THE QUECHUA EXPRESSIVE ART:

Creativity, Analysis, and Performance

An International Symposium
September 4-6, 1997
Organization/Coordination: John Schechter and Guillermo Delgado
Departments of Music and Latin American and Latino Studies, UCSC

Music Center, UCSC

Co-Sponsored by The University of California Humanities Research Institute, the UCSC Divisions of Arts and Social Sciences, the Department of Music, and the Chicano/Latino Research Center

Thursday, September 4

• 8 a.m.: Breakfast

  Panel Session: Quechua Expressive Arts in Historical Dimension

• 9:30 a.m.: Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz, Universitaet Bonn, Germany: "Re-creando un discurso andino en la epoca colonial: El manuscrito de Huarochiri"

• 10:15 a.m.: Abdon Yaranga Valderrama, Universite de Paris, France: "Antiq, o la danza de las tijeras"

• 11 a.m.: R. Tom Zuidema, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois: "The Wari songs of the Noble Initiands in Cuzco and their Possible Content"

• Noon: Lunch
  

  Panel Session: Quechua Oral Literature #1: Song Text, Riddle, Carnival

• 2 p.m.: Willem Adelaar, Dept. of Comparative Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands: "Linguistic Peculiarities of Quechua Song Texts"

• 2:45 p.m.: Maurizio Gnerre, independent scholar, Sao Paulo, Brazil: "Riddles: A Neglected Quechua Verbal Genre"

• 3:30 p.m.: Francisco Tandioy Jansasoy, Dept. of Languages Universidad de Narino, Pasto, Colombia: "Los Carnavales Inga y Kamentsa del Valle de Sibundoy, Colombia"

• 4:30 p.m.: Roundtable #1: "Teaching Quechua Verbal Art in the University: Political, Linguistic, and Curricular Outcomes"
  Participants: Guillermo Delgado, Dept. of Latin American and Latino Studies, UCSC; Donald F. Sola, Dept. of Linguistics, Cornell University; Remigio Caceres, Universidad Catolica, Sede en Ibarra, Ecuador; Carmen Chuquin, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• 6:15 p.m.: Dinner

  Panel Session: Quechua Oral Literature #2: Contemporary Narrative

• 7:30 p.m.: Michael Thomas, Dept. of Anthropology, Cornell University: "Re-reading a Twice-told Tale in Quechua: Translation, Heterogeneity, and the Problem of Community in an Anthropological Icon"

• 8:15 p.m.: Enrique Andrade A., independent scholar, Cotacachi, Ecuador, and John M. Schechter, Dept. of Music, UCSC: "'Kunan punlla rimagrinchi....': Wit and Didactics in the Quichua Rhetorical Style of Senor Enrique Andrade A., Husbandman-Ethnographer of Cotacachi, Imbabura"

Friday, September 5

• 8 a.m.: Breakfast

• 9 a.m.: Official welcome from Prof. Edward Houghton, Dean, Division of the Arts

  Panel Session: Quechua Vocal Genres: Regional Types

• 9:15 a.m.: Pieter Muysken, Dept. of Linguistics, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands: "Bilingual Language Use in the Waynos of Peru"

• 10 a.m.: Billie Jean Isbell, Dept. of Anthropology, Cornell University: "Validating Experience in Song and Selling Protest Art as Cultural Commodities: Protest Arts from Ayacucho, Peru"

  Panel Session: Composition and Dissemination of Quechua Song: The Local and the International

• 11 a.m.: Michelle Bigenho, Dept. of Anthropology, Cornell University: "Local Songs and Translocal Places from Toropalca and Yura"

• 11:45 a.m.: John Hudelson, independent scholar, Middlehope, New York: "Changes in Musical Instruments of the Upper Amazon Valley Resulting from Andean Contact"

• 12:30 p.m.: Lunch (box lunches and afternoon excursion to Big Basin Redwoods State Park)

  Panel Session: Composition and Dissemination of Quechua Song: The Local and the International (cont'd)

• 4:15 p.m.: Barry Lyons, Dept. of Anthropology, University of the South: "'Taita Chimborazo, Mama Tungurahua': The Creation and Performance of a Quichua Song"

• 5 p.m.: Julio Noriega [Peru], Dept. of Foreign Languages, Indiana University South Bend: "La poetica del destierro en los cantos de viajeros y migrantes quechuas"

• 6 p.m.: Dinner

• 8 p.m.: Roundtable #2: "Hybridization of Quechua Artistic Forms": Open forum.

Saturday, September 6

• 8 a.m.: Breakfast

  Panel Session: Music, Text, and Gender in Quechua Expression

• 9 a.m.: Regina Harrison, Comparative Literature Program, Univ. of Maryland, College Park: "Bodies and Boundaries: From Phenotypes to Flirtations in Quechua Expression"

• 9:45 a.m.: Linda J. Seligmann, Dept. of Anthropology, George Mason University: "The Art of Expressive Exchange: The Mediation of Quechua Identity in the Marketplace"

• 10:30 a.m.: Denise Y. Arnold, independent scholar, La Paz, Bolivia: "Midwife Singers: Llama-human Obstetrics in Some Songs to the Animals by Andean Women"

• 11:15 p.m.: Lunch

  Panel Session: Quechua Expressive Arts in Ritual Praxis

• 12:30 p.m.: Juan de Dios Yapita and Denise Y. Arnold, independent scholars, La Paz, Bolivia: "K'ank'isina: trenzarse entre la lirica y la musica de las canciones de boda de Qaqachaka, Bolivia"

• 1:15 p.m.: Henry Stobart, Cambridge University, United Kingdom: "Music, Mice, and Mortality in an Andean Hamlet (ayllu Macha, Northern Potosi, Bolivia)"

• 2 p.m.: Joseph Bastien, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology, Univ. of Texas/Arlington: "Entrada folklorica: Festival of the Ascension of the Virgin Mary of Urqupina"

  Panel Session: Preserving the Quechua Language, Building Quechua Values, and Understanding the Quechua Folk Sociology

• 3 p.m.: Carmen Chuquin, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin/Madison: "Runa Shimi Writing Skills in Bilingual Education Schools"

• 3:45 p.m.: Cristobal Quishpe Lema, Direccion Nacional de Educacion Intercultural Bilingue, Republica del Ecuador: "El Cuento y la Poesia en el Mundo Quichua del Ecuador: Valores Simbolicos"

• 4:30 p.m.: Bruce Mannheim, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Michigan: "The Subaltern Imaginary"

• 5:30 p.m.: Barbecue dinner, Stevenson College Picnic Area

• 8 p.m.: Performances of Andean music and verbal art by various performers, including Chaskinakuy, Taki Nan, and Patricio Cuji Guallinga

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