12:30 – 4:45

Panel I: Music as Constructions of Institutional and Group Identity

Megan Rancier, Ph.D., UCLA Ethnomusicology
Pre-Soviet Longings and Post-Soviet Realities of Neo-Traditional Music in Almaty, Kazakhstan

Tanya H. Merchant, Ethnomusicology, UCSC
Concertizing the Ichkari: Uzbek Women’s Dutor Ensembles as Modern Representations of Tradition and History

Chuen-Fung Wong, Ethnomusicology, Macalester College
The Grapes are Ripe: Representing the Uyghur Musical Other in Minority China

Chi Li, Ethnomusicology, UCLA
On the Modern Erhu Composition of Mongolian Style

Panel II: Music as Constructions of Individual Identity

David Chao, Ph.D., UCLA Ethnomusicology
Letting Her Speaking Voice Be Heard: An English Translation of Norovbanzad’s Autobiography

Peter Marsh, Department of Music, CSU East Bay
Two Men and Music in Mongolia: Music, Nationalism and Conflicting Modernities

Münir N. Beken, Ethnomusicology, UCLA
The Concept of Hero among the Gazino Musicians

4:45 – 5:30

Reception

5:30 – 7:00

Demonstration Workshop of Central Asian Music

Megan Rancier, Lecture-Demonstration and Performance of Traditional Küi
Kazakh gyl-gobyz (two-stringed horsehair fiddle)

Tanya Merchant, Performance of Sashmagom and Folk Melodies
Dutor (two-stringed lute) and Doyra (frame drum)

Münir N. Beken, The Art of Improvisation in Turkish Classical Music
Ud (fretless lute)

Chi Li, Performance of Mongolian Folk Melodies
Erhu (two-stringed fiddle)