Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies

Chair(s): Eduardo Sato (Virginia Tech), Cibele Moura (Cornell University)

Presentations in the Session

Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies

Kaleb E. Goldschmitt (Wellesley College), Juan Diego Díaz (University of California, Davis), Dennis Novaes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Michael Iyanaga (William & Mary), Cibele Moura (Cornell University), Luis Ricardo Queiroz (Federal University of Paraiba)

Musicking through European migratory Spaces: Gendered, ethnic and racial place-making

Chair(s): Sonia Tamar Seeman (University of Texas Austin,)

Presentations in the Session

Performative Social Space: Trauma, Ritual, and Music among Kosovo Romani Migrants in Germany

Carol Silverman (University of Oregon)

Re-creating “Mu[h]acir” [“Immigrant”] through Women’s Work: Musicking and Social Reproduction

Sonia Tamar Seeman (University of Texas Austin)

Post-Migrant Musicking and the Restriction of Public Space: Sonic color and class lines in provincial Germany

Juniper Hill (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), Cornelia Guenauer (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

Toward a Ghostly Ethnomusicology

Chair(s): J. Martin Daughtry (New York University)

Discussant(s): J. Martin Daughtry (New York University)

Presentations in the Session

Of Ghosts and Goddesses: Musical Commemoration and the Afterlives of Teresa Teng

Meredith Schweig (Emory University)

Romani Agency, Remembrance, and Recording with the Ghosts of “Du Schwarzer Zigeuner”

Siv Lie (University of Maryland)

How to Listen in Taiwan’s Time of No Future

Yun Emily Wang (Duke University)

Discussant Remarks

J. Martin Daughtry (New York University)

Sounding the Mexican South: Transborder Musics, Economies, and Belonging in the “Nuevo South”

Chair(s): David Garcia (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)

Discussant(s): Alex Chávez (University of Notre Dame)

Presentations in the Session

“Uno anda buscando la música”: Mapping Southern Latinx Musical Economies

Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez (Emory University)

“We played fiddle and we left smelling like tamales”: Mexican Music and Memory in the Mississippi Delta

Sophia Enríquez (Duke University)

Mozambique!: Cuba’s Revolutionary Music on the International Stage, 1964-2025

Hannah Laurel Rogers

Institute for Public Ethnomusicology,

Arba'in 1401

Armaghan Fakhraeirad

University of Pennsylvania,

The Traditional Vocal Repertoire of Central Visayas (Philippines)

Peter George Fielding

Kennesaw State University,

Sanshin in the Survival of Okinawan Culture through time.

Elizabeth Vieyra

N/A

Feeling the Song and Making Sense of the Non-Verbal In Three Vocal Traditions of Central Eurasia

Chair(s): Richard K. Wolf (Harvard University)

Discussant(s): Richard K. Wolf (Harvard University)

Presentations in the Session

Pain Beyond Words: Weeping Voice, Linguistic Unintelligibility, and Embodied Suffering in Shia Mourning Rituals in Tehran

Hamidreza Salehyar (University of Toronto)

Plaintive Tunes for Tender Words: Plucked Lutes as Voice Surrogates in Folksong Performance, Tajik Badakhshan

Katherine Freeze Wolf (Boston, MA)

Twisting the Vowels: Preverbal Multispecies Communication in the Practice of Mongolian Urtyn duu

Sunmin Yoon (University of Delaware)

“Based on the Spirit of the Empire”: Japanese Military Music and Symbolic Mobility in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II

Nathan Russell Huxtable

University of California, Riverside

Musical Propaganda in Myanmar: Army Songs

Heather MacLachlan

University of Dayton,

Encrypted in Song: Wartime Music as a Medium of Subversive Communication Between Occupied and Free Ukraine

Olga Zaitseva-Herz

University of Alberta

Uncertain Signs: WWI Musico-therapy and Shell Shock

Briana Nave

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Listening to Armenian Baku: History and Memory in Digital Diaspora

Jonathan Lee Hollis

Independent Scholar

The Changing Function of a Choctaw Hymn: Closing Conference, Close of Worship, and Farewell

Emma Wimberg

University of North Texas

Schrödinger’s Tapes? – The Discos Smith Collection in the Ralph Rinzler Archive

Peter Verdin

Memorial University of Newfoundland,

Scenes Behind the Zines: Global Music Connections in the pre-Internet Era

Beatriz Goubert

RILM (International Repertory of Music Literature)

Music, Climate Change and Extractivism around the Arctic and Antarctic

Chair(s): Jan Koplow (Duke University)

Presentations in the Session

"Saca el petróleo pa' mi nación": Frontier Nostalgia and the Climate Hyperobject in Songs about the Patagonian Petroleum Industry

Lydia Wagenknecht (University of Colorado Boulder)

Relistening to the Current Environmental Crises in Chile through Mapuche Ül Metal

Jan Koplow (Duke University)

“Not Enough Room to Dance”: Urban Disinvestment, Loss, and the Spatial Ecologies of Cabo Verdean/American Music

Ruby A. Erickson

Brown University

Finding Chicagotlan: Reflections on Danza Azteca in the Windy City

Ida Maria Tello

Washington University in St. Louis

Island-Reggae Beats in Urban Streets: Navigating Interracial Dynamics through Island Reggae in Southern California

Chun-Chia Tai

University of California, Riverside

Japan’s High Lonesome Sound: Identity and Imagination in Japanese engagement with bluegrass

Donald Czubernat Bradley

Indiana University

Constellations of Sound: Race, Technology, and Jazz Performance

Tom Wetmore

Columbia University

Nathan Davis and the Jazz Educational Undercommons

Lee Caplan

University of Pittsburgh

Free Jazz and Building Community in South Los Angeles: Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra

Martin Hundley

University of California, Los Angeles

Confluence and Collaboration: How Zakir Hussain Transformed World Music

David Trasoff

Lila Vihun Music,

Jazz, Collectivity, and Space

Chair(s): Maya Cunningham (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Colter Harper (University at Buffalo)

Presentations in the Session

Maroon Resonance: Fugitive Ecologies of Sound and Jazz Spatiality

Benjamin Barson (Bucknell University)

“Keeping Music Live!”: +233 Jazz Bar & Grill and the Making of Ghanaian Jazz History

Samuel Boateng (St. John’s College, Oxford)

More than Memories: Jazz Clubs and Post-Industrial Urban Redevelopment

Colter Harper (University at Buffalo)

“Hold the Space, Grow the Space”: The Velvet Lounge & Recent Creative Improvised Music Organizing Strategies in Chicago

Eli Namay (University of Pittsburgh)

Beyond Colonial Legacies: Cultural Identity, Adaptation, and Musical Hybridity in Ghana

Chair(s): John Wesley Dankwa (Wesleyan University,)

Presentations in the Session

Beyond Missionary Legacies: Examining the Musical Practices in Ghanaian Methodist Worship

Susana Gyamfuaa Agyei (Wesleyan University)

Cultural Identity and Future Directions in Ghanaian Choral Music: A Synthesis of Tradition and Innovation

Emmanuel Abeku Ansaeku (Wesleyan University)

Colonial Residue or Sheer Love for Music? G.F. Handel in Ghanaian Choral Art Music

John Wesley Dankwa (Wesleyan University)

Beyond Venting in the Dressing Room: Abuses of Power, Trauma, and Resistance in the Early Careers of Classical Singers

Chair(s): Molly Doran (Wartburg College)

Presentations in the Session

The Voice Cult: Trauma and Tribalism in Undergraduate Voice Studies

Stephen Carr (York University)

“Other Duties as Assigned”: Abuse, Labor, and Surviving the American Opera Industry’s Resident Artist Programs

Anna Valcour (Brandeis University)

Meeting “The Other’s” Need: An Analytic Framework to Evaluate DEI Initiatives in American Opera Companies as Acts of Care

Danielle Buonaiuto (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Music In/As Culture Wars

Chair(s): Kendra Renée Salois (American University,)

Presentations in the Session

n/a

Aleysia Whitmore (University of Denver)

n/a

Benjamin Teitelbaum (University of Colorado)

n/a

Justin Patch (Vassar College)

n/a

Sophia Zervas (Harvard University)

n/a

Christian Poske (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)

n/a

Ioannis Tsioulakis (Queen's University Belfast)

Singing Resistance and Solidarity: Counter-hegemonic Belonging through Jewish Diaspora Language Song

Chair(s): Isabel Frey (University of Music and Performing Arts,)

Presentations in the Session

Koplas as Resistance: The Ladino Liturgy of Reuven Eliyahu Israel in Seattle’s Sephardi Community

Lily Henley (Harvard University)

“Everywhere We Gather Power”: Articulations of Blackness Through Yiddish Music

Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell (Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership)

Lider mit palestine: Articulating Jewish Solidarity with Palestinians through New Yiddish Song

Isabel Frey (University of Music and Performing Arts)

Revising Boundaries of Language, Song, and Ritual in the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia

Chair(s): Brian Fairley (University of Pittsburgh,)

Presentations in the Session

Language and Song in the Caucasian Borderlands: Nikolai Marr and the Sound of Archaeology

Brian Fairley (University of Pittsburgh)

Meqamî Kurdî and the Shaping of Musical Identity in Contemporary Kurdistan

Jon Bullock (University of Notre Dame)

Between Code-Switching and Kindred Resonances in the Multilingual Polymusicality of a Lived Kurdish Geography

George Murer (Hunter College, City University of New York)

“Dancing to Modernity”: Musical Everydayness and Politics of Womanhood in Pre-and Post-Revolutionary Iran

Hannaneh Akbarpour

Yale University,

From Silence to Song: Tracing Women’s Ascension in the Qadiriyya Sufi Rituals of Iran

Ali Hajmalek

Boston University

Canon Reformation and Rewriting Women’s History in Iranian Music

Hadi Milanloo

University of Toronto

Fluid Frequencies: Alternative R&B as a site of new and renewed Black consciousness.

Elizabeth Falade

University of Groningen

In the Breath of the Dead: Remixing Black Uchronia in Spirituals, Work Songs, and Avant-Garde Metal

Jake Blount

Brown University,

Black Banjo Bodylands: Conjuring Ancestral Memory and Navigating the White Gaze

Joe Z. Johnson

Indiana University, Bloomington,

Affect and Authenticity in Contemporary Christian Worship Soundscapes

Sharri K. Hall

Harvard University

Amplifying the Divine Word, or the Aesthetics of Reverb in Sikh Aural Architecture

Conner Singh VanderBeek

Davidson College

Space, Spirits, and Sound

Ahkeel Andres Mestayer Velasquez

UC Berkeley

Archiving with Indigenous Communities: Perspectives from South Africa

Chair(s): Lyndsey Copeland (Carleton University)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Leonard Boetles Gewers (Riemvaasmaak, South Africa)

N/A

James Mapanka (South African Nama Development Association)

N/A

Sharon Gabie (Nelson Mandela University)

N/A

Lee Watkins (International Library of African Music, Rhodes University)

Reimagining Belonging through Politics of Sound: Asian/American Artists in Global Popular Music

Chair(s): Sora Woo (University of California, San Diego)

Presentations in the Session

From the West Coast to the Sea: Hip-hop Music and Its Body/Voice Politics in Taiwan

Heidi Yin-Hsuan Tai (University of California, San Diego)

Rina, BTS, and The Ethics of East Asian Representation in Western Popular Music

Alissa Liu (University of California, San Diego)

Beyond Borders: Tokimonsta, Politics of Collaboration, and Sonic Speculation

Sora Woo (University of California, San Diego)

Intangible Cultural Heritage of Nigeria's Middle Belt

Chair(s): Aaron Carter-Enyi (Morehouse College), Solomon Abu Dauda (CONAECDA Nigeria), David Aina (Lagos State University)

Discussant(s): Christian Onyeji (Morehouse College,)

Presentations in the Session

Adamawa

Ebruphiyor Omodoro (University of Nigeria)

Kaduna

Aaron Carter-Enyi (Morehouse College)

Plateau

Michael Bulkaam (University of Jos)

Who's Music? Essentialism, Appropriation, Investment, Authenticity

Chair(s): Tony Perman (Grinnell College,)

Presentations in the Session

The Problem of the Banjo

Tom Turino (Scranton, KY)

“You’re Not My Kind of Balinese”: Carving Musical Identity in the Silencing of Cultural Essentialism

Putu Hiranmayena (Grinnell College)

From Empathy to Justice: Ethnomusicological Paradoxes, Music Participation, and the Utility of Indebtedness

Tony Perman (Grinnell College)

Bridging the Gap: The Complicated Politics and Potentials of Creative Bi-musicality

Donna Lee Kwon (University of Kentucky)

They Not Like Us: The Relationship Between (Black) American Sign Language and Hiphop Performance

Warrick Moses

UW Madison

Too Bla (ck)xx? The Trinbagonian Calypso and Soca Experience

Kai Barratt¹, Alison McLetchie², Rae-ann Smith³

1: University of Technology, Jamaica; 2: South Carolina State University; 3: University of the West Indies, Mona

“I ain changing meh dialect, meh patois…” Language change, attitudes and identity in the Carnival musics of Trinidad and Tobago.

Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon

University of Trinidad and Tobago

Afro-Dancehall: The Impact of Global Afrobeats on Ghanaian Dancehall

Nathaniel Ash-Morgan

University of North Texas

When Death Sounds: Exploring the Sound-Death Relationship in the Mocoví, Abipón, and Qom Cultures of the Southern Chaco

Valentin Mansilla

University of Turin, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Old Cairo’s Mourning: Nostalgic Pop’s Rise Over Mahraganat in Egypt

Omar Sobhy

Carleton College

Nodes of Memory: Reconciling Individual Agency with Forces of Representation in Sephardic Song

Courtney Elizabeth Blue

UCLA

Irish Sound Paintings: Belfast’s Palimpsestic Politics in the Aftermath of October 7th

Jessie Lee Rubin

Columbia University

Political Limits of Music and Sound

Chair(s): Matt Sakakeeny (Tulane University)

Presentations in the Session

The Normative Sexism of Alternative Music Economies: Brazilian Indie Rock’s #MeToo Contradictions

Shannon Garland (University of Pittsburgh)

“Music Can’t Stop a War Machine”

Matt Sakakeeny (Tulane University)

Sound and Silence in the Shadow of the Surveillance State

Lee Veeraraghavan (Tulane University)

Can Music Actually Do Anything?

Gavin Steingo (Princeton University)

Decolonizing “Black” Genre: Navigating Femininity and Queerness in Performance Spaces Across the Diaspora

Chair(s): Maureen Mahon (New York University)

Presentations in the Session

Hang like a Man: Gender and the Jazz Jam Session

Rebecca F. Zola (Columbia University)

Centering Blackness at the Margins: Embodying Queerness through Alternative R&B

Jordan R. Brown (Harvard University)

Her Beat, Her Story: Bridging Practice and Scholarship in African Musicology

Ruth S. Opara (Columbia University)

We’re So (Emo)tional: Exploring Affect and the Erotic in Queer Black Women’s Participation in Emo Musicking

Victoria Smith (New York University)

The Magnetic Politics of Cassette Archives

Chair(s): David Novak (UCSB)

Presentations in the Session

Unhearing Happy Birthday: A Cassette Deck in the Polish American Kitchen

Andrea Bohlman (UNC Chapel Hill)

Anarchive in the UK: Tape Collections as Diasporic Recollections

David Novak (UCSB)

Listening in Plain Sight: Kurdish Cassettes and The Absence of Visual History

Fidel Glitch (UC Berkeley)

Punjabi Tape Nostalgia in Truck-Borne Obscenity, Village Anomie, and Ethnomusicological History

Davindar Singh (Harvard)

Voicing the Unheard: Lament as Memory, Resistance, and Healing

Chair(s): Andrea Shaheen Espinosa (Arizona State University)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Georgia Curran (University of Sydney)

N/A

Larissa Mulder (The Ohio State University)

N/A

Grijda Spiri (University of California Santa Cruz)

N/A

Felicia K. Youngblood (Western Washington University)

N/A

Chuyi Zhu (University of Michigan)

Reflections on Sound and Movement in Ethnomusicology

Chair(s): Allan Zheng (University of California, Riverside)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Holly Tumblin (University of Florida)

N/A

Matthew Rahaim (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

N/A

Shayna Silverstein (Northwestern University)

N/A

Christina Sunardi (University of Washington)

N/A

Corinna Campbell (Williams College)

N/A

Allan Zheng (University of California, Riverside)

"My Body is a Cage": Genre and Embodiment in Heavy Music

Paige Carter Dailey

University of Michigan

Secularizing Social Identity Through Performing Khayyami

Hamidreza Fallahi

University of Texas at Austin,

Transportive Sensations: Historicity, Aura, and Embodiment in Sikh Musical Worship

Inderjit N Kaur

University of Michigan, Ann arbor

Cuban Lion Dancing: Embodying Alternative Cubanness

Edwin Porras

Haverford College

The Best and the West: Amateur Fieldwork in Early Twentieth-Century California

Matthew Gilbert

Stanford University

Data-Driven Ethnomusicology, AI, and Decoloniality

León García Corona

USC

Beyond the Spotlight: Social and Methodological Considerations for Qualitative Research with Celebrity Musicians

Anneli Loepp Thiessen

University of Ottawa

Registering Community: On Navigating and Translating the Multilingual Field Site

Rachel Horner

Cornell University

Resounding, Unsilencing, and Amplifying Latin America: Global South Possibilities for Sound Archives in the Global North

Chair(s): Caio de Souza (State University of Amapá)

Discussant(s): Sergio Ospina-Romero (Indiana University)

Presentations in the Session

Resonances of the Crossroads: Lorenzo Dow Turner and the Capoeira Angola Group Estrela do Norte

Caio de Souza (State University of Amapá)

Bullerengue Unsilenced: Reclaiming Afro-Colombian Women’s Voices in the Sound Archive and in Ethnomusicology

Manuel Garcia-Orozco (Columbia University)

El Palenque de Delia: Retracing Steps, Re-enacting the Archive, and Activating the Imagination 

Amelia López López (Indiana University)

New Modes of Resistance and Connection in Popular Music

Chair(s): Justin Patch (Vassar College,)

Presentations in the Session

When the Underground Is Above Ground: A Public-Facing Record Store and China’s Curated Indie Music Scene

Diandian Zeng (UCSB)

In Search of Our “True Academy”: Reflections on Modern Band, Open Jams, and the Purpose of Popular Music Education

Thomas Zlabinger (CUNY)

Scrambling the genre logic of Spotify in “anime music”

Garrett Groesbeck (Wesleyan University)

The Wátina Effect: Kaleidoscopic Neo-Traditionalism in Post-2010 Garifuna Popular Music

Amy Frishkey (UTSA)

The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan

Chair(s): Stella Zhizhi Li (RILM)

Presentations in the Session

“When Will You Return?”: The Voice(s) of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Annie Y. Liu (Princeton University)

Reclaiming the Voices of Chinese Singsong Girls Beyond “Yellow” in 1940s Shanghai

Shuang Wang (Brown University)

Jazz Queens in Women’s Magazines: Negotiating Femininity in Occupied Japan

Stella Zhizhi Li (RILM)

The ‘Context’ Argument: Three Musical Case Studies in the Instrumentalization of Context

Chair(s): Thi Lan Lettner (University of Maryland, College Park)

Presentations in the Session

Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth-Century Binder’s Volumes

Elizabeth Busch (University of Maryland, College Park)

Undercontextualizing a Musical Miracle: North America’s Reception to the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra

Thi Lan Lettner (University of Maryland, College Park)

Decontextualization and the Music Historical Scholarship of Bernice Johnson Reagon

Jackson Albert Mann (University of Maryland, College Park)

Musical Networks and Diasporic Communities in Chicago

Chair(s): Inna Naroditskaya (Northwestern University)

Presentations in the Session

Carnatic Music in the Chicago Diaspora: Tradition, Transformation, and Transmission

Anisha Srinivasan (Northwestern University)

Religious Hybridity and Musical Circulation in Chicagoland’s Ukrainian Community

Tanya Landau (Northwestern University)

Racial Capitalism and the Materiality of Value in Music

Chair(s): Esther Viola Kurtz (Washington University in Saint Louis,)

Discussant(s): Tim Taylor (UCLA)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Esther Viola Kurtz (Washington University in Saint Louis)

N/A

Eric J. Schmidt (Babson College)

N/A

Deonte Harris (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill )

N/A

Otto Stuparitz (University of Melbourne)

Harmonizing Memory: Archives as Sites of Preservation and Resistance in Black Music

Chair(s): Eric Galm (Trinity College,)

Presentations in the Session

Preserving, Documenting and Expanding Access to Histories of Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities through the HBCU Digital Library Trust

Andrea Jackson Gavin (HBCU Digital Library Trust, Harvard University)

Post-Custodial Archiving and the Lloyd Best Archive: Decentering Custodianship in the Preservation of Caribbean Intellectual Traditions

Christina Bleyer (Trinity College)

Recovering Musical Memory in São Paulo

Eric Galm (Trinity College)

Gendered Voices and Performative Visions of Transnational North India

Chair(s): Christian Morgan James (Indiana University Bloomington,)

Presentations in the Session

Camels, Courts, and Contradictions: Reimagining Gender Performativity in Hindustani Tappa

Ali Hassan (University of Pittsburgh)

In the Realm of Ecstasy: Sufi Diplomacy at the “Jahan-e-Khusrau” Music Festival

John Caldwell (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

One Billion Rising on Stage: The Inclusive Festival as Resource for Feminist Mobilization in Himachal Pradesh

Christian Morgan James (Indiana University Bloomington)

Chronotopic Formulations: The Making of the Music and Musicians in Modern Samoa

Courtney-Savali Andrews

Oberlin College

Excavating Alcina's codiapi: Filipino boat-tutes in the colonial Visayas

Isabella Mahal Ortega

University of Chicago

Girlhood on Stage: Navigating Girls' Ensembles in Trinidad and Tobago’s School Panorama

Stephanie R.H. Espie

University of Pittsburgh

Broadcasting Ethnic Identity: Cultural Resistance, Hybridization, and the Invention of Urban Gilaki Popular Music in Mid-20th Century Iran

Arya Tavallaei

University of California Santa Cruz

Tradition, Modernity and the Rise of Music Industry in Iran

Mehdi Rezania

University of Alberta

Nuanced Neutrality: Iranian Musicians and Politics of Avoidance in the Social Media Era

Siavash Mohebbi

University of Virginia

Latin American Musical Experimentalisms in Public Space

Chair(s): Andrew Snyder (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Presentations in the Session

The Revolution Will Be Sonified: Juan Blanco’s Utopic Soundscapes in Revolutionary Cuba

Marysol Quevedo (University of Miami)

An Experimental Carnival: Material Engagements with Space and Sound in São Paulo, Brazil

James McNally (University of Illinois Chicago)

Our Ship Drum Earth: Decolonial Musicking in Ernesto Neto’s Percussion Installation in Lisbon

Andrew Snyder (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Architectures of Knowledge: Jewish Music, Heritage, and Minority Agency

Chair(s): Jessica Roda (Concordia University,)

Presentations in the Session

Alternative Architectures: Sounding Jewishness in Dead Spaces

Miranda Crowdus (Concordia University)

Transylvanian Fantasy: Jews, Revival and Heritage in the Musical Landscape of Northern Romania

Jeremiah Lockwood (UCLA)

A Biographical Portrait of the Professional Career and Influence of African American Band Leader Thomas E. Lyle

Derrick Reginald Smith

The University of Alabama

Max Roach: Black Power Ideologies and Aesthetics

Maya Celeste Ann Cunningham

University of Massachusetts, Amherst,

Tracing the Barefoot Diva’s Path Through Repertoire: Cesária Évora’s Song Choices

Susan Hurley-Glowa

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley,

Performing Puerto Rican-American Identity in Luis R. Miranda’s “Impromptu”

Julian William Duncan

Florida State University,

Dichotomy of accordion and bandoneon in tango, China, and beyond

Lanxin{Nancy} Xu

Northwestern University,

Pulsation Non-Isochrony in Drumming Music of the Arabian Peninsula

Jim Morford

Western Washington University