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, 24/Oct/2024 | ||||
| 10:00am - 11:30am |
14A: Behind the Scenes at Ethnomusicology (SEM Journal) Sponsored by the SEM Board |
14B: Comparative Musicology Chair: Erol Koymen, University of Chicago
Robert Lachmann’s Listening Ear at the 1932 Cairo Congress and Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Comparative Musicology and Race Science Beyond the West: The Case of Mahmut Ragıp Gazimihal University of Cambridge |
14C: Transborder Studies Chair: Adam Joseph Kielman, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Style and Regional Identity in the Turkmen/Iranian Borderlands 1: Brown University; 2: Arizona State University Interrogating the Local: Kangri Indigeneity and Transnational Feminist Praxis in the Songs of Jagori Rural Charitable Trust Indiana University |
14D: Masculinities Chair: Henry Spiller, University of California, Davis
Singing and Dancing For "The Elder State": Performing Masculinity in Tanzanian Popular Music and Politics LAUSD (University High School) Playing “As One”: performances of masculinity and ability in the piping community Brown University Loud Listening, Gentle Speech: Monitors, Touring, and Care with Cirque du Soleil Edinburgh Napier University |
| 14E: Migration/Diaspora II Mapping the African diaspora music ecosystem in Melbourne (Australia) La Trobe University Music and Cultural Memory in the Context of Forced Migration to Berlin University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar |
14F: Dance/Movement II Chair: Tomie Hahn
Music, Dance, Envy and the “Closed Body” in Maracatu de baque solto Carnival Performances (Pernambuco, Brazil) 1: Instituto de Etnomusicologia (INET-md), NOVA University Lisbon; 2: Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (Crem-Lesc), Paris Nanterre University Play a Sensual Bachata: DJs as Sensory-Makers at Bachata Dance Congresses University of Florida Woodstock and Maui: Jimi Hendrix media as countercultural communal representation Harvard University |
14G: Refugees, Trauma, and Healing “Our Singing and Dancing are Like Medicine:” Combatting Trauma through Music and Dance among South Sudanese Women Refugees in Adjumani-Uganda University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-U.S Rainbow Voices, Rainbow Stories: Collaborative Storytelling and Songwriting with LGBTQI+ Refugee Young People York University To Rap or Not to Rap: Reflections on (dis)empowering young Afghan refugees in music workshops Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts |
14I: Epistemologies of Inclusion: Lessons from Improvisational Jamming Traditions Sponsored by the Improvisation Section
Epistemologies of Inclusion: Lessons from Improvisational Jamming Traditions Presentations in the Session From Jam Circle to Classroom: Improvisational Music as a Model for Inclusive Pedagogy Dynamic Participations: Rethinking Inclusion in the Bluegrass Jam Session Including Bluegrass Jammers in Community-Engaged Research Discussion |
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| 14J: Workshop on Transgressive Poetry Writing Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
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| 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
15A: Journeys without End: Centering the Work of Rehearsals Journeys without End: Centering the Work of Rehearsals Presentations in the Session Rehearsing Imperfection, Intimacy, and Inversion in a Filipino American Community Rondalla Who is Musically Powerful? Modernized Hierarchy in Practicing Korean Chamber Music in a Professional Court Music Ensemble (Chǒngaktan) Rehearsal in Seoul Rendering Interdependency: Mediating Power Dynamics between Disabled Taiko Musicians and their Caregivers in Rehearsal Hierarchy and Interaction in Free Improvisation Rehearsals |
15B: Contesting Urban Political Auralities Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section and the Economic Ethnomusicology SIG
Contesting Urban Political Auralities Presentations in the Session Remediating the Urban: Taipei Settler Multicultural Auralities Guns, Grains, and Steals: Agrarian Urbanization, Trans-Border Spatial Claims, and Sikh Militant Aurality On Account of Doomsday: Auralities of Climate Activism, Street Blockades, and the Multiple Lives of Civil Disobedience Auditory Alliances: Political Brokers and Civil Society in Dakar |
15C: Instruments II Chair: Maisie Sum, University of Waterloo Musical Instruments as “Tools:” Forging Emotional and Musical Temperaments in al-mūsīqā al-‘arabiyya University of California, Santa Barbara Representations of Africa in Europe: African one-string fiddles in museums and the world music sphere University of Oxford, UK |
15D: Perspectives on Song and Tune Analysis Chair: Michael Tenzer, UBC His Words, Her Voice: Unpacking Women’s Reimaginings of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Massachusetts Institute of Technology “‘Harmonies Waiting Unsung’ in Joni Mitchell’s Early Style” Penn State University A Case Study of Wittgensteinian Family Resemblance in the Penitente Alabado "Adios, acompañamiento" University of Colorado-Boulder |
| 15E: Vocality Dissonances in the law of nation: Vocalities, music genres, and de/territorialization in Latin America’s aural modernity University of California, Berkeley Auto-Tune's "Classic Mode," Race, and the Parallel Vocal Imaginaries of Popular Music University of California, Los Angeles Hearing Diaspora: Vocality, Agency, and Alterity in Indo-Caribbean Madrasi Music and Mediumship CUNY Graduate Center Who are you, Miss Simone?: Vocal Androgyneity and the Civil Rights Movement University at Buffalo |
15F: Memory, Continuity, and Rupture Chair: Joe Kinzer, Antioch University
“Hottentot Hop”: Memory and Modernity in the Music of Cashless Society York College - City University of New York, Hofstra University “Them Floors Are Gonna Cave in on You One Night”: From Sonic Storytelling to Heritage Futures of Louisiana Dance Halls University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sounding Tradition and Transition: Musical Instruments as Agents of Adivasi Cultural Continuity and Reinvention in Assam University of Toronto |
15G: Rendering the Nation Chair: Shannon Dudley, University of Washington
Sound, Light, Nation: Technological Spectacle and National Identity in Contemporary Taiwan University of Chicago Rambling Connachtmen and ol’ Yankee Doodles: concepts of place and nationality in uilleann piping 1: Monash University; 2: University of Adelaide Lukewarm Liminality: A Reggae Band Challenges Switzerland’s Sense of Self Linfield University Every Creed and Race Find an Equal Place: National Understandings of Race in Trinidad and Tobago’s Junior Panorama University of Pittsburgh |
15H: Interculturality II Chair: Colter Harper, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Négritude in Nigeria: Mbari Clubs, Senghor, and Akin Euba’s Chaka: An Opera in Two Chants Florida State University Ethnographic Modernism and Africanist Humanism: Musical Thought in Independence-Era Nigeria Boston University Doo-wop Romántico?: The Musical Elephant in the Room in Trío Romántico Music University of Southern California |
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| 15I: Ethnomusicology and Digital Humanities Roundtable Chair: Zoe Sherinian, University of Oklahoma Sponsored by the SEM Board |
15J: Archiving: U.S. Chair: Michael Heller, University of Pittsburgh
Come and I will sing you: Mining the Wisconsin-Cornish Collections of Helene Stratman-Thomas N/A Making Jappalachian Music: An Asian Diaspora Community from the Mountains Duke University Beyond “Re-sounding”: The Archival Sonification of Japanese American Scout Drum Corps in Interwar Los Angeles UC Riverside The American Folklife Center’s Archive Challenge: A Model To Encourage Traditional Music and Engagement with Archives. Library of Congress American Folklife Center |
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| 2:15pm - 3:15pm |
Committee on Labor |
Dance, Movement, and Gesture Section Business Meeting |
Investment Advisory Committee |
SIG for Disability and Deaf Studies |
| SIG for Voice Studies |
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| 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
16E: Producing Digital Vibes and Archives: Orchestrating and Preserving Music Festival Soundscapes Producing Digital Vibes and Archives: Orchestrating and Preserving Music Festival Soundscapes Florida State University |
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| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
16A: Sustainability Chair: Elizabeth Clendinning Sustenance through Diversity: Negotiating Authenticity for Survival in Hong Kong Cantonese Opera The Chinese University of Hong Kong Music, cultural sustainability and social justice: Introducing the international research project “Sounding Good” Griffith University, Brisbane (Australia) Cultural Resilience and Sustainability of Wayang Sasak, the Shadowplay of Lombok, Indonesia University of San Diego |
16B: Interculturality III Chair: Christopher Miller, Cornell
“Music is for the People”: Zheng Xiaoying, Yangxizhongchang, and Das Lied von der Erde The Chinese University of Hong Kong Distributed Creativity in Contemporary Javanese Composition University of Richmond Crosscurrents: Theorizing Gamelan Kontemporer, Intercultural Creativity, and Music Diplomacy at the 40th Anniversary of Canadian Gamelan 1: University of Toronto; 2: Universitas Pendidkan Indonesia |
16D: Pedagogy Chair: Yuan-yu Kuan, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Chinese Music Theory Pedagogy: Why is Pedagogy Limited to Pedagogy of Practice? Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Digital Bodies and Digital Pedagogies; The embodied digitization of the Japanese Shakuhachi Honkyoku tradition and the transmission of Neiro online University of Colorado Boulder Musical improvisation as a pedagogical tool in higher musical education in 21st century Brazil N/A Of radios and studios: Mediatized aural pedagogy in postcolonial Bengal University of Chicago |
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