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Conference registration and all paper sessions will be held in the Manuel Maldonado Denis Auditorium in the Carmen Riveral Alvarado Building 108 (CRA 108), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico.

Friday, June 19


Moore


Bermúdez


Rivera


McAlister


Cyrille


Berrian


Agerkop


De Jong


Allen


Abrahams


Dudley


Quintero Rivera

9–11 a.m.
Session I—Black Musical Diaspora and the Hispanophone Caribbean
Errol Montes Pizarro (University of Puerto Rico, Cayey/Universidad de Puerto Rico at Cayey and host of Rumba Africana radio show), moderator.
Robin D. Moore (University of Texas), “Black Music and Diaspora: Reflections on Genres from the Hispanic Caribbean.”
Egberto Bermúdez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), “The Black Music Diaspora in Colombia: Many Questions, Few Certainties.”
Raquel Z. Rivera (Hunter College), “New York Bomba and Palos: Liberation Mythologies and Overlapping Diasporas.”
1–3 p.m.
Session II—Black Musical Diaspora and the Francophone Caribbean
Luis Hernández Mergal, (Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico/Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico), moderator.
Elizabeth McAlister (Wesleyan University), “The Black Music Diaspora and the Francophone Caribbean.”
Dominique O. Cyrille (Université des Antilles et de la Guyane), “Black Diaspora: A French Caribbean Perspective.”
Brenda Berrian (University of Pittsburgh), “Lumina Sophie of Martinique: A Reclaimed National Heroine.”

Saturday, June 20

9–11 a.m.
Session III—Black Musical Diaspora and the Dutch-Speaking Caribbean
Kenneth Bilby (Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago), moderator.
Terry Agerkop (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil), “Music of the African Diaspora in Suriname and the Netherlands.”
Nanette de Jong (Newcastle University, UK), “Diasporic Belonging: Contesting Tambú in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Den Haag.”
Rose Mary Allen (University of the Netherlands Antilles), “Curaçao and the Larger Caribbean: Diaspora, Migration, and Music.”
1–3 p.m.
Session IV—Black Musical Diaspora and the Anglophone Caribbean
Jorge L. Giovannetti (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras/University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras), moderator.
Roger D. Abrahams (University of Pennsylvania), “Questions of Competency and Performance in the Black Musical Diaspora.”
Shannon Dudley (University of Washington), “Popular Culture and Cultural Nationalism in Trinidad and the Caribbean.”
Curwen Best (University of the West Indies, Cave Hill), “Real and Virtual Locations: Anglophone Caribbean Music and Cyberspace.”
3:15–4:15 p.m.
Session V—Diasporic Dances
Angel Quintero Rivera (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras/University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras), “Why ‘Difference’ Turned Counter-Hegemonic through Popular Dance Music in the Black Diaspora History of the Americas.”

Paper abstracts and presenter biographies will be available soon.

Special Evening Events

Music and Dialog at COPI

Four Hundred Years of Music in Santurce: A Conversation with its Musicians
Cuatrocientos años de música en Santurce: Una conversación con sus músicos
Marisol Berríos-Miranda and Shannon Dudley, producers and hosts

In the twentieth century, the black community of Santurce grew into Puerto Rico's commercial and cultural center, a destination for immigrants from other parts of the island, and a stepping stone for emigration to the United States. This panel discussion will focus on the encounter between Santurce's historic Afro-Caribbean culture and modern commercial music. It will include a presentation on the “musical geography” of Santurce/Cangrejos by ethnomusicologist Marisol Berríos-Miranda, followed by a more spontaneous exchange between prominent musicians and cultural workers, in which music-making will be encouraged.

Other special events to be announced.