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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, 08:55:36am EDT
8:00am 01B: Musicking through European Migratory Spaces: Gendered, Ethnic, and Racial Place-Making Location: M-302 Chair: Sonia Tamar Seeman , University of Texas AustinPresenter: Sonia Tamar Seeman , University of Texas Austin
Musicking through European migratory Spaces: Gendered, ethnic and racial place-making
Chair(s): Sonia Tamar Seeman (University of Texas Austin,)
Presentations in the Session
Performative Social Space: Trauma, Ritual, and Music among Kosovo Romani Migrants in Germany
Carol Silverman (University of Oregon)
Re-creating “Mu[h]acir” [“Immigrant”] through Women’s Work: Musicking and Social Reproduction
Sonia Tamar Seeman (University of Texas Austin)
Post-Migrant Musicking and the Restriction of Public Space: Sonic color and class lines in provincial Germany
Juniper Hill (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) , Cornelia Guenauer (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
10:45am 02B: Beyond Venting in the Dressing Room: Abuses of Power, Trauma, and Resistance in the Early Careers of Classical Singers Location: M-302 Chair: Anna Valcour , Brandeis University
Beyond Venting in the Dressing Room: Abuses of Power, Trauma, and Resistance in the Early Careers of Classical Singers
Chair(s): Molly Doran (Wartburg College)
Presentations in the Session
The Voice Cult: Trauma and Tribalism in Undergraduate Voice Studies
Stephen Carr (York University)
“Other Duties as Assigned”: Abuse, Labor, and Surviving the American Opera Industry’s Resident Artist Programs
Anna Valcour (Brandeis University)
Meeting “The Other’s” Need: An Analytic Framework to Evaluate DEI Initiatives in American Opera Companies as Acts of Care
Danielle Buonaiuto (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
12:30pm SIG for Music and Violence Location: M-302
1:45pm 03B: Afrodiasporic Linguistics and Gestures Location: M-302 Presenter: Warrick Moses Presenter: Kai Barratt , University of Technology, JamaicaPresenter: Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon Presenter: Nathaniel Ash-Morgan
1:45pm - 2:15pm They Not Like Us: The Relationship Between (Black) American Sign Language and Hiphop Performance
Warrick Moses
UW Madison
2:15pm - 2:45pm Too Bla (ck)xx? The Trinbagonian Calypso and Soca Experience
Kai Barratt1 , Alison McLetchie2 , Rae-ann Smith3
1: University of Technology, Jamaica;
2: South Carolina State University;
3: University of the West Indies, Mona
2:45pm - 3:15pm “I ain changing meh dialect, meh patois…” Language change, attitudes and identity in the Carnival musics of Trinidad and Tobago.
Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon
University of Trinidad and Tobago
3:15pm - 3:45pm Afro-Dancehall: The Impact of Global Afrobeats on Ghanaian Dancehall
Nathaniel Ash-Morgan
University of North Texas
4:00pm 04B: The ‘Context’ Argument: Three Musical Case Studies in the Instrumentalization of Context Location: M-302 Chair: Thi Lettner , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The ‘Context’ Argument: Three Musical Case Studies in the Instrumentalization of Context
Chair(s): Thi Lan Lettner (University of Maryland, College Park)
Presentations in the Session
Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth-Century Binder’s Volumes
Elizabeth Busch (University of Maryland, College Park)
Undercontextualizing a Musical Miracle: North America’s Reception to the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra
Thi Lan Lettner (University of Maryland, College Park)
Decontextualization and the Music Historical Scholarship of Bernice Johnson Reagon
Jackson Albert Mann (University of Maryland, College Park)
7:00pm Improvisation Section Business Meeting Location: M-302
8:30am 05B: Participatory Sacred Harp Singing and Discussion on Editing The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition Location: M-302 Chair: Jesse P. Karlsberg , Emory University
Participatory Sacred Harp Singing and Discussion on Editing The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition
Chair(s): Jesse P. Karlsberg (Emory University)
Presentations in the Session
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David Ivey (Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association)
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Lauren Bock (Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association)
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Tom George (Sacred Harp Publishing Company)
10:45am 06B: Engaging Citizenship through Musical Communities: Three Different Approaches in Puerto Rican Music Location: M-302 Chair: Juan Eduardo Wolf , University of Oregon
Engaging Citizenship through Musical Communities: Three Different Approaches in Puerto Rican Music
Chair(s): Juan Eduardo Wolf (University of Oregon,) , Hugo R. Viera-Vargas (Universidad Albizu, PR) , Jaime O. Bofill-Calero (Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico)
Presentations in the Session
Los Pleneros de la 23 Abajo: Music, Community and Resistance
Hugo R. Viera-Vargas (Universidad Albizu, PR)
Reimagining the Taino Past: Music, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in Puerto Rico
Jaime O. Bofill-Calero (Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico)
Building a Local Community in the Homeland through Diasporic Experiences: the case of bomba mayagüezana
Juan Eduardo Wolf (University of Oregon)
12:30pm Gender and Sexualities Studies Section Open Meeting Location: M-302
1:45pm 07B: Sound and Sociality in Modern Markets: Three Perspectives on Music and Commoditization Location: M-302 Chair: Duncan Reehl , Harvard University
Sound and Sociality in Modern Markets: Three Perspectives on Music and Commoditization
Chair(s): Duncan William Reehl (Boston University) , Brian Barone (Berklee College of Music) , Carlos Cuestas (CUNY Graduate Center)
Discussant(s): Marié Abe (University of California, Berkeley)
Presentations in the Session
Sounding Japanese Buddhism in the Attention Economy and Spiritual Marketplace
Duncan William Reehl (Boston University)
Strumming Against Capital: Decommoditizing Son Jarocho through Radical Collectivities
Carlos Cuestas (CUNY Graduate Center)
Domesticating Cuban Contradanza: Music, Social Reproduction, and the Value Form
Brian Barone (Berklee College of Music)
4:00pm 08B: Divergent Listening Location: M-302 Presenter: Janice Protopapas Presenter: Nalini Ghuman Presenter: Winnie W. C. Lai
4:00pm - 4:30pm Infusing the Khushboo in Diaspora: Exploring the musical soundscape of the Namdhari child in the UK
Janice Protopapas
Punjabi University, Patiala, India
4:30pm - 5:00pm Relics of Freedom: Resounding Hong Kong’s Muted Voices in Transnational Protests
Winnie W. C. Lai
Dartmouth College
7:00pm Society for Arab Music Research Keynote Location: M-302
8:00pm Society for Arab Music Research Mixer Location: M-302
8:30am 09B: Organology Location: M-302 Chair: Jay Michael Loomis Presenter: Tsz-ching Tung Presenter: Wan Huang , Shanghai Conservatory of MusicPresenter: Julio Mendivil , University of Vienna
8:30am - 9:00am Instrument Making and Sound Design in Son Jarocho: A Multispecies Eco-Organology
Jay Michael Loomis
Brown University
9:00am - 9:30am 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
9:30am - 10:00am The Charango in History. Between Reification and Symbolic Reduction
Julio Mendivil
University of Vienna,
10:00am - 10:30am Decolonizing the Classical Saxophone Field: Operating Within “Otherness” as a Singaporean Saxophonist
Yun Qu Tan
University of Georgia
10:45am 10B: Alliances and Intersections on the Margins of the Sinophone Location: M-302 Chair: Charlotte D'Evelyn , Skidmore College
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)
12:30pm African and African Diaspora Studies Keynote Location: M-302
8:30am 11B: Sounding the Environment Location: M-302 Presenter: Daniel Benson Sharp , Tulane UniversityPresenter: Haiqiong Deng , Florida State UniversityPresenter: Elizabeth Frickey
8:30am - 9:00am Musical Responses to the Flooded Ruins of a Brazilian Hydroelectric Project
Daniel Benson Sharp
Tulane University,
9:00am - 9:30am Sounding Nature: An Ecomusicological Perspective on Ancient Chinese Guqin Music
Haiqiong Deng
Florida State University
9:30am - 10:00am Sounding the “Ecological City”: Politics of Audibility in the Urban Garden
Elizabeth Frickey
New York University
10:45am 12B: From Marginalization to Empowerment Location: M-302 Presenter: Yuxin Mei Presenter: Fernando Rios , University of MarylandPresenter: MingLei Niu , Xi'an Conservatory of Music
10:45am - 11:15am From Courtesans to Clickbait: Gender, Power, and the Persistent Marginalization of Women in China’s Pipa Tradition
Yuxin Mei
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
Fernando Rios
University of Maryland
11:45am - 12:15pm Empowering Women Through Song: Analyzing Music and Gender Expression in Chinese Coal Mining Communities Amid Social Transformation
MingLei Niu
Xi'an Conservatory of Music,
