Musical Instruments and Material Culture
Thursday 26 March 2015
The Pavilion (in the Horniman Gardens), Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, London, SE23 3PQ http://www.horniman.ac.uk
This conference is held jointly by the Horniman Museum and Gardens and the Royal Anthropological Institute.
To book please go to http://www.horniman.ac.uk/visit/events/type/17/date/2015-03-01/interval/30
PROGRAMME
09:30 Registration and coffee
10:15 Welcome/ Opening Remarks
Tim Corum, Director of Curatorial and Public Engagement, Horniman Museum
10:30-11:30 Panel 1: Combating Disempowerment
Khadija Abbasi, The Graduate Institute, Geneva: Dambora: The embodiments of sufferings, resistance and identities for Hazaras of Afghanistan
Veronica Doubleday, Goldsmiths, University of London: Moving the Spirit: Musical Instruments from Found Objects
11:30-12:30 Keynote Speech
Materials Matter: Towards a Political Ecology of Musical Instrument Making
Professor Kevin Dawe, University of Kent
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Panel 2: Spirituality and Enchantment
Dr Conor Caldwell, Queen’s University, Belfast: A musical movement: The status of the fiddle in south west Donegal, 1850-2014
Owen Coggins, The Open University, UK: Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars: Drone Metal’s Amplifier Cult
14:30-15:30 Panel 3: Meanings in Metal
Deidre Morgan, SOAS, University of London: The Norwegian munnharpe revival: A dialogue between material and intangible culture
Lyndsey Marie Hoh, University of Oxford: Brass Instruments in Benin: Metal, Meaning, and the Material Turn
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 17:00 Panel 4: Historic Instruments as Signifiers of Culture
Stephen Rees, University of Bangor, and Huw Roberts, independent Scholar: ‘Telyn Cefn Mably’ (‘The Harp of Cefn Mably’): A Newly-Discovered Triple Harp by Bassett Jones and the Abergavenny Eisteddfod of 1848
Dr Amanda Villepastour, Cardiff University: Sacred, Scientific and Political Encounters in the Consecration, Conservation, and Patrimony of a Cuban Drum
17:00 – 17:30 Concluding remarks
Professor Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen
17:30 – 19:00 Wine reception
