| Friday | Humaties 1008 | ||
| 12:00 PM | Registration | ||
| 12:15 PM | Opening remarks | ||
| 12:30 PM | Private Rituals | Evelyn Troester DeGraf | “Bridges between real life and art”: The Rituals of Master Choral Conductors |
| Chair: Anna Reguero | Paul Sommerfeld | Ritual in Star Trek’s Musical Icons: The Fanfare in American Popular Culture | |
| 1:30 PM | Break | ||
| 2:00 PM | Electronic Transcendence | Gillian Carrabre | Do You Even PLUR Bro? A Comparative Analysis of Underground and Mainstream Perspectives in Canadian Rave Culture |
| Chair: Hayley Roud | Ryan Laliberty | Alpha states and VCAs: New Age rituals and the history of the synthesizer | |
| 3:00 PM | Break | ||
| 3:30 PM | Keynote | Jeffers Engelhardt | Ambient Religion, Arvo Pärt, and a Precarious Europe |
| Chair: Dr Maggie Adams | |||
| Staller Second floor lobby | |||
| 5:00 PM | Reception | ||
| Saturday | Harriman 214 | ||
| 9:30 AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00 AM | Nationalisms | Nicholas Shea | Anticipation and Assertiveness: The Dramatic Impact of Nationalistic Metrical Orientation in Verdi |
| Chair: Taylor Ackley | Vincent Rone | The French Catholic Sound and the Liturgy | |
| 11:00 AM | Break | ||
| 11:30 AM | Equatorially Adjacent | Jeff Dyer | Nationalist Transformations: Ritual and Music Common to Cambodia and Thailand |
| Chair: Jay Loomis | Enrique Menezes | Trance facilitation in some Brazilian musical structures | |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 PM | Round table | ||
| Chair: Ben Tausig | |||
| 3:30 PM | Break | ||
| 4:00 PM | New Devotional Spaces | Gail Lowther | “To make theater”: Ritual and innovation in Bohuslav Martinu’s The Greek Passion |
| Chair: Michael Boerner | Abigail Fine | The Nativity of Beethoven: Staging Devotion in the Birth-House Museum in Bonn (1890-1920) | |
| 5:00 PM | Break | ||
| 5:30 PM | Rehearsing Revolution | Samuel Golter | Los Angeles Gangsta Rap and the Imagined Destruction of Space: Ice Cube’s Death Certificate as Dress Rehearsal for the Rodney King Uprising |
| Chair: Matt Brounley | Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis | The Accidental Hero: Depictions of the Anti-Hero in the Music of Hip-Hop Collective Cashless Society | |
| Allyse Knox | Decolonizing Protest: The Idle No More Movement and the Round Dance | ||
| 7:00 PM | Closing Remarks, Dinner | ||
| Staller Center Main Stage | |||
| 8:00 PM | Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra | John Adams | Short Ride in a Fast Machine |
| Chopin | Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor | ||
| Mussorgsky-Ravel | Pictures at an Exhibition |
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Round table session
For the first time the the Stony Brook Graduate Music Symposium will include a round table session. We are excited to have an opportunity for everyone to discuss the same reading excerpts, selected in line with this year’s theme. For anyone planning to attend this session the reading list is as follows:
- Talal ASAD, “What Might an Anthropology of Secularism Look Like?” Chapter 1, pp. 21-66 of ASAD, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. [ca. 40 PP.]
- Ronald GRIMES, The Craft of Ritual Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Selected Pages from Appendixes. [20 PP.]
- Philip V. BOHLMAN and Jeffers ENGELHARDT, “Resounding Transcendence – An Introduction.” In Bohlman and Engelhardt, eds., Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 1-29. [24 PP.]
- Randall STUDSTILL, “Eliade, Phenomenology, and the Sacred.” Religious Studies,Vol. 36, No. 2 (2000), pp. 177-194. [17 PP.]
- Lawrence KRAMER, “Music, Cultural Mixture, and the Aesthetic.” World of Music, Vol. 45, No. 3 (2003), pp. 11-22. [12 PP.]
- “Concluding Discussion.” (Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Cornel West) In The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere. Ed. Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan Vanantwerpen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. [9 PP.]
- Pauline TURNER STRONG, “On Theoretical Impurity.” American Ethnologist, Vol. 33, No. 4 (2006), pp. 585-587. [2 PP]
Email sbugradsymposium@gmail.com to be provided with the PDFs.