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

Janie Cole

University of Connecticut,

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,

Music Crosses Time and Space: From Ancient Chinese Poetry to Modern English Song – A Study Case of SU Shih’s “Prelude to Water Melody”

Gene Hsu

VerseVoice.org, UK

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,

Decolonizing the Classical Saxophone Field: Operating Within “Otherness” as a Singaporean Saxophonist

Yun Qu Tan

University of Georgia

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): Vicky Mogollón Montagne (University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music)

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)

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)

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

Zachary Moreau

Florida State University

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

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

Moshe Morad

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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

Chair(s): Eric Crawford (Morehouse College)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Erika Carter (Georgia), Brenton Jordan (Georgia), Quintina Carter-Enyi (University of Georgia), Griffin Lotson (Gullah Commission)

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

Communal 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

Ella 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

University College Cork, Ireland