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WWMC 2021

About the Conference

The conference is devoted to the current state of knowledge about the traditional and indigenous musical cultures of the world. The heritage of these cultures has tremendous aesthetic value and stylistic diversity. More importantly, these cultures, often represented by a small number of carriers, preserve original and ancient forms of musical thinking in the face of the expansion of the European professional tradition, the global trends of mass music.
The conference brings together prominent researchers to reveal the achievements of ethnomusicology, to provide insights into discoveries and ideas in the study of traditional musical cultures and the problems of their preservation.
One of the main ideas of the conference is that the scientific understanding of music is impossible without taking into account the experience of traditional cultures in all their diversity.

Moderator

WWMC 2021

Trevor Rawbone

Saudi Arabia

Music theorist and cognitive science researcher, program designer, linguist, and medical editor, specializing in perception and cognition of music grammars, fuzzy music perception, schema theory, and eighteenth century music.

Keynote Speakers

WWMC 2021

What we seek in ethnomusicology: six voices and my own

Anna Lomax Wood

US

Anna L. C. Wood is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist with a Ph.D. from Columbia University., who from 1996 to 2022 directed the Association for Cultural Equity/Alan Lomax Archive ((ACE). at Hunter College, New York. There she produced over 100 CDs and box sets published on Rounder Records, one of which was won Grammy’s in two categories, and a set of Haitian music with Harte Recordings, nominated for two Grammys, competing against the Beatles. She and her staff oversaw the digitization, restoration and organization of her father’s recordings, photos, videos, films, papers, and research collections before depositing them at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. The programs she instituted at ACE include a Repatriation of Lomax’s field documentation to 60 local communities and regional libraries in the U.S. and abroad; an open access digital catalog of all of Lomax’s media, an open access digital library of the world’s music (a Global Jukebox) with a complete overhaul of its data and metadata; a YouTube channel with over 30 million views and 100k subscribers; an Endangered Cultures Initiative to support young culture members to document their expressive traditions; initiatives to make our primary cultural materials and resources useful to underserved communities and educators. In the U.S. and abroad, Wood researched and published on Greek, Italian, and Spanish music and poetry, social formations and disaster aid and recovery, and poor families’ mental services. She published articles in various academic journals, science journals and books, and has been translated into Chinese. Her recent book, Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music was published by the University Press of Mississippi). For her work on Italian folk traditions, Anna was made a Knight of the Italian Republic in 1978.

Liliam Barros

Music of Amazonian traditional people

Liliam Barros

Brasil

Pianist and Ethnomusicology Professor at the Pará State Federal University (UFPA); coordinator of the UFPA Ethnomusicology Laboratory and the Amazon Music and Identity Research Group.

Philip Yampolsky

Aspects of sung poetry in two Timorese music cultures

Philip Yampolsky

US

Philip Yampolsky has been studying the music of Indonesia and its neighbors since 1970.  He recorded and edited the 20-volume CD series Music of Indonesia (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1991-1999) and wrote the annotations for most of the volumes.  His research focus since 2011 has been singing traditions in rural Timor.  Another long-standing line of his research is the representation of traditional music in commercial media (from 78s to VCDs) in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.

WWMC 2021

Drumming as embodied memory and history in the Indian Himalayas

Stefan Fiol

US

Stefan Fiol is a Professor of Ethnomusicology and Affiliated Faculty in Asian Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He researches music, dance, ritual practice, media and the histories of commercial and folkloric cultural representation the Uttarakhand Himalayas and North India. Professor Fiol’s monograph, Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media and Social Mobility, was published by University of Illinois Press in 2017 and received the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies Jim Fisher Book Award (Honorable Mention). His current research explores drumming as a historiographic tool in the central Himalayas, specifically through mapping drumming practice and reading shifts and continuities against insights from oral history, archaeology and sociolinguistics. An emergent area of Fiol’s research examines the role of music and mindfulness in stimulating memory, cognitive function, and experiences of awe and flow. 
Bophary Va

Preservation and revival of folk music in Cambodia

Bophary Va

Cambodia

Va Bophary is a chief of Cultural Research section at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Cambodia. She earned her master degree on musicology at Mahidol University, Thailand in 2008. Her research is focus on music for ritual, folk music. In 2016, she did research on: Mé Mot ritual at Kompot province and published the book in 2017. In 2019, Bophary and American researcher from Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine Campus wrote an article: Forgotten song revived in a living musical culture. The article will be published in the Journal of the Royal university of Fine Arts in 2023. Early of 2021, with support from Cambodian Living arts, she and research team from CLA, did research on musical instrument Phloy in Koh Kong province. Currently, She and her colleagues from Center for Cultural research are working on dance theater “Yike” at Kompot province.

Bruno Deschênes

Aesthetic of Japanese traditional music and transmusicality

Bruno Deschênes

Canada

Bruno Deschênes is a Canadian shakuhachi player, composer and independent ethnomusicologist. His two main fields of research are the aesthetic of Japanese traditional music and transmusicality, a term which refers to those musicians who becomes master of a music from a culture of which they are not native. Among his books, he published: Le shakuhachi japonais, Une tradition réinventée (The Japanese Shakuhachi, A Reinvented Tradition) (L’Harmattan, Paris, 2017); Une philosophie de l’écoute musicale (A Philosophy of Musical Listening) (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2019); L’écoute de la musique à l’esprit (Listening to Music in Mind) (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2021). His most recent book is Transmusicality, Mastering the Music of Another Culture (Zagreb, Croatian Musicological Society, 2022).

Schedule

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    Speaker Title
    08:35 - 08:45 PM 04:05 - 04:15 PM 10:05 - 10:15 AM WWMC Founder Introduction
    08:45 - 09:20 PM 04:15 - 04:50 PM 10:15 - 10:50 AM

    Bophary Va

    Preservation and revival of folk music in Cambodia

    09:20 - 09:55 PM 04:50 - 05:25 PM 10:50 - 11:25 AM

    Stefan Fiol

    Drumming as Embodied Memory and History in the Indian Himalayas

    09:55 - 10:30 PM 05:25 - 06:00 PM 11:25 AM - 12:00 PM

    Bruno Deschênes

    Aesthetic of Japanese traditional music and transmusicality

    10:30 - 11:05 PM 06:00 - 06:35 PM 12:00 - 12:35 PM

    Liliam Barros

    Music of Amazonian traditional people

    11:05 - 11:50 PM 06:35 - 07:20 PM 12:35 - 01:20 PM

    Philip Yampolsky

    Aspects of sung poetry in two Timorese music cultures

    11:50 PM - 12:55 AM 07:20 - 08:25 PM 01:20 - 02:25 PM

    Anna Lomax Wood

    What we seek in ethnomusicology: six voices and my own

    12:55 - 01:25 AM 08:25 - 08:55 PM 02:25 - 02:55 PM Roundtable discussion
    01:25 - 01:30 AM 08:55 - 09:00 PM 02:55 - 03:00 PM Conclusion

    Registration