Thursday, November 17
1A
Process, Influence and Meaning in African Creativity
Chair: Kofi Agawu, Princeton University
Musical Dialogues: Syntheses of Binary Musical Forms into Ewe Agbadza Music
James Burns, Binghamton University
Making Sense and Making Meaning in Musical Creativity: Beyond Purely Artistic-Aesthetic Processing
in Egwu Amala
Ndubuisi Nnamani, University of Alberta
The Minimalist Impulse in African Musical Creativity
Kofi Agawu, Princeton University
African Genealogies of Minimalism
Martin Scherzinger, New York University
2A
Dancing Matter(s): Embodied Practices in Music and Dance
Chair: Tomie Hahn, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dancing with Sensible Objects
Tomie Hahn, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dancing with the Drum: Teaching and Learning Sundanese Jaipongan
Sean Williams, Evergreen State College
