“Not Enough Room to Dance”: Urban Disinvestment, Loss, and the Spatial Ecologies of Cabo Verdean/American Music

Ruby A. Erickson

Brown University

Finding Chicagotlan: Reflections on Danza Azteca in the Windy City

Ida Maria Tello

Washington University in St. Louis

Island-Reggae Beats in Urban Streets: Navigating Interracial Dynamics through Island Reggae in Southern California

Chun-Chia Tai

University of California, Riverside

Japan’s High Lonesome Sound: Identity and Imagination in Japanese engagement with bluegrass

Donald Czubernat Bradley

Indiana University

Archiving with Indigenous Communities: Perspectives from South Africa

Chair(s): Lyndsey Copeland (Carleton University)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Leonard Boetles Gewers (Riemvaasmaak, South Africa)

N/A

James Mapanka (South African Nama Development Association)

N/A

Sharon Gabie (Nelson Mandela University)

N/A

Lee Watkins (International Library of African Music, Rhodes University)

The Best and the West: Amateur Fieldwork in Early Twentieth-Century California

Matthew Gilbert

Stanford University

Data-Driven Ethnomusicology, AI, and Decoloniality

León García Corona

USC

Beyond the Spotlight: Social and Methodological Considerations for Qualitative Research with Celebrity Musicians

Anneli Loepp Thiessen

University of Ottawa

Registering Community: On Navigating and Translating the Multilingual Field Site

Rachel Horner

Cornell University

Architectures of Knowledge: Jewish Music, Heritage, and Minority Agency

Chair(s): Jessica Roda (Concordia University,)

Presentations in the Session

Alternative Architectures: Sounding Jewishness in Dead Spaces

Miranda Crowdus (Concordia University)

Transylvanian Fantasy: Jews, Revival and Heritage in the Musical Landscape of Northern Romania

Jeremiah Lockwood (UCLA)

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

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,

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)