[Wadabo_updates] Diaspora Dance & Music @ Harvard's Folklore & Nationalism Conference (Feb 8 & 9)

Dear African Dance & Music Community,

Harvard's Folklore & Nationalism Conference
(Friday Feb 8th & Saturday Feb 9th)
features several presentations on African & Diaspora dance & music.

Of particular interest:
1 - Performances Friday (2/8) night at 7pm - Cape Verdean Dance (Carla Martin) & Sabar Drumming (Patty Tang)
2 - Panel (#4) Saturday (2/9) at 3pm - Various presentations on Haitian, Cape Verdean, & Senegalese dance/music arts

For full conference listing & info:
http://fas.harvard.edu/~folkmyth/folknationalism.htm
This event is free and open to the public
Harvard University,  The Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA

FOLKLORE & NATIONALISM

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8^TH 2008

6:15 Gregorian Chant

6:20 Welcome and Introduction - Stephen Mitchell

"Kaguramen" (Japanese mask dance) - Tomie Hahn

6:45 Buffet Dinner

7:15 Performances

Scottish Song - Maggie Harrison

Cape Verdean Dance - Carla Denny Martin

Sabar Drumming - Patty Tang 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9^TH, 2008

3:00 PANEL FOUR

"A Party for the Spirits: Transnational Vodou in Haiti and Boston" (Grete Viddal)

"Cape Verdean Music in Diaspora: Language, Nation, and Community" (Carla Martin)

"Drums and Dancing Lions: The Simb Tradition of Senegal" (Patty Tang)

"Folklore and Contested Nationalism, Whose Country Is It Anyway?" (David Guss)

 

4:00 WINE, CHEESE, & WIND-DOWN