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

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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://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Efolkmyth/folknationalism.htm>
http://fas.harvard.edu/~folkmyth/folknationalism.htm<http://fas.harvard.edu/%7Efolkmyth/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
<http://fas.harvard.edu/%7Efolkmyth/folknationalism.htm>

*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH 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 9TH, 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



<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Efolkmyth/folknationalism.htm>
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