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

Ruby A. Erickson

Brown University

Finding Chicagotlan: Danza Azteca and the Coloniality of Being 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

The European Center for Jewish Music: Constructing a Knowledge Architecture of Jewish Music in Germany

Sarah Ross
European Centre for Jewish Music

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

Cohesive Harmonies: an exploration of community music as a mechanism for active citizenship

Tenley Martin

Leeds Beckett University

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): Michael Birenbaum Quintero (Boston University)

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

Sonic Gestures: Sound and Territorial Politics in Urban Afro-Cuban Music

Pablo D. Herrera Veitia
Habana Hiphop

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,

Communist 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