Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the SEM 2025 Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early October.
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Session Overview |
| Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025 | ||||
| 7:00am - 9:00am |
Council Breakfast Location: L-504 |
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| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Conference Registration Location: Imperial Registration |
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| 8:00am - 12:30pm |
SEM Board Location: President's Suite Closed Meeting |
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| 8:30am - 10:30am |
11A: Traditional Transformations Location: M-301 Presenter: John C Walsh, University of Wisconsin, Madison Presenter: Abraham Landa, University of Oregon Presenter: Inbar Shifrin, Brandeis University Presenter: Yanxiazi Gao The Rise and Fall of the Azmaribet: Traditional Music Venues as Urban Form in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia University of Wisconsin, Madison, 9:00am - 9:30am Fluidity in Tradition: Gender and the Chilena in Costa Chica University of Oregon, 9:30am - 10:00am Shifting Sounds of Yemen in Ofra Haza's music Brandeis University 10:00am - 10:30am Classical Music as Cultural Capital: The Lived Experiences and Harmful Stereotypes of Gen-Z Asian American Pianists Skillman, New Jersey |
11B: Sounding the Environment Location: M-302 Presenter: Daniel Benson Sharp, Tulane University Presenter: Haiqiong Deng, Florida State University Presenter: Elizabeth Frickey Musical Responses to the Flooded Ruins of a Brazilian Hydroelectric Project Tulane University, 9:00am - 9:30am Sounding Nature: An Ecomusicological Perspective on Ancient Chinese Guqin Music Florida State University 9:30am - 10:00am Sounding the “Ecological City”: Politics of Audibility in the Urban Garden New York University |
11C: Drumming Across Cultures Location: M-303 Presenter: Tim Murray, University of Florida Presenter: Andrew Aprile, City College of New York, CUNY Presenter: Michelle Anne Rudder, University of Leeds Presenter: Eve A. Ma, Palomino Productions Inuit Drum Dancing and the Unfolding Taskscape University of Florida, 9:00am - 9:30am Weave Notation: Visualizing Kadodo with a Color-Coded Metric Matrix City College of New York, CUNY 9:30am - 10:00am The African Influence in Panorama Steelband Music: Illustrated in the Panorama Music of Leon “Smooth” Edwards composer-arranger for the Trinidad All Stars steelband. University of Leeds, Leeds, England 10:00am - 10:30am From Box to Cajón: Peta's Heritage Palomino Productions, |
11D: Interrogating Gender and Identity Location: M-304 Presenter: Christopher Andrew Hodges Presenter: Susan Gary Walters, SIL Global/ Dallas International University Presenter: Daniel Party, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Sing Music, Experience Change: New England Sacred Harp as a realization of political ideology Boston University 9:00am - 9:30am Mapping the Functions of Local Song Genres: A Global Analysis Using the Song Genre Dataset SIL Global/ Dallas International University, 9:30am - 10:00am Latinidad and the Billboard Hot Latin Songs Chart (1986-2024) Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 10:00am - 10:30am The Warrior Songstress: Transcendent Listening Aesthetics, Memory, and Music Making for Black Women in the Central Valley of California University of California, Merced |
| 11E: In the Classroom Location: M-101 Presenter: Sumeet Anand Presenter: Robin P. Harris, Dallas International University Presenter: Rubens De La Corte Presenter: Scott Spencer, University of Southern California Hindustani classical music and evolving hybrid pedagogy: Experential recounting and implications for learning and practise Visiting Associate Professor Department of Ethnomusicology Herb Alpert School of Music UCLA 9:00am - 9:30am Integrating Analysis, Embodiment, and Ethnography: A Participatory Approach to Teaching Ethnoarts Dallas International University, 9:30am - 10:00am Reimagining Lutherie Education in Argentina and Brazil: Towards Inclusive, Collective, and Sustainable Frameworks Graduate Center-CUNY 10:00am - 10:30am Digital Humanities in the World Music Classroom: Fostering Peer-Built Diversity and Inclusivity University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music |
11F: Exchanges and Transactions Location: M-102 Presenter: Jameson Foster Presenter: Felix Morgenstern, University of Limerick Presenter: Upatyaka Dutta, University of Toronto Presenter: Holly Riley, Middle Tennessee State University Down in the River to Pray: Animist Exchange in Nordic Fiddling University of Colorado Boulder 9:00am - 9:30am Intercultural Transactions: Irish Traditional Music, Nationalism, and Nostalgia in Germany University of Limerick 9:30am - 10:00am Acoustemologies of Labor: Sound, Music, and Survival in the Workplaces of Adivasi Tea Tribes on Assam's Tea Plantations University of Toronto 10:00am - 10:30am Broadway’s Bars and Stars: Celebrity Capitalism and Brand Identity in Country Music Middle Tennessee State University, |
11G: Noise and Silence Location: M-103 Presenter: Tyler Jordan Presenter: Christopher Copley Presenter: Yu Hsuan Liao, Duke University Presenter: Hannah Marie Junco, University of Pennsylvania Unsilenced Bodies: Trauma in Queer Noise Music Duke University 9:00am - 9:30am “The Sound of a Positive Dollar:” The Chicago Bucket Boys and Contestations of Public Spaces Within Chicago’s Street Music Noise Ordinance Debates New York University 9:30am - 10:00am Silencing the Nature: The Aesthetic-moralism and Westernization beyond the mountainous Silence Trail in Taiwan Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, Duke University 10:00am - 10:30am “Loud and Unnecessary Noise": Drum Circles in Miami Beach as a Space of Socio-Political Dissensus University of Pennsylvania, |
11H: Singing and Spirituality Location: M-104/105 Presenter: Ben Griffin, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Presenter: Golam Rabbani, Toronto Metropolitan University Presenter: Hicham Chami, Yale University Presenter: Timothy Mangin, Boston College Bondye fè l: Singing Resilience in Central Ohio’s Haitian Protestant Churches University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music 9:00am - 9:30am Spiritual Resonances of Maizbhandari Songs: Eco-Centrism, Adivasi Rights, and Resistance in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh Toronto Metropolitan University 9:30am - 10:00am Singing the Walī: Moulay Abdeslam, Resonant Reverence, and the Poetics of Devotion Yale University, 10:00am - 10:30am “Echoes of Devotion: Sonic Sufism, Senegalese Pop, and the Afrodiaspora” Boston College |
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| 11I: Jazz and coloniality in the Netherlands Location: M-106/107 Chair: Floris Schuiling, Utrecht University Jazz and coloniality in the Netherlands Presentations in the Session Postcolonial Melancholia and the Sonic Golden Age: White Supremacist Nation-Building in the Netherlands Whiteness and free improvisation in the Netherlands c. 1970 Formal Dutch jazz education and the colonial politics of power Menjadi perantau: delayed diaspora and indigeneity in Maluku-Dutch improvised music |
11J: Sounding Black Musical Histories Location: M-109 Presenter: Andre Jamal Cardine, Indiana University Bloomington Presenter: Krystal Klingenberg Presenter: Benjamin P. Skoronski, Cornell University Presenter: Stefan Fiol, University of Cincinnati Title: Internal/External Sustainability Practices: Toward a Critical Fusion Development (CFD) in Arts Based Education Indiana University Bloomington 9:00am - 9:30am Collected: Creating a Museum Black History Podcast Smithsonian - National Museum of American History 9:30am - 10:00am Thomas W. Talley's Harlem Renaissance Musicology Cornell University 10:00am - 10:30am Researching Sonic Gentrification as a Catalyst for Ethical Engagement and Service Learning University of Cincinnati |
11K: Music and Political Climates Location: L-506/507 From Counter-Publics to Citizens: Understanding Folklorization through the Burrakatha University of Pennsylvania 9:00am - 9:30am Turkey’s Paradoxical Sounds of Complicity—Or, the Logic of Populist Culture UC Berkeley 9:30am - 10:00am Campaign Songs as Musical Manifestos in Ghanaian Electoral Politics Loyola Marymount University, 10:00am - 10:30am A Relational Paradigm for Political Geographies of Belonging George Mason University |
11L: Bridging Musical Pasts and Futures Location: L-508 The Sampling of Brazilian Music in Hip-Hop: Material and Historical Networks CUNY Graduate Center 9:00am - 9:30am Echoes of what might have been: hearing speculative futurity in KOZO's Tokyo Metabolist Syndrome Johns Hopkins University 9:30am - 10:00am Musical Journey Of Azerbaijani Mugham Brooklyn,NY 10:00am - 10:30am Negotiating Spirituality in Intercultural Improvisation Boston University, Boston, MA |
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12A: Religiosity and/as Celebration Location: M-301 Presenter: Uri Schreter Presenter: Matthew Williams, University of York “As Natural to Me as Breathing”: Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City Harvard University 11:15am - 11:45am Gospel, the Monarchy, and the Politics of Representation in British Popular Culture University of York 11:45am - 12:15pm The Return of the Prayer: Navigating Identity through Cantonese Contemporary Christian Music in Postcolonial Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
12B: From Marginalization to Empowerment Location: M-302 Presenter: Yuxin Mei Presenter: Fernando Rios, University of Maryland Presenter: MingLei Niu, Xi'an Conservatory of Music From Courtesans to Clickbait: Gender, Power, and the Persistent Marginalization of Women in China’s Pipa Tradition University of North Texas 11:15am - 11:45am “Mujer Sandinista” (“Sandinista Woman”): The Nueva Canción Band Sabiá and the Intersections between the US-Central America Solidarity and Feminist/Women’s Movements University of Maryland 11:45am - 12:15pm Empowering Women Through Song: Analyzing Music and Gender Expression in Chinese Coal Mining Communities Amid Social Transformation Xi'an Conservatory of Music, |
12C: Embodied Knowledge Location: M-303 Presenter: Gus Dalan Holley, UC Berkeley Presenter: James Gabrillo Presenter: Erika Jean Soveranes, University of North Texas Heterokinesis as Embodied Knowledge Production: China’s New Music Historiographies University of California Berkeley 11:15am - 11:45am Embodied Listening, Sonic Mediation, and Ivo Van Hove’s Theatrical Liveness University of Texas at Austin 11:45am - 12:15pm Tradición al Talón: Mariachi, Identity and Embodying Tradition Through Musical Work University of North Texas, |
12D: Asian Metal Scenes Location: M-304 Presenter: Luigi Monteanni, SOAS, University of London Presenter: Qian Sun, University of Florida Presenter: Mark Hsiang-Yu Feng Gangsters And Kings: Sundanese Indigeneity And Cosmopolitanism In The Bandung Death Metal Scene SOAS, University of London, 11:15am - 11:45am Zuriaake’s “Li Gui”: Abjection, Gender, and Horror Aesthetics in Chinese Black Metal University of Florida, 11:45am - 12:15pm Global Metal, Local Struggles: White Supremacy and Internalized Orientalism in Taiwanese Metal University of California, Davis |
| 12E: Listening to Visual Cultures Location: M-101 Presenter: Melanie Kaye Moseley, University of Pittsburgh Presenter: Kevin Salfen, University of the Incarnate word Statutory Rape and R&B: How a Documentary Influenced the Conviction of R. Kelly University of Pittsburgh 11:15am - 11:45am "Phoenix Fire": From Shinsaku Noh to Film University of the Incarnate Word 11:45am - 12:15pm Collaborative composition approaches for Balinese gamelan on screen and stage Australian National University |
12F: Voices in Context Location: M-102 Presenter: Hansini Bhasker, Wesleyan University Presenter: Cheuk Ling Yu, University of California San Diego Presenter: Jiyoon Auo, University of Pittsburgh Class(ical) Voice: Evolution and Association of Operatic Vibrato in American Pop Culture Wesleyan University 11:15am - 11:45am Male Voices for Female Fans: A Paradox of Women’s Liberation in Contemporary Japanese Anime Franchises University of California San Diego 11:45am - 12:15pm Listening for Vocal Agency: T’ŭrot’ŭ, Enka, and Yi Nanyŏng’s Negotiation of Colonial Voice University of Pittsburgh, |
12H: Being, Breathing, and Aliveness: Transforming Shared Space through Movement Location: M-104/105 Being, Breathing, and Aliveness: Transforming Shared Space through Movement Presentations in the Session Feather’s Breath, Spirit’s Mouth: Phono-choreography at the Chefoo School for the Deaf The Politics of Audibility and Visibility in Basque Plaza Dances Black Aliveness – A Drummer’s Take: Black Nationalist Music, Black Music Criticism, Black Worlding, 1965-1969 |
12I: Games, Play, and Festivals Location: M-106/107 “All My Music is Based off My Home Games:”Musical Literacy and Public Play in Tabletop Role-Playing Game Fan Conventions University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11:15am - 11:45am Transnationalism and South-South Connections in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival University of South Carolina 11:45am - 12:15pm “At the End of the Street”: The Marching Band as a Sonic Marker of U.S. American Identity University of Texas at Austin |
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| 12J: Music and Mysticism Location: M-109 Chair: Subash Giri Presenter: SHAHWAR KIBRIA MAQHFI, UCLA Music and Mysticism Presentations in the Session Indo-Islamic Music in South Asia: Local and Hyperlocal contexts of performance The Yoga of Sound: Mediating and Marketing a Unifying Spiritual Framework through Global Networks Hearing tiqqun: Kabbalistic Music and the Rectification of the World |
12K: Identity and Preservation Location: L-506/507 Open Online Communities as a Mediation Between Musical Culture and Sustainability: A Case Study of Maame Ode. University of Florida, 11:15am - 11:45am Performing the Kyrgyz Epic Manas in Contemporary Times: An Endeavor to Preserve the Oral Tradition Wesleyan University 11:45am - 12:15pm Resonance in Exile: Young Afghan Musicians, Diasporic Identity, and Cultural Preservation in the United States Independent Scholar, New Haven |
12L: Media and Music Location: L-508 Presenter: Panayotis League Presenter: Kieran Casey, Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University #winning: Folk Dance Competitions and Mediated Authenticity in Greek America Florida State University 11:15am - 11:45am The Magic of Musubi: Shintoism in the Soundtrack of Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, 11:45am - 12:15pm I’m Walkin’ Here!: Experiencing New York City’s Punk Scene through Bootleg Cassette Tapes 1: Cornell University; 2: Syracuse University |
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