SEM 2024 Annual Meeting

October 17-26, 2024 | Virtual

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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: Saturday, 19/Oct/2024
9:30am - 10:00am	Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Chair: Maria S. Guarino, Independent Scholar Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
10:00am - 12:00pm	7B: Daily Ethnomusicologies: Or, ethnomusicologists are everywhere and why that matters. Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee Daily Ethnomusicologies: Or, ethnomusicologists are everywhere and why that matters. Chair(s): Maria Guarino (Independent Scholar) Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Maria Guarino Independent Scholar Roundtable Participant Umi Hsu Public Humanist and Audio Producer Roundtable Participant janice mahinka Harford Community College Roundtable Participant Michael Bishop Independent songwriter, vocalist, and performer Roundtable Participant Kyle Chattleton Education Specialist, The Durham Museum	7C: Geáitse: The Aesthetics of Movement and Gesture in the Expression of Irish Traditional Music and Dance Sponsored by the Dance, Movement and Gesture Section Geáitse: The Aesthetics of Movement and Gesture in the Expression of Irish Traditional Music and Dance. Organizer(s): William Kearney (Maynooth University, Ireland), Nada Ní Chuirrín (Maynooth University, Ireland), Tríona Ní Shíocháin (University of Galway, Ireland) Chair(s): Tríona Ní Shíocháin (University of Galway, Ireland) Presentations in the Session Ceol sna Cosa : Multimodal Listening and the Corporeality of Musical Experience in Irish Traditional Dance Music and Dance William Kearney Maynooth University, Ireland Ón gcloigeann go dtí na cosa: embodied orality in the sean-nós dancing tradition. Nada Ní Chuirrín Maynooth University, Ireland Singable playing and musical dance: artistic research explorations of aesthetic ecosystems of slow air playing and polka playing in Irish tradition. Tríona Ní Shíocháin University of Galway, Ireland	7D: Histories of choreographic exchange - Latin American dance and the Global Easts Sponsored by the Dance, Movement, and Gesture Section Histories of choreographic exchange - Latin American dance and the Global Easts Organizer(s): Sydney Hutchinson (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Chair(s): Sydney Hutchinnson (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Presentations in the Session Tanzt die Revolution! East Germans and Latin American dance during the Cold War Sydney Hutchinson Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Salsa Dancing in Reform-Era China: In Search of Modernity and Cosmopolitan Identity Markers Ketty Wong University of Kansas Tango in Japan: Rethinking the “East Asia” – “Latin America” nexus Yuiko Asaba SOAS University of London La Cumparsita and Fairouz: Tango Music and Dance From Buenos Aires to Beirut Kirsty Bennett Lancaster University	7E: Voicing Quiet and the Acoustically Inaudible Voicing Quiet and the Acoustically Inaudible Organizer(s): Jeffrey Dyer (Indiana University) Chair(s): Benjamin Tausig (Stony Brook University) Presentations in the Session Non-Acoustic Sound and Sonic Spectrality in Cambodia Jeffrey Dyer Indiana University Underhearing Chaos: Suicide, Subvocality, and Transient Stabilities in South Korea Cody Black Duke University Not Much Melody: Covid-Era Amidah Prayers at the Synagogue in Sofia, Bulgaria Ian MacMillen Yale University
	7F: Contemporary Perspectives on Afro-Venezuelan Tambor Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Section (LACSEM). Contemporary Perspectives on Afro-Venezuelan Tambor Organizer(s): Victoria Mogollon Montagne (The University of Texas at Austin) Chair(s): Victoria Mogollon Montagne (The University of Texas at Austin) Presentations in the Session Afro-Venezuelan Sonority and Remembrance: Culo e' Puya Drumming Ensemble and the Circulation of Memory in Curiepe, Barlovento Meyby Ugueto-Ponce Venezuelan National Research Institute (IVIC) The Voice Behind the Drum Carlos Colmenares Gil Indiana University Where are the Drums? Mesi Bakari-Walton Howard University Electro Tambor: Diasporic Stories of Collaboration and Experimentation with Afro-Venezuelan Music Victoria Mogollon Montagne The University of Texas at Austin	7G: Maqam Creativity on the Borders: Musical Alternatives to the Nation-State Sponsored by the Anatolian Ecumene Special Interest Group (AESIG) and the Special Interest Group on the Music of Iran and Central Asia Maqam Creativity on the Borders: Musical Alternatives to the Nation-State Organizer(s): Polina Dessiatnitchenko (Waseda University) Chair(s): Denise Gill (Stanford University) Presentations in the Session Border Listening with Central Asian Maqam Musicians Rachel Harris SOAS, University of London Musical Intimacy, Model Citizenship, and Sufism in the Life of Niyazi Sayın Banu Senay Macquarie University Makam Across Greece and Turkey: Identity, Belonging, and History Munir Gur Stanford University The Legacy of Hajibaba Huseynov and Musical Imagination Across the Azerbaijan-Iran Border Polina Dessiatnitchenko Waseda University	7H: The Ethics and Politics of Care in Music Studies Sponsored by the SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology and the Music and Violence SIG The Ethics and Politics of Care in Music Studies Organizer(s): Sonia Gaind-Krishnan (University of the Pacific) Chair(s): Felicia Youngblood (Western Washington University) Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Sonia Gaind-Krishnan University of the Pacific Roundtable Participant Ailsa Lipscombe Victoria University of Wellington Aotearoa Roundtable Participant Niyati Dhokai George Mason University Roundtable Participant Guilnard Moufarrej United States Naval Academy Roundtable Participant Rebekah Moore Northeastern University Roundtable Participant Klisala Harrison Aarhus University	7I: Referentiality and Black Music in the US Chair: Kyra Gaunt, University at Albany, SUNY Beyoncé, Rhiannon Giddens, and the Era of Black Music Reclamation Maya Brown-Boateng University of Pittsburgh “MY HOUSE:” The Sampling Historiographies Behind Queen Bey Jordan Renee Brown Harvard University Vamping on the Internet: Outlining the Memefication of Gospel Music on TikTok Anita Danielle Ingram Yale University The Motor-Booty Affair: George Clinton's Detroit Benjamin Doleac The University of California, Los Angeles
	7J: Archiving Chair: Shalini Ayyagari, University of Pittsburgh Activating sound archives through sampling: the acholitronix of Leo PaLayeng Basile Koechlin University of Virginia Key factors for interacting with Irish traditional music in North American archives: Some survey results Patrick Egan Munster Technological University (Cork, Ireland) Dreaming Kurdistan: Media Circulations in a Moving Music Culture Fidel Kılıç University of California, Santa Barbara Against Museification: Discrepant Songs from Post-Independence Angola Nina Baratti Harvard University
10:00am - 2:00pm	7A: World Music Pedagogy Workshop
12:30pm - 2:00pm	8B: Instruments I Chair: Eliot Bates Sounding the Universe: Considering Balinese Sunari and Suling I Gde Made Indra Sadguna¹, Elizabeth Anne Clendinning² 1: Institut Seni Indonesia Denpasar; 2: Wake Forest University Sustaining Intangible Cultural Heritage, Or the Ethnomusicologist as Instrument Maker Jun Kai Pow N/A The Brazilian dream? Migrant epistemologies in the songwriting of Haitian artists in Brazil Caetano Maschio Santos University of Oxford/Stuart Hall Foundation	8C: Care Ethics, Participatory Action Research, and New Approaches in the Ethnomusicologies of Deaf Culture and Neurodiversity Care Ethics, Participatory Action Research, and New Approaches in the Ethnomusicologies of Deaf Culture and Neurodiversity Organizer(s): Michael Bakan (Florida State University), Katelyn Best (West Virginia University) Chair(s): Emily Williams Roberts (University of Chicago) Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Jennifer Msumba N/A Roundtable Participant Warren Churchill NYU Abu Dhabi Roundtable Participant Katelyn Best West Virginia University Roundtable Participant Michael Bakan Florida State University	8D: Gender in Asian American Music Chair: Yun Emily Wang, Duke University Not Your Fantasy: Dismantling Images of the Yellow Woman in the Work of Rina Sawayama Alissa Lin-Jun Liu University of California, San Diego “The Ballad of Chol Soo Lee” as an Asian American Anthem Sora Woo University of California, San Diego Transcultural Harmonies: Exploring Collaborative Music by Korean Artists in 21st Century America Mingyeong Son Asian Music Research Institute of Seoul National University	8E: Nostalgia Chair: León García Corona, USC Singing the Singapore Story: Music and the Politics of Nostalgia Shiva Ramkumar Harvard University Icons of Langgam Jawa and the Aging Voice as Site of Nostalgia Hannah Standiford University of Pittsburgh Enigmatic Nocturnes: Unveiling the Narratives of Jeonju’s Cultural Producers After Dark Hae In Lee Holden University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
	8F: Music/Film Chair: Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College Plight of the “Butterflies”: India’s Millennial Struggles, the Bollywood Film Song, and the Musical Shaping of Generations Victor A Vicente Chinese University of HK-Shenzhen Sonance and Semblance: Voice, Meaning, and Character in Hindi Female Playback Singers Natalie Sarrazin SUNY Brockport, Enophonia: Black Panther In Concert and the Reunion of the Original African Contributors with Their Own Musical Sounds Jason Buchea The Ohio State University,	8G: Sound Studies I Chair: Marie Abe, University of Calfiornia, Berkeley Moving Beyond Settler Listening Logics and Hearing Indigenous Sovereignty in Pennsylvania Alexa Lauren Woloshyn Carnegie Mellon University From Ruins to Reverberations: Mapping the Auditory Landscape of the US Camptown in the Korean Borderland Jeong-In Lee University of Texas at Austin, The Social Life of Field Recordings: Bridging Sonic Worlds through Phonography Robert O. Beahrs MIAM, Istanbul Technical University	8H: Ecomusicology II Music, affect, and politics: How and why singer-songwriters in Melbourne are telling stories about the climate crisis Laura Lucas University of Melbourne Song from the Discarded:The Multisensory Shaping of a Community Corrido in the Oaxaca Dump Kristen Graves University of Toronto “Rain Has Flowed Between Us": Water as a Musical Resource in Women’s Social Music Across the Sahara Lydia Barrett University of California, Santa Cruz	8I: Musical Representation and Identity II Chair: Sonia Seeman, University of Texas, Austin La Policia del Son: Navigating Purism, Taste, and Authority in the Contemporary Huasteca J.A. Strub University of Texas at Austin Redefining Irishness: Kneecap's Impact on Irish Language and Identity Through Hip Hop as Gaeilge Erin Stapleton-Corcoran University Illinois Chicago The kitchenspace as a gendered, musical counterpublic site of identity performance for Iranian Israelis Edoardo Marcarini SOAS University of London
	8J: Chinese Identity Chair: Shuo Yang, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing Alternative Expressions of Chineseness: Dow Wei’s Electronic Dance Music Ko-Hua Hung University of California, Davis Compromise and Challenge: Negotiating and Renegotiating Social, Gender, and Sexual Concepts of Errenzhuan Music and Performance in Rural Northeast China Yifei Zhang Kent State University Theatre as Memory Site: Cultural Activities, Imaginaries, and Theatrical Things of a Regional Xiqu in Contemporary China Chen Chen Independent Scholar, P.h.D in Ethnomusicology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2:15pm - 3:15pm	African and African Diasporic Music Section Business Meeting	Chapters	Education Section Business Meeting	Latin American & Caribbean Music Section
2:15pm - 4:15pm	Religion, Music, and Sound Section
3:15pm - 4:15pm	African and African Diasporic Music Section Keynote
7:00pm - 8:00pm	An Asian American Listening Party	LACSEM Mentoring Session	SIG for Japanese Performing Arts	Sound Studies Section Workshop - Sound Studies in the Curriculum
7:00pm - 8:00pm	South Asian Performing Arts Section Business Meeting
8:00pm - 9:00pm	Sound Studies Section		South Asian Performing Arts Section Discussion

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