Disasters and Mutual Aid: “Band Together” as a Critical Moment of Care

Zachary Moreau

Florida State University

The Nova Festival Massacre: Exploring the Intersection of Music, Horror, Trauma, and Healing

Moshe Morad

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Music and a politics of care: Collaborative songwriting in US social service and community mental health settings

Erica Cao

Stanford University, San Mateo County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services

Participatory Sacred Harp Singing and Discussion on Editing The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition

Chair(s): Jesse P. Karlsberg (Emory University)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

David Ivey
Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association

N/A

Lauren Bock
Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association

N/A

Tom George
Sacred Harp Publishing Company

A glance takes Hani’s 1,300 years

Ziwen Zhang

University of Iowa

From Cultural Adaptation to Representation: The Naxi People in Tibet and the Tibetan pi wang (Fiddle) of Markam County

Tingting Tang

UCLA,

Music, our Empire: The Skopje 2014 Project and the Politicization of Roma

Paul David Flood

Eastman School of Music

From Berlin to Teelin: Principles of WWII Radio Propaganda in Ireland

Maeve Carey-Kozlark

New York University

AI vs. IP: Who Owns the World’s Music Today?

David G. Hebert

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen

What Madonna and Kraftwerk Can Teach Us about Music Copyright after The "AI Turn"

Matthew Day Blackmar

UCLA

Can AI in the Music Industry Be Decolonised?: Notes from the Arabic Music Industry

Darci Sprengel

King's College London, United Kingdom

Performing the Human: Artificial intelligence and popular music

Katherine Moira Miner

Boston University

Rethinking the Field in African Music Studies

Chair(s): Shirley Chikukwa (Columbia University)

Presentations in the Session

Gifts From Nature: Akan Episteme, Palmwine Music and Galamsey in the Anthropocene

Josh Brew
University of Pittsburgh

The Business of Culture: Contemporary Field Sites and African Popular Music

Shirley Chikukwa
Columbia University

Colonial Postcard Archives and Reimagining Music Fieldwork in Eritrea

Dexter Story
UCLA

Fesfop and the Social Life of Material Cultural Heritage in Senegal

Althea SullyCole
Schulich School of Music, McGill University

Cosmopolitan Creativity in the Southern Balkans: Three Contemporary Responses to Folk Music Institutions

Chair(s): Donna A Buchanan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,)

Discussant(s): Donna A Buchanan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Presentations in the Session

Parakalamos Blues vs. Pogonisio Jazz: Musical Creativity and Positionality Among Two Epirote Musicians

Gabriel Zuckerberg
Brown University

Mediterraneanist and Balkanist Cosmopolitan Visions at Greek Summer Music Seminars: Two Case Studies in Pedagogy and Performance

Dimitris Gkoulimaris
University of Texas at Austin

“A Crisis of Ideas”: Institutional Decay, Creative Stasis, and Musical Identity in Contemporary Bulgarian Folk Music

Nathan Bernacki
University of British Columbia

Anglo-Catholicism in Atlanta: Musicking Queerness and Neurodivergence in Liturgy

Charles Hudson Moss

Mercer University

Land of the Rat Kings: Queerness, Romaniness, and Popular Music in the Slovak Periphery

Dominika Moravcikova

Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University,

Sounding Transness: ‘Spliced Collage’ and the Co-Creation of Trans and Queer Storyworlds in Drag Performance

Sarah Cooper

University of Bristol

Hill Country Gay Boy: Topophilia, Queer Embodiment, and Myself in the Music of Sufjan Stevens

Brandon Lane Foskett

University of Texas at Austin

Rhyme and Flow in Tamil Rap

Shiva Ramkumar

Harvard University

Configuring Gender through Hip Hop: Subôi

Julia Catherine Santoli

CUNY Graduate Center,

From Shima-uta to Hip-Hop: Okinawan Popular Music and the Global Echoes of Black Musical Resistance

Qifang Hu

University of Texas at Austin

“Honour Your Mother and Father, Ya Bastards”: the New Masculinity in Aotearoa New Zealand Hip Hop

Susan Ashley Jacob

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa,

Music and the Commons: The Lost Resources and Infrastructures

Chair(s): Ana Hofman (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Ioanida Costache (Stanford University)

Discussant(s): Eric Drott (University of Texas at Austin)

Presentations in the Session

Resonances of the Commons: The Yugoslav Railway and the Infrastructures of Collective Music-Making

Ana Hofman
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

The Romani Commons: Extraction and Transformation

Ioanida Costache
Stanford University

Leisure Legibility, Bad Faith and Ecologies of Musical Expertise: Contesting the Commons

Ruard William Absaroka
University of Salzburg

Discussion

Eric Drott
UT Austin

Contemporary Latinx Immersive Opera

Alberto Varon

Indiana University

The Subtle Role of Cantonese Opera in Rethinking Hongkonger Identity

Matthew Antony Haywood

Macau University of Science and Technology

“Mediating Gender Beyond the Arja Stage: Comedic Cross-dressing and the Contemporary Balinese Liku”

Meghan Hynson¹, Wayan Sudirana²

1: University of San Diego,; 2: Institut Seni Indonesia, Denpasar

“Three Pre-dawn Scenes” ( “Choumo Yinchu” ), a Peking Drum Song: A Case Study of Formulaic Composition in Chinese Music

Xi Lu

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Why They Pressed Record: Musical Field Documentation in the Huasteca Region of Mexico

J.A. Strub

University of Texas at Austin,

Invisible Sonic Agency of Ethnographic Photos in the Study of Protest Soundscapes

Sara Fazeli Masayeh

University of Florida,

Islam, Grief, and Beauty: The Temporal Aporia of Grief in its Aesthetic and Temporal Dimension.

Hani Ahmed Zewail

University of California Santa Barbara,

Sounding Displacement: (Re)Imagining Kinship and Media in Bordeaux’s Urban Spaces

Benedict Turner-Berry

University of Cambridge

Writing Jazz Encounters: Questions of archives, affect, and transculturation

Chair(s): Katherine Brucher (DePaul University)

Presentations in the Session

When Outsiders Become Insiders: Riffs in the Creole of Color Community at the Birth of Jazz

Hannah Krall
Shaw University

Women College Musicians Take on the World: Gender in Cold War Jazz Diplomacy and Collegiate Jazz Programs

Kari Lindquist
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Angry Man of Jazz: Jazz, Coolness, and the Cultural Politics of Emotion

Varun Chandrasekhar
Washington University in St. Louis

“We’re Freaks like You”: Lester Bowie’s Sojourns in Poland (1994–1997)

Jenna Przybysz
Stanford University

Engaging Citizenship through Musical Communities: Three Different Approaches in Puerto Rican Music

Chair(s): Juan Eduardo Wolf (University of Oregon,), Hugo R. Viera-Vargas (Universidad Albizu, PR), Jaime O. Bofill-Calero (Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico)

Presentations in the Session

Los Pleneros de la 23 Abajo: Music, Community and Resistance

Hugo R. Viera-Vargas
Universidad Albizu, PR

Reimagining the Taino Past: Music, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in Puerto Rico

Jaime O. Bofill-Calero
Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico

Building a Local Community in the Homeland through Diasporic Experiences: the case of bomba mayagüezana

Juan Eduardo Wolf
University of Oregon

WE ARE NOT AFRAID: Music and Resistance in Apartheid Prisons

Janie Cole

University of Connecticut,

“Así Chiflamos”: Whistling Cadences in the Oaxaca City Garbage Dump

Kristen Leigh Graves

Universiy of Toronto

“We All Suffered as One Nation”: Nagorno-Karabakh War, Voice, and Martyrdom

Polina Dessiatnitchenko

Waseda University

Ready Player Two: Embodiment and Social Play in Multiplayer Virtual/Augmented Reality Rhythm/Dance Games

Ashley Ann Greathouse

University of South Carolina

Collective Musicking in the Digital Age: Participation, AI-Singing, and Virtual Community on Bilibili

ZIXUAN WANG

UT Austin,

Cyberspace, Threads, and AI Music: Music’s Role in Taiwan’s 2024 Blue Bird Movement

An-Ni Wei

Indiana University

On the Borders of ‘Music’: A Freshman Music Ontology

Gavin Douglas

University of North Carolina at Greensboro,

From Intercultural to Intermusical Aesthetics: Borderless Flow in Contemporary Korean Music

Mingyeong Son

Asian Music Research Institute of Seoul National University,

Sounding Across and Against Borders at the East German Festival of Political Songs in the Global Cold War

Jesse Aaron Freedman

University of Rochester - Eastman School of Music

Somos Mexicanos, No Somos Criminales: Sounding Resistance Through Chican@ Ska

Andrew Vogel

University of Florida,

Islamic Disco: Protest and Cultural Remix in Iran

Saman Montaseri

University of California, Los Angeles

Playlisting the City: “City Pop,” Alienated Listening, and the Aural Politics of Belonging in Postcolonial South Korea

Cody Black

Vanderbilt University

Reframing the Utility of Nostalgia in Gay Chorus Singers’ Recollections of Painful Pasts

Kevin C Schattenkirk

Longwood University

Trans and Queer Religious Expression in Brazil: Music, Mission work, and Queer-Indigenous Temporalities

Cahlia A. Plett

University of California Riverside,

“I Ain’t Livin’ Life My Mama’s Way”: Reframing Nostalgia in Bluegrass through Queer Songwriting

Emily Williams Roberts

University of Chicago

Cohesive Harmonies: an exploration of community music as a mechanism for active citizenship

Tenley Martin

Leeds Beckett University

Community Collaborative Participatory Musicking: A Tool for Fostering Community Empowerment, Community Well-Being, and Cultural Sustainability

Subash Giri

N/A

Learning to Arrive: Reimagining Ethnomusicology through Community-Driven Documentation

Emily Silks

University of Washington,

Black Keywords In Sound

Chair(s): april lashan graham-jackson (University of Chicago,), Allie Martin (Dartmouth College)

Presentations in the Session

Sampling With Critical Intention

Allie Martin
Dartmouth College

From Root to Route: Scaling Black Sonic Life Across Black Chicagoland

april l. graham-jackson
University of Chicago

Timbral Tidepools and Tales of The Tidewater Trio

Danielle Davis
Florida State University

Sound and Sociality in Modern Markets: Three Perspectives on Music and Commoditization

Chair(s): Duncan William Reehl (Boston University), Brian Barone (Berklee College of Music), Carlos Cuestas (CUNY Graduate Center)

Discussant(s): Marié Abe (University of California, Berkeley)

Presentations in the Session

Sounding Japanese Buddhism in the Attention Economy and Spiritual Marketplace

Duncan William Reehl
Boston University

Strumming Against Capital: Decommoditizing Son Jarocho through Radical Collectivities

Carlos Cuestas
CUNY Graduate Center

Domesticating Cuban Contradanza: Music, Social Reproduction, and the Value Form

Brian Barone
Berklee College of Music

Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the Ottoman Empire

Chair(s): Denise Gill (Stanford University)

Discussant(s): Denise Gill (Stanford University)

Presentations in the Session

Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatnâme and Ottoman Music Theory: Mythmaking and Textual Ethnography

Lara Balikci
The University of Chicago

Virtuosity as Resistance: Yorgo Bacanos and the Cosmopolitan Legacy of Ottoman Music

Adem Birson
New York University

Gazel: Rupture and Continuity in Vocal Improvisation in Ottoman Turkish Classical Music

Ahmet Erdogdular
Makam New York, Inc.

Discussion

Denise Gill
Stanford University

Activism and social awareness in afro-Brazilian music: Antiracist performances in Northeastern Brazil

Luis Ricardo Queiroz

Federal University of Paraiba,

Musical Micro-Resistances: Late-Night Sessions at the Irish Music Festival Afterparty

Tadhg Ó Meachair

Indiana University Bloomington

Global Tarana: Anthems of an Oppressed Ummah

Tomal Hossain

University of Chicago

Raving in Ukraine: A Restoration Effort

Kim Kattari

Texas A&M University

An Insistent Call and Response: Exploring the work and legacy of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon

Chair(s): Dwandalyn Reece (Smithsonian, Natl Mus of African American Hist & Culture,)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Maya Cunningham¹, Tammy Kernodle², Krystal Klingenberg³, Maureen Mahon⁴, Stephen Stacks⁵, Portia Maultsby^6
1University of Massachusetts, Amherst, ²Miami University, ³Smithsonian, NMAH, ⁴New York University, ⁵North Carolina Central University, ⁶Indiana University

Listening for India:The Sonic Politics of Hindu Heritage in Indo-Caribbean ‘Madrasi Religion’

Stephanie George

CUNY Graduate Center

Reviving Xiansuo Beikao: Historicity, Temporality, and the Construction of Social Strata

yang Yao

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Seoulizing Provincial Sound: Purification, Standardization, and Cultivation in the Aesthetic Practice of the State-driven Korean Folk Instrumental Ensemble

Sunhong Kim

University of Michigan

Demonstration Performance by Uweti Tsalagi Dininogisgi, the Cherokee Language Repertory Choir

Sara Hopkins

Western Carolina University

Asian/American Women in Performance: Trauma, Erasure, and Resilience

Chair(s): Yun Emily Wang (Duke University)

Presentations in the Session

Asiatic Femininity and the “Yellow Woman” in Western Classical Music

Shelley Zhang
Rutgers University

Beyond Release

Tomie Hahn
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

are we ready?

Lei X Ouyang
Swarthmore College

No Voice

Deborah Wong
University of California, Riverside

Film as Ethnography: Reflections from Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, Hurricane-Ravaged North Carolina, and Bloomington, Indiana

Chair(s): Rebecca Dirksen (Indiana University)

Discussant(s): Rebecca Dirksen (Indiana University)

Presentations in the Session

Tabanok

Rowan Glass
Indiana University

(Re)Building: Crafting Relief for Victims of Hurricane Helene

Robert McCormac
Indiana University

How I Hear the Blues: The Oral & Aural Narrative of Black America

Lamont Jack Pearley
Indiana University

Walk Over Here: Walkover Sounds and Stones and the People Who Love It (Part 1)

chloē noelle fourte
Indiana University

The Songs of Cicadas: The Dong People’s Diverse Imaginaries of Cicadas in Dong Music

Jerry Hu

Hong Kong

Listening to the Bees: Enhancing the Sound-Based Language of Apiology

Adriana Helbig

University of Pittsburgh

Atmospheric Sovereignty: Reclaiming Multi-Species Relations in Hawai‘i Exotica

Jade Conlee

University of Virginia

The Human Scale As Ethnomusicological Template

David W Samuels

New York University

Yogic Traditions and Sacred Sound Practices in the U.S.

Chair(s): Brita Renée Heimarck (Boston University,)

Discussant(s): Francesca Cassio (Hofstra University)

Presentations in the Session

Yoga, Sacred Sound, and Indian Music in the North American Context

Guy Beck
Tulane University

Archaeologies of Sacred Sound: Exploring the Sound Body of God

Brita Heimarck
Boston University

Contemporary Musical Expressions of Bhakti: The Kirtan Rabbi and the Changing Kirtan Culture of Los Angeles

Meghan Hynson
University of San Diego

Discussion

Francesca Cassio
Hofstra University

Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces

Chair(s): Maxwell Hiroshi Yamane (University of Oklahoma,)

Discussant(s): Beverley Diamond (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Presentations in the Session

Sonic Erasure in Idaho: The Land and Its People

Kimberly Marshall
University of Oklahoma

Sounding Indigenous Resurgence in Nacotchtank: Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces in the U.S. Capital

Maxwell Yamane
University of Oklahoma

Sonic Sovereignty and the Tactile Body: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling

Liz Przybylski¹, Tara "T-Rhyme" Campbell^2
1University of California Riverside, ²Independent

Discussion

Beverley Diamond
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Juntas Llorando: Radical Empathy, Collective Mourning, and Singing Grief Across Fronteras in América Latina

Chair(s): Hannah Snavely (Stephen F. Austin State University)

Presentations in the Session

Towards an Attentive Ethnomusicology: Affective Relationships and Griefwork in the Field

Hannah Snavely
Stephen F. Austin State University

Cántame la canción de la Mariquita: Performing and Embodying Grief, Homeland, and Immigrant Womanhood in UndocuAmerica’s SALSA Lotería

Teresita D. Lozano
University of Texas Rio Grande Valle

The Song Above, the Sorrow Below: Musical Expression of Loss and Grief-Singing in Animal Fertility Ritual, Q’eros, Peru

Holly Wissler
Texas State University

ReSounding the Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan and Communicating Grief Through Performance

Elisa G. Alfonso
University of Utah

Infusing the Khushboo in Diaspora: Exploring the musical soundscape of the Namdhari child in the UK

Janice Protopapas

Punjabi University, Patiala, India

Decolonial listening across Offa’s Dyke: English Music, Colonialism, and Cymru/Wales

Nalini Ghuman

Mills College at Northeastern University

Relics of Freedom: Resounding Hong Kong’s Muted Voices in Transnational Protests

Winnie W. C. Lai

Dartmouth College

The Sounds of Aguante: Necropolitics, Acoustemology, and Soccer Fandom in Chile

Luis Achondo

Memorial University

Aya Nakamura, Language Ideology, and Francophone Afrobeats at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics

Sarah Politz

The City College of New York

Affective Economies, Excitation Transfers, and Sonic Atmospheres in Argentine Soccer Stadiums

Eduardo Herrera

Indiana University,

Challenging Capitalist Realism in Ethnomusicology: Sound Praxis for an Anti-Capitalist Future

Chair(s): Ana Hofman (Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

Discussant(s): Samuel Araújo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Juliana Catinin
The Graduate Center, CUNY

N/A

Pedro Fadel
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

N/A

Agustina Checa
Lehman College, CUNY

N/A

Falina Enriquez
University of Wisconsin-Madison

N/A

Anaar Desai-Stephens
The Graduate Center, CUNY

Contemporary Black Music in Southern Europe

Chair(s): Deonte Harris (UNC)

Discussant(s): Deonte Harris (UNC)

Presentations in the Session

Príncipe Discos and the Sonic Politics of Afro Lisboa

Jacqueline Georgis
College of the Holy Cross

Transforming Spain’s Cultural Scene: Music collectives and the Rise of Afro-descendant Communities

Genevieve Allotey-Pappoe
Brown University

Nero a metà, in realtà: Black-Italian Musicians Sounding the Global South

Clifton Boyd
NYU

South Asian Artistic Pedagogy in Transnational Perspective

Chair(s): Sarah Morelli (University of Denver)

Presentations in the Session

Guru-Sisya Parampara in the U.S. Diaspora

Varshini Narayanan
University of Chicago

Re-Rooting the Art, Re-Routing the Body: Unlearning to Learn the T. Balasaraswati Dance Tradition in the United States

Bianca Iannitti
Wesleyan University

Pathways to Tamil Diaspora Worship through Ragam Education in the U.S.

Rachel Schuck
University of North Texas

“Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)”. An Ethnography of Busking, Well-being, and Aging

Melanie Ptatscheck

New York University

Streaming the Streets: Pumba, Digital Fandom, and the Politics of Aging in South Korea

Jeongin Lee

N/A

Rejuvenation through Remembering: Sonic care at night clubs for the aging in northern Mozambique

Ellen Hebden

Syracuse University

Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography

Russell Skelchy

RILM

The Las Cruces International Mariachi Conference: Redefining Performance Hierarchies on the Student Showcase Stage

Melissa Michelle Rios

University of New Mexico

From Salon to Stage: The All Bengal Music Conference and the Public Life of Hindustani Music

Pramantha Mohon Tagore

University of Chicago

Singing in Times of Crisis: Collective Singing, Social Trust, and Cultural Resilience in the Scandinavian and Baltic Regions

Lea Wierød Borčak, Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig, Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa

Aarhus University

Sound, Identity, and Resistance: Music and Sonic Practices in Marginalized Communities in Iran

Chair(s): Azadeh Vatanpour (Emory University,)

Presentations in the Session

Music, Ritual, and Community: Participatory Performance in Yārsān Religious Practice

Sirvan Manhoobi
N/A

Sounding Kurdish, Singing Kurdishness: The Cultural Connotation of Hasan Zirak’s Voice in Iran

Kajwan Ziaoddini
University of Maryland

Sounding the Divine: Yārsān Sacred Soundscapes and the Politics of Sonic Resistance in Iran

Azadeh Vatanpour
Emory University

Pathway of the Chants: Transported Soundscapes across the Austronesian World

Chun-bin Chen

Taipei National University of the Arts

Work Songs and Aura: We can take the song out of the field, but can we keep the meaning in the song?

Sally Mehreteab

New York, NY

Decolonizing Ethnomusicological Practice: Power Relations and Representation in Ugandan Court Song Research

Damascus Kafumbe

Middlebury COllege

On the Global Study of Timbre

Jason Reid Winikoff

University of British Columbia

Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public (Ethno)Musicology

Reba Wissner

Columbus State University

Echoes from the Bengal Tiger: Towards a Transcultural (Micro)historical Musicology

Samuel B. Cushman

University of California, Santa Cruz