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, 17/Oct/2024 | ||||
| 9:15am - 9:45am |
OC: Opening Ceremony |
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| 10:00am - 12:00pm |
1A: African Musics and Musicians in Europe Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section
African Musics and Musicians in Europe Presentations in the Session Displaying and Listening to Africa: African Musics in the Museums and Schools of (Former) Yugoslavia “Bring On the Ideas for Creative Merging!”: The Contemporary Practice of Djembe Drumming in Serbia Exploring the Spaces of West African Musics and Dances in Finland Asylum-seeking Musicians in Italy. Challenges and Opportunities |
1B: Music and Politics: Humanitarianism, Electoral Politics, Soft Power Beyond the Humanitarian Mandate: Critical Approaches to Music and Humanitarianism in Jordan Carleton College Whose Soft Power? Thailand on its move with music and dance as soft power policy Northern Illinois University Powerful voice: The staged performances of 1949-1959 China and their subsequent influence on China’s culture and music development University of Sydney, Composing for Conservatives: Campaign Songs in the Canadian 2019 Federal Election 1: Queen's University, Canada; 2: University of Sheffield |
1C: Crafting Hindu Identities Through Music and Dance in South India and the Diaspora. Crafting Hindu Identities Through Music and Dance in South India and the Diaspora. Presentations in the Session Articulating Hindu Identity in South Africa Through Tevaram Performance. Harmonizing Divinity: Analyzing Hindu Ideology in Three Songs from Tamil Film Tiruvilaiyadal The Contours of a Legacy: Examining the T. Balasaraswati Dance Tradition in the United States Spiritual Cleansing of Temple Space in Kerala Through Sopana Sangeeta Performance |
1D: Queering Performance Chair: Jayson Beaster-Jones, University of California-Merced
Musical Outsiders, Freak Shows and Resistive Maladjustment University of Cambridge “‘Venga ya, venga la revolución’: Queering Traditional Musical Practices through Punk Performance in Costa Rica” Indiana University Bloomington, Stephens College Sounding Queer World-Building in the Musical Performances of Muna University of Texas at Austin Is There Anything More Disco than Selena? Temple University |
| 1E: Migration/Diaspora I Chair: Christi-Anne Castro, University of Michigan
Nigerian Migrant Musicians and Choral Musicking in Germany: The Case of Silas Edwin University of Ibadan, Nigeria & Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany Keyboard arrangers and cultural adaptation.Impact of Electronic Arrangers on Traditional Oral Musicians Pavia University (Italy) Music as Resistance: Creative Practices of South Asian Newcomers in Canada Toronto Metropolitan University The Convivial Classroom: children’s diasporic music-making and familial learning in Birmingham, England University of Birmingham, United Kingdom |
1F: Teaching Palestine through Music, Dance, and the Arts Sponsored by the Society for Arab Music Research (SAMR)
Teaching Palestine through Music, Dance, and the Arts Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
1G: Gender in Music of Iran Chair: Amaneh Youssefzadeh, Encyclopedia Iranica
Opera and 'Opera' in Iran: Battleground of Ideology and Gender University of Toronto Chaharbeiti as a Means of Cultural Expression in Eastern Khorasan, Iran The University of British Columbia Stories of resistance: Toward a political and cultural ambiguity in the social production of space The University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, |
1H: “Calypso is Soca and Soca is Calypso”: Calypso, Soca, and Competition “Calypso is Soca and Soca is Calypso”: Calypso, Soca, and Competition Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
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| 1I: Partying on the Periphery: Global Queer/Trans Nightlives Partying on the Periphery: Global Queer/Trans Nightlives Presentations in the Session Songs of Trans*gressers: Embodied Mimicry in Japan’s Jōso Kōhaku Crying at the Euroclub: Rainbow Europe, Queer Diasporas, and the Politics of Escapism at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest Archivos (de mujer): Sensing Excess in Mexico City Discussant |
1J: Ethnomusicology and Urban Planning: Reflection on New Research Opportunities Ethnomusicology and Urban Planning: Reflection on New Research Opportunities Presentations in the Session Austin’s Sp/R/acialized Histories Cultural Sustainability in Practice Austin’s Live Music Fund and Urban Musical Financing Music Cities: Policy, Impact, and Collaborative Research The Musician Income Crisis: A Performer’s Perspective |
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
2A: Liberal Subjects and Neoliberal Academic Production: Theory and Text Liberal Subjects and Neoliberal Academic Production: Theory and Text Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
2B: Instruments and Timbre Chair: Made Hood
Adjusting Sound: Timbre, Craft, and Talk among Luthiers and Musicians University of Pennsylvania Critical Listening to Timbre as Jewish Religious Practice: The Shofar Service McGill University Weddings, War, and Worship: A Timbral Archeology of the Naubat Ensemble University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
2C: The Intimacies of Musical Formation The Intimacies of Musical Formation Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
2D: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography Workshop on research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography RILM |
| 2E: Gender Exclusion in Performance Spaces Chair: Sarah Weiss, KunstUniversitätGraz
Girls Go Ska: Gender Inclusion, Gender Exclusion, and Safety Delusions in Mexican Ska Festivals University of Florida Connoisseurship, Allyship, and Jazz Patriarchy: The Curious Case of Leonard Feather University of Maryland, College Park Seudati: Aceh's standing dance and its gendered aesthetics Emory University Music Dept |
2F: Devotional Music Chair: Brian Edward Bond Spectral Traces of Sindh: Sufi Music, Possession Trance, and Unbordered Collective Memory in Western India San Francisco, CA A Listening Space for Sarangi Players: From the Sufi Mystical to the Phenomenological Wesleyan University Tapping the Elite: Devotional Music and Festivals in India University of California, Los Angeles |
2G: Publics and Counterpublics Chair: Charles Lwanga, University of Michigan
Pushed to the Streets in the ‘City of Music’: Professional Adaptation and Marginalization in Sanandaj’s Musical Branding University of Maryland, Sonic Heritage and Spatial Narratives: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Public Musicology, Sound, and Space Studies 1: Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL; 2: Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Rebetika as Critical Artistic Practice: Music and Agonism in Athens, Greece University of Illinois Springfield |
2H: Historical Studies in Ethnomusicology I Chair: Sydney Hutchinson, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Between "East" and "West": Rauf Yekta's Notes on the Arab Music Congress Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Reinterpreting the Body-Soul problem through Mediaeval Islamic Ears University of California Santa Barbara Standardizing Performances: Venue Registration, Program Review, and Tax Collection in Nanjing, 1927-1937 The University of Hong Kong |
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| 2I: Scenes Chair: Jay Hammond, Georgetown University
The Passion Economy: Value, Capital and Ethos in the Hong Kong Indie Music Scene The Chinese University of Hong Kong Freak Culture and Genre Mutation in the Brooklyn Independent Music Scene Hunter College, CUNY Arbaṭū al-Aḥzimah Sanadhhab ilā Jehenam! (“Buckle Up, We’re Going to Hell!”): Mediated Challenges to Iraqi Social Norms Through Contemporary Music and Youth Fashion in Sadr City, Baghdad Columbia University |
2J: Radio "Kurdish Music Broadcasting and the Limits of Radio's Collective Power" University of Notre Dame Radio in Contemporary Black Musical Production: Robert Glasper’s Black Radio Albums and Beyoncé’s Renaissance Act II University of Chicago Collaborations in Songs Broadcast on Egyptian Radio: Applying Social Network Analysis Towards a Deeper Understanding of Egypt’s Musical History UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA |
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| 2:15pm - 3:15pm |
Ask an Archivist: SIG for Archiving |
SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology |
SIG for Jazz |
SIG for Jewish Music |
| 2:15pm - 4:15pm |
SEM Council |
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| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
3A: Histories and Ethnomusicologies Chair: Brian Fairley, University of Pittsburgh Territorial Boundaries of “Historical Ethnomusicology” in English Academic Discourses Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China, People's Republic of Phonographic Paleontology in 1930s Leningrad University of Pittsburgh Lullabies and Universality: A Critical Ethnographic Review University of Oslo Bacchanalian Buddhist Comedians and Medieval Monastic Intoners: Evidence of Indian Buddhist Theatrics, Song, and Chant from the 1st to 13th centuries and Contemporary Survivals of Sanskrit Buddhist Chant and Song Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kyoto City University of the Arts |
3B: Indigenous Studies: Pacific Chair: Amy Stillman, University of Michigan
Indigenizing Analytical Frameworks in an Examination of Māori Popular Music University of Alberta He Whiringa Hīnaki: A Kaupapa Māori Ecomusicological framework Tū Tama Wāhine o Taranaki Didjspeak: A Communicative Approach to Teaching the Didjeridu University of Sydney |
3C: Sound Ecologies of the Anthropocene in Latin America Sound Ecologies of the Anthropocene in Latin America Presentations in the Session Wallmapu Resounding: Inscription, Transnationalism, and Mapuche Sound Ecology Carimbós Made in Pará: Music from the Waters and Clashing Ontologies of Land Antarctic “Sonidotorrios”: Sonic Constructions of Chilean Antarctica in Punta Arenas |
3D: Music and Activism in the United States: Then and Now Music and Activism in the United States: Then and Now Presentations in the Session “Teaching” to the Choir: Community Singing Repertoires in Social Justice Choirs The Historical Origin of a “Singing Union” Fighting AIDS with Pop Culture: The Red Hot Organization, Cover Songs, and HIV/AIDS |
| Date: Friday, 18/Oct/2024 | ||||
| 9:30am - 10:00am |
Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Chair: Maria S. Guarino, Independent Scholar Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
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| 10:00am - 11:30am |
4A: Coloniality and Anti-Coloniality Chair: Heather Sparling, Cape Breton University Space Echo: Mythmaking and the Commodification of Anti-Colonial Resistance in Cabo Verdean Music University of Vienna Cultural Convergence in Music Transcription: Traditional Music Transcribed in Staff Notation During the Japanese Colonial Period in Korea San Diego/CA Never Yielding to the English Language? Coloniality and Resistance in Nova Scotia Gaelic Songs Cape Breton University |
4B: Hearing Jazz Publics in Southeast Asia Hearing Jazz Publics in Southeast Asia Presentations in the Session Retro-Ria: Bamboo, Jazz, and Festive Cosmopolitanism: Rethinking The Sounds of the 1955 Asia-Africa Conference Becoming Jazz Friends: Shaping a Translocal Scene of Jazz in Manila From Light Music to Jazz Việt: Jazz in the Print Media of Socialist Vietnam |
4C: Instruments: Drums/Iconography Chair: Zoe Sherinian, University of Oklahoma Dravidian or Dalit?: Reconstructing the Historic Parai Frame Drum of South India University of Oklahoma Beyond the Rhythm: Frame Drums, Gender, and the Politics of Spirituality in North America University of Toronto Getting married while the neighbors mourn: the frame drum as an instrument of social harmony in Badakhshan, Tajikistan University of Central Asia |
4D: Ecomusicology I Chair: Nancy Guy, University of California, San Diego
“Better regulate than never!”: Music and Industrial Pollution in the Ohio River Valley University of Puget Sound “Of Sounds and Footsteps:" An Eco-Ethnomusicological Approach to Soundwalks University College Cork A first approach to the presence of diverse environmentalisms through ambient and metal music in Chile. Duke University |
| 4E: Doing Public-facing (Ethno)Musicology and Community Music Today: Perspectives from Africa Doing Public-facing (Ethno)Musicology and Community Music Today: Perspectives from Africa Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
4F: Mennonite Action: Mobilizing Religious Hymns for Political Protest Mennonite Action: Mobilizing Religious Hymns for Political Protest |
4G: Historical Studies in Ethnomusicology II Chair: Revell Carr, University of Kentucky
“JUSTICE SLEEPS BUT NEVER DIES”. MUSIC ARCHIVE SPEAKING OF PURGE 1: Komitas Museum-Institute, Yerevan; 2: Institute of Arts of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia Race, Body, Labor: The Player Piano and the Mediation of Blackness Cornell University The Idea of Folk Music University of Leeds, UK |
4H: That’s not really music: Orientations toward a neuro-ethnomusicology Sponsored by the Medical Ethnomusicology SIG
That’s not really music: Orientations toward a neuro-ethnomusicology Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
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| 4I: Musical and Intersectional Identities in Northern New Mexico Musical and Intersectional Identities in Northern New Mexico Presentations in the Session Desire, Female Captivity, and Oppression in Old New Mexico Body politics, sexual slavery, and intersectionalities in the ballad, “La indita de Juliana Ortega” Discussant |
4J: Festivals Chair: Anaar Desai-Stevens, Eastman School of Music
Sounding unity in segregated spaces: vālaga in South India University of New South Wales Reframing the Avant-Garde(n): An Examination into Arts for Art’s InGardens Festival New York University |
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| 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
5A: Performer Interactions Chair: Joanna Bosse, Michigan State University
When Bands Employ Two Musicians to Play the Same Thing: A Comparative Analysis on the Basis of Performer/Performance Redundancies Toronto Metropolitan University Devagan University of Milan Singing with Hands: Music Making and Plains Indian Sign Languaging at Powwows in Oklahoma University of Oklahoma Music and the Social at the Crossroads of Cognitive Science and Ethnomusicology The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
5B: Foreign pioneers in the post-Independence history of South Asian music Foreign pioneers in the post-Independence history of South Asian music. Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Respondent |
5C: Pesky Auralities: Sounding the More-than-Human, Hearing the Unwanted Animal Pesky Auralities: Sounding the More-than-Human, Hearing the Unwanted Animal Presentations in the Session Unsettling Animal Sounds: Disrupting Silent Settler Imaginaries in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness “Yip Yip Yip Yow”: Singing the Vocal “Break” as a Decolonial Practice of Human–Coyote Kinship Grackle Call: Trash Birds and the Nouveaux Austinite Unwanted Sounds, Unwanted Animals: Listening, Urbanization, and Inter-Species Necropolitics in Mexico City’s Forests |
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
Contemporary Dialogues Across the Black Atlantic: Examining African & Diasporic Connections in Education, Religion and Popular Music Presentations in the Session Black Music is King: Tracing Beyoncé’s Centering of the African World in Global Pop Chão Batido, Coco Pisado: African Foundations of Coco da Xambá Center of a World: Exploring Encounters with African Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities |
| 5E: Socialist and Anti-Capitalist Alternatives through Music, Sound, and Movement Sponsored by the SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology
Socialist and Anti-Capitalist Alternatives through Music, Sound, and Movement Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
5F: Material culture and craft values in music’s new social formations Material culture and craft values in music’s new social formations Presentations in the Session Materials of Asynchronous Valuation: Independent Labels, Domestic Reissue Practices and Decolonial Efforts in Lima, Peru Defying the Fetish: Gender Transformations and Material Culture Economy in South American Lutherie Fetishism, valuation, and the gear cultures of hardware modular synthesizers |
5G: Feminist Ethnomusicology Rapist in Your Path: Transnational Feminisms and the Iranian Women-Led Movement University of Alberta Feminist Ethnomusicology, Vulnerable Research, and the Afterlives of Ethnography Bowling Green State University “Lugar de mulher é onde ela quiser (A woman’s place is wherever she wants)”: A New Perspective on Brazilian Women Drumming for Social Change Florida State University She Sang, She Dissented, She Inspired: Aural Utopia in Iqbal Bano’s “Hum Dekhenge” and her South Asian Womxn Comrades University of California, Santa Cruz |
5H: Musical Representation and Identity I Chair: Ruth Opara, Columbia University The Socio- Cultural Function of Ponsé and Kúlúmbú of Owode Ketu University of Lethbridge Zongo Identity in Ghanaian Popular Music University of North Texas |
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| 5I: Cumbia Aesthetics and Politics in Latin America Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Music Section (LACSEM)
Cumbia Aesthetics and Politics in Latin America Presentations in the Session La Sonora Dinamita Band and the Latin American migration to Southern California: A Borgian analysis of the only band in the US that can play in more than one place at a time. Dancing the Path to Congress: Chicha Music and Peruvian Political Advertising, 2006-2011 Cumbia Norteña and the Transnational Figure of the Sirreño The beginning of Chilean cumbia: La Sonora Palacios band as part of the Chilean popular culture |
5J: Critical Ethnographies: Ethics, Challenges, and Dilemmas Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
Critical Ethnographies: Ethics, Challenges, and Dilemmas Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Respondent |
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| 2:15pm - 3:15pm |
Anatolian Ecumene SIG |
Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology: Student Open Meeting |
SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology |
SIG for Music of the Francophone World |
| 2:15pm - 4:15pm |
Applied Ethnomusicology Section |
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| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
6A: Guitars in Africa: Histories, Presences, Futures Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section
Guitars in Africa: Histories, Presences, Futures Presentations in the Session Strings of Revolution: The Adoption and Transformation of Electric Guitar in Eritrean Guayla Playing Guitar, Thinking Tidinit African Electrical Networks |
6B: Sonic Afro-Diasporic Forces and Exchanges in Salvador, Brazil Sonic Afro-Diasporic Forces and Exchanges in Salvador, Brazil Presentations in the Session 50 Years of Blocos Afro and Black Resistance: 2024 Carnival and Salvador Capital Afro About the Africas that Inhabit Salvador: Pan-Africanisms and Afro-diasporic Thinking in the Construction of Brazilian Cooperative Relations The Music of the Blocos Afro from Salvador, Brazil: Educational Power and Global Reach Resilience and Resistance: Black Brazilian Experiences in Leadership, Diaspora, and Collective Identity |
6C: Explorations of Connectedness and Otherness in Icelandic Musicking Sponsored by the SIG for Musics in and of Europe
Explorations of Connectedness and Otherness in Icelandic Musicking Presentations in the Session Evolution of Iceland´s Music Industry: Striking a Balance Between Professionalism and Distinctive Identity Extending Europe's "Creative Belt": Considering the Iceland Airwaves Showcase as a European Event Musicking Moving Images in Iceland: Enacting Film & TV Composition in a Nordic Isle Discussion |
6D: K-pop Studies Beyond the K: Exploring New Theoretical and Methodological Possibilities Through Ethnography K-pop Studies Beyond the K: Exploring New Theoretical and Methodological Possibilities Through Ethnography Presentations in the Session Decentralizing Professional Vision: Designing an Ethnographic Methodology for Examining Cultural Products Becoming a K-pop Producer: Vocational Training and Cultural Production in South Korea’s Popular Music Industry Hanguk Dance as an “Ethnic” Dance in China: Mediatized Dance Studios, Neoliberal Urban Space, and the Post-Socialist State |
| Date: Saturday, 19/Oct/2024 | ||||
| 9:30am - 10:00am |
Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Chair: Maria S. Guarino, Independent Scholar Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
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| 10:00am - 12:00pm |
7B: Daily Ethnomusicologies: Or, ethnomusicologists are everywhere and why that matters. Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
Daily Ethnomusicologies: Or, ethnomusicologists are everywhere and why that matters. Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
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
Geáitse: The Aesthetics of Movement and Gesture in the Expression of Irish Traditional Music and Dance. Presentations in the Session Ceol sna Cosa : Multimodal Listening and the Corporeality of Musical Experience in Irish Traditional Dance Music and Dance Ón gcloigeann go dtí na cosa: embodied orality in the sean-nós dancing tradition. Singable playing and musical dance: artistic research explorations of aesthetic ecosystems of slow air playing and polka playing in Irish tradition. |
7D: Histories of choreographic exchange - Latin American dance and the Global Easts Sponsored by the Dance, Movement, and Gesture Section
Histories of choreographic exchange - Latin American dance and the Global Easts Presentations in the Session Tanzt die Revolution! East Germans and Latin American dance during the Cold War Salsa Dancing in Reform-Era China: In Search of Modernity and Cosmopolitan Identity Markers Tango in Japan: Rethinking the “East Asia” – “Latin America” nexus La Cumparsita and Fairouz: Tango Music and Dance From Buenos Aires to Beirut |
7E: Voicing Quiet and the Acoustically Inaudible Voicing Quiet and the Acoustically Inaudible Presentations in the Session Non-Acoustic Sound and Sonic Spectrality in Cambodia Underhearing Chaos: Suicide, Subvocality, and Transient Stabilities in South Korea Not Much Melody: Covid-Era Amidah Prayers at the Synagogue in Sofia, Bulgaria |
| 7F: Contemporary Perspectives on Afro-Venezuelan Tambor Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Section (LACSEM).
Contemporary Perspectives on Afro-Venezuelan Tambor Presentations in the Session Afro-Venezuelan Sonority and Remembrance: Culo e' Puya Drumming Ensemble and the Circulation of Memory in Curiepe, Barlovento The Voice Behind the Drum Where are the Drums? Electro Tambor: Diasporic Stories of Collaboration and Experimentation with Afro-Venezuelan Music |
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
Maqam Creativity on the Borders: Musical Alternatives to the Nation-State Presentations in the Session Border Listening with Central Asian Maqam Musicians Musical Intimacy, Model Citizenship, and Sufism in the Life of Niyazi Sayın Makam Across Greece and Turkey: Identity, Belonging, and History The Legacy of Hajibaba Huseynov and Musical Imagination Across the Azerbaijan-Iran Border |
7H: The Ethics and Politics of Care in Music Studies Sponsored by the SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology and the Music and Violence SIG
The Ethics and Politics of Care in Music Studies Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
7I: Referentiality and Black Music in the US Chair: Kyra Gaunt, University at Albany, SUNY
Beyoncé, Rhiannon Giddens, and the Era of Black Music Reclamation University of Pittsburgh “MY HOUSE:” The Sampling Historiographies Behind Queen Bey Harvard University Vamping on the Internet: Outlining the Memefication of Gospel Music on TikTok Yale University The Motor-Booty Affair: George Clinton's Detroit The University of California, Los Angeles |
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| 7J: Archiving Chair: Shalini Ayyagari, University of Pittsburgh
Activating sound archives through sampling: the acholitronix of Leo PaLayeng University of Virginia Key factors for interacting with Irish traditional music in North American archives: Some survey results Munster Technological University (Cork, Ireland) Dreaming Kurdistan: Media Circulations in a Moving Music Culture University of California, Santa Barbara Against Museification: Discrepant Songs from Post-Independence Angola Harvard University |
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| 10:00am - 2:00pm |
7A: World Music Pedagogy Workshop |
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8B: Instruments I Chair: Eliot Bates Sounding the Universe: Considering Balinese Sunari and Suling 1: Institut Seni Indonesia Denpasar; 2: Wake Forest University Sustaining Intangible Cultural Heritage, Or the Ethnomusicologist as Instrument Maker N/A The Brazilian dream? Migrant epistemologies in the songwriting of Haitian artists in Brazil University of Oxford/Stuart Hall Foundation |
8C: Care Ethics, Participatory Action Research, and New Approaches in the Ethnomusicologies of Deaf Culture and Neurodiversity Care Ethics, Participatory Action Research, and New Approaches in the Ethnomusicologies of Deaf Culture and Neurodiversity Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
8D: Gender in Asian American Music Chair: Yun Emily Wang, Duke University
Not Your Fantasy: Dismantling Images of the Yellow Woman in the Work of Rina Sawayama University of California, San Diego “The Ballad of Chol Soo Lee” as an Asian American Anthem University of California, San Diego Transcultural Harmonies: Exploring Collaborative Music by Korean Artists in 21st Century America Asian Music Research Institute of Seoul National University |
8E: Nostalgia Chair: León García Corona, USC Singing the Singapore Story: Music and the Politics of Nostalgia Harvard University Icons of Langgam Jawa and the Aging Voice as Site of Nostalgia University of Pittsburgh Enigmatic Nocturnes: Unveiling the Narratives of Jeonju’s Cultural Producers After Dark University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 8F: Music/Film Chair: Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College
Plight of the “Butterflies”: India’s Millennial Struggles, the Bollywood Film Song, and the Musical Shaping of Generations Chinese University of HK-Shenzhen Sonance and Semblance: Voice, Meaning, and Character in Hindi Female Playback Singers SUNY Brockport, Enophonia: Black Panther In Concert and the Reunion of the Original African Contributors with Their Own Musical Sounds The Ohio State University, |
8G: Sound Studies I Chair: Marie Abe, University of Calfiornia, Berkeley
Moving Beyond Settler Listening Logics and Hearing Indigenous Sovereignty in Pennsylvania Carnegie Mellon University From Ruins to Reverberations: Mapping the Auditory Landscape of the US Camptown in the Korean Borderland University of Texas at Austin, The Social Life of Field Recordings: Bridging Sonic Worlds through Phonography MIAM, Istanbul Technical University |
8H: Ecomusicology II Music, affect, and politics: How and why singer-songwriters in Melbourne are telling stories about the climate crisis University of Melbourne Song from the Discarded:The Multisensory Shaping of a Community Corrido in the Oaxaca Dump University of Toronto “Rain Has Flowed Between Us": Water as a Musical Resource in Women’s Social Music Across the Sahara University of California, Santa Cruz |
8I: Musical Representation and Identity II Chair: Sonia Seeman, University of Texas, Austin
La Policia del Son: Navigating Purism, Taste, and Authority in the Contemporary Huasteca University of Texas at Austin Redefining Irishness: Kneecap's Impact on Irish Language and Identity Through Hip Hop as Gaeilge University Illinois Chicago The kitchenspace as a gendered, musical counterpublic site of identity performance for Iranian Israelis SOAS University of London |
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| 8J: Chinese Identity Chair: Shuo Yang, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing Alternative Expressions of Chineseness: Dow Wei’s Electronic Dance Music University of California, Davis Compromise and Challenge: Negotiating and Renegotiating Social, Gender, and Sexual Concepts of Errenzhuan Music and Performance in Rural Northeast China Kent State University Theatre as Memory Site: Cultural Activities, Imaginaries, and Theatrical Things of a Regional Xiqu in Contemporary China Independent Scholar, P.h.D in Ethnomusicology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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| 2:15pm - 3:15pm |
African and African Diasporic Music Section Business Meeting |
Chapters |
Education Section Business Meeting |
Latin American & Caribbean Music Section |
| 2:15pm - 4:15pm |
Religion, Music, and Sound Section |
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| 3:15pm - 4:15pm |
African and African Diasporic Music Section Keynote |
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| 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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 |
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| 8:00pm - 9:00pm |
Sound Studies Section |
South Asian Performing Arts Section Discussion |
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| Date: Sunday, 20/Oct/2024 | ||||
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Ethics Committee |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
9J: Theorizing Phrase Structure in Guqin Music Presenter: Ruixue Hu, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester Theorizing Phrase Structure in Guqin Music Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester |
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| 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 University of Texas at Austin Musical Time Travel in Contemporary Hasidic Judaism: The Creation of Flexible Timescapes through the Performance of Nigunim Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Further Approaches to Musical Periodicity, Revisited University of British Columbia |
9B: Migration, Diaspora and the U.S. Classical or Folk: Professional Chinese Instrumentalists’ Diasporic Music-Making in North America Independent Scholar Island in the Continent: Southern Californian Pacific Islanders’ Performance of Indigenous Time in Reggae University of California, Riverside Diaspora and Iranian Music: The Activities of Iranian Women Musicians in New York City Wesleyan university |
9C: Indigenous Studies Chair: John-Carlos Perea, University of Washington
Mapuche Indigeneity, Sound, and Listening in Santiago de Chile Instituto de Música, Universidad Alberto Hurtado Voices of Sovereignty: Indigenous Occupation through Radio University of California Berkeley Musicking in Indigeneity: A Case Study of the Music of Katoi wa Tabaka’s Fusion Music. 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 Presentations in the Session Sound, Space and Power in Cairene mawālid Rhythmic Elasticity and Artificial Sound in the Mūlid of Sīdī 'Alī al-Bayyūmī Dancing to Mahraganat Music: Noise and Temporality |
| 9E: Musicking Religion I Chair: Andrew Mall, Northeastern University
Encruzilhadas: Sonic and Spiritual Warfare in Brazilian Pentecostalism Cornell University Negotiating religious and cultures: Reflections on the western polyphony texture in the Chinese Lahu music 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 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Gugak and the Law: Shaping the Future of the Korean Traditional Performing Arts Industy Pai Chai University Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Making of Historical Narratives: The Case of Italian Opera Singing Università di Pisa |
9G: Musical Tradition and Technological Mediation Chair: Chris Scales, Michigan State University
Puppet Voices and Overcoming Music Censorship on Iranian Television Kunstuniversität Graz Roots, Trunk, Branches, Leaves: Situating the Practice of Malaysia’s Wayang Kulit Kelantan Sunway University, Wesleyan University Mediatized Representations of the Cambodian Lakhon Bassac Theatre on TV and Social Media London, UK |
9H: Colonialism/Christianity Chair: Jennifer Lynne LaRue, Florida State University Transcultural Hymns: Music and Mission in the Richards' Approach to Chinese Conversion Washington University in St. Louis Exploring Adaptation of indigenous Folk Songs from Let the Hills Sing Graduate Institute of Musicology, National Taiwan University |
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| 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 Sri Sri University Applied Dance Anthropology: Historical Influences and Contemporary Directions Northern Arizona University, Solidarity in Precarity: Embodying Anger in Hardcore Punk Moshing Technique The Ohio State University |
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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 Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participants Roundtable Participants Roundtable Participant Discussant |
10C: Whither Eco-Ethnomusicology? Ecomusicology SIG
Whither Eco-Ethnomusicology? Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
10D: Musicking Identities, Ruptures, and Emerging Soundscapes in Africa Musicking Identities, Ruptures, and Emerging Soundscapes in Africa Presentations in the Session Musicking and Visualizing Extractivism and Environmental Degradation in Nigeria, Zambia, and South Africa Pushing the Ocean Back”: Singing Climate Disaster and Islamic Hagiography in Senegal’s Layène Community Rethinking the ‘Harem’: Sound Ecologies and Ruptures of Nupe Women in Northern Nigeria “Ordering What is Good and Forbidding Evil:” From Jihad Poetry to Jihadi Nashīd in the Era of Uthman dan Fodio and Boko Haram |
| 10E: Navigating Academic/Non-Academic Interaction in Music and Minorities Research Navigating Academic/Non-Academic Interaction in Music and Minorities Research Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
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 Presentations in the Session A Feeling of Belonging: Noise, Sonic Heritage, and the Sound Space of València’s Mascletà Disarming the Battle of the Bands: Play and Queer Time in College Band Rivalries Silver Scrapes: Liveness, Communalism, and the Sounds of League of Legends E-Sports Sonic Junk and Techno Trash in the Azores: Sound, Sensation, and Satisfaction in Performances with Recycled Objects |
10G: Community, Transmission, and Revival in the “Music Village” Sponsored by the Anatolian Ecumene SIG
Community, Transmission, and Revival in the “Music Village” Presentations in the Session Community and music in the making: Müzik Köyü and questions of Anatolian diversity Transnationalism, postnationalism, and cosmopolitanism in folk-revivalist music workshops: the case of Müzik Köyü Pleasure, Devotion, Relation: The Intersection of Music Transmission and Revival at Three Summer Music Workshops Discussant |
10H: Virtual Communities Resistance Through Musicking: Guichu Community on Bilibili University of Texas at Austin Meta Networking: Multiplayer Mode in Virtual/Augmented Reality Rhythm/Dance Games University of Cincinnati Spirituality in Creating Collaborative Groove Music in Accessible Online Space 1: York College / CUNY; 2: Boston University Using ethnographic methods to investigate synthwave, an online community of practice Leeds Beckett University |
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Ethnomusicology Journal Editorial Board |
Gender and Sexuality Studies Section Invited Talk |
Popular Music Section Business Meeting |
SIG for Celtic Music |
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| 3:15pm - 4:15pm |
Popular Music Section: David Sanjek Lecture in Popular Music |
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| 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
Robinson Network Group |
Society for Arab Music Research Mixer |
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Association for Chinese Music Research |
Association for Korean Music Research |
Historical Ethnomusicology Section |
Improvisation Section |
| Date: Monday, 21/Oct/2024 | |
| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
SEM Board |
| Date: Tuesday, 22/Oct/2024 | |
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SEM Board |
| Date: Wednesday, 23/Oct/2024 | ||||
| 10:00am - 11:30am |
11J: Ethnomusicological Exits: Breaks, Goodbyes, Partings Sponsored by the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the SEM Board |
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| 10:00am - 12:00pm |
11A: Musicking Religion II Chair: Nathan Myrick, Mercer University
The disguised sexist double standard in American church music ministries University of Dayton “And Will I Be Invited to the Sound?”: Evangelical Masculinity, Hipster Christianity, and the Banjo in Seven Swans University of North Carolina at Pembroke The Evolution of Religious Deaf Song SIL International |
11B: Memory and Memorialization Chair: Frank Gunderson, Florida State University
Resurrecting Stars of the Past: The Role of Technology in Memorializing Japan’s Misora Hibari 1: RMIT University; 2: Kyoto University of the Arts Personalized Playlists for People Living with Dementia: The Limitations and Possibilities of Co-Curation 1: University of California, San Francisco, Division of Geriatrics; 2: University of Arizona Applied Intercultural Arts Research Graduate Interdisciplinary Program; 3: University of Arizona School of Music “This is How We Remember That War”: Musical Memories of Chinese Anti-American Songs Newcastle University, |
11C: “The Insistence of Being Heard”: Women, Music, and the Circumvention of Oppressive Structures The SEM Section on the Status of Women (SSW)
“The Insistence of Being Heard”: Women, Music, and the Circumvention of Oppressive Structures Presentations in the Session The Embodiment of Virtual Identities, from Radio Golha to Instagram: Female Voice, Visibility, and Aesthetics in Iranian Classical Music Hearing What You See, Seeing What You Hear: Bolivian Musical Muses’ Songs of Resistance Leading voices in Counterpoint to Silence: Female Political Prisoners and their Musical Practices in the early decades of Francisco Franco’s Regime |
11D: Music and Violence Chair: Johnathan Ritter, University of California, Riverside
“’Repertoires of violence’: music in military networks in occupied East Timor” University of Alberta The Bellicose Ordinary: Music, Media, and Violence in Western Mexico University of Chicago The introduction of the label “gender violence” to the Fondo de Música Tradicional IMF-CSIC. A contemporary perspective on folk songs with violent content against women collected during early Francoism Boston University Music in Action: Combatting witchcraft-related violence in rural South Africa 1: NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY; 2: VUSIZWE NGO |
| 11E: Technological Negotiations of Authenticity in Popular Music Technological Negotiations of Authenticity in Popular Music Presentations in the Session Soaked in ‘Verb: Onboard Effects in the Pursuit of Authenticity in Local Ann Arbor, MI Music Venues “A Self-Replicating Popstar?” GrimesAI and Voicing Humanity “If you squint your ears”: Queer Community and Representational Politics on GaylorTok |
11F: Vulnerability in Fieldwork: beyond methodologies Vulnerability in Fieldwork: beyond methodologies Presentations in the Session Anime Music in the Concert Hall: vulnerability and compositional training in the era of digital streaming The Sephardic Life-Cycle Songs: Vulnerability and Revitalization in Virtual Space(s) Konesans (sacred knowledge) Vodou and the Vulnerability of Knowing Echoes of Empire: A Vulnerable Study of Balalaika and Domra Players in the United States |
11G: Postcolonial Musical Networks of Luso-Sonic Geographies Postcolonial Musical Networks of Luso-Sonic Geographies Presentations in the Session “A Hora do Brasil:” Radio Social Technology in Postcolonial Language Administration in Goa What is “African Music?”: Musical Categorisation and Nation-Building in Mozambique « Des mornas dignes des meilleurs fados » Cesária Évora and Lusosonia in Postcolonial Cape Verde “Between Enchantment and Confrontation:” Post- and De-colonial Theories and the Viability of the Brazilian Immigrant Carnival of Lisbon, Portugal |
11H: Temporalities of Belonging, Architectures of Tradition Temporalities of Belonging, Architectures of Tradition Presentations in the Session Styling the Contemporary: Creative Self-Making in Cambodian Contemporary Performance Roam Vong: Cambodian American Dance Court Music: Music, Sound, and Voice in a Cambodian American Park |
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| 11I: Creative Intersections: Artistic Influences Between African Art, Popular, and Traditional Music Genres Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section
Creative Intersections: Artistic Influences Between African Art, Popular, and Traditional Music Genres Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
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Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Chair: Maria S. Guarino, Independent Scholar Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
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12A: Multi-species Ethnomusicology Chair: Kevin Fellezs, Columbia University
Listening against “Species” at the Gibbon Conservation Center: Sounded Taxonomies and the Biopolitics of Endangered Species Conservation. Bucknell University Don’t Kill the Animals: The Zoe Powered Avant-Pop of Nomadic New Wave Divas, Lene Lovich and Nina Hagen University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) The New Ethic: Animal Rights Activism, Hardcore Punk, and Ethnomusicology N/A |
12B: Disability Studies Chair: Michael Bakan, Florida State University
Musicality and “Williams Music”: Expanding Music Curriculum for Neurodivergent Musicians University of South Carolina Broadening Virtual Access Beyond Participation Chicago, IL Keeping the Score: Performing Music Literacy as Abledness in Melbourne’s Choral Societies The University of Melbourne |
12C: Social Movements/Protest/Resistance I Chair: Robin D Moore, University of Texas at Austin Forbidding Song: Political Aurality and the New Lawscape in Semi-Authoritarian Hong Kong Dartmouth College Say Their Names: Sonic Bridges and Transnational Solidarity in Iranian Diasporic Protests University of Florida What “Fat Mama Has Something to Say” has to say: About remix music and protest music in Hong Kong Brown University |
12D: Affect Chair: Ana Hofman, Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Musicalisation of Love and Its Global Ramifications: The Romeo and Juliet Franchise Hiroshima University Interrogating the Visceral: Embodiment and Visceral Persuasion in Ohad Naharin’s “Echad Mi Yodea” University of Michigan |
| 12E: Indigenous Studies: Native America Chair: Liz Przybylski, University of California, Riverside
“Spaceship to Turtle Island”: Native Slipstream and Notions of Space/Time through Indigenous Hip Hop Futurism University of Chicago “Silent Inuit, please don’t cry, you’ll be home some day”: Inuit Popular Music and the Legacies of Indian Residential Schools Western University Land, Language, Love: Sounding Sovereignty in Tanya Tagaq’s “Tongues” Yale University |
12F: Interculturality I Chair: R. Anderson Sutton, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Crossing Borders in Sound: Exploring the Intercultural Musical Landscape of Ghana's Guan People Loyola Marymount University Songs of the Heart: The Fado Revival Project & Portuguese Sonic Heritage in Contemporary Goa University of Chicago Blurred K in K-pop: Transpacific Sound Circulation, Diaspora, and Authenticity of the Music University of Pennsylvania |
12G: Policies, Politics, and Polities Chair: Kendra Renée Salois, American University Reconsidering the Significance of Covering Through the Case of “Minatochō burūsu” The New School Folk culture wars: How French politicians and musicians use a folk music conflict to redefine Provence, their politics, and their careers University of Denver Translating Dissidence: Soviet Russian ‘Guitar Poetry’ in Central Asia Boston, MA |
12H: Women as Tradition Bearers Chair: Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music
Musical Creativity and Gender: Women Musicians and the Hindustani Khayal Tradition Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India "They don’t love men, they love money!” Mexican women, flamenco, and translating identities across borders in Charles Mingus’s musical narrations of Mexico NYU Negotiating Gender and Tradition: The Gendered Evolution in Xi’an Guyue of China Commonwealth University Of Pennsylvania |
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| 12J: Ask a Scholar: Mentoring and Advice from Grad School to Tenure Presenter: Panayotis League, Florida State University Presenter: Christina Sunardi, University of Washington Presenter: janice mahinka, Harford Community College Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
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12I: The Music of Our Neighbors: Cultural Diversity in Small-Town Germany The Music of Our Neighbors: Cultural Diversity in Small-Town Germany University of Wurzburg |
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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 |
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13A: Queering Media Chair: Stephanie Rose Espie Pretty and Problematic: The Use of Music in Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name University of Texas at Austin Merging Queer Thought, Politics, and Governance: Barranquilla Carnival’s LGBTIQ+ Musical Practices Universidad del Norte/Boston University The Techno-Corpo-Realities of a Queer Ethnomusicology University of California, Riverside Transnational Transmedia Pop Texts on Drag Race Philippines University of Texas at Austin |
13B: Jazz and Race Chair: Sergio Ospina Romero, Indiana University Black Boxes, Pink Noise, and White Listening: Rationalizing Race and Gender in Live Jazz Performance Columbia University “No Wave and all that Noise:” Race and Style in Early 1980s Downtown Experimental Music Michigan State University Sounds of the Second Line: Ethnographic Insights into Contemporary New Orleans Jazz The University of Texas at Dallas The Bi-Musical Ear: Cultural Identity Implications in African American Jazz from the South African Jazz Tradition University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
13C: Towards a Theory and Method for the Study of Music and Nongovernmental Organizations Towards a Theory and Method for the Study of Music and Nongovernmental Organizations Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
13D: Analysis: Modal Theory Chair: Philip Yampolsky, Independent
Liminal Spaces: A multi-dimensional model of contemporary Balinese modal practice University of British Columbia Pentatonic modes, heptatonic scales, or Western keys? Etic and emic perspectives on the modal system in Cantonese Music from the 1920s to the present 1: The Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Qin Tuning and Playing in Kangxi’s Fourteen-Tone Temperament The University of Hong Kong |
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13E: The Pluriversal World of Argentine Tango Music The Pluriversal World of Argentine Tango Music Teachers College Columbia University |
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| 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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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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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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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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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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| 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 Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
17B: Diego Carpitella Fellowship’s experiences: reflections on audiovisual ethnomusicology Diego Carpitella Fellowship’s experiences: reflections on audiovisual ethnomusicology Presentations in the Session Presenter Presenter Presenter Presenter |
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 The University of Texas at Austin Surviving Gendered Violence in South Africa: Music and Resistance in Apartheid Women’s Prisons Yale University From The Depths: Sounding Communal Trauma In American Synagogues Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel Chúng Tôi Đi Mang Theo Quê Hương: Intergenerational Nostalgia, Trauma, & Empathy in the Musicking of Little Saigon 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 Presentations in the Session Expectations and Understandings of Irishness and Irish Traditional Music from Commercial Irish Dance Shows Problematizing Proximity: White and Masculine Undercurrents to Irish Music Practice in Germany Irish Traditional Music as a Political Tool in North America Performing Ethnicity, Staging Heritage, Televising Trauma: Bagpipe Bands in Public Memorials |
| 17E: Kenyan Music in Communities, Schools, and Concert Halls Kenyan Music in Communities, Schools, and Concert Halls Presentations in the Session Kuria Music and Poetry Festival (Video Documentary) Music Education and Indigenous Language Policy (Paper Presentation) “Ngurumo, or Feeding Goats Mangoes” by Nyokabi Kariũki (Paper Presentation) |
17F: Blackness, Anti-Blackness, and Praxis Chair: Stephanie Shonekan, University of Maryland
Afro-Dominican Salve Performance and Resistance to Anti-Blackness The University of Texas at Austin You Can’t Escape Your Own Shadows: Lessons in Navigating the Presence of Self in Ethnographic Research Swarthmore College Goombay, Creolization, and the Formation of Black Solidarities Princeton University |
17G: Transnational Studies Chair: Kwasi Ampene, Tufts University
Localizing “China” in Kenya: DJ Afro, Film Remixes, and a China-Kenya Musical Imaginary University of California, Berkeley Taiko and community in Brazil: building an identity through music Universidade Estadual de Campinas Nostalgia, Memory, and Neo-colonialism: Neo-traditional Hip-Hop Music and Okinawan Identities 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 Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
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| 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 Presentations in the Session Retconning the History of Hip Hop in India: Ethical, Methodological, and Positional Reflections Gully Beats: The Musical Production of Politics and Politics of Production in Indian Hip Hop The Streamyard Cyphers: Online Place-Making within an Indian Hip Hop Community |
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 Presentations in the Session Roundtable Participants Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant Roundtable Participant |
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SEM Board |
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Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Chair: Maria S. Guarino, Independent Scholar Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
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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) SUNY Fredonia |
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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 University of Maryland Sonidos Malcriados: Huelga Songs of the United Farm Workers The University of Chicago Dillydallying and pussyfooting: Malcolm X, Masculinity, and the Gendering of Freedom Song North Carolina Central University |
18B: Decoloniality Chair: Jim Sykes, University of Pennsylvania
Decolonizing Persian Music Theory University of Alberta Festival Thiaroye 44: Decolonizing History through Hip Hop with Senegalese Children and Youth 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 UCLA Covers and Confiance: Collective Heritage and Nongovernmental Culture in Tuareg Guitar Songs Southern Methodist University Aesthetics, Social Identity, Cultural Capital: The Reproduction, Rupture, and Struggle of Compositional Activity UCLA |
18D: Race, Gender, and the Violin Sponsored by the SIG for Organology
Race, Gender, and the Violin Presentations in the Session On Eighteenth-Century Black Fiddlers: Considering the “Jamaican Airs” Les violoneuses: Women Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests in Twentieth Century Quebec Black Violin and the Race of Musical Instruments |
| 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 Tufts University Khmeraspora: A Multivocal and Collaborative Cambodian American Musical Experience University of California, Los Angeles When Music Is (Made to Be) Political: Ambivalent Stances on the Use of Music to Commemorate Romani Genocide University of Maryland |
18G: Sound Studies III Chair: Peter McMurray, Cambridge University
Gathering & Listening on Twitch: A Brief Ethnographic Study University of California - Los Angeles Drone-Based Music, Transformative Experiences, and Activism Texas A&M University The aural aspect of mocoví territoriality. Reflections on the role of sounds in the meaning of space 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 University of Southampton All That is Solid Melts into History: Towards an Ethnomusicological Approach to Musical Biographies 1: Indiana University; 2: Harvard University Musical Improvisation and Elegant Writing: Ālāpana in South Indian Karnatak Music Performed by U. Srinivas Ohio University |
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Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation |
Education Section Keynote Address |
Publications Advisory Committee |
SIG for Music Analysis |
| Society for Arab Music Research Keynote Lecture |
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| 2:15pm - 4:15pm |
Indigenous Music Section |
Professional Development Workshop: Careers in Public Ethnomusicology Sponsored by the SEM Board |
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| 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
Society for Arab Music Research Business Meeting |
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| 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 |
| Date: Saturday, 26/Oct/2024 | |
| 10:00am - 12:15pm |
GMM: SEM General Membership Meeting |
| 12:30pm - 1:00pm |
Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Chair: Maria S. Guarino, Independent Scholar Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
| 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
Seeger: 2024 Charles Seeger Lecture |
| 2:45pm - 4:45pm |
SEM Council |
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