Music, Power, and Agency in the 16^th- and 17^th-Century Kingdom of Kongo

Janie Cole

University of Connecticut,

The “Burundi Beat”: Appropriation and Opportunity in 1980s Global Pop

James Revell Carr

University of Kentucky,

Tuning to Fit In: The Reform of the Miao Lusheng and the Construction of Modern Chinese Soundscape in Post-1949 China"

Zhishan Cai

Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University,

BEZMARA’S FATE: Why the Ottoman Early Music Movement Never Took Off

Mehmet Ali Sanlikol

New England Conservatory,

Instrument Making and Sound Design in Son Jarocho: A Multispecies Eco-Organology

Jay Michael Loomis

Brown University

The 'Cantonisation' of Violin and Hawaiian Guitar: Instrumental Adaptation and Performance Practice in Early Twentieth-Century China

Tsz-ching Tung

The University of Hong Kong

The Charango in History. Between Reification and Symbolic Reduction

Julio Mendivil

University of Vienna,

Situating the Sape’ in a 21^st Century Soundscape

Melanie Henderson

Dallas International University

Secular Trance in Cultural Context: The Dynamics of Body, Emotion, and Entrainment

Tasaw Hsin-chun Lu

Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Musicology at National Taiwan University

Maqsum Rebranded: Affective Colonial Remaking of Rhythm in White Feminist Spirituality

Sinem Eylem Arslan

University of Toronto

From Maqām to Makam: Syrian Musicians and the Cultural Dynamics of Forced Migration in Türkiye

Dunya Habash

University of Cambridge

Emboided Cartographies: Choreographic Tools For Place-Making

Autumn Eckman

Kennesaw State University,

The Rise of Anti-Fascist Black Metal: Combatting White Supremacy in the US Metal Scene

Meghan Creek

Minneapolis, MN

Revenge Anthems: Violence and Gender in Country Music

Alexis K Baril

University of Alberta

Black Opry’s Radiophonic Alternatives

Fiona Boyd

University of Chicago

School Shootings, Cultural Action, and the Arrival of an Unnerving Musical Tradition

Daniel Vidales

University of California Riverside

Panel Title: Music and Publics in Emerging Democracies in Africa

Chair(s): Charles Lwanga (University of Michigan,)

Presentations in the Session

Japa Syndrome: The 'Postcolonial Normal', Popular Music, and the Precarities of Youth Social Movements in Fourth Republic Nigeria (1999-)

Joshua Kerobo
University of Michigan

Music and Bobi Wine’s ‘People Power’ Counterpublic in Uganda

Charles Lwanga
University of Michigan

Musical Publics and Counterpublics in Central Cameroon

Dueck Byron
The Open University

Sweating the Details: Policy Capture and Protest Music in the 2024 Senegalese Presidential Election

Brendan Kibbee
University of Maryland

Jazz Stories

Chair(s): Maurice Restrepo (Graduate Center, City University of New York), Tracy McMullen (Bowdoin College)

Presentations in the Session

Jazz as Storytelling: Musical and Linguistic Metaphoricity in Jazz

Juwon Adenuga
University of Pittsburgh

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Archie Alleyne and Black Placemaking in Toronto

Keisha Bell-Kovacs
York University

Jam Sessions, Vibing, and Hegemonic Masculinity in the New York City Jazz Scene

Maurice Restrepo
Graduate Center, City University of New York

The Women Who Started Jazz: Gonzelle White, Count Basie, and the Variety Stage

Tracy McMullen
Bowdoin College

Straining to Hear Palestine: Al-Khalidi’s Radical Act of Listening During British Mandate

Kira Gaillard

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Listening to White Supremacy: Race, Space and the Canadian Sonic Imaginary

Gale Franklin

Carleton University,

Localism and Nationalism: The Politics of Cantonese Music in Hong Kong

Kai Sze Jessica Fung

Saint Francis University

Silenced voices, resilient sounds: Devadāsī songs in the periya mēḷam temple repertoire

William Tallotte

Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (IReMus), CNRS - Sorbonne Université

Working with the Algorithm: Surveillance Capitalism, Digital Labor, and Crises of Value in Online Virtuosities

David VanderHamm

Johnson County Community College

Precarity of Virtualization: Layered Displacement in the Kurdish Exile Museum's Audio Collections

Ashley Nicole Thornton

The University of Texas at Austin

Pluralising Bias in Music AI: Specialized Data Architectures for a World of Musical Idioms

Jonathan Benjamin Myers

University of California, Santa Cruz

The Disruption of Encoded Gender in Pop Music— A Comparative Study of Technology, Sound Design, and Female Agency in U.S. Pop and Mandopop/C-pop

Adai Song

University of Virginia

Transnational Perspectives in Música Urbana: Music Production, Style Hybridy, and Cultural Resonance in Contemporary Reggaetón and Reparto

Chair(s): Kaleb Goldschmitt (Wellesley College)

Presentations in the Session

“Estos son los códigos”: Musical Creation and Sonic Value in Producing Reggaeton

Jorge Luis Mercado-Méndez
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Va a tener que cantar reparto”: Money, Community, the Clave, and the Tresillo

Mike Levine
Christopher Newport University

Everything Comes From La Mata: Musical Genealogies and Creation in Chilean Reggaetón

Ana María Díaz-Pinto
University of California, Davis

Bad Bunny, Yonaguni, and Japón: Japanese Perceptions of Latin American Popular Music

Kelsey Milian-Lopez
City University of New York

Sonic and Affective Spirituality in Caribbean Music and Rituals

Chair(s): Michael Birenbaum Quintero (Boston University)

Presentations in the Session

Fuerza: Music and (In)Humanity in Venezuelan Espiritismo Marialioncero

Vicky Mogollón Montagne
University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music

Bachata as Velación: Amargue’s Afro-Dominican Spiritual Praxis

Wilfredo José Burgos Matos
Lehman College

Sonic Gestures: Sound and Territorial Politics in Urban Afro-Cuban Music

Pablo D. Herrera Veitia
Habana Hiphop

My body is in Cuba but my mind is in Africa

Ivor Miller
N/A

International Musical Entities in the 21^st Century: The Impacts of Global and Transnational Flows

Chair(s): John Pippen (Colorado State University)

Presentations in the Session

African American jazz in diaspora: The case of Denmark’s Rytmisk Musik conservatories

Leslie C. Gay Jr.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

See Local, Listen Global: Perceiving “Knoxvillian” at the Big Ears Festival

Nicholas Horner
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Colorado City Music Festival: Mormonism, Intercultural Hospitality, and Secular Ideals

Mehrenegar Rostami
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Zamanavi or Emruzi: Music as a Gateway to the World

Hiwa Hawaii
N/A

Culture Work as Care Work: Music Education and Refugee Resilience at the Simrishamn Kulturskola

Carrie Ann Danielson

Florida State University

Rehearsing Community: Queer Choral Musicking and the Politics of Care

Charlotte Olivia Stewart-Juby

Carleton University

From ethnomusicology to health sciences research: The importance of lived experience in the design of patient-oriented interventions

Theresa Allison

University of California, San Francisco

Aztec Dance Spaces: Healing and the Ethics of Scholarship in a Fraught Moment

Kristina Nielsen

Southern Methodist University

Alliances and Intersections on the Margins of the Sinophone

Chair(s): Charlotte D'Evelyn (Skidmore College,)

Presentations in the Session

Sounding Queer Indigeneity: Adju Performativity, Nandao Narratives, and Trans-Indigenous Alliance in Taiwan

Yuan-Yu Kuan
University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Transnational Networks and Musical Boundary-Making in Inner Mongolia, China

Charlotte D'Evelyn
Skidmore College

Yunnan Reggae: Music, Minoritization, and Afro-Asian Imaginaries in Southwest China

Adam Kielman
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sounding Sufism: Diasporic Approaches to Contemporary Music Forms

Chair(s): Payam Yousefi (University of Florida,)

Presentations in the Session

Awakened Hearts: Remembrance and Listening as Creative Process in the Contemporary Sufi Music of the MTO Shahmaghsoudi Zendeh Delan Ensemble

Payam Yousefi
University of Florida

Invoking the Unseen: The Virtues and Virtuosities of Sufi Jazz

Mark Lomanno
Assistant Professor, University of Miami

Sufi Aesthetics and Musical Minimalism: Sonic Desolation in the Music of Arooj Aftab

Sonia Gaind-Krishnan
University of the Pacific

Refugees, Forced-Migration, and Ethnomusicology: What Can We Do?

Chair(s): Lisa Gilman (George Mason University)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Harvard University

N/A

Jennifer Sherrill
University of California Davis

N/A

David A. McDonald
Indiana University

N/A

Bradley DeMatteo
University of Toronto

N/A

Tomal Hossain
University of Chicago

Sounding Global Fascism: Inter-Axis Musical Exchange between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany

Chair(s): Junko Oba (Hampshire College)

Presentations in the Session

Broadcasting German-Japanese Relations, Richard Strauss’s 70th Birthday

Amanda Hsieh
Durham University

Harbin-Papa, Berlin-Mama? Inter-Axis Record Circulation and Russian Diaspora

Ryan Gourley
University of California, Berkeley

The Revolution will be Broadcasted: Reimagining Music in Imperial Japan through Inter-Axis Music Learning

Emily Lu
Florida State University

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

Conny Zhao

NYC, NY

Negotiating Spirituality in Intercultural Improvisation

Chao Tian

Boston University, Boston, MA

Fritz Bose and the Concept of Race in Comparative Musicology

Martin Ringsmut

University of Vienna

Engineering the Minorities: Folk Music, Indigenous Peoples, and the Creation of Ethnicities in China

Kai Tang

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

"We Are Not Like the Blacks from Other Places": Afro-Peruvian Musicians, Elite Racializing Representations, and Grassroots Agency (1920-1955)

Rodrigo Chocano

University of Vienna

Discourses of Improvisation and Musical Essence in Korean Music: 21^st Century Perspectives

R.. Anderson Sutton

University of Hawaii at Manoa,

Makwa: Rhythm and Improvisation in Zimbabwean Handclapping

Jennifer W Kyker

University of Rochester

Unity in Diversity: Regional Identity in Improvised Variations in North Balinese Sekatian

Oscar Smith

University of British Columbia

De-Westernizing the Modern Chinese Orchestra: The Past and the Present

Yun Hao

Boston University, College of Fine Arts

Afro-Asian Cross-Cultural Encounters: Nigerian Drummers and South Korean Samulnori

Abiodun Adisa

Wesleyan University,

Communist Gamelan in Game Modding

Reid Sherwood Orphan

N/A

Time Travel, Sonic Portals, and Reclaiming Black Musical Futures

Chair(s): Alisha Lola Jones Skinner (University of Cambridge)

Presentations in the Session

Lessons from Lemonade and the Future of Interdisciplinary Black Music Courses

Birgitta Johnson
University of South Carolina

Aemilia Bassano, Muse of the Dark Lady Portal: Black Women Channeling Verse & Reclaiming the Shakespearean Legacy

Alisha Lola Jones Skinner
University of Cambridge

Black Gospel Revelations: Time Travel and Sonic Afrofuturism in Contemporary Gospel Music

Lauren Elizabeth Eldridge Stewart
Washington University in St. Louis

“Welcome to Montero”: Lil Nas X’s Transmedia Storytelling and/as Queer World-Building

Gabriella Saporito-Emler

Florida State University

Reimagining Soundscapes: Cultural Encoding and Aural Narratives in Chinese Shadow Puppetry

Jinyizhuo Wang

Xi'an Conservatory of Music

Preserving Indigenous Musics Survived in Oral Tradition: A Multilingual Parallel Corpus

LIJUAN QIAN, KEYI LIU

University College Cork, Ireland