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)

Thirteen Hundred Years in a Glance: Hani Harvest Song during the Kuzaza Festival

Ziwen Zhang

University of Iowa

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

WE ARE NOT AFRAID: Music and Resistance in Apartheid Prisons

Janie Cole

University of Connecticut,

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,

Reclaiming the Voice: The Naxi Metal Fusion of Five Penalties and the Sonic Subversion of "Authentic" World Music

Ruxin Li

No.2 High School of East China Normal University

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)

“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

Negotiating Geo-Cultural Identity Through Contemporary Urtyn Duu Across Mongolia and China: A Tale of Two Singers

Conny Zhao

NYC, NY

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,

THERE ARE NO DWELLERS, ONLY BUYERS: GENTRIFICATION, TOURISTIFICATION, AND THE URBAN AURAL SPHERE IN MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA.

Juan Fernando Velasquez

University of Houston, Moores School of Music

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

Gavin Douglas

University of North Carolina at Greensboro,

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

Art and Desolation: The Practice of Art in Tbilisi's War-Initiated Communities

Christopher Paul Troutman

Dallas International University

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

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

Raving in Ukraine: A Restoration Effort

Kim Kattari

Texas A&M University

The Ballad of Janek Wiśniewski: For Bread and Freedom and a New Poland

James Deutsch

Smithsonian Institution

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 Cunningham (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Tammy Kernodle (Miami University), Krystal Klingenberg (Smithsonian, NMAH), Maureen Mahon (New York University), Stephen Stacks (North Carolina Central University), Portia Maultsby (Indiana 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 Przybylski (University of California Riverside), Tara "T-Rhyme" Campbell (Independent)

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

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)

Espacio Afro: Music, Community, and the Politics of Belonging in Catalonia

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, West Chester University of PA)

“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

Jeong-in Lee

University of Southern California

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

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