Conference Agenda
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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Session Overview | |
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Location: L-506/507 Lobby Level |
| Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 10:00am |
01K: Jazz Futures Location: L-506/507 Presenter: Tom Wetmore, Columbia University Presenter: Lee Caplan Presenter: Martin Hundley, University of California, Los Angeles Constellations of Sound: Race, Technology, and Jazz Performance Columbia University 8:30am - 9:00am Nathan Davis and the Jazz Educational Undercommons University of Pittsburgh 9:00am - 9:30am Free Jazz and Building Community in South Los Angeles: Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra University of California, Los Angeles 9:30am - 10:00am Confluence and Collaboration: How Zakir Hussain Transformed World Music Lila Vihun Music, |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
02K: Reimagining Belonging through Politics of Sound: Asian/American Artists in Global Popular Music Location: L-506/507 Chair: Sora Woo Reimagining Belonging through Politics of Sound: Asian/American Artists in Global Popular Music Presentations in the Session From the West Coast to the Sea: Hip-hop Music and Its Body/Voice Politics in Taiwan Rina, BTS, and The Ethics of East Asian Representation in Western Popular Music Beyond Borders: Tokimonsta, Politics of Collaboration, and Sonic Speculation |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
03K: Resounding, Unsilencing, and Amplifying Latin America: Global South Possibilities for Sound Archives in the Global North Location: L-506/507 Chair: Caio de Souza Resounding, Unsilencing, and Amplifying Latin America: Global South Possibilities for Sound Archives in the Global North Presentations in the Session Resonances of the Crossroads: Lorenzo Dow Turner and the Capoeira Angola Group Estrela do Norte Bullerengue Unsilenced: Reclaiming Afro-Colombian Women’s Voices in the Sound Archive and in Ethnomusicology El Palenque de Delia: Retracing Steps, Re-enacting the Archive, and Activating the Imagination |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
04K: Critical Biographies Location: L-506/507 Presenter: Derrick Reginald Smith, The University of Alabama Presenter: Maya Celeste Ann Cunningham, American University Presenter: Susan Hurley-Glowa, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley A Biographical Portrait of the Professional Career and Influence of African American Band Leader Thomas E. Lyle The University of Alabama 4:30pm - 5:00pm Max Roach: Black Power Ideologies and Aesthetics University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 5:00pm - 5:30pm Tracing the Barefoot Diva’s Path Through Repertoire: Cesária Évora’s Song Choices University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
Joint Meeting of SIG for Music Analysis and SIG for Cognitive Ethnomusicology Location: L-506/507 |
| Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
05K: Encounters in Sound Studies Location: L-506/507 Presenter: J.A. Strub, University of Texas at Austin Presenter: Sara Fazeli Masayeh, University of Florida Presenter: Hani Ahmed Zewail, University of California Santa Barbara Why They Pressed Record: Musical Field Documentation in the Huasteca Region of Mexico University of Texas at Austin, 9:00am - 9:30am Invisible Sonic Agency of Ethnographic Photos in the Study of Protest Soundscapes University of Florida, 9:30am - 10:00am Islam, Grief, and Beauty: The Temporal Aporia of Grief in its Aesthetic and Temporal Dimension. University of California Santa Barbara, 10:00am - 10:30am Reclaiming the Voice: The Naxi Metal Fusion of Five Penalties and the Sonic Subversion of "Authentic" World Music No.2 High School of East China Normal University |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
06K: Black Keywords In Sound Location: L-506/507 Chair: april lashan graham-jackson, University of Chicago Black Keywords In Sound Presentations in the Session Sampling With Critical Intention From Root to Route: Scaling Black Sonic Life Across Black Chicagoland Timbral Tidepools and Tales of The Tidewater Trio |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
07K: Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces Location: L-506/507 Chair: Maxwell Hiroshi Yamane, University of Oklahoma Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces Presentations in the Session Sonic Erasure in Idaho: The Land and Its People Sounding Indigenous Resurgence in Nacotchtank: Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces in the U.S. Capital Sonic Sovereignty and the Tactile Body: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling Discussion |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
08K: Coloniality and Vocality Location: L-506/507 Presenter: Chun-bin Chen, Taipei National University of the Arts Presenter: Sally Mehreteab Presenter: Damascus Kafumbe Pathway of the Chants: Transported Soundscapes across the Austronesian World Taipei National University of the Arts 4:30pm - 5:00pm Work Songs and Aura: We can take the song out of the field, but can we keep the meaning in the song? New York, NY 5:00pm - 5:30pm Decolonizing Ethnomusicological Practice: Power Relations and Representation in Ugandan Court Song Research Middlebury COllege |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
Society for Asian Music Keynote and Business Meeting Location: L-506/507 Keynote Address: “What Asia Taught Me” |
| 9:00pm - 11:00pm |
Wesleyan University Reception Location: L-506/507 |
| Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
09K: International Musical Entities in the 21st Century: The Impacts of Global and Transnational Flows Location: L-506/507 Chair: Mehrenegar Rostami, University of Tennessee, Knoxville International Musical Entities in the 21st Century: The Impacts of Global and Transnational Flows Presentations in the Session African American jazz in diaspora: The case of Denmark’s Rytmisk Musik conservatories See Local, Listen Global: Perceiving “Knoxvillian” at the Big Ears Festival The Colorado City Music Festival: Mormonism, Intercultural Hospitality, and Secular Ideals Zamanavi or Emruzi: Music as a Gateway to the World |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
10K: Time Travel, Sonic Portals, and Reclaiming Black Musical Futures Location: L-506/507 Time Travel, Sonic Portals, and Reclaiming Black Musical Futures Presentations in the Session Lessons from Lemonade and the Future of Interdisciplinary Black Music Courses Aemilia Bassano, Muse of the Dark Lady Portal: Black Women Channeling Verse & Reclaiming the Shakespearean Legacy Black Gospel Revelations: Time Travel and Sonic Afrofuturism in Contemporary Gospel Music |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
SIG for the Music of Iran and Central Asia Location: L-506/507 |
| Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
11K: Music and Political Climates Location: L-506/507 From Counter-Publics to Citizens: Understanding Folklorization through the Burrakatha University of Pennsylvania 9:00am - 9:30am Turkey’s Paradoxical Sounds of Complicity—Or, the Logic of Populist Culture UC Berkeley 9:30am - 10:00am Campaign Songs as Musical Manifestos in Ghanaian Electoral Politics Loyola Marymount University, 10:00am - 10:30am A Relational Paradigm for Political Geographies of Belonging George Mason University |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
12K: Identity and Preservation Location: L-506/507 Open Online Communities as a Mediation Between Musical Culture and Sustainability: A Case Study of Maame Ode. University of Florida, 11:15am - 11:45am Performing the Kyrgyz Epic Manas in Contemporary Times: An Endeavor to Preserve the Oral Tradition Wesleyan University 11:45am - 12:15pm Resonance in Exile: Young Afghan Musicians, Diasporic Identity, and Cultural Preservation in the United States Independent Scholar, New Haven |