The Rise and Fall of the Azmaribet: Traditional Music Venues as Urban Form in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

John C Walsh

University of Wisconsin, Madison,

Fluidity in Tradition: Gender and the Chilena in Costa Chica

Abraham Landa

University of Oregon,

Shifting Sounds of Yemen in Ofra Haza's music

Inbar Shifrin

Brandeis University

Classical Music as Cultural Capital: The Lived Experiences and Harmful Stereotypes of Gen-Z Asian American Pianists

Matthew Sehjin Lim

Skillman, New Jersey

Musical Responses to the Flooded Ruins of a Brazilian Hydroelectric Project

Daniel Benson Sharp

Tulane University,

Sounding Nature: An Ecomusicological Perspective on Ancient Chinese Guqin Music

Haiqiong Deng

Florida State University

Sounding the “Ecological City”: Politics of Audibility in the Urban Garden

Elizabeth Frickey

New York University

Inuit Drum Dancing and the Unfolding Taskscape

Tim Murray

University of Florida,

Weave Notation: Visualizing Kadodo with a Color-Coded Metric Matrix

Andrew Aprile

City College of New York, CUNY

The African Influence in Panorama Steelband Music: Illustrated in the Panorama Music of Leon “Smooth” Edwards composer-arranger for the Trinidad All Stars steelband.

Michelle Anne Rudder

University of Leeds, Leeds, England

From Box to Cajón: Peta's Heritage

Eve A. Ma

Palomino Productions,

Sing Music, Experience Change: New England Sacred Harp as a realization of political ideology

Christopher Andrew Hodges

Boston University

Mapping the Functions of Local Song Genres: A Global Analysis Using the Song Genre Dataset

Susan Gary Walters

SIL Global/ Dallas International University,

Latinidad and the Billboard Hot Latin Songs Chart (1986-2024)

Daniel Party

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

The Warrior Songstress: Transcendent Listening Aesthetics, Memory, and Music Making for Black Women in the Central Valley of California

Chiquitha Aminsalehi

University of California, Merced

Hindustani classical music and evolving hybrid pedagogy: Experential recounting and implications for learning and practise

Sumeet Anand

Visiting Associate Professor Department of Ethnomusicology Herb Alpert School of Music UCLA

Integrating Analysis, Embodiment, and Ethnography: A Participatory Approach to Teaching Ethnoarts

Robin P. Harris

Dallas International University,

Reimagining Lutherie Education in Argentina and Brazil: Towards Inclusive, Collective, and Sustainable Frameworks

Rubens De La Corte

Graduate Center-CUNY

Digital Humanities in the World Music Classroom: Fostering Peer-Built Diversity and Inclusivity

Scott Spencer, Giulia Bratosin

University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music

Down in the River to Pray: Animist Exchange in Nordic Fiddling

Jameson Foster

University of Colorado Boulder

Intercultural Transactions: Irish Traditional Music, Nationalism, and Nostalgia in Germany

Felix Morgenstern

University of Limerick

Acoustemologies of Labor: Sound, Music, and Survival in the Workplaces of Adivasi Tea Tribes on Assam's Tea Plantations

Upatyaka Dutta

University of Toronto

Broadway’s Bars and Stars: Celebrity Capitalism and Brand Identity in Country Music

Holly Riley

Middle Tennessee State University,

Unsilenced Bodies: Trauma in Queer Noise Music

Tyler Jordan

Duke University

“The Sound of a Positive Dollar:” The Chicago Bucket Boys and Contestations of Public Spaces Within Chicago’s Street Music Noise Ordinance Debates

Christopher Copley

New York University

Silencing the Nature: The Aesthetic-moralism and Westernization beyond the mountainous Silence Trail in Taiwan

Yu Hsuan Liao

Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, Duke University

“Loud and Unnecessary Noise": Drum Circles in Miami Beach as a Space of Socio-Political Dissensus

Hannah Marie Junco

University of Pennsylvania,

Bondye fè l: Singing Resilience in Central Ohio’s Haitian Protestant Churches

Ben Griffin

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Spiritual Resonances of Maizbhandari Songs: Eco-Centrism, Adivasi Rights, and Resistance in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Golam Rabbani

Toronto Metropolitan University

Singing the Walī: Moulay Abdeslam, Resonant Reverence, and the Poetics of Devotion

Hicham Chami

Yale University,

“Echoes of Devotion: Sonic Sufism, Senegalese Pop, and the Afrodiaspora”

Timothy Mangin

Boston College

Jazz and coloniality in the Netherlands

Chair(s): Floris Schuiling (Utrecht University,)

Presentations in the Session

Postcolonial Melancholia and the Sonic Golden Age: White Supremacist Nation-Building in the Netherlands

Thomas Overdijk (Utrecht University)

Whiteness and free improvisation in the Netherlands c. 1970

Floris Schuiling (Utrecht University)

Formal Dutch jazz education and the colonial politics of power

Loes Rusch (Utrecht University)

Menjadi perantau: delayed diaspora and indigeneity in Maluku-Dutch improvised music

Reïnda Hullij (Utrecht University)

Title: Internal/External Sustainability Practices: Toward a Critical Fusion Development (CFD) in Arts Based Education

Andre Jamal Cardine

Indiana University Bloomington

Collected: Creating a Museum Black History Podcast

Krystal Klingenberg

Smithsonian - National Museum of American History

Thomas W. Talley's Harlem Renaissance Musicology

Benjamin P. Skoronski

Cornell University

Researching Sonic Gentrification as a Catalyst for Ethical Engagement and Service Learning

Stefan Fiol

University of Cincinnati

From Counter-Publics to Citizens: Understanding Folklorization through the Burrakatha

Shivanand Boddapati

University of Pennsylvania

Turkey’s Paradoxical Sounds of Complicity—Or, the Logic of Populist Culture

Ceyda Cekmeci

UC Berkeley

Campaign Songs as Musical Manifestos in Ghanaian Electoral Politics

Divine Kwasi Gbagbo

Loyola Marymount University,

A Relational Paradigm for Political Geographies of Belonging

Gregory Joseph Robinson

George Mason University

The Sampling of Brazilian Music in Hip-Hop: Material and Historical Networks

Romulo Moraes Barbosa

CUNY Graduate Center

Echoes of what might have been: hearing speculative futurity in KOZO's Tokyo Metabolist Syndrome

Nour El Rayes

Johns Hopkins University

Musical Journey Of Azerbaijani Mugham

Aqil Suleymanov

Brooklyn,NY

Negotiating Spirituality in Intercultural Improvisation

Chao Tian

Boston University, Boston, MA

“As Natural to Me as Breathing”: Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City

Uri Schreter

Harvard University

Gospel, the Monarchy, and the Politics of Representation in British Popular Culture

Matthew Williams

University of York

The Return of the Prayer: Navigating Identity through Cantonese Contemporary Christian Music in Postcolonial Hong Kong

Ching Yuet Kan

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

From Courtesans to Clickbait: Gender, Power, and the Persistent Marginalization of Women in China’s Pipa Tradition

Yuxin Mei

University of North Texas

“Mujer Sandinista” (“Sandinista Woman”): The Nueva Canción Band Sabiá and the Intersections between the US-Central America Solidarity and Feminist/Women’s Movements

Fernando Rios

University of Maryland

Empowering Women Through Song: Analyzing Music and Gender Expression in Chinese Coal Mining Communities Amid Social Transformation

MingLei Niu

Xi'an Conservatory of Music,

Heterokinesis as Embodied Knowledge Production: China’s New Music Historiographies

Gus Dalan Holley

University of California Berkeley

Embodied Listening, Sonic Mediation, and Ivo Van Hove’s Theatrical Liveness

James Gabrillo

University of Texas at Austin

Tradición al Talón: Mariachi, Identity and Embodying Tradition Through Musical Work

Erika Jean Soveranes

University of North Texas,

Gangsters And Kings: Sundanese Indigeneity And Cosmopolitanism In The Bandung Death Metal Scene

Luigi Monteanni

SOAS, University of London,

Zuriaake’s “Li Gui”: Abjection, Gender, and Horror Aesthetics in Chinese Black Metal

Qian Sun

University of Florida,

Global Metal, Local Struggles: White Supremacy and Internalized Orientalism in Taiwanese Metal

Mark Hsiang-Yu Feng

University of California, Davis

Statutory Rape and R&B: How a Documentary Influenced the Conviction of R. Kelly

Melanie Kaye Moseley

University of Pittsburgh

"Phoenix Fire": From Shinsaku Noh to Film

Kevin Salfen

University of the Incarnate Word

Collaborative composition approaches for Balinese gamelan on screen and stage

Joshua Robinson

Australian National University

Class(ical) Voice: Evolution and Association of Operatic Vibrato in American Pop Culture

Hansini Bhasker

Wesleyan University

Male Voices for Female Fans: A Paradox of Women’s Liberation in Contemporary Japanese Anime Franchises

Cheuk Ling Yu

University of California San Diego

Listening for Vocal Agency: T’ŭrot’ŭ, Enka, and Yi Nanyŏng’s Negotiation of Colonial Voice

Jiyoon Auo

University of Pittsburgh,

Being, Breathing, and Aliveness: Transforming Shared Space through Movement

Chair(s): Juan Diego Diaz (University of California, Davis)

Presentations in the Session

Feather’s Breath, Spirit’s Mouth: Phono-choreography at the Chefoo School for the Deaf

YuHao Chen (Ohio State University)

The Politics of Audibility and Visibility in Basque Plaza Dances

Caitlin Romtvedt (University of California, Berkeley)

Black Aliveness – A Drummer’s Take: Black Nationalist Music, Black Music Criticism, Black Worlding, 1965-1969

Max Jefferson (University of California, Berkeley)

“All My Music is Based off My Home Games:”Musical Literacy and Public Play in Tabletop Role-Playing Game Fan Conventions

Andrew James Borecky

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Transnationalism and South-South Connections in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival

Emily Ruth Allen

University of South Carolina

“At the End of the Street”: The Marching Band as a Sonic Marker of U.S. American Identity

Anna Marinela Lopez

University of Texas at Austin

Music and Mysticism

Chair(s): Subash Giri (Assistant Lecturer of Indian Music Ensemble (IME) at the Department of Music, University of Alberta)

Presentations in the Session

Indo-Islamic Music in South Asia: Local and Hyperlocal contexts of performance

Shahwar Kibria Maqhfi (PhD candidate, UCLA)

The Yoga of Sound: Mediating and Marketing a Unifying Spiritual Framework through Global Networks

Vivek Virani (University of North Texas Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Music Theory)

Hearing tiqqun: Kabbalistic Music and the Rectification of the World

Yaron Cherniak (PhD student, UCLA)

Open Online Communities as a Mediation Between Musical Culture and Sustainability: A Case Study of Maame Ode.

Naa Akle Afriyie Okantey

University of Florida,

Performing the Kyrgyz Epic Manas in Contemporary Times: An Endeavor to Preserve the Oral Tradition

Aibek Baiymbetov

Wesleyan University

Resonance in Exile: Young Afghan Musicians, Diasporic Identity, and Cultural Preservation in the United States

Sara Feili

Independent Scholar, New Haven

#winning: Folk Dance Competitions and Mediated Authenticity in Greek America

Panayotis League

Florida State University

The Magic of Musubi: Shintoism in the Soundtrack of Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name

Kieran Casey

Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University,

I’m Walkin’ Here!: Experiencing New York City’s Punk Scene through Bootleg Cassette Tapes

Sean Peters^1,2

1: Cornell University; 2: Syracuse University