Welcome to the official archive of the Researching Black Canadian Musics/Black Music Cultures conference, held at York University from May 1-3, 2003.

Multimedia files are available throughout the schedule below. Please scroll down and click through on the keynotes and roundtables. Note that you will need Real player to access these files, which is available as a free download here

THURSDAY

2:30 -3:30 PM Registration FC 152

3:30-5:00 PM

A: THEORIZING HIP HOP FC 104
Chair: Andrea Davis, York University
· Tom Cull & Lynette Thoman, York University
The Revolution Will Not Be Dehistoricized: Mapping Rap Against the Black Arts Movement
· Jessica Cameron, York University
B-Boys Rappin' Master Moralities: Anti-Racist Performatives and the Nietzschean Will-to-Power
· Mark Campbell, York University
Reppin' "Home" in the "T-Dot": The Dialectics of Home in Canadian Hip-Hop music
· Chris Penrose, York University
Rapitalism

M 1: MUSICIANS' ROUNDTABLE 1: Reggae in Canada
FC 152 Belinda Brady, MC Collizhun, Michael St. George, Quammie Williams and Xola. Interviewed by Klive Walker.

5:00 - 6:45 PM: Dinner

7:00 - 8:15 PM FC 152

Formal Welcome: Leslie Sanders and Natasha Smith, Co-convenors

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1 : Norman "Otis" Richmond
Celebrating Black Canadian Musics

8:30 - 10:30 PM Winter's College Dining Hall
PERFORMANCE: Kingsley Ettienne (R&B); Michael St. George (Reggae)

FRIDAY

8:00 - 9:00 AM Registration, light breakfast, meet and greet FC 152

9:00 -10:00 AM FC 152
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2: Brainerd Blyden-Taylor
Church and Concert Hall: Black Religious Music in Canada

10: 15 AM - 11:45 AM

B: JAZZ LEGACIES FC 104
Chair: Liam Rodriques, York University
· Mark Miller, Globe and Mail
Locating George Paris, Shirley Oliver and Ollie Wagner: Three Pioneers of Jazz in Canada
· Andrew Scott, York University
Canadian Jazz Historiography and the "Problem" of Sonny Greenwich

M 2: MUSICIANS' ROUNDTABLE 2: Dub history in Canada
VC-L Lillian Allen, Maria Casas, Afua Cooper, Chet Singh, Michael St. George and Ishaka Williams. Interviewed by Afua Cooper.

M 3: MUSICIANS' ROUNDTABLE 3: Gospel history in Canada
FC 152 Karen Burke, Oswald Burke, Peggy Downes, Richard Picart and Courtney Williams. Interviewed by Fitzroy Gordon.

12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch Winter's College Dining Hall
PERFORMANCE: Achilla Orru (Kalimba, traditional African)

1:00 - 2:30 PM

C: SPECIAL SESSION: QUÉBÉCITÉ: A JAZZ OPERA IN THREE CANTOS FC 104
Chair: Ajay Heble, chair and discussant
· George Elliott Clarke, University of Toronto, librettist
· D. D. Jackson, composer
· Colin Taylor, director

D : ARTICULATIONS: HOME, NATIONS, CULTURE FC 106
Chair: Dan Yon, York University
· David Diallo, l'Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, France
"Ya'll know what I mean": Intertextuality in rap music
· Gigi "Gee" Rabe, UCLA, USA
The Appropriation of Jamaican Ska in Toronto: Black Music, White Musicians
· Klive Walker
Reggae in the Caribbean diaspora: One-Drop Dubs Out a New Image in Canada

M 4: MUSICIANS' ROUNDTABLE 4: Music Africa and African Musics in Toronto
FC 152 Cudjoe Dorkenoo, U-sheak Koroma, Nadine McNulty, Achilla Orru and Otimoi Oyemu.

2:30 - 3:00 PM: Coffee Break

3:00 - 4: 30 PM

E: "BLACK" MUSIC IN CANADA: CONSIDERATIONS FOR ARTS-BASED RESEARCH IN EDUCATION FC 104
Chair: Jennifer Clarke, York University
· Kelly Young, York University
Tracing organic undercurrents: Reading Giscome Road as descriptive & imaginative
soundtrack
· Warren Crichlow, York University
Sounding Signals: Ethnography, Pedagogy and African American Experimental Acoustics in Canada

F: HIP HOP AND JUNGLE NORTH OF THE 49TH PARALLEL FC 106
Chair: Darcy Ballantyne, York University
· Rami Warner, York University
Hip-Hop With A Northern Touch: An interview with Sol, K-OS, Power and Motion
· Mercedes Lee, York University
Roots in the Future: Tracing the Sounds of the Underground in Toronto Jungle
· Emily Mills
Flow 93.5 FM: Canada's First Commercial Urban Radio Station
· Chinedu N. Egwuenu, York University
Mass Media Outlets for Black Music and Culture: The Future of Black Canadian Music

M 5: MUSICIANS' ROUNDTABLE 5: Jazz and Blues history in Canada - vocalists
FC 152 Salome Bey, Diana Braithwaite, Dianne Brooks and Ada Lee. Interviewed by Sharron McLeod.

4:45 - 6:15

G: DEFINING BLACK CANADIAN URBAN MUSIC FC 104
Chair: Katherine McKittrick, York University
· Karen Pegley, Queen's University
Games People Play: Multiculturalism, Inclusivity and Ghettoization on MuchMusic (Canada)
and MTV (US)
· J. Maki Motapanyane, York University
Manifestations of the Black Female Body in Contemporary Canadian Hip Hop: the Question of Femini(st)ne Space
· Michael Cantelon, University of Alberta
Notions of Diaspora And The Black Atlantic Within Socially Conscious Canadian Music

M 6: MUSICIANS' ROUNDTABLE 6: Jazz history in Canada - instrumentalists
FC 152 Archie Alleyne, Oliver Jones and Joe Sealy. Interviewed by Winston Smith.

6:30 - 7:30 Dinner

7:30 - 8:30 PM FC 152
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3: Winston Smith
Jazz in Canada/Canadian Jazz

8:30 - 10:30 Winter's College Dining Hall
PERFORMANCE: Archie Alleyne with Kollage (Jazz); Joe Sealy Quartet with Dianne Brooks (Jazz)

SATURDAY

9:30 - 10:00 AM Registration, light breakfast FC 152

10:00 - 11:30 AM

I: REGIONAL ADAPTATIONS FC 106
Chair: Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto - OISE
· Modupe Olaogun, York University
Juju music and the Black Diaspora: Observations from Toronto, 2003
· Awad Ibrahim, University of Ottawa
Marking the Unmarked: Hip-Hop and the Politics of "Becoming Black"
· Myriam Laabidi, Université Laval
How did hip-hop culture make its way into the Francophone community?: France and Québec cases

M 7: MUSICIANS' ROUNDTABLE 7: Jazzing the Airwaves
FC 152 Curtis Bailey, Sharron McLeod, Norman "Otis" Richmond and Winston Smith. Interviewed by Glen Morgan.

12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch Winter's College Dining Hall
PERFORMANCE: Melange Musical Steel (Steelpan)

1:00 - 2:30 PM

J: BLACK CANADIAN MUSIC ON FILM FC 104
Chair: Roger McTair
· Christine Browne
Filmmaker: "Jodie Drake: Blues in my Bread"
· Alison Duke
Filmmaker: "Raisin' Kane: A rapumentary"
· Sylvia Hamilton
Filmmaker: "Portia White: Think on Me"
· Liam Romalis
Filmmaker: "Carry Me Home: The Story & Music of the Nathaniel Dett Chorale"
· Anthony Sherwood
Filmmaker: "Music - A Family Tradition" and librettist "Rockin' in Paradise"

K: GENDERS AND SPACES: HIP HOP, HOUSE, SPOKEN WORD FC 106
Chair: Makeda Silvera, York University
· Judy McKeown, York University
Reproducing the Hottentot Venus: (Re) Sexualising Black Women in Popular Hip-hop music videos
· Claudia A. McKoy, MIX Magazine
Post-Black discussions: an essay on Hip Hop and contemporary art
· Christopher Smith, York University
"B-ing" Black Otherwise: House music and the Heteronormative Contours of Black Studies
· Kathleen James, York University
Speaking the Word

M 8: MUSICIANS' ROUNDTABLE 8: Calypso history in Canada
FC 152 Natasha Bustic, Henry "King Cosmos" Gomez, Roger "Rajiman" Gibbs, Dick Lochan and Bill "The Crooner" Newman. Interviewed by Yvonne Bobb-Smith.

2:30 - 3:00 PM: Coffee break

3:00 - 4:30 PM

H: RECOVERING HISTORICAL FIGURES / L: NOVA SCOTIA HISTORIES FC 104
Chair: Peggy Bristow, University of Toronto - OISE
· Delvina Bernard
Songs and Sermons: African Nova Scotian Music History
· Jay White, Dalhousie University
Portia White: Canada's Marion Anderson?
· Natasha Smith, York University
African Canadian Musics 1775 - 1860: Towards a History
· Gerry Atwell
Black Music on the Canadian Prairies
· Richard George Stewardson, York University
The Music of Hattie Rhue Hatchett: "Racial Imagination" and Musical Identity
· Stefanie Samuels, York University
on behalf of Walter Borden

M: CALYPSOES IN CANADA FC 106
Chair: Yvonne Bobb-Smith, Ryerson University
· Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, University of Toronto - OISE
Trini Posse: Soca and the Second Generation
· Jamea Zuberi
Mas in de Queer: Queering the Mas
· Henry Gomez
Canadian Calypso

M 9: MUSICIANS' ROUNDTABLE 9: Hip hop history in Canada
FC 152 David "Click" Cox, Kamau Preto and Jonathon Ramos. Interviewed by Matt Galloway.

5:00 - 6:00 PM FC 152
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 4: Rinaldo Walcott
Towards a Methodology for Reading Hip Hop in Canada

6:00 - 7:30 PM Dinner

8:00 - 10:00 PM Winter's College Dining Hall
PERFORMANCE: King Cosmos (Calypso), Macomere Fifi (Calypso), Smoke Stack (hip hop), Butta Babees (hip hop) and Motion (hip hop)

ROOM KEY:

FC 152 Founder's College Assembly Hall, Room 152
VC-L Vanier College L
FC 104 Founder's College Room 104
FC 106 Founder's College Room 106
FC 108 Founder's College Room 108

York University :: 1-3 May 2003