Thursday 27 March 2025

1:30pm -- Coffee

2:00pm - 4:00pm -- Panel 1
Peter Froggatt Centre/02/017

• Prof. Adeshina Afoloyan, “Protesting the Postcolonial: Afrobeats at the Barricades”
• Dr. Ioannis Tsioulakis, “Conflict & compromise in music rehearsals: hybrid aesthetics, clashing musicians"
• Dr. Sinead Lynch, “'Feeling Responsible for the Sound': A Lederachian Analysis of Courageous Musicking in the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland's Peace Proms”

Chair: Prof. Fiona Magowan

Discussant: Prof. Edmundo Pereira

4:30pm - 5:30pm -- Keynote
27 University Square, Room 01/003

Prof. Suzel Reily, “Musicking, Collaborative Writing and the Politics of Locality”

This paper looks at the production of the collected volume Musicar Local – trajetórias para os estudos musicais (Local Musicking – Pathways for Music Studies), currently in press at the Editora da Unicamp.  The volume was written collaboratively by members of the FAPESP-funded framework project “Local Musicking – new trajectories for ethnomusicology,” which I coordinated.  Around 80 researchers in the fields of ethnomusicology, musicology and anthropology were affiliated to the project, each engaging in an individual ethnographic investigation of a local musical context.  In the final year, the then active participants were divided into teams of four to six researchers representing common thematic interests.  Each team had the task of producing a chapter for the volume, drawing on findings from their individual projects.  In recent years, Brazilian scholars have been engaging in various modes of collaborative research and writing.  The experience of collaborative writing proved to be worthy of contemplation, for it evinced a range of strategies employed by the different teams regarding how to write collaboratively, and how different musical experiences and research experiences impacted their approach to the collective task.  Firstly I will provide a general overview of the framework, the relationship of the volume to the aims of the project, the process in defining the topics for the volume and the criteria used in forming the teams for each chapter.  Then I will discuss in more detail the process of collaboratively generating Chapter 10, “Space, politics and local musicking.”

Friday 28 March 2025

9:00am - 11:00am -- Panel 2
27 University Square, Room 01/003

• Prof. Pedro Rebelo, “Sounding Conflict: A Performance in Five Acts"
• Brianna Griesinger, “Feminist drumming and ‘art as resistance’: Creating reproductive justice ‘with our own hands’”
• Dr. Stephen Millar, “Time for Some Bigotry? Loyalist Songs, Culture War, and the Politics of Irony in Northern Ireland”

Chair: Prof. Eric Morier-Genoud

Discussant: Prof. Suzel Reily

11:30pm – 12:30pm -- Keynote Lecture

27 University Square, Room 01/003

Prof. Edmundo Pereira (and Prof Samuel Araujo), “Archives of Conflict: Ethnomusicology, Phonographic Collections, and Sound Restitution in Brazil”

The recording and preservation of phonographic collections have occurred amid power asymmetries and conflicts. Once seen merely as resources for musical and linguistic studies, these collections are now examined through technological, social, and political lenses. This exploratory study surveys 20th-century Brazilian collections, their ties to national and international disputes, before exploring recent initiatives for sound restitution and shared archive management.

12:30pm -- Light lunch

The Workshop Programme can be viewed here.

This event is being co-ordinated by Professor Fiona Magowan, Mitchell Institute Theme Lead: Religion, Arts and Peacebuilding and Professor Eric Morier-Genoud, Institute Fellow: Religion, Arts and Peacebuilding.