Sacred Music in Transition

Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Religion,
Ritual, and Society

1:00pm

Welcome: Martin Jean, Director, Institute of Sacred Music

1:15-3:45pm

Session 1: The Past Made Present

Session Chair: Martin D. Jean
Yale Institute of Sacred Music

Jeffrey Summit (Tufts University): Technology and the Transmission of Oral Tradition in the Contemporary Jewish Community

Jeffers Engelhardt (Amherst College): Transition, Imagination, and the Secular in the Sounds of Estonian Orthodox Christianity

Tore Tvarnø Lind (University of Copenhagen): Power and Past in the Revival of Byzantine Chant at the Holy Mountain

3:45-4:00pm

Coffee & Tea

4:00-5:30pm

Session 2: The Sacred Postcolonial in Southeast Asia

Session Chair: Markus Rathey
Yale Institute of Sacred Music

Marzanna Poplawska (Wesleyan University): New Christian Music in Indonesia: Inculturation in Transition

Sarah Weiss (Yale University): Risqué Ritual: Making Javanese Wayang Popular Today

5:30pm

Reception at the Institute of Sacred Music

8:00pm

Concert – Center Church on the Green

Program includes:

-A cross-section of Western Christian music performed by the Yale Voxtet, James Taylor, adviser

-Chanting of Sanskritic mantras by Sheenu Srinivasan and Joseph Getter

-Indonesian Christian music performed by Marzanna Poplawska and the Wesleyan Javanese Gadhon (Gamelan)

-Mystical Sufi song with Ney performed by Yusuf Gurtas

-Klezmer music organized by Institute student Becky Wexler (MAR 08)

10:00am

Coffee

10:20am

Welcome: Jenny Kallick, Amherst College

10:30am- 1:00pm

Session 3 – Trance, Transit, and Transformation

Session Chair: Jenny Kallick
Amherst College

Richard Jankowsky (Tufts University): Healing/History/Alterity: Sub-Saharans, Spirit Possession, and Music in Tunisia

Philip V. Bohlman (Yale University): The Poetics and Politics of Papal Pilgrimage

Mirjana Lausevic (Amherst College): Ilahiya in Bosnia: From Private Practice to National Symbol

1:00-2:30pm

Lunch

2:30-5:00pm

Session 4 – Gospels Resounded

Session Chair: Frank Reynolds
University of Chicago

Timothy Rommen (University of Pennsylvania): Traditional Spaces, Transitional Sounds: Gospel Music and the Negotiation of Proximity in Trinidad

Zoe Sherinian (University of Oklahoma): Transformative Christian music: Transforming Caste Identity in South India

Stephen Marini (Wellesley College): Music, Media, Message: Transitions in 21st-century American Protestant Sacred Song

5:00pm

Closing Reflections
Mark Slobin (Wesleyan University)

5:45pm

Reception

6:15pm

Dinner for participants

7:30pm

Concert – Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center

A Liminal Hymnal:
Tendrils of American Sacred Folksong

Performed by:

-Tim Eriksen (voice, fiddle, guitar, banjo)

-Shape-note Singers from the Pioneer Valley

-Students of Music 11 at Amherst College