SEM 2024 Annual Meeting
October 17-26, 2024 | Virtual
Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the SEM 2024 Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early October.
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Session Overview |
| Date: Thursday, 17/Oct/2024 | ||||
| 9:15am - 9:45am |
OC: Opening Ceremony |
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| 10:00am - 12:00pm |
1A: African Musics and Musicians in Europe Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section
African Musics and Musicians in Europe Presentations in the Session Displaying and Listening to Africa: African Musics in the Museums and Schools of (Former) Yugoslavia “Bring On the Ideas for Creative Merging!”: The Contemporary Practice of Djembe Drumming in Serbia Exploring the Spaces of West African Musics and Dances in Finland Asylum-seeking Musicians in Italy. Challenges and Opportunities |
1B: Music and Politics: Humanitarianism, Electoral Politics, Soft Power Beyond the Humanitarian Mandate: Critical Approaches to Music and Humanitarianism in Jordan Carleton College Whose Soft Power? Thailand on its move with music and dance as soft power policy Northern Illinois University Powerful voice: The staged performances of 1949-1959 China and their subsequent influence on China’s culture and music development University of Sydney, Composing for Conservatives: Campaign Songs in the Canadian 2019 Federal Election 1: Queen's University, Canada; 2: University of Sheffield |
1C: Crafting Hindu Identities Through Music and Dance in South India and the Diaspora. Crafting Hindu Identities Through Music and Dance in South India and the Diaspora. Presentations in the Session Articulating Hindu Identity in South Africa Through Tevaram Performance. Harmonizing Divinity: Analyzing Hindu Ideology in Three Songs from Tamil Film Tiruvilaiyadal The Contours of a Legacy: Examining the T. Balasaraswati Dance Tradition in the United States Spiritual Cleansing of Temple Space in Kerala Through Sopana Sangeeta Performance |
1D: Queering Performance Chair: Jayson Beaster-Jones, University of California-Merced
Musical Outsiders, Freak Shows and Resistive Maladjustment University of Cambridge “‘Venga ya, venga la revolución’: Queering Traditional Musical Practices through Punk Performance in Costa Rica” Indiana University Bloomington, Stephens College Sounding Queer World-Building in the Musical Performances of Muna University of Texas at Austin Is There Anything More Disco than Selena? Temple University |
| 1E: Migration/Diaspora I Chair: Christi-Anne Castro, University of Michigan
Nigerian Migrant Musicians and Choral Musicking in Germany: The Case of Silas Edwin University of Ibadan, Nigeria & Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany Keyboard arrangers and cultural adaptation.Impact of Electronic Arrangers on Traditional Oral Musicians Pavia University (Italy) Music as Resistance: Creative Practices of South Asian Newcomers in Canada Toronto Metropolitan University The Convivial Classroom: children’s diasporic music-making and familial learning in Birmingham, England University of Birmingham, United Kingdom |
1F: Teaching Palestine through Music, Dance, and the Arts Sponsored by the Society for Arab Music Research (SAMR)
Teaching Palestine through Music, Dance, and the Arts Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
1G: Gender in Music of Iran Chair: Amaneh Youssefzadeh, Encyclopedia Iranica
Opera and 'Opera' in Iran: Battleground of Ideology and Gender University of Toronto Chaharbeiti as a Means of Cultural Expression in Eastern Khorasan, Iran The University of British Columbia Stories of resistance: Toward a political and cultural ambiguity in the social production of space The University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, |
1H: “Calypso is Soca and Soca is Calypso”: Calypso, Soca, and Competition “Calypso is Soca and Soca is Calypso”: Calypso, Soca, and Competition Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
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| 1I: Partying on the Periphery: Global Queer/Trans Nightlives Partying on the Periphery: Global Queer/Trans Nightlives Presentations in the Session Songs of Trans*gressers: Embodied Mimicry in Japan’s Jōso Kōhaku Crying at the Euroclub: Rainbow Europe, Queer Diasporas, and the Politics of Escapism at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest Archivos (de mujer): Sensing Excess in Mexico City Discussant |
1J: Ethnomusicology and Urban Planning: Reflection on New Research Opportunities Ethnomusicology and Urban Planning: Reflection on New Research Opportunities Presentations in the Session Austin’s Sp/R/acialized Histories Cultural Sustainability in Practice Austin’s Live Music Fund and Urban Musical Financing Music Cities: Policy, Impact, and Collaborative Research The Musician Income Crisis: A Performer’s Perspective |
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
2A: Liberal Subjects and Neoliberal Academic Production: Theory and Text Liberal Subjects and Neoliberal Academic Production: Theory and Text Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
2B: Instruments and Timbre Chair: Made Hood
Adjusting Sound: Timbre, Craft, and Talk among Luthiers and Musicians University of Pennsylvania Critical Listening to Timbre as Jewish Religious Practice: The Shofar Service McGill University Weddings, War, and Worship: A Timbral Archeology of the Naubat Ensemble University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
2C: The Intimacies of Musical Formation The Intimacies of Musical Formation Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
2D: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography Workshop on research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography RILM |
| 2E: Gender Exclusion in Performance Spaces Chair: Sarah Weiss, KunstUniversitätGraz
Girls Go Ska: Gender Inclusion, Gender Exclusion, and Safety Delusions in Mexican Ska Festivals University of Florida Connoisseurship, Allyship, and Jazz Patriarchy: The Curious Case of Leonard Feather University of Maryland, College Park Seudati: Aceh's standing dance and its gendered aesthetics Emory University Music Dept |
2F: Devotional Music Chair: Brian Edward Bond Spectral Traces of Sindh: Sufi Music, Possession Trance, and Unbordered Collective Memory in Western India San Francisco, CA A Listening Space for Sarangi Players: From the Sufi Mystical to the Phenomenological Wesleyan University Tapping the Elite: Devotional Music and Festivals in India University of California, Los Angeles |
2G: Publics and Counterpublics Chair: Charles Lwanga, University of Michigan
Pushed to the Streets in the ‘City of Music’: Professional Adaptation and Marginalization in Sanandaj’s Musical Branding University of Maryland, Sonic Heritage and Spatial Narratives: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Public Musicology, Sound, and Space Studies 1: Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL; 2: Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Rebetika as Critical Artistic Practice: Music and Agonism in Athens, Greece University of Illinois Springfield |
2H: Historical Studies in Ethnomusicology I Chair: Sydney Hutchinson, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Between "East" and "West": Rauf Yekta's Notes on the Arab Music Congress Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Reinterpreting the Body-Soul problem through Mediaeval Islamic Ears University of California Santa Barbara Standardizing Performances: Venue Registration, Program Review, and Tax Collection in Nanjing, 1927-1937 The University of Hong Kong |
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| 2I: Scenes Chair: Jay Hammond, Georgetown University
The Passion Economy: Value, Capital and Ethos in the Hong Kong Indie Music Scene The Chinese University of Hong Kong Freak Culture and Genre Mutation in the Brooklyn Independent Music Scene Hunter College, CUNY Arbaṭū al-Aḥzimah Sanadhhab ilā Jehenam! (“Buckle Up, We’re Going to Hell!”): Mediated Challenges to Iraqi Social Norms Through Contemporary Music and Youth Fashion in Sadr City, Baghdad Columbia University |
2J: Radio "Kurdish Music Broadcasting and the Limits of Radio's Collective Power" University of Notre Dame Radio in Contemporary Black Musical Production: Robert Glasper’s Black Radio Albums and Beyoncé’s Renaissance Act II University of Chicago Collaborations in Songs Broadcast on Egyptian Radio: Applying Social Network Analysis Towards a Deeper Understanding of Egypt’s Musical History UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA |
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| 2:15pm - 3:15pm |
Ask an Archivist: SIG for Archiving |
SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology |
SIG for Jazz |
SIG for Jewish Music |
| 2:15pm - 4:15pm |
SEM Council |
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| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
3A: Histories and Ethnomusicologies Chair: Brian Fairley, University of Pittsburgh Territorial Boundaries of “Historical Ethnomusicology” in English Academic Discourses Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China, People's Republic of Phonographic Paleontology in 1930s Leningrad University of Pittsburgh Lullabies and Universality: A Critical Ethnographic Review University of Oslo Bacchanalian Buddhist Comedians and Medieval Monastic Intoners: Evidence of Indian Buddhist Theatrics, Song, and Chant from the 1st to 13th centuries and Contemporary Survivals of Sanskrit Buddhist Chant and Song Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kyoto City University of the Arts |
3B: Indigenous Studies: Pacific Chair: Amy Stillman, University of Michigan
Indigenizing Analytical Frameworks in an Examination of Māori Popular Music University of Alberta He Whiringa Hīnaki: A Kaupapa Māori Ecomusicological framework Tū Tama Wāhine o Taranaki Didjspeak: A Communicative Approach to Teaching the Didjeridu University of Sydney |
3C: Sound Ecologies of the Anthropocene in Latin America Sound Ecologies of the Anthropocene in Latin America Presentations in the Session Wallmapu Resounding: Inscription, Transnationalism, and Mapuche Sound Ecology Carimbós Made in Pará: Music from the Waters and Clashing Ontologies of Land Antarctic “Sonidotorrios”: Sonic Constructions of Chilean Antarctica in Punta Arenas |
3D: Music and Activism in the United States: Then and Now Music and Activism in the United States: Then and Now Presentations in the Session “Teaching” to the Choir: Community Singing Repertoires in Social Justice Choirs The Historical Origin of a “Singing Union” Fighting AIDS with Pop Culture: The Red Hot Organization, Cover Songs, and HIV/AIDS |
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