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. Goldschmitt¹, Juan Diego Díaz², Dennis Novaes³, Michael Iyanaga⁴, Cibele Moura⁵, Suzel A Reily^6
1Wellesley College, ²University of California, Davis, ³Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, ⁴William & Mary, ⁵Cornell University, ⁶Universidade Estadual de Campinas

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

Women, Musicking, and Freedom in the Created Space of Church

Golriz Shayani
N/a

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

Juniper Hill, 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

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

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,

From Tradition Transmitters to Public Intellectuals: Changing Roles of Âşık/Alevi Musicians in Modern Turkey, 1960-1980

Özgür Balkılıç

Abdullah Gul University,

Performing Cold War Coalitions: Musical Cosmopolitanism in Taiwan’s Stars Gathering

Haoran Jiang

Department of Chinese (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University

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,

Music, Climate Change and Extractivism around the Arctic and Antarctic

Chair(s): Lonán Ó Briain (University of Nottingham)

Presentations in the Session

Mapping Extractivism, Divining the Present: Sámi More-than-Musical Instruments in a Changing Arctic

Nicola Renzi
University of Bologna/University of Helsinki

"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: Danza Azteca and the Coloniality of Being 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

Jazz in Colonial Korea: Exploring the Complex Perceptions of Blackness

Wonseok Lee

Yale University

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

Ring Shout Resilience: How to Sustain Intangible Cultural Heritage in America

Chair(s): Eric Crawford (Claflin University)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Erika Carter¹, Brenton Jordan¹, Quintina Carter-Enyi², Griffin Lotson^3
1Georgia, ²University of Georgia, ³Gullah Commission

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
N/A

“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

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

Ralph Peer and the Emergence of the Mexican Popular Music Market

Amanda Marie Martinez
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

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

Sophia Enríquez
Duke 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): Farzaneh Hemmasi (U of Toronto)

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 Garcio-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

Migrations Meeting in Chicago: The Influence of Migrant Communities on Chicago’s Black Musical Networks, 1930-1950

Reed Williams
University of Chicago

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

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

The European Center for Jewish Music: Constructing a Knowledge Architecture of Jewish Music in Germany

Sarah Ross
European Centre for Jewish Music

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