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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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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 18th Oct 2025, 09:01:32am EDT
8:00am 01A: Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies Location: M-301
Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies
Chair(s): Eduardo Sato (Virginia Tech) , Cibele Moura (Cornell University)
Presentations in the Session
Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies
Kaleb E. Goldschmitt (Wellesley College) , Juan Diego Díaz (University of California, Davis) , Dennis Novaes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) , Michael Iyanaga (William & Mary) , Cibele Moura (Cornell University) , Luis Ricardo Queiroz (Federal University of Paraiba)
10:10am Opening Ceremony Location: M-301
10:45am 02A: Beyond Colonial Legacies: Cultural Identity, Adaptation, and Musical Hybridity in Ghana Location: M-301 Chair: John Wesley Dankwa , Wesleyan University
Beyond Colonial Legacies: Cultural Identity, Adaptation, and Musical Hybridity in Ghana
Chair(s): John Wesley Dankwa (Wesleyan University,)
Presentations in the Session
Beyond Missionary Legacies: Examining the Musical Practices in Ghanaian Methodist Worship
Susana Gyamfuaa Agyei (Wesleyan University)
Cultural Identity and Future Directions in Ghanaian Choral Music: A Synthesis of Tradition and Innovation
Emmanuel Abeku Ansaeku (Wesleyan University)
Colonial Residue or Sheer Love for Music? G.F. Handel in Ghanaian Choral Art Music
John Wesley Dankwa (Wesleyan University)
12:30pm SIG for Ecomusicology Location: M-301
1:45pm 03A: Who's Music? Essentialism, Appropriation, Investment, Authenticity Location: M-301 Chair: Anthony Wilford Perman , Grinnell College
Who's Music? Essentialism, Appropriation, Investment, Authenticity
Chair(s): Tony Perman (Grinnell College,)
Presentations in the Session
The Problem of the Banjo
Tom Turino (Scranton, KY)
“You’re Not My Kind of Balinese”: Carving Musical Identity in the Silencing of Cultural Essentialism
Putu Hiranmayena (Grinnell College)
From Empathy to Justice: Ethnomusicological Paradoxes, Music Participation, and the Utility of Indebtedness
Tony Perman (Grinnell College)
Bridging the Gap: The Complicated Politics and Potentials of Creative Bi-musicality
Donna Lee Kwon (University of Kentucky)
4:00pm 04A: The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan Location: M-301 Chair: Stella Li , RILM
The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan
Chair(s): Stella Zhizhi Li (RILM)
Presentations in the Session
“When Will You Return?”: The Voice(s) of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Annie Y. Liu (Princeton University)
Reclaiming the Voices of Chinese Singsong Girls Beyond “Yellow” in 1940s Shanghai
Shuang Wang (Brown University)
Jazz Queens in Women’s Magazines: Negotiating Femininity in Occupied Japan
Stella Zhizhi Li (RILM)
7:00pm Asian American Listening Party Location: M-301
8:00pm Association for Chinese Music Research Location: M-301
8:30am 09A: Historical Sites in Ethnomusicology Location: M-301
8:30am - 9:00am Music, Power, and Agency in the 16th - and 17th -Century Kingdom of Kongo
Janie Cole
University of Connecticut,
9:00am - 9:30am 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,
9:30am - 10:00am BEZMARA’S FATE: Why the Ottoman Early Music Movement Never Took Off
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol
New England Conservatory,
10:00am - 10:30am 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
10:45am 10A: The Current Crisis and the Future of Ethnomusicology Location: M-301 Chair: Matt Sakakeeny Alan Burdette (Society for Ethnomusicology), Shannon Garland (University of Pittsburgh), Amelia López López (Indiana University), Alejandrina M. Medina (University of California - San Diego), Gabriel Solis (University of Washington), with Matt Sakakeeny (moderator) (Tulane)
12:30pm SIG for Brazilian Music Location: M-301
7:00pm South Asian Performing Arts Section Meeting Location: M-301
8:00pm South Asian Performing Arts Section Talk Location: M-301
8:30am 11A: Traditional Transformations Location: M-301 Presenter: John C Walsh , University of Wisconsin, MadisonPresenter: Abraham Landa , University of OregonPresenter: Inbar Shifrin , Brandeis UniversityPresenter: Yanxiazi Gao
8:30am - 9:00am The Rise and Fall of the Azmaribet: Traditional Music Venues as Urban Form in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
John C Walsh
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
9:00am - 9:30am Fluidity in Tradition: Gender and the Chilena in Costa Chica
Abraham Landa
University of Oregon,
9:30am - 10:00am Shifting Sounds of Yemen in Ofra Haza's music
Inbar Shifrin
Brandeis University
10:00am - 10:30am Classical Music as Cultural Capital: The Lived Experiences and Harmful Stereotypes of Gen-Z Asian American Pianists
Matthew Sehjin Lim
Skillman, New Jersey
10:45am 12A: Religiosity and/as Celebration Location: M-301 Presenter: Uri Schreter Presenter: Matthew Williams , University of York
10:45am - 11:15am “As Natural to Me as Breathing”: Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City
Uri Schreter
Harvard University
11:15am - 11:45am Gospel, the Monarchy, and the Politics of Representation in British Popular Culture
Matthew Williams
University of York
11:45am - 12:15pm 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
