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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9:15am OC: Opening Ceremony
10:00am 1A: African Musics and Musicians in Europe Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section
1B: Music and Politics: Humanitarianism, Electoral Politics, Soft Power 1C: Crafting Hindu Identities Through Music and Dance in South India and the Diaspora. 1D: Queering Performance Chair: Jayson Beaster-Jones, University of California-Merced
1E: Migration/Diaspora I Chair: Christi-Anne Castro, University of Michigan
1F: Teaching Palestine through Music, Dance, and the Arts Sponsored by the Society for Arab Music Research (SAMR)
1G: Gender in Music of Iran Chair: Amaneh Youssefzadeh, Encyclopedia Iranica
1H: “Calypso is Soca and Soca is Calypso”: Calypso, Soca, and Competition
1I: Partying on the Periphery: Global Queer/Trans Nightlives 1J: Ethnomusicology and Urban Planning: Reflection on New Research Opportunities
12:30pm 2A: Liberal Subjects and Neoliberal Academic Production: Theory and Text 2B: Instruments and Timbre Chair: Made Hood
2C: The Intimacies of Musical Formation 2D: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography
2E: Gender Exclusion in Performance Spaces Chair: Sarah Weiss, KunstUniversitätGraz
2F: Devotional Music 2G: Publics and Counterpublics Chair: Charles Lwanga, University of Michigan
2H: Historical Studies in Ethnomusicology I
2I: Scenes Chair: Jay Hammond, Georgetown University
2J: Radio
2:15pm Ask an Archivist: SIG for Archiving SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology SIG for Jazz SIG for Jewish Music
2:15pm SEM Council
7:00pm 3A: Histories and Ethnomusicologies 3B: Indigenous Studies: Pacific Chair: Amy Stillman, University of Michigan
3C: Sound Ecologies of the Anthropocene in Latin America 3D: Music and Activism in the United States: Then and Now
9:30am Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
10:00am 4A: Coloniality and Anti-Coloniality 4B: Hearing Jazz Publics in Southeast Asia 4C: Instruments: Drums/Iconography 4D: Ecomusicology I Chair: Nancy Guy, University of California, San Diego
4E: Doing Public-facing (Ethno)Musicology and Community Music Today: Perspectives from Africa 4F: Mennonite Action: Mobilizing Religious Hymns for Political Protest 4G: Historical Studies in Ethnomusicology II Chair: Revell Carr, University of Kentucky
4H: That’s not really music: Orientations toward a neuro-ethnomusicology Sponsored by the Medical Ethnomusicology SIG
4I: Musical and Intersectional Identities in Northern New Mexico 4J: Festivals Chair: Anaar Desai-Stevens, Eastman School of Music
12:00pm 5A: Performer Interactions Chair: Joanna Bosse, Michigan State University
5B: Foreign pioneers in the post-Independence history of South Asian music 5C: Pesky Auralities: Sounding the More-than-Human, Hearing the Unwanted Animal 5D: 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
5E: Socialist and Anti-Capitalist Alternatives through Music, Sound, and Movement Sponsored by the SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology
5F: Material culture and craft values in music’s new social formations 5G: Feminist Ethnomusicology 5H: Musical Representation and Identity I
5I: Cumbia Aesthetics and Politics in Latin America Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Music Section (LACSEM)
5J: Critical Ethnographies: Ethics, Challenges, and Dilemmas Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
2:15pm Anatolian Ecumene SIG Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology: Student Open Meeting SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology SIG for Music of the Francophone World
2:15pm Applied Ethnomusicology Section
7:00pm 6A: Guitars in Africa: Histories, Presences, Futures Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section
6B: Sonic Afro-Diasporic Forces and Exchanges in Salvador, Brazil 6C: Explorations of Connectedness and Otherness in Icelandic Musicking Sponsored by the SIG for Musics in and of Europe
6D: K-pop Studies Beyond the K: Exploring New Theoretical and Methodological Possibilities Through Ethnography
9:30am Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
10:00am 7B: Daily Ethnomusicologies: Or, ethnomusicologists are everywhere and why that matters. Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
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
7D: Histories of choreographic exchange - Latin American dance and the Global Easts Sponsored by the Dance, Movement, and Gesture Section
7E: Voicing Quiet and the Acoustically Inaudible
7F: Contemporary Perspectives on Afro-Venezuelan Tambor Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Section (LACSEM).
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
7H: The Ethics and Politics of Care in Music Studies Sponsored by the SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology and the Music and Violence SIG
7I: Referentiality and Black Music in the US Chair: Kyra Gaunt, University at Albany, SUNY
7J: Archiving Chair: Shalini Ayyagari, University of Pittsburgh
10:00am 7A: World Music Pedagogy Workshop
12:30pm 8B: Instruments I 8C: Care Ethics, Participatory Action Research, and New Approaches in the Ethnomusicologies of Deaf Culture and Neurodiversity 8D: Gender in Asian American Music Chair: Yun Emily Wang, Duke University
8E: Nostalgia
8F: Music/Film Chair: Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College
8G: Sound Studies I Chair: Marie Abe, University of Calfiornia, Berkeley
8H: Ecomusicology II 8I: Musical Representation and Identity II Chair: Sonia Seeman, University of Texas, Austin
8J: Chinese Identity
2:15pm African and African Diasporic Music Section Business Meeting Chapters Education Section Business Meeting Latin American & Caribbean Music Section
2:15pm Religion, Music, and Sound Section
3:15pm African and African Diasporic Music Section Keynote
7:00pm An Asian American Listening Party LACSEM Mentoring Session SIG for Japanese Performing Arts Sound Studies Section Workshop - Sound Studies in the Curriculum
South Asian Performing Arts Section Business Meeting
8:00pm Sound Studies Section South Asian Performing Arts Section Discussion
8:00am Ethics Committee
10:00am 9J: Theorizing Phrase Structure in Guqin Music
10:00am 9A: Time and Periodicity Chair: Richard Wolf, Harvard University
9B: Migration, Diaspora and the U.S. 9C: Indigenous Studies Chair: John-Carlos Perea, University of Washington
9D: Sonic Cairo: Networking Urban Power and Spirituality Sponsored by the Society for Arab Music Research
9E: Musicking Religion I Chair: Andrew Mall, Northeastern University
9F: UNESCO 9G: Musical Tradition and Technological Mediation Chair: Chris Scales, Michigan State University
9H: Colonialism/Christianity
9I: Dance/Movement I
12:00pm 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 10C: Whither Eco-Ethnomusicology? Ecomusicology SIG
10D: Musicking Identities, Ruptures, and Emerging Soundscapes in Africa
10E: Navigating Academic/Non-Academic Interaction in Music and Minorities Research 10F: Collective Sounds: Crowds and Community in Sports and Festivals Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section
10G: Community, Transmission, and Revival in the “Music Village” Sponsored by the Anatolian Ecumene SIG
10H: Virtual Communities
2:15pm Ethnomusicology Journal Editorial Board Gender and Sexuality Studies Section Invited Talk Popular Music Section Business Meeting SIG for Celtic Music
SIG for Cognitive Ethnomusicology
3:15pm Popular Music Section: David Sanjek Lecture in Popular Music
7:00pm Robinson Network Group Society for Arab Music Research Mixer
7:00pm Association for Chinese Music Research Association for Korean Music Research Historical Ethnomusicology Section Improvisation Section
11:00am SEM Board
1:00pm SEM Board
10:00am 11J: Ethnomusicological Exits: Breaks, Goodbyes, Partings Sponsored by the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the SEM Board
10:00am 11A: Musicking Religion II Chair: Nathan Myrick, Mercer University
11B: Memory and Memorialization Chair: Frank Gunderson, Florida State University
11C: “The Insistence of Being Heard”: Women, Music, and the Circumvention of Oppressive Structures The SEM Section on the Status of Women (SSW)
11D: Music and Violence Chair: Johnathan Ritter, University of California, Riverside
11E: Technological Negotiations of Authenticity in Popular Music 11F: Vulnerability in Fieldwork: beyond methodologies 11G: Postcolonial Musical Networks of Luso-Sonic Geographies 11H: Temporalities of Belonging, Architectures of Tradition
11I: Creative Intersections: Artistic Influences Between African Art, Popular, and Traditional Music Genres Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section
12:00pm Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
12:30pm 12A: Multi-species Ethnomusicology Chair: Kevin Fellezs, Columbia University
12B: Disability Studies Chair: Michael Bakan, Florida State University
12C: Social Movements/Protest/Resistance I 12D: Affect
12E: Indigenous Studies: Native America Chair: Liz Przybylski, University of California, Riverside
12F: Interculturality I Chair: R. Anderson Sutton, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
12G: Policies, Politics, and Polities 12H: Women as Tradition Bearers Chair: Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music
12J: Ask a Scholar: Mentoring and Advice from Grad School to Tenure Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
12:30pm 12I: The Music of Our Neighbors: Cultural Diversity in Small-Town Germany
2:15pm Diversity Action Committee Section on the Status of Women SIG for Ecomusicology SIG for Musics in and of Europe
SIG for Organology SIG for the Music of Iran and Central Asia SIG for the Study of Music and Violence
7:00pm 13A: Queering Media 13B: Jazz and Race 13C: Towards a Theory and Method for the Study of Music and Nongovernmental Organizations 13D: Analysis: Modal Theory Chair: Philip Yampolsky, Independent
8:00pm 13E: The Pluriversal World of Argentine Tango Music
10:00am 14A: Behind the Scenes at Ethnomusicology (SEM Journal) Sponsored by the SEM Board
14B: Comparative Musicology Chair: Erol Koymen, University of Chicago
14C: Transborder Studies 14D: Masculinities Chair: Henry Spiller, University of California, Davis
14E: Migration/Diaspora II 14F: Dance/Movement II Chair: Tomie Hahn
14G: Refugees, Trauma, and Healing 14I: Epistemologies of Inclusion: Lessons from Improvisational Jamming Traditions Sponsored by the Improvisation Section
14J: Workshop on Transgressive Poetry Writing Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
12:00pm 15A: Journeys without End: Centering the Work of Rehearsals 15B: Contesting Urban Political Auralities Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section and the Economic Ethnomusicology SIG
15C: Instruments II 15D: Perspectives on Song and Tune Analysis
15E: Vocality 15F: Memory, Continuity, and Rupture Chair: Joe Kinzer, Antioch University
15G: Rendering the Nation Chair: Shannon Dudley, University of Washington
15H: Interculturality II Chair: Colter Harper, University at Buffalo, SUNY
15I: Ethnomusicology and Digital Humanities Roundtable Sponsored by the SEM Board
15J: Archiving: U.S. Chair: Michael Heller, University of Pittsburgh
2:15pm Committee on Labor Dance, Movement, and Gesture Section Business Meeting Investment Advisory Committee SIG for Disability and Deaf Studies
SIG for Voice Studies
7:00pm 16E: Producing Digital Vibes and Archives: Orchestrating and Preserving Music Festival Soundscapes
7:00pm 16A: Sustainability 16B: Interculturality III Chair: Christopher Miller, Cornell
16D: Pedagogy Chair: Yuan-yu Kuan, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
10:00am 17A: ICTMD-SEM Roundtable: Literary Translation in Ethnomusicology Sponsored by the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) and the SEM Board
17B: Diego Carpitella Fellowship’s experiences: reflections on audiovisual ethnomusicology 17C: Violence, Trauma, Witness Chair: Joshua Pilzer, University of Toronto
17D: Performing Irishness: Race, Gender and the Global ‘Celtic’ Imaginary Sponsored by the SIG for Celtic Music
17E: Kenyan Music in Communities, Schools, and Concert Halls 17F: Blackness, Anti-Blackness, and Praxis Chair: Stephanie Shonekan, University of Maryland
17G: Transnational Studies Chair: Kwasi Ampene, Tufts University
17H: Encapsulating Sounds – pedagogical experiments in teaching organology with imaginative instrument design, worldbuiding, and storytelling
17I: Desi Hip Hop: Oral History, Placemaking, and Technology in Post-Liberal India 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
11:00am SEM Board
12:00pm Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
12:30pm 18I: A Walk Through the Beauty of Natural Scenery in Music for the Yanqin (the Chinese Hammered Dulcimer)
12:30pm 18A: Social Movements/Protest/Resistance II 18B: Decoloniality Chair: Jim Sykes, University of Pennsylvania
18C: Economic Ethnomusicology Chair: Shannon Garland, University of Pittsburgh
18D: Race, Gender, and the Violin Sponsored by the SIG for Organology
18F: Memory, Displacement, and Genocide 18G: Sound Studies III Chair: Peter McMurray, Cambridge University
18H: Writing Ethnomusicology Chair: Sean Williams, Evergreen State College
2:15pm Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation Education Section Keynote Address Publications Advisory Committee SIG for Music Analysis
Society for Arab Music Research Keynote Lecture
2:15pm Indigenous Music Section Professional Development Workshop: Careers in Public Ethnomusicology Sponsored by the SEM Board
7:00pm Society for Arab Music Research Business Meeting
7:00pm 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
