The UF Student Society for Musicology (SSM) is holding its interdisciplinary symposium this Saturday from 10:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. in MUB 121. Our theme this year is "Media, Culture, and Mediating Culture." There will be ten presentations from students from various departments at the University of Florida, with a few from off campus as well.

The keynote speaker will be ethnomusicologist Professor Emanuel Dufrasne of Universidad de Puerto Rico, who will be speaking about early wax cylinders of Puerto Rican folk music.

Free lunch will be provided. The symposium program is provided below.

For further information, contact UF SSM President Olga Godula at [log in to unmask] 


PROGRAM

9:30am:  Breakfast

10:00am: Film and Television
         Claudio Re (UF, Department of Musicology), Chair

         Kyle Lynch (University of Miami, Department of Musicology)
         Camp in Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives

         Gina Alvarado and Ivan Valverde (University of Florida, Department of Sociology)
	   The Andean Feminine abject as the key to success: Deconstructing Claudia Llosa's Madeinusa and the Milk Sorrow

         Elizabeth Clendinning (Florida State University, Musicology Department)
         Childhood Revisited: Sesame Street, Nostalgia, and YouTube Culture

11:45am: Mediating Musical Performance
	   Morgan Rich (UF, Department of Musicology), Chair

         David Goldblatt (University of Florida, Department of Musicology)
         Confessions of a non-composer:  The Multi-cultural Dance 

         Accompaniments of David Goldblatt, University of Florida Dance Accompanist

         Donna Davis (University of Florida, College of Journalism)
	   Building a Global Music Community through Live Performance in the 3-D Virtual World

12:45pm: Lunch

1:30pm:  Interpreting Mass Media
	   Jack Forbes (UF, Department of Musicology), Chair

         Minch Minchin (University of Florida, College of Journalism and Communication)
	   Memes and Media

         Andrew Pantazi (University of Florida, College of Journalism)
         The Effects of Technology on the Sound Byte, Information Gathering and Attention Spans

2:45pm:  Mediating Celebrity
         Delio Figueroa (UF, Department of Musicology), Chair

         Joshua Cajinarobleto (University of Florida, School of Art and Art History)
	   The New Consumer Celebrity: Reconstructing Identity in the Domestic (Virtual) Space

         Gary Ritzenthaler and Glenn Rickard (University of Florida, Mass Communication)
	   The cult of avatars: rock legends and the construction of virtual selves.

         Daniel Elsesser (University of Florida, College of Journalism)
         Fame and the Advancement of Technology

4:30pm:  Keynote Presentation
         Emanuel Dufrasne (University of Puerto Rico)
         Puerto Rican music from the 19th to the 20th century: the utilities of recording technology