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: Sunday, 20/Oct/2024
8:00am - 9:00am	Ethics Committee
10:00am - 11:00am	9J: Theorizing Phrase Structure in Guqin Music Presenter: Ruixue Hu, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester 10:00am - 11:00am Theorizing Phrase Structure in Guqin Music Ruixue Hu Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
10:00am - 11:30am	9A: Time and Periodicity Chair: Richard Wolf, Harvard University The Veil Was Torn: Inverse Perspective in Sofia Gubaidulina’s St. John Passion Madeline Styskal University of Texas at Austin Musical Time Travel in Contemporary Hasidic Judaism: The Creation of Flexible Timescapes through the Performance of Nigunim Gordon Dale Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Further Approaches to Musical Periodicity, Revisited Michael Tenzer University of British Columbia	9B: Migration, Diaspora and the U.S. Classical or Folk: Professional Chinese Instrumentalists’ Diasporic Music-Making in North America Jing Xia Independent Scholar Island in the Continent: Southern Californian Pacific Islanders’ Performance of Indigenous Time in Reggae Chun-Chia Tai University of California, Riverside Diaspora and Iranian Music: The Activities of Iranian Women Musicians in New York City Sara Feili Wesleyan university	9C: Indigenous Studies Chair: John-Carlos Perea, University of Washington Mapuche Indigeneity, Sound, and Listening in Santiago de Chile Leonardo Díaz-Collao Instituto de Música, Universidad Alberto Hurtado Voices of Sovereignty: Indigenous Occupation through Radio Everardo {Ever} Reyes University of California Berkeley Musicking in Indigeneity: A Case Study of the Music of Katoi wa Tabaka’s Fusion Music. James Nderitu Kiragu Hugh Hodgson School of Music, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia	9D: Sonic Cairo: Networking Urban Power and Spirituality Sponsored by the Society for Arab Music Research Sonic Cairo: Networking Urban Power and Spirituality Organizer(s): Salvatore Morra (Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy) Chair(s): Salvatore Morra (Università degli studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy) Presentations in the Session Sound, Space and Power in Cairene mawālid Kawkab Tawfik Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire (IFAO), Egypt Rhythmic Elasticity and Artificial Sound in the Mūlid of Sīdī 'Alī al-Bayyūmī Salvatore Morra Università degli studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy Dancing to Mahraganat Music: Noise and Temporality Dalia Ibraheem Rutgers University
	9E: Musicking Religion I Chair: Andrew Mall, Northeastern University Encruzilhadas: Sonic and Spiritual Warfare in Brazilian Pentecostalism Cibele M. Moura Cornell University Negotiating religious and cultures: Reflections on the western polyphony texture in the Chinese Lahu music Yuwen Zheng China ShaanXi Xi'an Xi’an Conservatory of Music	9F: UNESCO Chair: Dave Fossum, Arizona State University Intangible heritage, tangible absences:UNESCO, heritization, and visions of living tradition in momo(y)eria Ioannis Tsekouras National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Gugak and the Law: Shaping the Future of the Korean Traditional Performing Arts Industy Jocelyn C Clark Pai Chai University Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Making of Historical Narratives: The Case of Italian Opera Singing Siel Agugliaro Università di Pisa	9G: Musical Tradition and Technological Mediation Chair: Chris Scales, Michigan State University Puppet Voices and Overcoming Music Censorship on Iranian Television Talieh Wartner-Attarzadeh Kunstuniversität Graz Roots, Trunk, Branches, Leaves: Situating the Practice of Malaysia’s Wayang Kulit Kelantan Christine May Yong Sunway University, Wesleyan University Mediatized Representations of the Cambodian Lakhon Bassac Theatre on TV and Social Media Francesca Billeri London, UK	9H: Colonialism/Christianity Chair: Jennifer Lynne LaRue, Florida State University Transcultural Hymns: Music and Mission in the Richards' Approach to Chinese Conversion FANGYUAN LIU Washington University in St. Louis Exploring Adaptation of indigenous Folk Songs from Let the Hills Sing CHI-YU CHEN Graduate Institute of Musicology, National Taiwan University
	9I: Dance/Movement I Chair: janice mahinka, Harford Community College The Musicality of a Kathakaar: The Value and Integration of Music as a Kathak Dancer Shivani Joshi Sri Sri University Applied Dance Anthropology: Historical Influences and Contemporary Directions Pegge Vissicaro Northern Arizona University, Solidarity in Precarity: Embodying Anger in Hardcore Punk Moshing Technique Emily Kaniuka The Ohio State University
12:00pm - 2:00pm	10A: President's Roundtable: Care, Conflict, and Commitment in Ethnomusicological Work Sponsored by the SEM Board	10B: Is A Third Ethnomusicology Possible? : Engaged Music Scholarship & the Undercommons Is A Third Ethnomusicology Possible? : Engaged Music Scholarship & the Undercommons Organizer(s): Ruby Erickson (Brown University, Providence, RI), Rehanna Kheshgi (St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN) Chair(s): Rehanna Kheshgi (St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN) Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participants Candida Rose Baptista¹, Ruby Erickson² ¹Golden Rose Music, LLC, New Bedford, MA, ²Brown University, Providence, RI Roundtable Participants Sayidcali Ahmed¹, Rehanna Kheshgi² ¹Waano Learning Center, Faribault, MN, ²St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN Roundtable Participant Amelia López López Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN Discussant Rebecca Dirksen Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN	10C: Whither Eco-Ethnomusicology? Ecomusicology SIG Whither Eco-Ethnomusicology? Organizer(s): Aaron Allen (UNC Greensboro) Chair(s): Aaron Allen (UNC Greensboro) Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Jennifer C. Post University of Arizona Roundtable Participant Chad/čnaq'ymi Hamill Northern Arizona University Roundtable Participant Denise Von Glahn Florida State University Roundtable Participant Mara Miksch University of Minnesota Roundtable Participant Jeff Todd Titon Brown University	10D: Musicking Identities, Ruptures, and Emerging Soundscapes in Africa Musicking Identities, Ruptures, and Emerging Soundscapes in Africa Organizer(s): Obianuju Akunna Njoku (University of Mississippi) Chair(s): Obianuju Akunna Njoku (University of Mississippi) Presentations in the Session Musicking and Visualizing Extractivism and Environmental Degradation in Nigeria, Zambia, and South Africa Olusegun Stephen Titus Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Pushing the Ocean Back”: Singing Climate Disaster and Islamic Hagiography in Senegal’s Layène Community Margaret Rowley Widener University Rethinking the ‘Harem’: Sound Ecologies and Ruptures of Nupe Women in Northern Nigeria Obianuju Akunna Njoku University of Mississippi “Ordering What is Good and Forbidding Evil:” From Jihad Poetry to Jihadi Nashīd in the Era of Uthman dan Fodio and Boko Haram Oghenevwarho Gabriel Ojakovo California State University-Dominguez Hills
12:00pm - 2:00pm	10E: Navigating Academic/Non-Academic Interaction in Music and Minorities Research Navigating Academic/Non-Academic Interaction in Music and Minorities Research Organizer(s): Malik Sharif (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Music and Minorities Research Center) Chair(s): Malik Sharif (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Music and Minorities Research Center) Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Ursula Hemetek University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Music and Minorities Research Center Roundtable Participant Anja Brunner University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology / Music and Minorities Research Center Roundtable Participant Cornelia Gruber Austrian Academy of Sciences, Phonogrammarchiv Roundtable Participant Kai Tang University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Music and Minorities Research Center Roundtable Participant Eva Leick University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Music and Minorities Research Center	10F: Collective Sounds: Crowds and Community in Sports and Festivals Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section Collective Sounds: Crowds and Community in Sports and Festivals Organizer(s): Rachel Horner (Cornell University), Nic Vigilante (Cornell University) Chair(s): Jasmine Henry (University of Pennsylvania) Presentations in the Session A Feeling of Belonging: Noise, Sonic Heritage, and the Sound Space of València’s Mascletà Rachel Horner Cornell University Disarming the Battle of the Bands: Play and Queer Time in College Band Rivalries Katherine Pittman University of California San Diego Silver Scrapes: Liveness, Communalism, and the Sounds of League of Legends E-Sports Nic Vigilante Cornell University Sonic Junk and Techno Trash in the Azores: Sound, Sensation, and Satisfaction in Performances with Recycled Objects Abigail C. Lindo University of Florida	10G: Community, Transmission, and Revival in the “Music Village” Sponsored by the Anatolian Ecumene SIG Community, Transmission, and Revival in the “Music Village” Organizer(s): Shireen Nabatian (UC Santa Cruz), Dimitris Gkoulimaris (UT Austin), Mathieu Poitras (University of Ottawa) Chair(s): Shireen Nabatian (UC Santa Cruz) Presentations in the Session Community and music in the making: Müzik Köyü and questions of Anatolian diversity Mathieu Poitras University of Ottawa Transnationalism, postnationalism, and cosmopolitanism in folk-revivalist music workshops: the case of Müzik Köyü Dimitris Gkoulimaris UT Austin Pleasure, Devotion, Relation: The Intersection of Music Transmission and Revival at Three Summer Music Workshops Shireen Nabatian UC Santa Cruz Discussant Leonieke Bolderman University of Groningen	10H: Virtual Communities Resistance Through Musicking: Guichu Community on Bilibili Zixuan Wang University of Texas at Austin Meta Networking: Multiplayer Mode in Virtual/Augmented Reality Rhythm/Dance Games Ashley Ann Greathouse University of Cincinnati Spirituality in Creating Collaborative Groove Music in Accessible Online Space Tom Zlabinger¹, Gareth Dylan Smith² 1: York College / CUNY; 2: Boston University Using ethnographic methods to investigate synthwave, an online community of practice Jessica Blaise Ward Leeds Beckett University
2:15pm - 3:15pm	Ethnomusicology Journal Editorial Board	Gender and Sexuality Studies Section Invited Talk	Popular Music Section Business Meeting	SIG for Celtic Music
2:15pm - 3:15pm	SIG for Cognitive Ethnomusicology
3:15pm - 4:15pm	Popular Music Section: David Sanjek Lecture in Popular Music
7:00pm - 8:00pm	Robinson Network Group		Society for Arab Music Research Mixer
7:00pm - 9:00pm	Association for Chinese Music Research	Association for Korean Music Research	Historical Ethnomusicology Section	Improvisation Section

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