Conference Schedule & Participant Information
Friday, March 25, 2011
10:15 Welcoming remarks
10:30-12:00: Panel I - "Music and Politics in the 1960s and 70s"
Moderator: Atsuko Ueda, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Location: Bowl One, Robertson, Lobby
10:30-11:00: "Translating Lyrics, Translating Politics: Protest Songs and Japan’s 1960s"
James Dorsey - Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle East Languages and Literatures, Dartmouth College
11:00-11:30: "Working Within the System: Group Sounds and the Commercial and Revolutionary Potential of Noise"
Michael Bourdaghs - Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Chicago.
11:30-12:00: "Psychedelia as National Project? From “Space to Environment” to EXPO ‘70"
Miki Kaneda - Ph.D Candidate, Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Berkeley
12:00-2:00: Lunch
12:30-2:00: Film: Down: Indie Rock in the PRC (dir. Andrew Field)
Location: Bowl One, Robertson
2:00-3:30: Panel II - "Hip-hop and Language"
Moderator: Thomas Hare, William Sauter LaPorte '28 Professor in Regional Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Location: 16 Robertson
2:00-2:30: "Language Unleashed Through K-Pop: Emerging Rhymes & Puns"
Young-mee Yu Cho - Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Rutgers University
2:30-3:00: "Exploring Global Tensions and Compatibilities in Korean Rap and Hip-Hop"
Donna Kwon - Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnomusicology, University of Kentucky
3:00-3:30: "Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music"
Jin Liu - Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Georgia Tech
2:00 - 3:30: Panel III - "Hybridity and Aesthetics"
Moderator: Kerim Yasar, East Asian Studies-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Princeton University
Location: Bowl One, Robertson
2:00-2:30: "Visual Kei, Gender, and Cultural Hybridity"
Ken McLeod - Assistant Professor, Department of Music History, University of Toronto
2:30-3:00: "When the Medium Tells the Story: The Labor Exchange Band and the Narrative Album as a Material and Aesthetic Form"
Cindy Menghsin Horng - Ph.D Candidate, Department of Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley
3:00-3:30: "Toru Takemitsu's Tsubasa and Ryuichi Sakamoto's BTTB: Two Case Studies in Classical/Pop Crossover in Japan"
Hideaki Onishi - Assistant Professor, Department of Music, National University of Singapore
3:30-4:00: "Postmodern Eclecticism: The Attractiveness of 'Thousand Knives'"
Hisaaki Wake - Ph.D Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
4:30-6:00: Artist Talk & Q&A: DJ Krush
Moderator: Noriko Manabe, Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Princeton University
Translator: Patrick Schwemmer, Ph.D. Student, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Location: Friend 101 (William St.)
6:00-6:30: Reception
Location: Lobby of Friend Center (Atrium)
8:15-11:00: Concert - DJ Krush
Opening act: DJ Yori Iinuma
Location: Terrace Eating Club (62 Washington Road)
Saturday, March 26, 2011
9:00-10:30: Panel IV - "Pop Idols, Marketing, and Consumption"
Location: Bowl 16, Robertson
9:00-9:30: "When Tradition Meets Modernity: Taiwan's Aboriginal Music"
Rujing Huang - BA, Department of Music, Franklin & Marshall College
9:30-10:00: "Hear and Heal: Intimacy, Ordinariness and Japanese Music Audiences"
Rafal Zaborowski - Ph.D Candidate, Department of Media, London School of Economics
10:00-10:30: "The Boys Behind the Music: The Encounter and Consumption of Japanese Male Pop Idols by Overseas Fans"
Jinni Pradhan - Ph.D Candidate, Department of Cultural Studies, UC Davis
8:30-10:30: Panel V - "Exoticism"
Location: Bowl One, Robertson
8:30-9:00: “Global Exoticism and Modernity: The Case of "Chinked-out" Music”
W. Anthony Sheppard - Professor, Department of Music, Williams College
9:00-9:30: “Tokyo, Hawai’i: Japanese Slack Key Guitarists Performing Hawaiian-ness in Japan”
Kevin Fellezs - Assistant Professor, Department of Global Arts, University of California, Merced
9:30-10:00: “Second Hand” Perception: the Chinese Rock Band Second Hand Rose’s Western Reception"
Sean Ren - M.Phil Candidate, Department of Historical Musicology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
10:00-10:30: "Imperialism, Nostalgia and Pan-Asian Identity in 'Southern Cross'"
Peter Steele - PhD Candidiate, Department of Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-12:45: Panel VI - "Transnationalism"
Moderator: Steven Chung, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies
Location: Bowl 16, Robertson
10:45-11:15: "Latin in Asia: “Moliendo Café” and the Permutations of Global Colonial Nostalgia"
Richard Miller - Program Director, East Asian Studies Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:15-11:45: "Wanting to be Wanted: Commensuration and Remediation in Taiwanese Popular Musics
DJ Hatfield - Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Berklee School of Music
11:45-12:15: "The Transpacific Feedback of Japanoise"
David Novak - Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Santa Barbara
12:15-12:45: "Musical Enclave or Transcultural Hub?: North American and Japanese Musical Intermediaries in Korean Independent Music Scene"
Hyunjoon Shin - Associate Professor, Department of Korean Studies, Sungkonghoe University
10:45-12:15: Panel VII: "Visual Media"
Location: Bowl One, Robertson
10:45-11:15: "The Third Take: Hong Kong's Mandopop Music Videos Retold"
Marc Moskowitz - Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
11:15-11:45: "Links to Fantasy: The Music of The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and the Construction of the Video Game Experience"
Julianne Grasso - BA, Department of Music, Princeton University
11:45-12:15: "A Comparison of the American and Japanese Scores for Kiki’s Delivery Service"
Alexandra Roedder - Ph.D Candiate, Department of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles
12:45-2:30: Lunch
1:00-2:45: Film: Live from Tokyo (dir. Lewis Rapkin)- Documentary on Tokyo Indie Rock Scene
With Q&A with the Director
Location: Bowl One, Robertson
2:30-4:00: Panel VIII: "Asian America"
Location: Bowl 16, Robertson
2:30-3:00: "Pinoise Rock: Re-Imagining Filipino America"
Christine Balance - Assistant Professor, Department of Asian-American Studies, University of California, Irvine
3:00-3:30: "Crossing Over into Mandopop: Wang Leehom and the Marketing of a Global Chinese Celebrity"
Grace Wang - Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, University of California, Davis
3:30-4:00: “Making It in K-Town and Beyond: New Horizons for Korean Americans in the Digital Popular Music Scene
Eun-Young Jung - Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California, San Diego
2:30-4:30: Panel IX: "Hip Hop and Identity"
Moderator: Noriko Manabe, Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Princeton University
Location: Bowl One, Robertson
2:30-3:00: "Hip Hop Is My Knife, Rap Is My Sword”: Hip Hop, Cultural (Re)production, and Questions of Authenticity and Authorship in Contemporary China"
Ying Xiao - Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Florida
3:00-3:30: "Hip Hop Transnationalism and Diasporic Identity: Drunken Tiger and the Politics of Belonging"
Hyun Chang - Ph.D Candidate, Department of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles
3:30-4:00: "Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Class Consciousness in Japanese Hip Hop in the 2010s"
Yoshitaka Mori - Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Tokyo University of the Arts
4:00-4:30: “Japanese Hip-Hop and Virtual Idols as Social Media”
Ian Condry - Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:30-5:00: Closing Remarks
5:00-6:00: Performance - Tora Taiko (Princeton Taiko Ensemble)
Location: McAlpin Hall, Woolworth Center
6:00-7:00: Taiko Workshop (Kaoru Watanabe)
Location: McAlpin Hall, Woolworth Center
8:30-10:00: Dzian! - Asian Surf Rock band (http://dzian.info/bio)
Location: Forbes Black Box, Forbes College