Ethnomusicology and Public Policy: Intangible Cultural Heritage and Its Effects on and in the Field
Richard Kurin, Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and Research Associate of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution
Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Director of the Instituto de Etnomusicologia–Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; President, International Council for Traditional Music
Keith Howard, Professor, Department of Music and Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London; editor of Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions (2012)
Lisa Gilman, Professor, Department of English and Director, Folklore Program, University of Oregon; co-editor of a journal special issue
“UNESCO on the Ground”
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Roundtable–Reflections on Two Classic Works on their Fiftieth Anniversary: Bruno Nettl’s Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology and Alan Merriam’s The Anthropology of Music
Chair: Tim Rice, University of California, Los Angeles
*Sponsored by the Local Arrangements Committee
Stephen Blum, CUNY Graduate Center
Ruth Stone, Indiana University Bloomington
Daniel Neuman, University of California, Los Angeles
Anthony Seeger, University of California, Los Angeles
Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music
Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
Bruno Nettl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
