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, 17/Oct/2024
9:15am - 9:45amOC: Opening Ceremony
10:00am - 12:00pm1A: African Musics and Musicians in Europe

Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section

10:00am - 12:00pm1B: Music and Politics: Humanitarianism, Electoral Politics, Soft Power
10:00am - 12:00pm1C: Crafting Hindu Identities Through Music and Dance in South India and the Diaspora.
10:00am - 12:00pm1D: Queering Performance

Chair: Jayson Beaster-Jones, University of California-Merced

10:00am - 12:00pm1E: Migration/Diaspora I

Chair: Christi-Anne Castro, University of Michigan

10:00am - 12:00pm1F: Teaching Palestine through Music, Dance, and the Arts

Sponsored by the Society for Arab Music Research (SAMR)

10:00am - 12:00pm1G: Gender in Music of Iran

Chair: Amaneh Youssefzadeh, Encyclopedia Iranica

10:00am - 12:00pm1H: “Calypso is Soca and Soca is Calypso”: Calypso, Soca, and Competition
10:00am - 12:00pm1I: Partying on the Periphery: Global Queer/Trans Nightlives
10:00am - 12:00pm1J: Ethnomusicology and Urban Planning: Reflection on New Research Opportunities
12:30pm - 2:00pm2A: Liberal Subjects and Neoliberal Academic Production: Theory and Text
12:30pm - 2:00pm2B: Instruments and Timbre

Chair: Made Hood

12:30pm - 2:00pm2C: The Intimacies of Musical Formation
12:30pm - 2:00pm2D: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography
12:30pm - 2:00pm2E: Gender Exclusion in Performance Spaces

Chair: Sarah Weiss, KunstUniversitätGraz

12:30pm - 2:00pm2F: Devotional Music
12:30pm - 2:00pm2G: Publics and Counterpublics

Chair: Charles Lwanga, University of Michigan

12:30pm - 2:00pm2H: Historical Studies in Ethnomusicology I
12:30pm - 2:00pm2I: Scenes

Chair: Jay Hammond, Georgetown University

12:30pm - 2:00pm2J: Radio
2:15pm - 3:15pmAsk an Archivist: SIG for Archiving
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Economic Ethnomusicology
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Jazz
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Jewish Music
2:15pm - 4:15pmSEM Council
7:00pm - 9:00pm3A: Histories and Ethnomusicologies
7:00pm - 9:00pm3B: Indigenous Studies: Pacific

Chair: Amy Stillman, University of Michigan

7:00pm - 9:00pm3C: Sound Ecologies of the Anthropocene in Latin America
7:00pm - 9:00pm3D: Music and Activism in the United States: Then and Now
Date: Friday, 18/Oct/2024
9:30am - 10:00amPractices of Contemplation and Mindfulness

Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee

10:00am - 11:30am4A: Coloniality and Anti-Coloniality
10:00am - 11:30am4B: Hearing Jazz Publics in Southeast Asia
10:00am - 11:30am4C: Instruments: Drums/Iconography
10:00am - 11:30am4D: Ecomusicology I

Chair: Nancy Guy, University of California, San Diego

10:00am - 11:30am4E: Doing Public-facing (Ethno)Musicology and Community Music Today: Perspectives from Africa
10:00am - 11:30am4F: Mennonite Action: Mobilizing Religious Hymns for Political Protest
10:00am - 11:30am4G: Historical Studies in Ethnomusicology II

Chair: Revell Carr, University of Kentucky

10:00am - 11:30am4H: That’s not really music: Orientations toward a neuro-ethnomusicology

Sponsored by the Medical Ethnomusicology SIG

10:00am - 11:30am4I: Musical and Intersectional Identities in Northern New Mexico
10:00am - 11:30am4J: Festivals

Chair: Anaar Desai-Stevens, Eastman School of Music

12:00pm - 2:00pm5A: Performer Interactions

Chair: Joanna Bosse, Michigan State University

12:00pm - 2:00pm5B: Foreign pioneers in the post-Independence history of South Asian music
12:00pm - 2:00pm5C: Pesky Auralities: Sounding the More-than-Human, Hearing the Unwanted Animal
12:00pm - 2:00pm5D: 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

12:00pm - 2:00pm5E: Socialist and Anti-Capitalist Alternatives through Music, Sound, and Movement

Sponsored by the SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology

12:00pm - 2:00pm5F: Material culture and craft values in music’s new social formations
12:00pm - 2:00pm5G: Feminist Ethnomusicology
12:00pm - 2:00pm5H: Musical Representation and Identity I
12:00pm - 2:00pm5I: Cumbia Aesthetics and Politics in Latin America

Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Music Section (LACSEM)

12:00pm - 2:00pm5J: Critical Ethnographies: Ethics, Challenges, and Dilemmas

Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee

2:15pm - 3:15pmAnatolian Ecumene SIG
2:15pm - 3:15pmRising Voices in Ethnomusicology: Student Open Meeting
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Medical Ethnomusicology
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Music of the Francophone World
2:15pm - 4:15pmApplied Ethnomusicology Section
7:00pm - 9:00pm6A: Guitars in Africa: Histories, Presences, Futures

Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section

7:00pm - 9:00pm6B: Sonic Afro-Diasporic Forces and Exchanges in Salvador, Brazil
7:00pm - 9:00pm6C: Explorations of Connectedness and Otherness in Icelandic Musicking

Sponsored by the SIG for Musics in and of Europe

7:00pm - 9:00pm6D: K-pop Studies Beyond the K: Exploring New Theoretical and Methodological Possibilities Through Ethnography
Date: Saturday, 19/Oct/2024
9:30am - 10:00amPractices of Contemplation and Mindfulness

Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee

10:00am - 12:00pm7B: Daily Ethnomusicologies: Or, ethnomusicologists are everywhere and why that matters.

Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee

10:00am - 12:00pm7C: Geáitse: The Aesthetics of Movement and Gesture in the Expression of Irish Traditional Music and Dance

Sponsored by the Dance, Movement and Gesture Section

10:00am - 12:00pm7D: Histories of choreographic exchange - Latin American dance and the Global Easts

Sponsored by the Dance, Movement, and Gesture Section

10:00am - 12:00pm7E: Voicing Quiet and the Acoustically Inaudible
10:00am - 12:00pm7F: Contemporary Perspectives on Afro-Venezuelan Tambor

Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Section (LACSEM).

10:00am - 12:00pm7G: 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

10:00am - 12:00pm7H: The Ethics and Politics of Care in Music Studies

Sponsored by the SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology and the Music and Violence SIG

10:00am - 12:00pm7I: Referentiality and Black Music in the US

Chair: Kyra Gaunt, University at Albany, SUNY

10:00am - 12:00pm7J: Archiving

Chair: Shalini Ayyagari, University of Pittsburgh

10:00am - 2:00pm7A: World Music Pedagogy Workshop
12:30pm - 2:00pm8B: Instruments I
12:30pm - 2:00pm8C: Care Ethics, Participatory Action Research, and New Approaches in the Ethnomusicologies of Deaf Culture and Neurodiversity
12:30pm - 2:00pm8D: Gender in Asian American Music

Chair: Yun Emily Wang, Duke University

12:30pm - 2:00pm8E: Nostalgia
12:30pm - 2:00pm8F: Music/Film

Chair: Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College

12:30pm - 2:00pm8G: Sound Studies I

Chair: Marie Abe, University of Calfiornia, Berkeley

12:30pm - 2:00pm8H: Ecomusicology II
12:30pm - 2:00pm8I: Musical Representation and Identity II

Chair: Sonia Seeman, University of Texas, Austin

12:30pm - 2:00pm8J: Chinese Identity
2:15pm - 3:15pmAfrican and African Diasporic Music Section Business Meeting
2:15pm - 3:15pmChapters
2:15pm - 3:15pmEducation Section Business Meeting
2:15pm - 3:15pmLatin American & Caribbean Music Section
2:15pm - 4:15pmReligion, Music, and Sound Section
3:15pm - 4:15pmAfrican and African Diasporic Music Section Keynote
7:00pm - 8:00pmAn Asian American Listening Party
7:00pm - 8:00pmLACSEM Mentoring Session
7:00pm - 8:00pmSIG for Japanese Performing Arts
7:00pm - 8:00pmSound Studies Section Workshop - Sound Studies in the Curriculum
7:00pm - 8:00pmSouth Asian Performing Arts Section Business Meeting
8:00pm - 9:00pmSound Studies Section
8:00pm - 9:00pmSouth Asian Performing Arts Section Discussion
Date: Sunday, 20/Oct/2024
8:00am - 9:00amEthics Committee
10:00am - 11:00am9J: Theorizing Phrase Structure in Guqin Music
10:00am - 11:30am9A: Time and Periodicity

Chair: Richard Wolf, Harvard University

10:00am - 11:30am9B: Migration, Diaspora and the U.S.
10:00am - 11:30am9C: Indigenous Studies

Chair: John-Carlos Perea, University of Washington

10:00am - 11:30am9D: Sonic Cairo: Networking Urban Power and Spirituality

Sponsored by the Society for Arab Music Research

10:00am - 11:30am9E: Musicking Religion I

Chair: Andrew Mall, Northeastern University

10:00am - 11:30am9F: UNESCO
10:00am - 11:30am9G: Musical Tradition and Technological Mediation

Chair: Chris Scales, Michigan State University

10:00am - 11:30am9H: Colonialism/Christianity
10:00am - 11:30am9I: Dance/Movement I
12:00pm - 2:00pm10A: President's Roundtable: Care, Conflict, and Commitment in Ethnomusicological Work

Sponsored by the SEM Board

12:00pm - 2:00pm10B: Is A Third Ethnomusicology Possible? : Engaged Music Scholarship & the Undercommons
12:00pm - 2:00pm10C: Whither Eco-Ethnomusicology?

Ecomusicology SIG

12:00pm - 2:00pm10D: Musicking Identities, Ruptures, and Emerging Soundscapes in Africa
12:00pm - 2:00pm10E: Navigating Academic/Non-Academic Interaction in Music and Minorities Research
12:00pm - 2:00pm10F: Collective Sounds: Crowds and Community in Sports and Festivals

Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section

12:00pm - 2:00pm10G: Community, Transmission, and Revival in the “Music Village”

Sponsored by the Anatolian Ecumene SIG

12:00pm - 2:00pm10H: Virtual Communities
2:15pm - 3:15pmEthnomusicology Journal Editorial Board
2:15pm - 3:15pmGender and Sexuality Studies Section Invited Talk
2:15pm - 3:15pmPopular Music Section Business Meeting
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Celtic Music
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Cognitive Ethnomusicology
3:15pm - 4:15pmPopular Music Section: David Sanjek Lecture in Popular Music
7:00pm - 8:00pmRobinson Network Group
7:00pm - 8:00pmSociety for Arab Music Research Mixer
7:00pm - 9:00pmAssociation for Chinese Music Research
7:00pm - 9:00pmAssociation for Korean Music Research
7:00pm - 9:00pmHistorical Ethnomusicology Section
7:00pm - 9:00pmImprovisation Section
Date: Monday, 21/Oct/2024
11:00am - 12:00pmSEM Board
Date: Tuesday, 22/Oct/2024
1:00pm - 2:00pmSEM Board
Date: Wednesday, 23/Oct/2024
10:00am - 11:30am11J: Ethnomusicological Exits: Breaks, Goodbyes, Partings

Sponsored by the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the SEM Board

10:00am - 12:00pm11A: Musicking Religion II

Chair: Nathan Myrick, Mercer University

10:00am - 12:00pm11B: Memory and Memorialization

Chair: Frank Gunderson, Florida State University

10:00am - 12:00pm11C: “The Insistence of Being Heard”: Women, Music, and the Circumvention of Oppressive Structures

The SEM Section on the Status of Women (SSW)

10:00am - 12:00pm11D: Music and Violence

Chair: Johnathan Ritter, University of California, Riverside

10:00am - 12:00pm11E: Technological Negotiations of Authenticity in Popular Music
10:00am - 12:00pm11F: Vulnerability in Fieldwork: beyond methodologies
10:00am - 12:00pm11G: Postcolonial Musical Networks of Luso-Sonic Geographies
10:00am - 12:00pm11H: Temporalities of Belonging, Architectures of Tradition
10:00am - 12:00pm11I: Creative Intersections: Artistic Influences Between African Art, Popular, and Traditional Music Genres

Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section

12:00pm - 12:30pmPractices of Contemplation and Mindfulness

Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee

12:30pm - 2:00pm12A: Multi-species Ethnomusicology

Chair: Kevin Fellezs, Columbia University

12:30pm - 2:00pm12B: Disability Studies

Chair: Michael Bakan, Florida State University

12:30pm - 2:00pm12C: Social Movements/Protest/Resistance I
12:30pm - 2:00pm12D: Affect
12:30pm - 2:00pm12E: Indigenous Studies: Native America

Chair: Liz Przybylski, University of California, Riverside

12:30pm - 2:00pm12F: Interculturality I

Chair: R. Anderson Sutton, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

12:30pm - 2:00pm12G: Policies, Politics, and Polities
12:30pm - 2:00pm12H: Women as Tradition Bearers

Chair: Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music

12:30pm - 2:00pm12J: Ask a Scholar: Mentoring and Advice from Grad School to Tenure

Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee

12:30pm - 2:15pm12I: The Music of Our Neighbors: Cultural Diversity in Small-Town Germany
2:15pm - 3:15pmDiversity Action Committee
2:15pm - 3:15pmSection on the Status of Women
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Ecomusicology
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Musics in and of Europe
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Organology
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for the Music of Iran and Central Asia
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for the Study of Music and Violence
7:00pm - 9:00pm13A: Queering Media
7:00pm - 9:00pm13B: Jazz and Race
7:00pm - 9:00pm13C: Towards a Theory and Method for the Study of Music and Nongovernmental Organizations
7:00pm - 9:00pm13D: Analysis: Modal Theory

Chair: Philip Yampolsky, Independent

8:00pm - 9:00pm13E: The Pluriversal World of Argentine Tango Music
Date: Thursday, 24/Oct/2024
10:00am - 11:30am14A: Behind the Scenes at Ethnomusicology (SEM Journal)

Sponsored by the SEM Board

10:00am - 11:30am14B: Comparative Musicology

Chair: Erol Koymen, University of Chicago

10:00am - 11:30am14C: Transborder Studies
10:00am - 11:30am14D: Masculinities

Chair: Henry Spiller, University of California, Davis

10:00am - 11:30am14E: Migration/Diaspora II
10:00am - 11:30am14F: Dance/Movement II

Chair: Tomie Hahn

10:00am - 11:30am14G: Refugees, Trauma, and Healing
10:00am - 11:30am14I: Epistemologies of Inclusion: Lessons from Improvisational Jamming Traditions

Sponsored by the Improvisation Section

10:00am - 11:30am14J: Workshop on Transgressive Poetry Writing

Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee

12:00pm - 2:00pm15A: Journeys without End: Centering the Work of Rehearsals
12:00pm - 2:00pm15B: Contesting Urban Political Auralities

Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section and the Economic Ethnomusicology SIG

12:00pm - 2:00pm15C: Instruments II
12:00pm - 2:00pm15D: Perspectives on Song and Tune Analysis
12:00pm - 2:00pm15E: Vocality
12:00pm - 2:00pm15F: Memory, Continuity, and Rupture

Chair: Joe Kinzer, Antioch University

12:00pm - 2:00pm15G: Rendering the Nation

Chair: Shannon Dudley, University of Washington

12:00pm - 2:00pm15H: Interculturality II

Chair: Colter Harper, University at Buffalo, SUNY

12:00pm - 2:00pm15I: Ethnomusicology and Digital Humanities Roundtable

Sponsored by the SEM Board

12:00pm - 2:00pm15J: Archiving: U.S.

Chair: Michael Heller, University of Pittsburgh

2:15pm - 3:15pmCommittee on Labor
2:15pm - 3:15pmDance, Movement, and Gesture Section Business Meeting
2:15pm - 3:15pmInvestment Advisory Committee
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Disability and Deaf Studies
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Voice Studies
7:00pm - 8:00pm16E: Producing Digital Vibes and Archives: Orchestrating and Preserving Music Festival Soundscapes
7:00pm - 9:00pm16A: Sustainability
7:00pm - 9:00pm16B: Interculturality III

Chair: Christopher Miller, Cornell

7:00pm - 9:00pm16D: Pedagogy

Chair: Yuan-yu Kuan, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Date: Friday, 25/Oct/2024
10:00am - 12:00pm17A: ICTMD-SEM Roundtable: Literary Translation in Ethnomusicology

Sponsored by the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) and the SEM Board

10:00am - 12:00pm17B: Diego Carpitella Fellowship’s experiences: reflections on audiovisual ethnomusicology
10:00am - 12:00pm17C: Violence, Trauma, Witness

Chair: Joshua Pilzer, University of Toronto

10:00am - 12:00pm17D: Performing Irishness: Race, Gender and the Global ‘Celtic’ Imaginary

Sponsored by the SIG for Celtic Music

10:00am - 12:00pm17E: Kenyan Music in Communities, Schools, and Concert Halls
10:00am - 12:00pm17F: Blackness, Anti-Blackness, and Praxis

Chair: Stephanie Shonekan, University of Maryland

10:00am - 12:00pm17G: Transnational Studies

Chair: Kwasi Ampene, Tufts University

10:00am - 12:00pm17H: Encapsulating Sounds – pedagogical experiments in teaching organology with imaginative instrument design, worldbuiding, and storytelling
10:00am - 12:00pm17I: Desi Hip Hop: Oral History, Placemaking, and Technology in Post-Liberal India
10:00am - 12:00pm17J: Music and the Internet: A Roundtable on Online Methods, Metaphors, and Disciplinary Mapping

Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section and the Popular Music Section

11:00am - 12:00pmSEM Board
12:00pm - 12:30pmPractices of Contemplation and Mindfulness

Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee

12:30pm - 1:30pm18I: A Walk Through the Beauty of Natural Scenery in Music for the Yanqin (the Chinese Hammered Dulcimer)
12:30pm - 2:00pm18A: Social Movements/Protest/Resistance II
12:30pm - 2:00pm18B: Decoloniality

Chair: Jim Sykes, University of Pennsylvania

12:30pm - 2:00pm18C: Economic Ethnomusicology

Chair: Shannon Garland, University of Pittsburgh

12:30pm - 2:00pm18D: Race, Gender, and the Violin

Sponsored by the SIG for Organology

12:30pm - 2:00pm18F: Memory, Displacement, and Genocide
12:30pm - 2:00pm18G: Sound Studies III

Chair: Peter McMurray, Cambridge University

12:30pm - 2:00pm18H: Writing Ethnomusicology

Chair: Sean Williams, Evergreen State College

2:15pm - 3:15pmCrossroads Section for Difference and Representation
2:15pm - 3:15pmEducation Section Keynote Address
2:15pm - 3:15pmPublications Advisory Committee
2:15pm - 3:15pmSIG for Music Analysis
2:15pm - 3:15pmSociety for Arab Music Research Keynote Lecture
2:15pm - 4:15pmIndigenous Music Section
2:15pm - 4:15pmProfessional Development Workshop: Careers in Public Ethnomusicology

Sponsored by the SEM Board

7:00pm - 8:00pmSociety for Arab Music Research Business Meeting
7:00pm - 9:00pmInternational Scholar Networking Event

Sponsored by the International Students Network and SEM Board

7:00pm - 9:00pmSEM Orchestra
7:00pm - 9:00pmSociety for Asian Music Business Meeting and Awardee Presentations
7:00pm - 9:00pmSSW and GSSS Speed Mentoring
Date: Saturday, 26/Oct/2024
10:00am - 12:15pmGMM: SEM General Membership Meeting
12:30pm - 1:00pmPractices of Contemplation and Mindfulness

Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee

1:00pm - 2:30pmSeeger: 2024 Charles Seeger Lecture
2:45pm - 4:45pmSEM Council

 
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