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Brian Gregory
Cultural Transmission as Translation,
Exchange, and Reproduction A Symposium in Honor of Roger D. Abrahams
Welcome to the SOUNDING BOARD, our pre-conference cyber forum.We've asked some of the participants from the Center's first two conferences to strike some opening chords--meditations, ruminations, arguments and other short disquisitions on current trends, issues, problems, and possible directions for the field of folklore.
You are invited to respond. You'll see a strike a chord button at the end of each opening chord: just press the button for instructions on how to reply.
We'll post your responses and counter-responses as they come in. Themes and issues that emerge here will form the basis for sessions at the "live" symposium, March 22-23, on the University of Pennsylvania campus.
t h e SOUNDING BOARD
OPENING CHORDS
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THANK YOU to all Voice/Over and Sounding Board contributors and
participants, virtual and actual. The chords initially struck here
continued to resonate at the live symposium, providing a basis for lively
discussion, further riffs, and additional improvisation.
Because some of you asked, and because ideas may still be reverberating, we will keep the Sounding Board open for responses for another two weeks, that is, until Monday, April 8th (the board itself will remain up longer). You may respond directly to the Opening Chords--as we did prior to the Symposium--or to the Session Abstracts below.
Send your response to Brian Gregory, bgregory@sas.upenn.edu, and he will post it to the board. Strike away!
- Framework for Discussion
Mary Hufford, University of Pennsylvania
Dorothy Noyes, The Ohio State University
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title to view each chord (and its responses.)
All contributions © 2002, by the authors.
Being an Ethnologist in a World of Technology
USE ALMOST CAN CHANGE THE STAMP OF NATURE (Hamlet 3.4.169)
Volatile Ventriloquy: Listening to the Voices of Past Texts
Revisiting Creolization
Heidegger's Hammer
Possessed by Culture/ Possessing Culture: Giving Flesh to Voice
Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11
CREOLE NOISE VS. BAROQUE EXCESSES
Listening to Israeli Backpackers' Stories: Quoting Voices and Voicing Quotations
Miles: the Voice, the Man
Voice/Over? Twentieth Century American Music in Diaspora
Voice of the Visual in Memory
Regina Bendix, Universität Göttingen, Germany
Lee Haring, Saugerties, NY
Galit Hasan-Rokem, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Raquel Romberg, Swarthmore College
Robert Cantwell, University of North Carolina
Deborah Kapchan, University of Texas at Austin
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University
Ana Cara, Oberlin College
Chaim Noy, Post-doctoral Fellow, Univ. of Pennsylvania and
Swarthmore College
(Excerpt of a chapter from So What:The Life of Miles Davis,
forthcoming from Simon and Schuster, November 2002)
John Szwed, Yale University
Carol A. Muller, University of Pennsylvania
Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania
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