Kiersten Fage

PhD Student Ethnomusicology

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Participates in 1 Session

Kiersten Fage is PhD Student at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She holds a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Early Music from McGill University. Inspired by her time playing folk cello in bands and festivals in Canada and Australia, Kiersten’s master’s research project involved researching and presenting performances of 18^th century Scottish Dance music on period instruments. Kiersten’s current research has jumped across the Atlantic to North America and traces the African American roots of the North American folk cello revival.

Sessions in which Kiersten Fage participates

Friday 24 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:30 AM

1- Shaken by a Low Sound: Tracing African American Roots in a North American Folk Cello Revival - Kiersten Fage, Memorial University of Newfoundland

2 hours, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Part of: Panel 1 - Organology: Histories and Pedagogies

Kiersten Fage, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Participant)

Christian Mayr’s 1838 painting “Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs,” presents one of two Ante-bellum period portrayals of formal African A...

Sessions in which Kiersten Fage attends

Friday 24 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:30 AM

Panel 1 - Organology: Histories and Pedagogies

2 hours, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) - DS-1540

Daniel Akira Stadnicki, University of Alberta (Moderator)

1- Shaken by a Low Sound: Tracing African American Roots in a North American Folk Cello Revival - Kiersten Fage, Memorial University of Newfoundland

2 hours, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Part of: Panel 1 - Organology: Histories and Pedagogies

Kiersten Fage, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Participant)

Christian Mayr’s 1838 painting “Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs,” presents one of two Ante-bellum period portrayals of formal African A...

4:00 PM

2- Punk Alliance Making: Resisting Islamophobia and "Good Muslim" Rhetoric - Gale Franklin, Memorial University of Newfoundland

2 hours, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Part of: Panel 3 - Intersections of Private and Public, Sacred and Secular, Mainstreamness and Distinctiveness

Gale Maranda Franklin, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Participant)

“Like punk, Islam is itself a flag, an open symbol representing not things, but ideas. You cannot hold Punk or Islam in your hands. So w...

Saturday 25 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:30 AM

Panel 4 - Roundtable - Tell Me a Story: Storytelling and Narrative in Public Spaces - Meghan Forsyth, Memorial U. - Judith Klassen, Canadian Museum of History - Michael McDonald, McEwan U. - Heather Sparling, Cape Breton U.

2 hours, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) - DS-1520

Meghan Forsyth, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Moderator)

Judith Klassen, Canadian Museum of History (Participant)

Meghan Forsyth, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Participant)

Heather Sparling, Cape Breton University (Participant)

[ CHAIR: Meghan Forsyth, Memorial University of Newfoundland ] Ethnomusicologists have long recognized the power...

1:30 PM

Panel 5 - Folk and Traditional Musics in New Contexts

2 hours, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) - DS-R510

Laura Risk, Université de Montréal (Moderator)

Sunday 26 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:30 AM

1- Literary Legacies: Le mouvement régionaliste and French-Canadian Folklore in Early Twentieth-Century Quebec – Laura Risk, Université de Montréal

2 hours, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Part of: Panel 8 - The Pasts and Paths of Musical Heritage

Laura Risk, Université de Montréal (Participant)

This paper historicizes the first commercial performances of traditional music in Quebec, exactly 100 years ago, in the context of conte...