Click on image above for a link to the live streamed event on November 5, 2022.
Time: November 5, 2022 - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Pacific US
Location: Ann E. Pitzer Center, University of California, Davis
Free to attend—and lunch will be provided—for those that pre-register for the conference. Please submit your registration by Thursday, November 3rd.
For those unable to attend, we will livestream the conference beginning at 9:20 am. Please note that interaction is not possible over the livestream.
About the Conference
For the conference “Rethinking the History of Indonesian Music” eight scholars will present 30-minute papers, followed by 10-minute prepared responses from local respondents, on topics related to the broad subject of music history in the geographical area currently identified as the Indonesian archipelago. The conference is part of a broader Luce Foundation project titled “Toward a Music History of the Indonesian Archipelago,” which will take place over two years. With this open approach, the conference seeks to explore topics of indigeneity, colonialism, the evolving artistry of modern gamelan, and the rethinking of Indonesian history.
Preceding the conference, the Bay Area’s rock-gamelan fusion group Purnamasari will give a concert Friday, Nov. 4, at 7:00 pm in the Ann E. Pitzer Center.
Conference Schedule
9:00 Coffee and Registration
9:20 Introductions by
Profs. Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller of UC Davis
9:30 Panel I – Chair Juan Diego Díaz (UC Davis)
9:30 Sandeep Ray (University of Nottingham, Malaysia)
“Choral singing and the Japanese Occupation of Java”
10:10 Emilie Rook (University of Pittsburgh)
“A Missional Legacy: Musik Inkulturasi and the Production
of Localized Catholic Hymnals in
Indonesia”
10:50 Coffee Break
11:15 Panel II – Chair Gillian Irwin (Gamelan Sekar Jaya)
11:15 Anna Maria Busse Berger (UC Davis)
“Jaap Kunst and the German Missionaries in Nias”
11:55 Dustin Wiebe (UC Davis)
“‘Divine’ Ethnomusicology: Jaap Kunst in Flores”
12:35 Lunch
2:00 Panel III – Chair Sarah Maxim (UC Berkeley)
2:00 Bernard Arps (Leiden University, Netherlands)
“The Issue of the Javanese Church Hymns”
2:40 Henry Spiller (UC Davis)
“‘I am in no way surprised that the Javanese
can listen to it all night long’: A 19th-century Dutch
missionary on Javanese music”
2:50 Break
3:15 Panel IV – Chris Reynolds (UC Davis)
3:15 Sebastian Klotz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
“Missionaries as phonographic mediators”
3:55 David A. Hollinger (UC Berkeley)
“The Heathen in His Blindness? Missionaries,
Empire, and Anti-Colonialism”
4:35 General discussion and concluding remarks.