EMA History

EMA History

Fall 2016-Spring 2017 Academic Year
Officers

President – Yanxiazi Gao
Vice President – Chris Serrano
Treasurer – Kirk Sullivan
Education officer – Yi-Chieh Lai
Activities officer – Aaron Singer
Secretary – Megan DeKievit

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Frederick Lau

Fall 2015- Spring 2016 Academic Year
Officers

President – Kirk Sullivan
Vice President – Padraic Costello/Ben Fairfield
Treasurer – Yi-Chieh Lai
Education officer – Megan DeKievit
Activities officer – Aaron Singer
Webmaster – Aaron Singer
Secretary – Sangah Lee

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Frederick Lau

Awards (F15-SP16)

EMA awarded $4,636 to send members to the SEM conference in Austin, TX, by the Student Activity & Program Fee Board.
EMA awarded $2,203 for Words on Music: Dr. Robert Garfias, by the Student Activity & Program Fee Board.

Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Academic Year

Officers

President – Anjelica Corbett
Vice President – Padraic Costello
Treasurer – Haein Lee
Education officer – Larry Oliver Catungal
Activities officer – Benjamin Fairfield
Webmaster/Historian – Larry Oliver Catungal and Elizabeth Boisvert
Secretary - Elizabeth Boisvert

Faculty Advisor: Aaron Sala (F14); Dr. Frederick Lau (SP15)

2014 SEM conference (Pittsburgh): UHM ethnomusicology presenters and panel chairs

Yuan-Yu Kuan, panel chair: "Gender Rules: Force, Fragility, and Frivolity in 'Engendered' Musical Performance"
Man Beryl Yang, presenter: "From 'Stinky People' to ICH Inheritors: the Transformation of Amateur Hua'er Singers in 21st Century China"
Justin R. Hunter, panel chair: "Framing Indigeneity through Musical Spaces in Asia: Local Politics, Global Movements, and Cultural Negotiations"
Yuan-Yu Kuan, presenter: "'Meeting a Hunter at the Coastline': Time, Spaces, and Indigeneity in Contemporary Taiwan"
Justin R. Hunter, presenter: "Local Ainu Song, Global Indigenous Power: Claiming Indigenous Rights through Music Making in Ainu Mosir and Beyond"
Larry O. Catungal, presenter: "Hand of Filipino-ness: Beater Twirling in Maguindanao Kulintang"

2015 Words on Music

Fifth EMA Words on Music
Dr. Ken Moore, Frederick P. Rose Curator in charge of the Department of Musical Instruments at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
February 16th - 20th, 2015
Monday 16th: Welcoming Potluck
Tuesday 17th: One-on-one student meetings; presentation to ethnomusicology students on instrument archiving
Wednesday 18th: "The Great Musical Instrument Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York" (public lecture)--an illustrative talk on the history and trajectory of the instrument collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its impact on the present day.
Thursday 19th: One-on-one student meetings
Friday 20th: "Symbols and Sounds: Musical Instruments and the Museum Setting" (Ethnomusicology Forum talk; MUS601)--a talk examining the role of the music curator for a 21st century audience, examining the ethics, interpretation, and presentation of musical instruments in the museum setting. Farewell potluck to proceed afterwards.

2015 Experiencing Music (Education Event)

Friday 11th April, 9:00am-12:30pm
EMA hosted 26 upperclassmen (i.e. juniors and seniors) from Farrington High School
Session 1: "What is 'music' to me?" led by Anjelica Corbett and Elizabeth Boisvert
Session 2a: Korean Samul Nori, led by Sangah Lee and Haein Lee
Session 2b: Thai Angklung, led by Larry O. Catungal
Session 3a: (Philippine) Pangalay, led by Froilan Fabro
Session 3b: Maguindanao Kulintang, led by Larry O. Catungal
Session 4: Mongolian Throat Singing , led by Benjamin Fairfield
Mini performance: Haein Lee (on Korean gayageum), Kirk Sullivan (Scottish Highland bagpipes), and Larry O. Catungal, Anjelica Corbett, Fabian Fabro, and Haein Lee (Maguindanao kulintang) with Froilan Fabro (dancing pangalay)

Spring 2015 World Music and Dance Ensemble Showcase

Featured groups and participants included: Kumu Noenoelani Zuttermeister Lewis and students from her hula classes (MUS312 and MUS412), Darin Miyashiro sensei and students from his koto class (MUS127B and MUS311C)
At Campus Center, headed by Kirk Sullivan and Padraic Costello

Awards (F14-SP15)

EMA awarded $2,772 to send members to the SEM conference in Pittsburgh, PA, by the Student Activity & Program Fee Board.
EMA awarded $2,196 for Words on Music: Dr. Ken Moore, by the Student Activity & Program Fee Board.

Fall 2013- Spring 2014 Academic Year

Officers

President – William Rice
Vice President – Anjelica Corbett
Treasurer – Haein Lee
Education officer – Yejin Park
Activities officer – Froilan Fabro
Webmaster/Historian – Benjamin Fairfield

Faculty Advisor: Aaron Sala

Bring Back Da Music, October 2013 (Castle High Students)

2013 SEM conference (Indianapolis) November 14-17, 2013

2013 SEM conference (Indianapolis, IN): UHM ethnomusicology presenters and panel chairs

Justin R. Hunter, panel chair: "Exploring 'Japaneseness': Global Conceptions of Japanese Music, Identity, and the Politics of Performance"
Justin R. Hunter, presenter: "Rocking Out Ainu: Reasserting Indigenous Identity Through New/Old Music and Grassroots Movements"

2014 Words on Music

Fourth EMA Words on Music
Dr. Deborah Wong (UC Riverside)
March 22-26, 2014

Awards (F13-SP14)

EMA awarded $9,030 to send members to the SEM conference in Indianapolis, IN, by the Student Activity & Program Fee Board.
EMA awarded $1,062 for Words on Music: Dr. Deborah Wong, by the Student Activity & Program Fee Board.

Fall 2012-Spring 2013 Academic Year

Officers

President – Larry Oliver Catungal
Vice President – Heather Strohschein
Treasurer – Xi Yang
Education officer – William Rice
Activities officer – Jeremiah French
Webmaster/Historian – Benjamin Fairfield

Faculty Advisor: Aaron Sala

Bring Back the Music (part 1)

October 19, 2012
Students from Education First International School of Englis h
Workshops on dance traditions of Philippines and Tahiti, Kulintang and Gamelan gong ensembles, and Tahitian percussion

Bring Back The Music (part 2)

November 16, 2012
Farrington High School Students
Workshops on Korean drumming, Tahitian dance and drumming, Gamelan, and Kulintang

2013 Words on Music

Third installment of EMA Lecture Series
Dr. Samuel Araujo
March 30-April 5, 2013

Awards (F12-SP13)

EMA awarded $8,080 to send members to the SEM conference in New Orleans, LA, by the Student Activity & Program Fee Board.
EMA awarded $3,213 for Words on Music: Dr. Samuel Araujo, by the Student Activity & Program Fee Board.

Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Academic Year

Officers

President – Justin Hunter
Vice President – Elizabeth Boisvert (Fall 2011 only)
Secretary/Historian – Heather Strohschein
Treasurer – Kuan Yuan Yu
Education officer – Larry Oliver Catungal
Activities officer – Jonathan Richter
Webmaster – Jacob Meir Barsky

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jane Moulin

Members

Jacob Meir Barsky
Elizabeth Boisvert (Fall 2011 only)
Larry Oliver Catungal
Padraic Costello
Froilan Fabro
Benjamin Fairfield
Jeremiah French
Justin Hunter
Gwendoline Cho-ning Kam
Yuan Yu Kuan
Yi-Chieh Lai
Tom McDonough
Chadwick Pang
William Rice
Jonathan Richter
Heather Strohschein
Xi Yang
Beryl Yang

Committees

Fundraising: Kuan (chair), Justin, Heather

Education: Larry (chair), Bill, Chad, Jay

Activities: Jonathan (chair), Tom, Jerry

Web Presence: Jacob (chair), Padriac

International Affliated Participant (Fall 2011)

Min Yen Ong

Ethno Potluck

Justin and Heather Hunter’s home, Oct. 22, 2011 @ 7pm

Sounding Ethnomusicology: A World Music Concert

EMA's inaugural concert
Oct. 26, 2011 @ 7:30pm in Orvis Auditorium
Reception followed

Magic Island Educational Workshops

Feb. 25, 2012 @ 10am-2pm

Music at the Museum

March 3, 2012 @ 11am-3pm
Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly known as the Honolulu Academy of Arts)

2012 Words on Music

Second installment of EMA Lecture Series
Dr. Tony Seeger
March 8-15, 2012

Bring Back the Music

April 13, 2012
Farrington High School came to UH Music department

Awards

EMA awarded $4,200 to send members to the SEM conference in Philadelphia, PA, by the Student Activity & Program Fee Board.
EMA awarded $2,500 for performances at the Honolulu Academy of Arts (Music at the Museum).
EMA awarded $2,000 for Words on Music: Tony Seeger, by the Student Activity & Program Fee Board.

Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Academic Year
EMA began as a project driven by Justin Hunter, Chadwick Pang, and inspiration that graduate students in the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Music Department gained from Dr. Jane Moulin’s spring 2010 Ethnomusicology Forum that focused its theme on Educational Outreach in ethnomusicology. Justin Hunter and Chadwick Pang had been casually searching for a way to be more proactive in their studies, in applied ethnomusicology, and for ways to find funding. They merged their ideas with the drive and inspiration of other graduate students in the music department and organized a couple of “let’s talk” meetings with the below list of 2010 participants. Through these meetings, an official EMA planning committee was formed and the EMA’s charter was written.

Fall 2010 Semester (Pre-EMA)
Participants