Sounding the Mexican South: Transborder Musics, Economies, and Belonging in the “Nuevo South”

Chair(s): David Garcia (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)

Discussant(s): Alex Chávez (University of Notre Dame)

Presentations in the Session

“Uno anda buscando la música”: Mapping Southern Latinx Musical Economies

Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez (Emory University)

“We played fiddle and we left smelling like tamales”: Mexican Music and Memory in the Mississippi Delta

Sophia Enríquez (Duke University)

Music In/As Culture Wars

Chair(s): Kendra Renée Salois (American University,)

Presentations in the Session

n/a

Aleysia Whitmore (University of Denver)

n/a

Benjamin Teitelbaum (University of Colorado)

n/a

Justin Patch (Vassar College)

n/a

Sophia Zervas (Harvard University)

n/a

Christian Poske (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)

n/a

Ioannis Tsioulakis (Queen's University Belfast)

Political Limits of Music and Sound

Chair(s): Matt Sakakeeny (Tulane University)

Presentations in the Session

The Normative Sexism of Alternative Music Economies: Brazilian Indie Rock’s #MeToo Contradictions

Shannon Garland (University of Pittsburgh)

“Music Can’t Stop a War Machine”

Matt Sakakeeny (Tulane University)

Sound and Silence in the Shadow of the Surveillance State

Lee Veeraraghavan (Tulane University)

Can Music Actually Do Anything?

Gavin Steingo (Princeton University)

Racial Capitalism and the Materiality of Value in Music

Chair(s): Esther Viola Kurtz (Washington University in Saint Louis,)

Discussant(s): Tim Taylor (UCLA)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Esther Viola Kurtz (Washington University in Saint Louis)

N/A

Eric J. Schmidt (Babson College)

N/A

Deonte Harris (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill )

N/A

Otto Stuparitz (University of Melbourne)

AI vs. IP: Who Owns the World’s Music Today?

David G. Hebert

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen

What Madonna and Kraftwerk Can Teach Us about Music Copyright after The "AI Turn"

Matthew Day Blackmar

UCLA

Can AI in the Music Industry Be Decolonised?: Notes from the Arabic Music Industry

Darci Sprengel

King's College London, United Kingdom

Performing the Human: Artificial intelligence and popular music

Katherine Moira Miner

Boston University

“Así Chiflamos”: Whistling Cadences in the Oaxaca City Garbage Dump

Kristen Leigh Graves

Universiy of Toronto

“We All Suffered as One Nation”: Nagorno-Karabakh War, Voice, and Martyrdom

Polina Dessiatnitchenko

Waseda University

Negotiating Geo-Cultural Identity Through Contemporary Urtyn Duu Across Mongolia and China: A Tale of Two Singers

Conny Zhao

NYC, NY

Activism and social awareness in afro-Brazilian music: Antiracist performances in Northeastern Brazil

Luis Ricardo Queiroz

Federal University of Paraiba,

Musical Micro-Resistances: Late-Night Sessions at the Irish Music Festival Afterparty

Tadhg Ó Meachair

Indiana University Bloomington

Raving in Ukraine: A Restoration Effort

Kim Kattari

Texas A&M University

The Ballad of Janek Wiśniewski: For Bread and Freedom and a New Poland

James Deutsch

Smithsonian Institution

Challenging Capitalist Realism in Ethnomusicology: Sound Praxis for an Anti-Capitalist Future

Chair(s): Ana Hofman (Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

Discussant(s): Samuel Araújo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Juliana Catinin (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

N/A

Pedro Fadel (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

N/A

Agustina Checa (Lehman College, CUNY)

N/A

Falina Enriquez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

N/A

Anaar Desai-Stephens (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

The Rise of Anti-Fascist Black Metal: Combatting White Supremacy in the US Metal Scene

Meghan Creek

Minneapolis, MN

Revenge Anthems: Violence and Gender in Country Music

Alexis K Baril

University of Alberta

Black Opry’s Radiophonic Alternatives

Fiona Boyd

University of Chicago

School Shootings, Cultural Action, and the Arrival of an Unnerving Musical Tradition

Daniel Vidales

University of California Riverside

Refugees, Forced-Migration, and Ethnomusicology: What Can We Do?

Chair(s): Lisa Gilman (George Mason University)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University)

N/A

Jennifer Sherrill (University of California Davis)

N/A

David A. McDonald (Indiana University)

N/A

Bradley DeMatteo (University of Toronto)

N/A

Tomal Hossain (University of Chicago)

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

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