Digital Folk One-Day Conference
19th April 2017
Department of Music, University of Sheffield
PROGRAMME
9.30 – 10.30: Registration and refreshments
10.30 – 11.00: Introduction (Simon Keegan-Phipps)
11.00 – 12.30: Panel 1: Approaches to Digital Folk (Chair: David Gauntlett)
- Participation, Deterritorialization and Capital: towards a sociology of traditional music – Simon McKerrell
- Kotos and Taikos and Gongs, Oh My!: Tracing the presence of “ethnic” sounds in early commercial digital synthesizers and samplers – Heidi Chan
- Halls without walls: examining the development, dissemination and perpetuation of blues music and blues culture in the digital age – Tom Attah
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
13.30 – 15.00: Parallel sessions
Panel 2: Digital Folk Pedagogies (Chair: Tim Knowles)
- The role of the folk music tutor in the age of digital learning – Jo Miller
- Learning Cape Breton Step Dance: From VHS to Online Video – Patricia H Ballantyne
- Challenges in the Transmission of an Oral Tradition Online: Irish Traditional Music Approaching a Virtual Orality – Francis Ward
Panel 3: Digital Folk Identities (Chair: Helen Gubbins)
- ‘Feeling like वारकरी…!!!!? 🙂’: Virtual Pilgrims and Musical Devotion – Jaime Jones
- ‘When I hear this, She is in me’: Manifesting the ‘Universal Mother,’ YouTube, and the Participatory Politics of Digital Media in a Transnational Indo-Guyanese Religious Movement – Stephanie L. Jackson
- e-Andalus: Musical Tradition and Digital Culture in Algerian London – Stephen Wilford
15.00 – 15.30: Tea break
15.30 – 16.30: Parallel sessions
Panel 4: ‘Folk’ and Digital Music-Making (Chair: Simon Keegan-Phipps)
- Istanbul and the invention of a digital tradition – Eliot Bates
- The Affordances of Digital Music Tools in Theory and Practice – Daniel Gouly
Panel 5: Digital Folk Archives (Chair: Lucy Wright)
- Making and Using Digital Broadside Ballad Archives – Giles Bergel
- A book, a website and the jam – technology and changes in the old-time music repertoire – Hans-Hinrich Thedens
16.30 – 17.30: Roundtable discussion and closing remarks
Registration is still open, but places are now limited so please visit our Eventbrite page as soon as possible, (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-folk-conference-tickets-30949469697) to reserve your place now!