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3/9/03 session 2

Beyond Liner Notes: Recordings, CD Production, and Community Music

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Dan Sheehy Making a Recording More Than a Recording
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Abstract: My presentation will address how applied ethnomusicologists should consider the production and distribution of music recordings in a broader matrix of factors that affect the success of the recording project. Goals, strategies, tactics, context, knowledge, skills, and ethics are among the topics discussed.

Tom van Buren "El Campo en el Studio": The Auto-Ethnography of Immigrant Music Traditions From Creation to Re-Creation
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Abstract: Applied ethnomusicology inhabits a space at the intersection between the interpretation and promotion of cultural pluralism, and the needs of cultural communities to define and express themselves. Working with immigrant musicians in regional cultural organizations necessarily leads one to mitigate categories of authenticity and tradition that may at times constrain the organic and evolving nature of the expression of cultural identity through performance. I discuss issues of ethnography and self-presentation arising from my work with immigrant community artists in New York.