Sounds of Two Worlds:
Music as a Mirror of Migration
to and from Germany
September 13 and 14, 2002
Memorial
Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Free and open to the public
9:00 am–9:30 am
Welcoming remarks (Mark L. Louden)
9:30 am–10:30 am
Opening talk and breakfast reception
Sounding the Spaces between Two Worlds: Rupture,
Resistance, and Revival in (Re)Membering German and American History
[Abstract] [On-Line
Paper] (Philip V. Bohlman)
11:00 am–11:45 am
Music of Minorities in Austria: A “National Heritage”?
[Abstract] [On-Line
Paper] (Ursula Hemetek)
11:45 am–12:30 pm
Sounds of the Vanishing World: Yiddish Music in Contemporary Germany
[Abstract] [On-Line
Paper] (Joel E. Rubin and Rita
Ottens; Website: http://www.rubin-ottens.com)
1:30 pm–2:15 pm
[Cancelled]
Other Sounds in Another City: Turkish Music in Germany
(B. Venkat Mani)
2:15 pm–3:00
pm
American
Musical Life and Its German Builders: A 200-Year Overview
(Pamela Potter)
German-American Music and Identity in the Midwest
8:30 am–9:15 am
Dutchmen and Dialect Songs
[Abstract] [On-Line
Paper] (James Leary)
9:15 am–10:00 am
A German-American
Singing Society in the Early Twenty-First Century
(Alan Burdette)
German-American Music and Entertainment
10:30 am–11:15 am
Old World Hillbillies—Alpine Music Entertainers
on Tour through the US in the 1920s [Abstract]
[On-Line
Paper] (Christoph Wagner)
11:15 am–12:00 pm
Integrating Euro-Ethnic
Music into American Mainstream Radio (Scott
Lopas)
Germans and Their Music in Nineteenth Century America
1:00 pm–1:45 pm
German-American Music Societies and Nationalistic Sentiment during the Late
Nineteenth-Century (Ann
Reagan)
1:45 pm–2:30 pm
America non cantat? German
Views of Nineteenth-Century Music in America (Helmut
G. Schmahl)
3:00–5:00 Workshop for K-12 Teachers
7:15 pm–8:15 pm
Madison Männerchor
8:30 pm–10:00 pm
Jerry Schneider Polka Band
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