Origin-Musics
Musiques des origines
Musical narratives, performances, and reconstructions of the past (20th-21st centuries)
Narrations du passé, performances et reconstitutions musicales (XXe-XXIe siècles)
Published on Friday, July 10, 2015
Abstract
The quest to reconstruct thestyles and histories of musical genres of the past is an old preoccupation. Since the 19th century, the orientalist imaginary contributed considerably to the notion of the existence of "origin-musics". Whether "Pharaonic", "Arab", or "Hindu", a common reference to the past, seen as prestigious and immutable, contributed to the rationalization of musical knowledge on the basis of constructed connections. The orientalist period being relatively well documented, this workshop is more focused on ways of speaking of and describing the past over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st.
Announcement
Argument
The quest to reconstruct thestyles and histories of musical genres of the past is an old preoccupation. Since the 19th century, the orientalist imaginary contributed considerably to the notion of the existence of "origin-musics". Whether "Pharaonic", "Arab", or "Hindu", a common reference to the past, seen as prestigious and immutable, contributed to the rationalization of musical knowledge on the basis of constructed connections. The orientalist period being relatively well documented, this workshop is more focused on ways of speaking of and describing the past over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st. Bringing anthropologists and historians together, it encourages not only a particular emphasis on the process of recounting the past as-such, but also the specific processes involved the narrative’s construction. We will focus on constructs emerging from scientific disciplines like musicology and musical archaeology, and those playing out within artistic creation itself – both areas that are also tied in with local, national, and international political stakes.
Information
1st International Symposium of the POLIMUS program (Christine Guillebaud, dir.).
Part of the Cluster of Excellence (Labex) “Pasts in the Present: history, heritage, memory” supported by the ANR-Program Investissements d’avenir [ANR-11-LABX-0026-01]
Symposium coordination
- Christine Guillebaud (CNRS, Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie, LESC-CREM UMR 7186, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
- Salwa Castelo-Branco (Instituto de Etnomusicologia, Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, INET-md, Lisboa)
- Sibylle Emerit (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, IFAO, Le Caire)
Scientific collaboration
- Julien Jugand (Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie, LESC-CREM UMR 7186, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Partner Institutions
- Cluster of Excellence (Labex) “Pasts in the Present: history, heritage, Memory”
- Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie, LESC-CREM UMR 7186, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
- Musée du quai Branly
- Instituto de Etnomusicologia, Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, INET-md, Lisboa
- Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO, Le Caire)
- Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités égyptiennes.
Logistical help
- Elaine Beaumont
Program
Thursday, October 1
Morning: 10:00 – 13:00
- Welcome and introduction : Christine Guillebaud
Session theme 1: Putting origins into narrative I
Session chair: Scheherazade Hassan (SOAS, University of London, Department of Music / Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie, LESC-CREM UMR 7186, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
- 10h30 : Salwa Castelo Branco (Instituto de Etnomusicologia, Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, INET-md, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Envisioning the nation: The First Congress of Ethnography and Folklore (Braga, Portugal, 1956)
- 11h15-11h30 : Coffee break
- 11h30 : Julien Jugand (Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie, LESC-CREM UMR 7186, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre) An ambiguous voice: Elites’ attitudes toward the reformist celebration of the All India Music Conference in Varanasi, 1919
- 12h15 : Jean Lambert (MNHN, Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie, LESC-CREM UMR 7186, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre) The Cairo Congress, 1932: An Imagined Past for the Arab Music
- 13h-14h30 : Lunch
Session theme 1: Putting origins into narrative II
Session chair: Christine Guillebaud (CNRS, Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie, LESC-CREM UMR 7186, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
- 14h30 : Stéphanie Khoury (Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie, LESC-CREM UMR 7186, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre) Discourses and images in the reconstruction of a glorious past for pinpeat music in Cambodia (1950’s-1960’s)
- 15h15 : Leonor Losa (Instituto de Etnomusicologia, Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, INET-md, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Memory, tradition and innovation in musical dialogues between Portugal and the Arab World
- 16h-16h15 : Coffee break
Session theme 3: Reconstructions of the music of Antiquity I
Session chair: Madeleine Leclair (Département d’Ethnomusicologie et AIMP, Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève MEG)
- 16h15 : Sibylle Emerit (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, IFAO, Le Caire) From archeological artefact to sound making: Reconstructions of the ancient Egyptian harp.
- 17h00 : Susanna Schulz (Luthier, Atelier für Gitarrenbau, Berlin) A Luthier’s view: How to make Pharaonic stringed instruments?
- 19h “NOCTURNE”: Visit of the instrument collections of the Quai Branly Museum. Organised by the Department of research and teaching, with the participation of Madeleine Leclair.
Dinner in Paris with all participants
Friday, October 2
Morning: 10:00-12:30
Session theme 3: Reconstructions of the music of Antiquity II
Session chair: François Picard (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Institut de Recherche en Musicologie, IReMus – CNRS UMR 8223)
- 10h : Christophe Corbier CNRS (Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le Langage, CRAL UMR 8566, EHESS) Between musicology and ethnology: a decade of study into Greek music in France (1926-1936)
- 11h00-11h30 Coffee break
- 11h30 : Christophe Vendries (Université de Rennes 2, Laboratoire d’Archéologie et Histoire Merlat, CReAAH UMR 6566), Reconstructions of Greek and Roman musical instruments in the XIXth century: Experiments by A. Tolbecque and V.-Ch. Mahillon
- 12h30-14h Lunch
Afternoon: 14:00-17:30
Session theme 2: Oral histories, sung narratives
Session chair: Salwa Castelo Branco (Instituto de Etnomusicologia, Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, INET-md, Lisboa)
- 14h : Britta Sweers (Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität Bern) The transforming perception of German folk song: Some case studies
- 14h45 : Séverine Gabry (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, IFAO, Le Caire) Singing the History of Coptic holy warriors: Multifarious performances of the Madīḥa of Saint Theodore el-Mašriqī (Upper Egypt).
- 15h30 : Alice Aterianus-Owanga (Labex CAP, Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporain IIAC/LAHIC UMR8177 CNRS EHESS, musée du quai Branly) Rapping Egyptian origins: Oral traditions, Fang nationalism and dialogues with the Afrocentrisms in Gabonese hip-hop music.
- 16h15-16h30 Coffee break
16h30-17h30
Final round table discussion
Moderator: Beverley Diamond (Canada Research Chair, Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NL)
The workshop will be followed by a round table wrap-up summarizing the main points of the symposium and initiating ideas for consideration in the context of a project for publication.
19h00…an evening at the Louvre museum
An evening visit of the Louvre devoted to instruments used in pharaonic music
Organised by Sibylle Emerit (IFAO) and Hélène Guichard (Département des Antiquités égyptiennes, Musée du Louvre)
Dinner in Paris with all participants
Lieu
Salle du Conseil (4ème étage)
MAE - Maison Archéologie & Ethnologie René-Ginouvès 21, allée de l’université
Nanterre, France (92023)
RER A : Nanterre-Université
Subjects
Places
- Salle du Conseil (4e étage), MAE (Maison archéologie et ethnologie René-Ginouvès) - 21 allée de l’université
Nanterre, France (92023)
Date(s)
- Thursday, October 01, 2015
- Friday, October 02, 2015
Attached files
Keywords
- music, narrative, performance, instrument, reconstruction, ethnomusicology, musique, narrations, performance, instruments, reconstitutions, ethnomusicologie
Contact(s)
- Christine Guillebaud
courriel : christine [dot] guillebaud [at] cnrs [dot] fr
Information source
- Christine Guillebaud
courriel : christine [dot] guillebaud [at] cnrs [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Origin-Musics », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Friday, July 10, 2015, https://doi.org/10.58079/t14
