(AGENPARL) – dom 17 settembre 2023 Regione siciliana
Assessorato dei beni culturali
e dell’identità siciliana
Regione Siciliana
38th European Seminar
in Ethnomusicology
(ESEM)
19-23 September 2023
Antonio Pasqualino
International Puppet Museum
Palermo · Italy
Dipartimento dei beni culturali
e dell’identità siciliana
Regione siciliana
Assessorato dei beni culturali
e dell’identità siciliana
Regione Siciliana
38th European Seminar
in Ethnomusicology
(ESEM)
Dipartimento dei beni culturali
e dell’identità siciliana
19-23 September 2023
Antonio Pasqualino
International Puppet Museum
Palermo · Italy
Tuesday, September 19
8:30 Arrival and registration
9:00 Opening greetings
Massimo Midiri
(Rector of the University of Palermo)
Francesca Piazza
(Director of the Department of
Humanities, University of Palermo)
Rosario Perricone
(Director of the Pasqualino Museum)
Ewa Dahlig-Turek
(President of the ESEM)
Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco
Performing pasts. The politics of Arab
music heritage in postcolonial Cairo
I. Ethnomusicologists today:
new challenges in research,
methods, and communication
10:30 Session 1
Ewa Dahlig-Turek (Chair)
Rytis Ambrazevi?ius (Lithuanian
Academy of Music and Theatre,
Vilnius, Lithuania), Ukrainian-Lithuanian
ethnomusicological connections and the
Tessa Balser-Schuhmann (mdw–
Universität für Musik und darstellende
Kunst, Wien), A challenge of class?
Musical diversity in Western art music
concert halls. An example from Vienna
11:30 Coffee break
11:50 Session 2
Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco
(Chair)
Fulvia Caruso (University of Pavia, Italy),
“Culture in dialogo”. Making a website
together as a mean of recalibrating our
ethnography and make it more accessible
Ignazio Macchiarella (University of
Cagliari, Italy), Ethnomusicology into
question. The case of “a tenore” singing in
Sardinia after the Unesco proclamation
Klisala Harrison (Aarhus University,
Denmark) and Pirkko Moisala (Helsinki
University, Finland), Approaches
to “qilaat” in Greenland: heorizing
positionality in ethnomusicology
15:00 Session 3
Ana Hofman (Chair)
Karin Larsson Eriksson (Linnæus
university, Växjö, Sweden), “This
collection will be a true representation
of folk music from Södermanland”: the
publishing of traditional music
Dan Lundberg (Stockholm University,
Sweden), So that this song shall not die
Thomas Solomon (University of Bergen,
Norway), Music and displacement:
making sense of a terminological “mess”
Samuel Weigel (Hannover University
of Music Drama and Media, Germany),
Digital minyanim: Jewish musical heritage
in transeuropean contexts
17:00 Coffee break
17:20 Session 4
Ardian Ahmedaja (Chair)
Mojca Piškor (University of Zagreb,
Croatia), Listening at/to the border: on the
ethnomusicology of not knowing
Old?ich Pod?bradský (Charles
University, Prague, Czech Republic),
From fantasy to fantastic folklore: new
shifts of Moravian folklore music. The case
of Jeden Kmen Collective
Stefano Portelli (University of
Leicester, UK) and Hélène Sechehaye
(Université Libre de Bruxelles/Université
Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne), The “Gnawa
Rumi” album: researching Moroccan ritual
music in Italy through a collaborative
recording
19:00 Sicilian Puppet Show
Compagnia Opera di Pupi Brigliadoro
The siege of Paris
Wednesday, September 20
II. Music, technology, digital
revolution
09:00 Session 5
Giovanni Giuriati (Chair)
Anna Rezaei (University of Music and
Performing Arts, Graz, Austria), Stories of
resistance: toward a political and cultural
ambiguity in the social production of
space
Claudio Rizzoni (Soprintendenza
ABAP Genova-La Spezia, Italy) and
Elena Musumeci (Istituto Centrale per il
Catalogo e la Documentazione, Roma,
Italy), Historical bells heritage between
tangible and intangibile
Ardian Ahmedaja (Universität für
Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien),
“O Salutaris Hostia”: music traditions in
religious contexts among Albanians of
Roman Catholic faith in Montenegro
Stéphane Aubinet (Postdoctoral fellow,
University of Oslo), Lullabies in the digital
era: anthropological perspectives
Francesca Billeri (SOAS University
of London, UK), From Stage to Screen:
Mediatized Representations of the
Cambodian Lakhon Bassac Theatre
11:30 Coffee break
11:50 Session 6
Serena Facci (Chair)
Shan Du (University of Bologna, Italy),
The “Nava Durg?” on social media: autorepresentation of the identity through the
mediatization of performance
Marko Kölbl (University of Music and
Performing Arts Vienna, Austria), Nothing
about us without us building a virtual
community archive
15:00 Panel 1
(Not only) For the pandemic. Solutions
for the advanced use of traditional music
resources
Coordinator/participant: Ewa DahligTurek (Polish Academy of Sciences).
Participants: Arleta NawrockaWysocka (Polish Academy of Sciences),
Jacek Jackowski (Polish Academy of
Sciences), and Ewa ?ukasik (Pozna?
University of Technology)
16:30 Coffee break
16:50 Film screening
– Mussem (50 min extract from original
88 min, 2021) by Antonio Baldassarre
(Independent researcher, Italy)
18:00 ESEM General Assembly
Thursday, September 21
9:00 Guided Tour through
Palermo
19:00 Workshop on Sicilian
traditional instruments with
Michele Piccione
Friday, September 22
III. Free papers
09:00 Session 7
Ignazio Macchiarella (Chair)
11:50 Session 8
Sergio Bonanzinga (Chair)
Ian Russell (University of Aberdeen,
UK), Humble harmonicas and homely
spaces: understanding the performance
role of mouth organs, jews harps, and
melodeons in North-East Scotland
Zuzana Jurková (Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic), «Leperiben!
/ Remembering!» Romani musical
remembering in today’s Prague
Andrew Snyder (Universidade Nova,
Lisbon, Portugal), Postcolonial intimacies
and citations in the Brazil’s Street Carnival
of Lisbon
Ilaria Meloni (University of Rome La
Sapienza, Italy), “Wayang #dirumahsaja”: 15:00 Panel 2
new digital scenarios of Javanese shadow Ethnomusicology in the crossfire:
puppet theatre and the urgency of
navigating political conflict in
updating research methodologies
ethnomusicological minority research
Coordinator/participant: Isabel Frey
Christopher L. Ballengee (John Paul
(University of Music and Performing Arts,
II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland),
Vienna, Austria). Participants: Benjy FoxChoorile and kantráki: Indian Caribbean
Rosen, Ursula Hemetek, and Kai Tang
music in the secondary diaspora in Europe (University of Music and Performing Arts,
Vienna)
Laura Ellestad (University of SouthEastern Norway, Kongsberg), Performing 16:30 Coffee break
Norwegian American: the construction
of identity through interplay with music
16:50 Panel 3
subcultures and global cultural flows in
Womens agency through music: three
the Upper Midwest
case studies
Coordinator/participant: Blanche
Karin Eriksson (University of SouthLacoste (University of Saint-Etienne,
Eastern Norway), Embodying traditions:
France). Participants: Thea Tiramani
exploring gendered spaces in traditional
(University of Pavia, Italy), and Sara
dance and music in Norway and Sweden Antonini (University of Rome La
Sapienza, Italy)
Mats Johansson (University of SouthEastern Norway, Kongsberg), Intonation
18:00 Film screening
practices in Scandinavian traditional
– Hopa lide: an ethnomusicological
music: towards an alternative analytical
documentary on (and with) Slovak Romani
model
musicians (50 min extract from original
90 min, 2020) by Petr Nuska (Slovak
Academy of Sciences, Borsov and Vltavou)
11:30 Coffee break
Saturday, September 23
9:30 Panel 4
“What’s the purpose of it?”: locating the
ethnomusicologist as a promoter and
producer of socio-cultural values and
applicability in times of change
Coordinators/participants: Serena Facci
and Giuseppe Giordano. Participants:
Alberto Annarilli, Eleonora
Betti, Francesca Cireddu, Simona
D’Agostino, Luciana Manca, and
Eustache Ntambwe Makoyo (University
of Rome Tor Vergata)
11:15 Coffee break
11:35 Panel 5
Networking, sharing knowledge, and
singing together. Notes from the “Network
of UNESCO Cultural Spaces” Erasmus+
Project
Coordinator/participant: Velika
Stojkova Serafimovska (Institute for
folklore “Marko Cepenkov”, Skopje,
Macedonia). Participants: Joško ?aleta
(Institute of Ethnology and Folklore
Research, Zagreb, Croatia), Marco
Lutzu (University of Cagliari, Italy)
15:00 Roundtable
«ECHOFRIENDLY»: developing
acoustemological models and ICT
tools for soundscape preservation
and ecoacoustic quality assessment.
Coordinator/participant: Domenico
Staiti. Participants: Silvia Bruni,
Lorenzo Chiarofonte, and Nicola
Renzi (University of Bologna); Ilario
Meandri and Camila Degen (University
of Turin)
16:30 Film screening
«Sol?ence zahaja» [The Sun is Setting]
(58 min, 2019) by Ana Hofman (Research
Centre of Slovenian Academy of
Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
17:30 Coffee break
17:50 Film screening
Forging the music: from Ancient World to
contemporary Sicilian blacksmiths (about
40 min, 2023) by Sergio Bonanzinga
(University of Palermo, Italy)
18:30 Concert
Sound of Sicily
Carters’ songs and Christmas novena
from Bagheria
Melchiorre Di Salvo (voice and
bagpipe) and Giovanni Di Salvo (voice)
Easter whailings from Mussomeli
Choir of the Confraternity of the Blessed
Sacrament: Camillo Maida (leading
voice), Salvatore Castello and Daniele
Di Maria (second voice), Francesco
Ognibene, Giuseppe Riggio, and Pippo
Sorce (bass voice), Fabio Arganello
(trumpet), Francesco Sorce and
Giuseppe Arganello (drum)
Instumental music and dances from
Messina
Salvatore Vinci (bagpipe), Pietro
Morabito (tambourine and jew’s harp),
Arianna Sinagra (tambourine and
dance), Salvatore Vinci jr (accordion
and dance)
20:00 Sicilian traditional supper
at the Museum
Programme Committee
Organizing Committee
Sergio Bonanzinga (Chair)
Giovanni Giuriati
Ana Hofman
Ignazio Macchiarella
Maria Fasino and Chiara Vaglica
(Pasqualino Museum)
Maria Rizzuto
(University of Palermo)