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: Friday, 18/Oct/2024 | ||||
| 9:30am - 10:00am |
Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Chair: Maria S. Guarino, Independent Scholar Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
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| 10:00am - 11:30am |
4A: Coloniality and Anti-Coloniality Chair: Heather Sparling, Cape Breton University Space Echo: Mythmaking and the Commodification of Anti-Colonial Resistance in Cabo Verdean Music University of Vienna Cultural Convergence in Music Transcription: Traditional Music Transcribed in Staff Notation During the Japanese Colonial Period in Korea San Diego/CA Never Yielding to the English Language? Coloniality and Resistance in Nova Scotia Gaelic Songs Cape Breton University |
4B: Hearing Jazz Publics in Southeast Asia Hearing Jazz Publics in Southeast Asia Presentations in the Session Retro-Ria: Bamboo, Jazz, and Festive Cosmopolitanism: Rethinking The Sounds of the 1955 Asia-Africa Conference Becoming Jazz Friends: Shaping a Translocal Scene of Jazz in Manila From Light Music to Jazz Việt: Jazz in the Print Media of Socialist Vietnam |
4C: Instruments: Drums/Iconography Chair: Zoe Sherinian, University of Oklahoma Dravidian or Dalit?: Reconstructing the Historic Parai Frame Drum of South India University of Oklahoma Beyond the Rhythm: Frame Drums, Gender, and the Politics of Spirituality in North America University of Toronto Getting married while the neighbors mourn: the frame drum as an instrument of social harmony in Badakhshan, Tajikistan University of Central Asia |
4D: Ecomusicology I Chair: Nancy Guy, University of California, San Diego
“Better regulate than never!”: Music and Industrial Pollution in the Ohio River Valley University of Puget Sound “Of Sounds and Footsteps:" An Eco-Ethnomusicological Approach to Soundwalks University College Cork A first approach to the presence of diverse environmentalisms through ambient and metal music in Chile. Duke University |
| 4E: Doing Public-facing (Ethno)Musicology and Community Music Today: Perspectives from Africa Doing Public-facing (Ethno)Musicology and Community Music Today: Perspectives from Africa Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
4F: Mennonite Action: Mobilizing Religious Hymns for Political Protest Mennonite Action: Mobilizing Religious Hymns for Political Protest |
4G: Historical Studies in Ethnomusicology II Chair: Revell Carr, University of Kentucky
“JUSTICE SLEEPS BUT NEVER DIES”. MUSIC ARCHIVE SPEAKING OF PURGE 1: Komitas Museum-Institute, Yerevan; 2: Institute of Arts of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia Race, Body, Labor: The Player Piano and the Mediation of Blackness Cornell University The Idea of Folk Music University of Leeds, UK |
4H: That’s not really music: Orientations toward a neuro-ethnomusicology Sponsored by the Medical Ethnomusicology SIG
That’s not really music: Orientations toward a neuro-ethnomusicology Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
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| 4I: Musical and Intersectional Identities in Northern New Mexico Musical and Intersectional Identities in Northern New Mexico Presentations in the Session Desire, Female Captivity, and Oppression in Old New Mexico Body politics, sexual slavery, and intersectionalities in the ballad, “La indita de Juliana Ortega” Discussant |
4J: Festivals Chair: Anaar Desai-Stevens, Eastman School of Music
Sounding unity in segregated spaces: vālaga in South India University of New South Wales Reframing the Avant-Garde(n): An Examination into Arts for Art’s InGardens Festival New York University |
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| 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
5A: Performer Interactions Chair: Joanna Bosse, Michigan State University
When Bands Employ Two Musicians to Play the Same Thing: A Comparative Analysis on the Basis of Performer/Performance Redundancies Toronto Metropolitan University Devagan University of Milan Singing with Hands: Music Making and Plains Indian Sign Languaging at Powwows in Oklahoma University of Oklahoma Music and the Social at the Crossroads of Cognitive Science and Ethnomusicology The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
5B: Foreign pioneers in the post-Independence history of South Asian music Foreign pioneers in the post-Independence history of South Asian music. Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Respondent |
5C: Pesky Auralities: Sounding the More-than-Human, Hearing the Unwanted Animal Pesky Auralities: Sounding the More-than-Human, Hearing the Unwanted Animal Presentations in the Session Unsettling Animal Sounds: Disrupting Silent Settler Imaginaries in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness “Yip Yip Yip Yow”: Singing the Vocal “Break” as a Decolonial Practice of Human–Coyote Kinship Grackle Call: Trash Birds and the Nouveaux Austinite Unwanted Sounds, Unwanted Animals: Listening, Urbanization, and Inter-Species Necropolitics in Mexico City’s Forests |
5D: Contemporary Dialogues Across the Black Atlantic: Examining African & Diasporic Connections in Education, Religion and Popular Music Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section
Contemporary Dialogues Across the Black Atlantic: Examining African & Diasporic Connections in Education, Religion and Popular Music Presentations in the Session Black Music is King: Tracing Beyoncé’s Centering of the African World in Global Pop Chão Batido, Coco Pisado: African Foundations of Coco da Xambá Center of a World: Exploring Encounters with African Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities |
| 5E: Socialist and Anti-Capitalist Alternatives through Music, Sound, and Movement Sponsored by the SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology
Socialist and Anti-Capitalist Alternatives through Music, Sound, and Movement Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
5F: Material culture and craft values in music’s new social formations Material culture and craft values in music’s new social formations Presentations in the Session Materials of Asynchronous Valuation: Independent Labels, Domestic Reissue Practices and Decolonial Efforts in Lima, Peru Defying the Fetish: Gender Transformations and Material Culture Economy in South American Lutherie Fetishism, valuation, and the gear cultures of hardware modular synthesizers |
5G: Feminist Ethnomusicology Rapist in Your Path: Transnational Feminisms and the Iranian Women-Led Movement University of Alberta Feminist Ethnomusicology, Vulnerable Research, and the Afterlives of Ethnography Bowling Green State University “Lugar de mulher é onde ela quiser (A woman’s place is wherever she wants)”: A New Perspective on Brazilian Women Drumming for Social Change Florida State University She Sang, She Dissented, She Inspired: Aural Utopia in Iqbal Bano’s “Hum Dekhenge” and her South Asian Womxn Comrades University of California, Santa Cruz |
5H: Musical Representation and Identity I Chair: Ruth Opara, Columbia University The Socio- Cultural Function of Ponsé and Kúlúmbú of Owode Ketu University of Lethbridge Zongo Identity in Ghanaian Popular Music University of North Texas |
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| 5I: Cumbia Aesthetics and Politics in Latin America Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Music Section (LACSEM)
Cumbia Aesthetics and Politics in Latin America Presentations in the Session La Sonora Dinamita Band and the Latin American migration to Southern California: A Borgian analysis of the only band in the US that can play in more than one place at a time. Dancing the Path to Congress: Chicha Music and Peruvian Political Advertising, 2006-2011 Cumbia Norteña and the Transnational Figure of the Sirreño The beginning of Chilean cumbia: La Sonora Palacios band as part of the Chilean popular culture |
5J: Critical Ethnographies: Ethics, Challenges, and Dilemmas Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
Critical Ethnographies: Ethics, Challenges, and Dilemmas Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Respondent |
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| 2:15pm - 3:15pm |
Anatolian Ecumene SIG |
Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology: Student Open Meeting |
SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology |
SIG for Music of the Francophone World |
| 2:15pm - 4:15pm |
Applied Ethnomusicology Section |
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| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
6A: Guitars in Africa: Histories, Presences, Futures Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section
Guitars in Africa: Histories, Presences, Futures Presentations in the Session Strings of Revolution: The Adoption and Transformation of Electric Guitar in Eritrean Guayla Playing Guitar, Thinking Tidinit African Electrical Networks |
6B: Sonic Afro-Diasporic Forces and Exchanges in Salvador, Brazil Sonic Afro-Diasporic Forces and Exchanges in Salvador, Brazil Presentations in the Session 50 Years of Blocos Afro and Black Resistance: 2024 Carnival and Salvador Capital Afro About the Africas that Inhabit Salvador: Pan-Africanisms and Afro-diasporic Thinking in the Construction of Brazilian Cooperative Relations The Music of the Blocos Afro from Salvador, Brazil: Educational Power and Global Reach Resilience and Resistance: Black Brazilian Experiences in Leadership, Diaspora, and Collective Identity |
6C: Explorations of Connectedness and Otherness in Icelandic Musicking Sponsored by the SIG for Musics in and of Europe
Explorations of Connectedness and Otherness in Icelandic Musicking Presentations in the Session Evolution of Iceland´s Music Industry: Striking a Balance Between Professionalism and Distinctive Identity Extending Europe's "Creative Belt": Considering the Iceland Airwaves Showcase as a European Event Musicking Moving Images in Iceland: Enacting Film & TV Composition in a Nordic Isle Discussion |
6D: K-pop Studies Beyond the K: Exploring New Theoretical and Methodological Possibilities Through Ethnography K-pop Studies Beyond the K: Exploring New Theoretical and Methodological Possibilities Through Ethnography Presentations in the Session Decentralizing Professional Vision: Designing an Ethnographic Methodology for Examining Cultural Products Becoming a K-pop Producer: Vocational Training and Cultural Production in South Korea’s Popular Music Industry Hanguk Dance as an “Ethnic” Dance in China: Mediatized Dance Studios, Neoliberal Urban Space, and the Post-Socialist State |
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