12:15-2:00  Juan Flores, From Bomba to Hip Hop: Puerto Rican Identity and
           Latin Culture



Friday, March 9
CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall  Click here for directions

9:30 am   Welcoming address by Frances Degen Horowitz, President, CUNY Graduate Center

9:30-11:30   PANEL 1: TRANSNATIONAL MUSICS

     Juan Flores (CUNY Graduate Center) Chair
           Marcia Ostashewski Transnational Musical Production and Re-Negotiating
           Ukrainian Nationhood
           Christopher Washburne Salsa Romantica and Its New York and Puerto
           Rican Dynamics
           Susana Asensio The Flamenco World in the American Imagination
           Carol Muller A New York Embrace: Cape Jazz Singing at Home in the City


1:30-2:30   KEYNOTE ADDRESS
     Robert Farris Thompson (Yale University) New York: The Secret African City


2:45-5:00   PANEL 2: PUBLIC DISPLAY AND PRESENTATION

     Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University) Chair
           Marion Jacobson Fashionable Soundscapes: Music and Branding on
           the Runway
           Cathy Ragland Sonideros and Mexican Youth Dances in New York
           Scott Currie Structuring Improvisation and Constructing Community on
           the Lower East Side
           Tom van Buren Center for Traditional Music & Dance’s Community
           Cultural Initiative Program
           Gage Averill Ethnomusicology: The NYU Public Sector Initiative


5:00-6:30   Reception with Irish music by Patty Furlong and Friends



Saturday, March 10
New York University, Somerville Theater  Click here for directions or call 212-998-8300

9:30-11:30   PANEL 3: CURRENT RESEARCH ON CITY MUSIC

     Peter Manuel (CUNY Graduate Center) Chair
           Scott Spencer Performing Irish Identity in the NYPD Emerald Society
           Bagpipe Band
           Margaret J. Farrell Three Non-Irish Musicians in the New York City Irish
           Traditional Music Community
           Bertha J. Palenzuela Performative Memory and the Production of Aural
           Identity in New York City Rumbas
           Lisa Maya Knauer Racialized Culture, Nation, and Pan-Latinidad: Rumba in
           New York
           Niloofar Mina Everybody Loves Googoosh!: Iranian Exiles' Changing
           Relations with Their Past Pop Icons
           Gladys Peña Acosta The RAICES Archive
           Kai Fikentscher Musical Exchange and Interaction in DJ Culture
           Frederick Moehn New York City as a Technological Metropole in
           Brazilian Music Making
           Stephen Amico Latin House, Sexuality, and the Production of Place
           Daniel T. Neely Ice Cream Truck Music: The Sound of Frozen Novelties


1:30   Welcoming address by Catherine R. Stimpson, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University

1:30-2:30   KEYNOTE ADDRESS
     Jon Pareles (New York Times) At Home He’s a Tourist: Introducing New York
                      to New York


2:45-5:00   PANEL 4: CULTURAL BOUNDARIES

     Mark Slobin (Wesleyan University) Chair
           David Cannata Astor Piazzolla's Cultural U-Turns
           Jorge Arevalo J&V Mix: A Puerto Rican and Colombian Experiment
           in Musical Interaction
           Nancy Yunhwa Rao Music Making in New York's Chinese
           Community, 1920-30
           Monica L. Hairston Jazz Musicians in Klezmer Bands


5:00-6:30   Reception with West African Music by Keba Bobo Cissoko



FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:

Institute for Studies in American Music
718-951-5655
isam@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Local Music/Global Connections: New York City at the Millennium is sponsored by the Institute for Studies in American Music and the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, CUNY; the Department of Music and the Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University; the Ph.D./D.M.A. Program in Music and the Office of Public Programs of The Graduate Center, CUNY; and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Washington, D.C. Special thanks to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance.

Local Music/Global Connections: New York City at the Millennium is made possible by the Baisley Powell Elebash Endowment, Graduate School of Arts and Science and the Music Department at New York University, New York City Council - Peter F. Vallone, Speaker, Howard P. Milstein, New York Stock Exchange, Consolidated Edison, New York Community Trust, Arthur Pacheco, Douglas Durst, Lew Rudin, Leonard Litwin, Bernard Mendik, Jeffrey Gural, Emigrant Savings Bank, Lester Morse Company, David Schwartz Foundation, Martin Segal, and the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College.

Local Music/Global Connections: New York City at the Millennium is produced in conjunction with New York City at the Smithsonian, a multi-year research and documentation project that will culminate 27 June-8 July with a major exhibition on grassroots New York City culture at the 2001 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and a ten CD-set on the Smithsonian Folkways label.

CONFERENCE STAFF

Conference Directors:

Ray Allen, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Gage Averill, New York University
Nancy Groce, Smithsonian Institution
Ellie M. Hisama, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center


Conference Coordinator:

Graeme Fullerton, CUNY Graduate Center


Conference Advisors:

Allan Atlas, CUNY Graduate Center
John Graziano, CUNY Graduate Center
Nancy Hager, Brooklyn College
Ethel Raim, Center for Traditional Music & Dance