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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, 08:56:58am EDT
8:00am 01K: Jazz Futures Location: L-506/507 Presenter: Tom Wetmore , Columbia UniversityPresenter: Lee Caplan Presenter: Martin Hundley , University of California, Los Angeles
8:00am - 8:30am Constellations of Sound: Race, Technology, and Jazz Performance
Tom Wetmore
Columbia University
8:30am - 9:00am Nathan Davis and the Jazz Educational Undercommons
Lee Caplan
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
Martin Hundley
University of California, Los Angeles
9:30am - 10:00am Confluence and Collaboration: How Zakir Hussain Transformed World Music
David Trasoff
Lila Vihun Music,
10:45am 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
Chair(s): Sora Woo (University of California, San Diego)
Presentations in the Session
From the West Coast to the Sea: Hip-hop Music and Its Body/Voice Politics in Taiwan
Heidi Yin-Hsuan Tai (University of California, San Diego)
Rina, BTS, and The Ethics of East Asian Representation in Western Popular Music
Alissa Liu (University of California, San Diego)
Beyond Borders: Tokimonsta, Politics of Collaboration, and Sonic Speculation
Sora Woo (University of California, San Diego)
1:45pm 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
Chair(s): Caio de Souza (State University of Amapá)
Discussant(s): Sergio Ospina-Romero (Indiana University)
Presentations in the Session
Resonances of the Crossroads: Lorenzo Dow Turner and the Capoeira Angola Group Estrela do Norte
Caio de Souza (State University of Amapá)
Bullerengue Unsilenced: Reclaiming Afro-Colombian Women’s Voices in the Sound Archive and in Ethnomusicology
Manuel Garcia-Orozco (Columbia University)
El Palenque de Delia: Retracing Steps, Re-enacting the Archive, and Activating the Imagination
Amelia López López (Indiana University)
4:00pm 04K: Critical Biographies Location: L-506/507 Presenter: Derrick Reginald Smith , The University of AlabamaPresenter: Maya Celeste Ann Cunningham , American UniversityPresenter: Susan Hurley-Glowa , University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
4:00pm - 4:30pm A Biographical Portrait of the Professional Career and Influence of African American Band Leader Thomas E. Lyle
Derrick Reginald Smith
The University of Alabama
4:30pm - 5:00pm Max Roach: Black Power Ideologies and Aesthetics
Maya Celeste Ann Cunningham
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
5:00pm - 5:30pm Tracing the Barefoot Diva’s Path Through Repertoire: Cesária Évora’s Song Choices
Susan Hurley-Glowa
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley,
7:00pm Joint Meeting of SIG for Music Analysis and SIG for Cognitive Ethnomusicology Location: L-506/507
8:30am 05K: Encounters in Sound Studies Location: L-506/507 Presenter: J.A. Strub , University of Texas at AustinPresenter: Sara Fazeli Masayeh , University of FloridaPresenter: Hani Ahmed Zewail , University of California Santa Barbara
8:30am - 9:00am Why They Pressed Record: Musical Field Documentation in the Huasteca Region of Mexico
J.A. Strub
University of Texas at Austin,
9:00am - 9:30am Invisible Sonic Agency of Ethnographic Photos in the Study of Protest Soundscapes
Sara Fazeli Masayeh
University of Florida,
9:30am - 10:00am Islam, Grief, and Beauty: The Temporal Aporia of Grief in its Aesthetic and Temporal Dimension.
Hani Ahmed Zewail
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
Ruxin Li
No.2 High School of East China Normal University
10:45am 06K: Black Keywords In Sound Location: L-506/507 Chair: april lashan graham-jackson , University of Chicago
Black Keywords In Sound
Chair(s): april lashan graham-jackson (University of Chicago,) , Allie Martin (Dartmouth College)
Presentations in the Session
Sampling With Critical Intention
Allie Martin (Dartmouth College)
From Root to Route: Scaling Black Sonic Life Across Black Chicagoland
april l. graham-jackson (University of Chicago)
Timbral Tidepools and Tales of The Tidewater Trio
Danielle Davis (Florida State University)
1:45pm 07K: Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces Location: L-506/507 Chair: Maxwell Hiroshi Yamane , University of Oklahoma
Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces
Chair(s): Maxwell Hiroshi Yamane (University of Oklahoma,)
Discussant(s): Beverley Diamond (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Presentations in the Session
Sonic Erasure in Idaho: The Land and Its People
Kimberly Marshall (University of Oklahoma)
Sounding Indigenous Resurgence in Nacotchtank: Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces in the U.S. Capital
Maxwell Yamane (University of Oklahoma)
Sonic Sovereignty and the Tactile Body: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling
Liz Przybylski (University of California Riverside) , Tara "T-Rhyme" Campbell (Independent)
Discussion
Beverley Diamond (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
4:00pm 08K: Coloniality and Vocality Location: L-506/507 Presenter: Chun-bin Chen , Taipei National University of the ArtsPresenter: Sally Mehreteab Presenter: Damascus Kafumbe
4:00pm - 4:30pm Pathway of the Chants: Transported Soundscapes across the Austronesian World
Chun-bin Chen
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?
Sally Mehreteab
New York, NY
5:00pm - 5:30pm Decolonizing Ethnomusicological Practice: Power Relations and Representation in Ugandan Court Song Research
Damascus Kafumbe
Middlebury COllege
7:00pm Society for Asian Music Keynote and Business Meeting Location: L-506/507 Keynote Address: “What Asia Taught Me”
9:00pm Wesleyan University Reception Location: L-506/507
8:30am 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
Chair(s): John Pippen (Colorado State University)
Presentations in the Session
African American jazz in diaspora: The case of Denmark’s Rytmisk Musik conservatories
Leslie C. Gay Jr. (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
See Local, Listen Global: Perceiving “Knoxvillian” at the Big Ears Festival
Nicholas Horner (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
The Colorado City Music Festival: Mormonism, Intercultural Hospitality, and Secular Ideals
Mehrenegar Rostami (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Zamanavi or Emruzi: Music as a Gateway to the World
Hiwa Hawaii (N/A)
10:45am 10K: Time Travel, Sonic Portals, and Reclaiming Black Musical Futures Location: L-506/507
Time Travel, Sonic Portals, and Reclaiming Black Musical Futures
Chair(s): Alisha Lola Jones Skinner (University of Cambridge)
Presentations in the Session
Lessons from Lemonade and the Future of Interdisciplinary Black Music Courses
Birgitta Johnson (University of South Carolina)
Aemilia Bassano, Muse of the Dark Lady Portal: Black Women Channeling Verse & Reclaiming the Shakespearean Legacy
Alisha Lola Jones Skinner (University of Cambridge)
Black Gospel Revelations: Time Travel and Sonic Afrofuturism in Contemporary Gospel Music
Lauren Elizabeth Eldridge Stewart (Washington University in St. Louis)
12:30pm SIG for the Music of Iran and Central Asia Location: L-506/507
8:30am 11K: Music and Political Climates Location: L-506/507
8:30am - 9:00am From Counter-Publics to Citizens: Understanding Folklorization through the Burrakatha
Shivanand Boddapati
University of Pennsylvania
9:00am - 9:30am Turkey’s Paradoxical Sounds of Complicity—Or, the Logic of Populist Culture
Ceyda Cekmeci
UC Berkeley
9:30am - 10:00am Campaign Songs as Musical Manifestos in Ghanaian Electoral Politics
Divine Kwasi Gbagbo
Loyola Marymount University,
10:00am - 10:30am A Relational Paradigm for Political Geographies of Belonging
Gregory Joseph Robinson
George Mason University
10:45am 12K: Identity and Preservation Location: L-506/507
10:45am - 11:15am Open Online Communities as a Mediation Between Musical Culture and Sustainability: A Case Study of Maame Ode.
Naa Akle Afriyie Okantey
University of Florida,
11:15am - 11:45am Performing the Kyrgyz Epic Manas in Contemporary Times: An Endeavor to Preserve the Oral Tradition
Aibek Baiymbetov
Wesleyan University
11:45am - 12:15pm Resonance in Exile: Young Afghan Musicians, Diasporic Identity, and Cultural Preservation in the United States
Sara Feili
Independent Scholar, New Haven
