Sounding the Nation? Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Multiculturalism /
Les sons de la nation? Diaspora, indigénéité et multiculturalisme
Acadia University, Juin / June 14-17, 2012
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM – PROGRAMME PRÉLIMINAIRE
8:30-9:45 Inscription / Registration and Welcome Reception - KCIC Garden Room
9:45-11:30 Welcome and Plenary / Plenière 1: Imagining Acadia
Chair / Président: TBA
Paul Theberge (Carleton University): “Achtung Acadie: Revisiting Daniel Lanois’
Journey to (and From) his Roots”
Johanne Melançon (Université Laurentienne): “Le rôle de la chanson populaire dans la construction identitaire acadienne”
Michael McGuire (Independent Scholar): “Representing the Grassroots: Hip Hop’s
Diasporic Rebirth”
11:30-11:45 Pause / Break
11:45-1:15 Concurrent Session 1
Session 1A: “Love and Theft”: Traditions and Histories
Chair / Président: TBA
Steven Baur (Dalhousie University): “Finding the Beat: The Origins and Early History of the Backbeat”
Matt Brennan (University of Edinburgh), ‘The diaspora and the drum kit: rethinking the multicultural roots of a musical instrument’
Chris McDonald (Cape Breton University): “Accompanying Tradition, Traditionalizing
Accompaniment: The Piano and Commercial Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings”
Session 1B: Canadian Multicultural Identities: Spectacle, Diaspora, and
Performance
Chair / Président: TBA
Richard Sutherland (Mount Royal University): “Constructing a Canadian Musical
Identity: the 2010 Olympic Opening Ceremonies”
Monique Ingalls (University of Cambridge): “Bringing Worship to the Streets:
Performing Nation, Religion, and Ethnicity through Music in Toronto’s Jesus in the City Parade”
Andrew R. Martin (Inver Hills College): “‘Callin Meh,’ Long Distance: When Popular
Song Becomes Diasporic Anthem”
1:15-2:15 Dîner / Lunch

2:15-3:45 Concurrent Session 2
Session 2A: Diaspora and Exile
Chair / Président: TBA
Jessica Roda (Université de Montréal-Université Paris-Sorbonne): “La patrimonialisation comme processus de construction d’un territoire diasporique : le cas des Judéo-espagnols”
Laura F. Jordán González (Université Laval): “‘ Ni toda la tierra entera será un poco de mi tierra ’: auditeurs et resignifications du folklore musical en exil”
Anthony Cushing (University of Western Ontario): “Have diaspora will travel: Portable music from a displaced people”
Session 2B: Hip-Hop and Urban-Based Indigeneity
Chair / Président: Charity Marsh (University of Regina)
Colin Scheyen, “Their Own Little Hood: Hip Hop, Bricolage and Identity
Re/Construction for Aboriginal Youth”
Karen Snell (Independent Scholar): “First Nations Hip-Hop Artists’ Identity and Voice”
Alexa Woloshyn (University of Toronto): “Fostering and Negotiating Community with
A Tribe Called Red, Powwow-step, and Urban-Based Indigeneity”
3:45-4:15 Pause / Break
4:15-5:45 Session 3 Soundscapes, Memory, and Nation
Chair / Président: TBA
Owen Chapman (Concordia University): “Eco-territories, Soundmapping and
Cellphones: Audio-Mobile Regina/Montreal”
Kate Galloway (University of Guelph/University of Western Ontario): “Sonically
Shaping, Representing, and Memorializing Wilderness: Canadian Nationhood,
Environmentalism, and the Sonic Landscapes of the National Parks Project ”
Lucille Mok (Harvard University): “‘This is My Country’: Memory and Narrative in
Oscar Peterson’s Canadiana Suite (1965)”
5:45-8:00 Supper
8:00-11:00 Evening Reception
0830-0900 Inscription / Registration
9:00-10:30 Concurrent Session 4
Session 4A: Constructing Canadian National Identity in Song
Chair / Président: TBA
Heather Sparling (Cape Breton University): “Sounding a National Crisis: Disasters,
Songs, and Canadian Identity)”

Eric Smialek (McGill University): “‘We are all Canucks’? Constructing a Team Persona and Regional Nationalism through NHL Intro Songs”
Nicholas Greco (Providence University): “‘Get Some Clarity Following Signs’: the
Americanness of Feist’s Canadianness as a kind of ‘Neutral.’”
Session 4B: Negotiating Race/Negotiating Genre
Chair / Président: TBA
Karen Yaworski (University of Toronto): “Black Identities in Dialogue: National and
Transnational Dimensions”
Dana Gorzelany-Mostak (McGill University): “Keepin’ it Real (Respectable) in 2008:
Obama’s iPod as Proof of Cultural Blackness”
Lanier Sammons (University of Virginia): “‘Any Old Place I Hang My Hat’: Locating
Home in the Music and Life of Jimmie Rodgers”
10:30-10:45 Pause / Break
10:45-12:15 Concurrent Session 5
Session 5A: Traditional Music, Transmission, and Revival
Chair / Président: TBA
Jean-Nicolas De Surmont (Metz et Nancy): “Ars cantandi et ars dicendi: Dire et chanter une œuvre vocale”
Aviva Coopersmith (Independent Scholar): “Who Put the Bad in ‘Bad Man’?: The Oral
History of the Stagolee Ballad.”
David Blake (SUNY-Stony Brook): “‘Down home they called us a bunch of hillbillies, but up here we’re known as folksingers’: Educating Urban Students through Rural
Musicians at Midwestern College Campuses during the Folk Revival”
Session 5B: Genres: Hybrid, Ambiguous, Mobile
Chair / Président: TBA
Mimi Haddon (McGill University): “‘That Weird Gravelly Voice’: generic ambiguity and desolate affects in Nico’s ‘The Marble Index’”
Wendy Pringle (McGill University): “Kill Yr. Idols: Syncope, the avant-garde and Sonic
Youth”
Ryan McNutt (Dalhousie University): “It Was Cool, But Was It All Pretend? - Kelly
Clarkson, Authenticity and Genre Mobility”
12:15-2:00 Dîner / Lunch and General Business Meeting
2:00-3:30 Keynote speaker / Conférencière invitée: Gage Averill (University of
British Columbia).
3:30-4:00 Pause / Break
4:00-5:30 Concurrent Session 6

Session 6A: Negotiating Urban Spaces: Cultural Producers, Policy, and Resistance
Chair / Président: TBA
Line Grenier (Université de Montréal) and Martin Lussier (University of Western
Ontario): “Channelling mobility: Small music venues in Montréal as a circuit in the making”
Stephen Peters (McGill University): “Rap and the Right to the City: Indigenous youth rap performance and resistance”
Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington): “Tale of Two Creative Cities: Making
Music and Policy in Wellington, New Zealand”
Session 6B: Exoticism and Transnational Musics
Chair / Président: TBA
William Echard (Carleton University): “Dayglorientalisms: Varieties of exoticism in psychedelia from the 1960s through the 1990s”
Jennifer Hartmann (Memorial University): “‘Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow’:
Bollywood playback singers and Indian identity in a British alternative rock song”
Angela Beattie (Anthropology at Mount Royal University): “Visual Kei ”
5:30-7:30 Dinner
8:00-11:00 Music Performance TBA
8:00-8:30 Inscription / Registration
8:30-10 Concurrent Session 7
Session 7A: If You Could Read Our Minds: Lightfoot, Myth, and Nation
Chair / Président: TBA
Scott Henderson (Brock University): “‘The Good Old Faithful Feelin’ We Once Knew’:
Interrogating National Myth in the Work of Gordon Lightfoot”
Nick Baxter-Moore (Brock University): “Minstrel of the Dawn: Gordon Lightfoot and the Canadian Singer-Songwriter Movement”
Melissa K. Avdeeff (Independent Researcher): “Twitter, YouTube and Death Memes:
Gordon Lightfoot's Digital Presence”
Session 7B: Free Jazz? Migration, Nationalism, and Politics
Chair / Président: TBA
Frédéric Brunet (Independent Scholar): “L’émergence du free jazz au Québec : stratégies compositionnelles et nationalisme”
Peter Johnston (Independent Scholar): “Improvising Identity: Jazz, Experimental Music, and the Politics of Musical Migration”
Mark Laver (University of Guelph): “Freedom of Choice: Jazz, Neoliberalism, and The
Lincoln Center”

10:00-10:15 Pause / Break
10:15-11:45 Concurrent Session 8
Session 8A: Canadian Identity, Canadian Songs, and Influence
Chair / Président: TBA
Durrell Bowman (Independent Scholar): “Canadian Urban Sound Identities, 1971-86”
Peter Hemminger (Independent Scholar): “The role of influence in establishing musical and cultural identity”
Rebecca Draisey-Collishaw (Memorial University): “How Cover Songs Teach Us to be
Canadians: Citation Practices as Identity Discourse on CBC’s Fuse ”
Session 8B: Sampling, Mashups, and the Black Atlantic
Chair / Président: TBA
Alan Stanbridge (University of Toronto): “‘Don’t Fence Me In’: Music, Sampling, and
Intellectual Property on the Digital Frontier”
Paul Barrett (Independent Scholar): ““They Play The Music, Its Time To Play The
Lyrics”: Black Atlantic Identities in Girl Talk’s Mashups”
Denese Gascho (York/Ryerson): “ Welcome to JamRock: Class and Hydridity in the work Of Damian Marley ”
12:00-1:30 Lunch at Wolfville Farmers’ Market
2:00-3:30 Concurrent Session 9
Session 9A: Representations of African Diasporic Experiences in Hip Hop Culture
Chair / Président: TBA
Lorien R. Hunter (University of Southern California): “Together Online: Diasporic
Identity on AfricanHipHop.com”
Vanessa Plumly (University of Cincinnati): “Writing the Self: Afro-German Identity in the Hip-hop Music of Samy Deluxe”
Jessica Young (University of Southern California): “From Big Freedia to Lil’ Wayne:
Black Hoods, White Ears, & Green Money”
Session 9B: Fluid Performances: Bodies, Dance, and the Uncanny
Chair / Président: TBA
Jacqueline Warwick (Dalhousie University): “‘Bigger than Big and Smaller than Small’:
A Consideration of Child Stars”
Tom Mayberry (University of Windsor): “‘My body is sanctuary’: Lady Gaga and the
Valley of her Uncanny (Prefixed) Humanism”
Nicholas Hartman (Memorial University of Newfoundland): ““Up, Down, Communitas:
Music, Play and Gender in a Zumba Fitness Session”
4:00-5:30 Roundtable / Table rond e: Hip-hop in Diaspora
Chair / Président: Jacqueline Warwick (Dalhousie University)

Charity Marsh (University of Regina), Murray Forman (Northeastern University), and
Mark Campbell (Guelph University).
5:30-7:00 Dinner (optional trip to Hall’s Harbour Lobster Pound)
7:00 – 8:30 Acadia Gamelan Ensemble in University Chapel
9:00-12:00 Music Performance TBA
Free Day – Optional Winery Tour