australian National University. Music and war:
Arthur
Benjamin's Symphony
Christine Mercer, Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy. Private
pacifist versus
public patriot: Henry Tate’s Great War music
Session 7d: Perspectives on Schoenberg and Strauss (Room 2174)
Chair: Jennie Shaw
Allan Walker, Australian National University. Compositional process
as metaphor in
Schoenberg's "Genesis" Prelude
Matthew Werley, Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Maria
full of
(dis)grace? Female agency and Fidelio reception in Richard
Strauss’s
Friedenstag
Craig De Wilde, Monash University. Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss
and the
question of performance justice?
11.00 am – 11.30 am: Morning break: Complimentary refreshments provided by
the University of Sydney Union Music Café,
Sydney Conservatorium of Music Atrium
11.30 am – 12.30 pm: Plenary Session
III: Keynote Address (Recital Hall West)
Chair: Peter McCallum
Ian Cross, University of Cambridge. Music and Social Being
12.30 pm – 2.30 pm: Lunch Break,
lecture recitals and committee meetings
12.30 pm - 1.30 pm: Lecture Recital 3 (Recital Hall East)
Chair: Michael Noone
Sue Monk, The University of Queensland, and Justo Diaz, University
of Western Sydney. The Latin American New Song movement and its effects and achievements
Voice and guitar – Sue Monk
Voice and guitar – Justo Diaz
1.30 pm – 2.30 pm: Lecture Recital
4 (Recital Hall West)
Chair: Steven Knopoff
William Barton, Brisbane. An Interaction of songlines
Didgeridoo – William Barton
Violin I – Mirabai Peart
Violin II – Sylwia Kowalik
Viola – Annie Beilby
Cello – Heather Hinrichs
2.30 pm – 4.00 pm: Parallel Sessions 8a – 8d
Session 8a. Song and Society II (Recital
Hall East)
Chair: Michael Noone
Mark Gregory, Macquarie University. Australian Union
Songs: half a century of
song for social justice
Sue Monk, The University of Queensland. What is ‘political song’?
Cuban singer-
songwriters
Session 8b. Interpretations of Peter
Sculthorpe’s Music (Recital Hall
West)
Chair: Linda Kouvaras
Carolyn Philpott, University of Tasmania. A response to social
injustice:
Sculthorpe's String Quartet No. 14
Steven Knopoff, The University of Adelaide. Cross-cultural appropriation,
(mis)representation of culture, national voice-finding, institutional
injustice, and celebration of indigenous culture: Some thoughts
on
Aboriginalist orchestral and chamber music in Australia
Session 8c. Australian Music projects for social justice (Choral
Assembly Hall)
Chair: Margaret Kartomi
Susan Gillett, La Trobe University. “Flight: Concert for Refugees”:
Multi-vocal
engagement with the plight of refugees
Rosemary Richards, Melbourne. The Box Hill Gloria
James Nightingale, The University of Queensland. Speaking with ‘One
Voice’: The
Music Council of Australia and the place of music in Australian society
Session 8d. Modern Perspectives on Medieval,
Renaissance and Baroque Texts
and Notation (Room 2174)
Chair: Alan Maddox
Kathleen Nelson, The University of Sydney. Recycled and transplanted:
The tale of
a Medieval manuscript fragment
Jason Stoessel, The University of New England. A glimpse of the
cultural hegemony
of the last Carraresi of Padua: revisiting Per
quella strada lactea and
Inperiale sedendo
Rosalind Halton, The University of Newcastle. Trickery, poison
and the hard
hexachord
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm: Afternoon break: Complimentary refreshments provided by
The University of Sydney Union Music Café,
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Atrium
4.30 – 6.00 pm: Parallel Sessions 9a – 9c
Session 9a. Song and Society III: Aspects
of Contemporary Popular Music (Recital Hall
East)
Chair: Craig De Wilde
Ian Chapman, University of Otago. Dressed to Kill: An interpretation
of KISS album
covers from the 1970s
Michael Noone, Australian National University. “I can’t sing”:
Cantopop searches for
a voice in post-handover Hong Kong
Adam Chapman, Australian
National University. Rock,
hip-hop and techno:
Harbingers of social change in Laos
Session 9b. Music and Justice
in Australian Colonial History
(Recital Hall West)
Chair: Diane Collins
Nicole Forsyth, The University of Newcastle. Mrs Macquarie’s cello
and colonial
Sydney: Open air gaol or picnic pleasure ground?
Peter Macfie, University of Tasmania. A fiddler, a juggler, a piper
and 2 guitarists:
Port Arthur as a penal cultural centre - or capturing escaped folk
traditions in Tasmania
Alan Maddox, The University of Sydney, and Michael Wearing, The University
of New
South Wales. Captain Maconochie's seraphine: music, social control and
prison reform in the penal colony on Norfolk Island
Session 9c. Cultural and Political Responses to Music (Room 2174)
Chair: Jason Stoessel
Rachelle Oberklaid, University of Melbourne. A symbol of the struggle:
Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony in wartime United States
Greg Smith, The University of Newcastle. The effect of cultural
climate on
Medtner's Piano Quintet
Jodie Taylor, Griffith University. Giving queer musicology a voice
6.00 pm – 7.00 pm Committee meetings
6.00 pm – 7.00 pm Indigenous Think-Tank – open
meeting (Room 2174)
Chair: Allan Marett
6.00 pm – 7.00 pm SIMS Wind-up meeting
(Room 2135)
Chair: Margaret Kartomi
7.30 pm Conference Dinner, Imperial Peking Harbourside Restaurant
15 Circular Quay West, The Rocks, Sydney
3rd floor bar and dinner area will be open to delegates and guests
from 7.00 pm
Featuring jazz trio (Mike
Majkowski – Bass; Peter Farrar – Alto
Sax; James Waples –
Drums)
Banquet Tickets ($60 each) are available in advance: book on the Conference
Registration Form or at the Conference Registration Desk.
Saturday 1 October
9.30 am – 11.00 am: Parallel Sessions 10a – 10c
Session 10a. Music, Justice, Identity
(Recital Hall East)
Chair: Aaron Corn
Kathryn Hardwick-Franco, The University of Adelaide. Slovenian
folk music in remote
Port Lincoln, South Australia and the importance of identity maintenance
Benita Wolters-Fredlund, University of Toronto. Singing solidarity
with the
oppressed: Paul Robeson and the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir in concert,
1946-1949
Frank Murphy, Sydney. Glory Hallelujah!: Red Nichols and his recordings
of >The
Battle Hymn of the Republic from the 1940s
Session 10b. The Composer’s Voice (Recital Hall West)
Chair: Matthew Hindson
Anne Boyd, The University of Sydney. Writing the wrongs? Political
representation in the music of Anne Boyd: A composer's perspective
Mary-Anne Kyriakou, The University of Sydney. Post 9/11 media language,
political
propaganda and the symbolist music-theatre work ‘The Game Master’
Sessions 10c. Women’s Music, Feminism
and Social Justice (Verbrugghen Hall)
Chair: Cecilia Sun
Amanda
Harris, The University of
New South Wales. Women
composers in a time of
social change: Ethel Smyth and Lili Boulanger
Sally Macarthur, University of Western Sydney. Social justice?
The performance of
women’s music hits an all-time low
Heather Feldman, City University
New York. “Politics is music—is life!” Ani
DiFranco
on Post-9/11 feminism
11.00 am - 11.30am Morning
break: Complimentary refreshments
provided by The University
of Sydney Union Music Café,
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Atrium
11.30 am – 12.30 pm Panel discussion:
Music and Social Change (Recital
Hall East)
Chair: June Sinclair, Pro-Vice Chancellor, The College of the Humanities
and Social
Sciences, The University
of Sydney
Participants will include William Barton, Julian Burnside [tbc], Ian
Cross, Neparrnga
Gumbala [tbc], Moya Henderson
[tbc], Guthrie Ramsey, and
Andrew Schultz [tbc]
12.30 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch break,
lecture recitals and committee
meetings
12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Lecture
Recital 5 (Recital Hall West)
Chair: Cecilia Sun
Benjamin Carson, Subjectivity
and collectivity in music
for the piano: Music of
Benjamin Carson, Fredric
Rzewski, Rick Burkhardt and
others
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Music, Gender and Sexuality Study Group – open meeting
(Room
2174) Chair: John Phillips
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm (Recital
Hall East) Annual General
Meeting, Musicological Society
of
Australia – MSA members
and guests welcome
Chair: Victoria Rogers,
MSA President
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