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: Friday, 25/Oct/2024
10:00am - 12:00pm	17A: ICTMD-SEM Roundtable: Literary Translation in Ethnomusicology Sponsored by the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) and the SEM Board ICTMD-SEM Roundtable: Literary Translation in Ethnomusicology Organizer(s): Lonán Ó Briain (University of Nottingham) Chair(s): Lonán Ó Briain (University of Nottingham) Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Katherine Brucher DePaul University Roundtable Participant Naila Ceribašić Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb Roundtable Participant Susanne Fürniss CNRS, Paris Roundtable Participant Michael Iyanga William & Mary Roundtable Participant Susana Sardo University of Aveiro Roundtable Participant J. Lawrence Witzleben University of Maryland	17B: Diego Carpitella Fellowship’s experiences: reflections on audiovisual ethnomusicology Diego Carpitella Fellowship’s experiences: reflections on audiovisual ethnomusicology Organizer(s): Simone Tarsitani (Durham University), Marco Lutzu (University of Cagliari) Chair(s): Simone Tarsitani (Durham University), Marco Lutzu (University of Cagliari) Presentations in the Session Presenter Christopher L. Ballengee John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Presenter Petr Nuska Czech Academy of Sciences Presenter Daniele Zappatore Sapienza University of Rome Presenter Diego Pani Memorial University of Newfoundland	17C: Violence, Trauma, Witness Chair: Joshua Pilzer, University of Toronto “Does Anyone Hear My Voice?:” Digital Cultural Intimacy and Sonic Witnessing in Turkish Popular Music Following the February 6th, 2023 Earthquake Ashley Nicole Thornton The University of Texas at Austin Surviving Gendered Violence in South Africa: Music and Resistance in Apartheid Women’s Prisons Janie Cole Yale University From The Depths: Sounding Communal Trauma In American Synagogues Rachel Louise Adelstein Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel Chúng Tôi Đi Mang Theo Quê Hương: Intergenerational Nostalgia, Trauma, & Empathy in the Musicking of Little Saigon Ashley Dao Los Angeles, CA	17D: Performing Irishness: Race, Gender and the Global ‘Celtic’ Imaginary Sponsored by the SIG for Celtic Music Performing Irishness: Race, Gender and the Global ‘Celtic’ Imaginary Organizer(s): Felix Morgenstern (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz) Chair(s): Rachel Bani (Converse University) Presentations in the Session Expectations and Understandings of Irishness and Irish Traditional Music from Commercial Irish Dance Shows Joanne Cusack Maynooth University Problematizing Proximity: White and Masculine Undercurrents to Irish Music Practice in Germany Felix Morgenstern University of Music and Performing Arts Graz Irish Traditional Music as a Political Tool in North America Sean Williams Evergreen State College Performing Ethnicity, Staging Heritage, Televising Trauma: Bagpipe Bands in Public Memorials Scott Spencer University of Southern California
	17E: Kenyan Music in Communities, Schools, and Concert Halls Kenyan Music in Communities, Schools, and Concert Halls Organizer(s): Aaron Carter-Enyi (Morehouse College) Chair(s): Winnie Mburu (University of Georgia) Presentations in the Session Kuria Music and Poetry Festival (Video Documentary) Aaron Carter-Enyi¹, Michael Derek Gideon² ¹Morehouse College, ²Pennsylvania State University Music Education and Indigenous Language Policy (Paper Presentation) Winnie Mburu University of Georgia “Ngurumo, or Feeding Goats Mangoes” by Nyokabi Kariũki (Paper Presentation) Quintina Carter-Enyi University of Georgia	17F: Blackness, Anti-Blackness, and Praxis Chair: Stephanie Shonekan, University of Maryland Afro-Dominican Salve Performance and Resistance to Anti-Blackness Eli Mena The University of Texas at Austin You Can’t Escape Your Own Shadows: Lessons in Navigating the Presence of Self in Ethnographic Research Tracey Stewart Swarthmore College Goombay, Creolization, and the Formation of Black Solidarities Salwa Yeneba Marion Halloway Princeton University	17G: Transnational Studies Chair: Kwasi Ampene, Tufts University Localizing “China” in Kenya: DJ Afro, Film Remixes, and a China-Kenya Musical Imaginary Jonathan Wu University of California, Berkeley Taiko and community in Brazil: building an identity through music Flávio Rodrigues Universidade Estadual de Campinas Nostalgia, Memory, and Neo-colonialism: Neo-traditional Hip-Hop Music and Okinawan Identities Qifang Hu University of Texas at Austin	17H: Encapsulating Sounds – pedagogical experiments in teaching organology with imaginative instrument design, worldbuiding, and storytelling Encapsulating Sounds – pedagogical experiments in teaching organology with imaginative instrument design, worldbuiding, and storytelling Organizer(s): Junko Oba (Hampshire College) Chair(s): Junko Oba (Hampshire College) Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Jiaxue Fang Hampshire College Roundtable Participant Gabriel Korr Hampshire College Roundtable Participant Quinn Mattson Hampshire College Roundtable Participant Thomas J. Olson Hampshire College Roundtable Participant Scott Linford UC Davis
	17I: Desi Hip Hop: Oral History, Placemaking, and Technology in Post-Liberal India Desi Hip Hop: Oral History, Placemaking, and Technology in Post-Liberal India Organizer(s): Chris McGuinness (The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, United States), Pradip Sarkar (RMIT, Melbourne, Australia), Elloit Cardozo (MAKAIAS, Kolkata, India) Chair(s): Chris McGuinness (The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, United States) Presentations in the Session Retconning the History of Hip Hop in India: Ethical, Methodological, and Positional Reflections Elloit Cardozo¹, Jaspal Naveel Singh² ¹MAKAIAS, Kolkata, India, ²The Open University, UK Gully Beats: The Musical Production of Politics and Politics of Production in Indian Hip Hop Chris McGuinness The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, United States The Streamyard Cyphers: Online Place-Making within an Indian Hip Hop Community Pradip Sarkar RMIT, Melbourne, Australia	17J: Music and the Internet: A Roundtable on Online Methods, Metaphors, and Disciplinary Mapping Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section and the Popular Music Section Music and the Internet: A Roundtable on Online Methods, Metaphors, and Disciplinary Mapping Organizer(s): Kate Galloway (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Paula Clare Harper (University of Chicago), Steven Gamble (University of Bristol) Chair(s): Kate Galloway (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Paula Clare Harper (University of Chicago), Steven Gamble (University of Bristol) Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participants Paula Clare Harper¹, Braxton Shelley² ¹University of Chicago, ²Yale University Roundtable Participant Kate Galloway Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Roundtable Participant Steven Gamble University of Bristol Roundtable Participant Jenessa Williams University of Leeds Roundtable Participant Kyra Gaunt University at Albany, State University of New York Roundtable Participant Darci Sprengel King's College London
11:00am - 12:00pm	SEM Board
12:00pm - 12:30pm	Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Chair: Maria S. Guarino, Independent Scholar Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
12:30pm - 1:30pm	18I: A Walk Through the Beauty of Natural Scenery in Music for the Yanqin (the Chinese Hammered Dulcimer) Presenter: Wenzhuo Zhang, SUNY Fredonia A Walk Through the Beauty of Natural Scenery in Music for the Yanqin (the Chinese Hammered Dulcimer) Wenzhuo Zhang SUNY Fredonia
12:30pm - 2:00pm	18A: Social Movements/Protest/Resistance II Chair: Christina Sunardi, University of Washington From Chicano to Central American: Sangre Machehual of Los Angeles and the US-Central America Solidarity Movement Fernando Rios University of Maryland Sonidos Malcriados: Huelga Songs of the United Farm Workers Juan Rivera The University of Chicago Dillydallying and pussyfooting: Malcolm X, Masculinity, and the Gendering of Freedom Song Stephen Stacks North Carolina Central University	18B: Decoloniality Chair: Jim Sykes, University of Pennsylvania Decolonizing Persian Music Theory Mehdi Rezania University of Alberta Festival Thiaroye 44: Decolonizing History through Hip Hop with Senegalese Children and Youth Lynne Stillings^1,2 1: Brooklyn College, CUNY; 2: Ashinaga USA	18C: Economic Ethnomusicology Chair: Shannon Garland, University of Pittsburgh Vocal Deepfakes and The New Rhetorical Strategies of The Online Copyright Debate: "Clean" Data, Content "Creators," and Popular Music in The Era of AI Matthew Day Blackmar UCLA Covers and Confiance: Collective Heritage and Nongovernmental Culture in Tuareg Guitar Songs Eric J. Schmidt Southern Methodist University Aesthetics, Social Identity, Cultural Capital: The Reproduction, Rupture, and Struggle of Compositional Activity Alec Norkey UCLA	18D: Race, Gender, and the Violin Sponsored by the SIG for Organology Race, Gender, and the Violin Organizer(s): Francesca Inglese (Northeastern University,), Maria Ryan (Florida State University), Laura Risk (University of Toronto Scarborough), Jean Duval (Independent Scholar) Chair(s): Francesca Inglese (Northeastern University) Presentations in the Session On Eighteenth-Century Black Fiddlers: Considering the “Jamaican Airs” Maria Ryan Florida State University Les violoneuses: Women Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests in Twentieth Century Quebec Laura Risk¹, Jean Duval² ¹University of Toronto Scarborough, ²Independent Scholar Black Violin and the Race of Musical Instruments Francesca Inglese Northeastern University
12:30pm - 2:00pm	18F: Memory, Displacement, and Genocide Chair: Andrew Weintraub, University of Pittsburgh The Memory of Cambodian Pop and Rock Music as Cultural Heritage in Cambodian American Families Stephanie Khoury Tufts University Khmeraspora: A Multivocal and Collaborative Cambodian American Musical Experience Rane Prak University of California, Los Angeles When Music Is (Made to Be) Political: Ambivalent Stances on the Use of Music to Commemorate Romani Genocide Siv Lie University of Maryland	18G: Sound Studies III Chair: Peter McMurray, Cambridge University Gathering & Listening on Twitch: A Brief Ethnographic Study Molly Beth Hennig University of California - Los Angeles Drone-Based Music, Transformative Experiences, and Activism Kim Kattari Texas A&M University The aural aspect of mocoví territoriality. Reflections on the role of sounds in the meaning of space Valentín Mansilla Facultad de Artes, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Instituto de Humanidades, CONICET; Grupo de Musicología Histórica Córdoba	18H: Writing Ethnomusicology Chair: Sean Williams, Evergreen State College Experimental epistolaries and ethnomusicological story telling: developing tools for narrating Mexican hip hop and danzón Hettie Malcomson University of Southampton All That is Solid Melts into History: Towards an Ethnomusicological Approach to Musical Biographies Sergio Ospina Romero¹, Alejandro Madrid² 1: Indiana University; 2: Harvard University Musical Improvisation and Elegant Writing: Ālāpana in South Indian Karnatak Music Performed by U. Srinivas Garrett Field Ohio University
2:15pm - 3:15pm	Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation	Education Section Keynote Address	Publications Advisory Committee	SIG for Music Analysis
2:15pm - 3:15pm	Society for Arab Music Research Keynote Lecture
2:15pm - 4:15pm	Indigenous Music Section		Professional Development Workshop: Careers in Public Ethnomusicology Sponsored by the SEM Board
7:00pm - 8:00pm	Society for Arab Music Research Business Meeting
7:00pm - 9:00pm	International Scholar Networking Event Sponsored by the International Students Network and SEM Board	SEM Orchestra	Society for Asian Music Business Meeting and Awardee Presentations	SSW and GSSS Speed Mentoring

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