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.
Use the search bar to search by name or title of paper/session. Note that this search bar does not search by keyword.
Click on the session name for a detailed view (with participant names and abstracts).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 7th Dec 2025, 10:47:42pm EST
|
Session Overview | |
|
Location: L-508 Lobby Level |
| Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 10:00am |
01L: Jazz, Collectivity, and Space Location: L-508 Chair: Colter Harper Jazz, Collectivity, and Space Presentations in the Session Maroon Resonance: Fugitive Ecologies of Sound and Jazz Spatiality “Keeping Music Live!”: +233 Jazz Bar & Grill and the Making of Ghanaian Jazz History More than Memories: Jazz Clubs and Post-Industrial Urban Redevelopment “Hold the Space, Grow the Space”: The Velvet Lounge & Recent Creative Improvised Music Organizing Strategies in Chicago |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
02L: Intangible Cultural Heritage of Nigeria's Middle Belt Location: L-508 Chair: Aaron Carter-Enyi, Morehouse College Intangible Cultural Heritage of Nigeria's Middle Belt Presentations in the Session Adamawa Kaduna Plateau |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
03L: New Modes of Resistance and Connection in Popular Music Location: L-508 Chair: Justin Patch, Vassar College New Modes of Resistance and Connection in Popular Music Presentations in the Session When the Underground Is Above Ground: A Public-Facing Record Store and China’s Curated Indie Music Scene In Search of Our “True Academy”: Reflections on Modern Band, Open Jams, and the Purpose of Popular Music Education Scrambling the genre logic of Spotify in “anime music” The Wátina Effect: Kaleidoscopic Neo-Traditionalism in Post-2010 Garifuna Popular Music |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
04L: Considering Composition(s) Location: L-508 Presenter: Julian William Duncan, Florida State University Presenter: Lanxin(Nancy) Xu, Northwestern University Presenter: Jim Morford Performing Puerto Rican-American Identity in Luis R. Miranda’s “Impromptu” Florida State University, 4:30pm - 5:00pm Dichotomy of accordion and bandoneon in tango, China, and beyond Northwestern University, 5:00pm - 5:30pm Pulsation Non-Isochrony in Drumming Music of the Arabian Peninsula Western Washington University |
| 8:00pm - 9:00pm |
Chapters Location: L-508 |
| Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
05L: Writing Jazz Encounters: Questions of archives, affect, and transculturation Location: L-508 Chair: Kari Lindquist Writing Jazz Encounters: Questions of archives, affect, and transculturation Presentations in the Session When Outsiders Become Insiders: Riffs in the Creole of Color Community at the Birth of Jazz Women College Musicians Take on the World: Gender in Cold War Jazz Diplomacy and Collegiate Jazz Programs The Angry Man of Jazz: Jazz, Coolness, and the Cultural Politics of Emotion “We’re Freaks like You”: Lester Bowie’s Sojourns in Poland (1994–1997) |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
07L: Juntas Llorando: Radical Empathy, Collective Mourning, and Singing Grief Across Fronteras in América Latina Location: L-508 Chair: Hannah Snavely Juntas Llorando: Radical Empathy, Collective Mourning, and Singing Grief Across Fronteras in América Latina Presentations in the Session Towards an Attentive Ethnomusicology: Affective Relationships and Griefwork in the Field Cántame la canción de la Mariquita: Performing and Embodying Grief, Homeland, and Immigrant Womanhood in UndocuAmerica’s SALSA Lotería The Song Above, the Sorrow Below: Musical Expression of Loss and Grief-Singing in Animal Fertility Ritual, Q’eros, Peru ReSounding the Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan and Communicating Grief Through Performance |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
08L: New Approaches in Music Studies Location: L-508 Presenter: Jason Reid Winikoff, University of British Columbia On the Global Study of Timbre University of British Columbia 4:30pm - 5:00pm Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public (Ethno)Musicology Columbus State University 5:00pm - 5:30pm Echoes from the Bengal Tiger: Towards a Transcultural (Micro)historical Musicology University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
Popular Music Section Meeting Location: L-508 |
| 8:00pm - 9:00pm |
Popular Music Section David Sanjek Lecture Location: L-508 |
| Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
09L: Sonic Care Work Location: L-508 Presenter: Carrie Ann Danielson, Florida State University Presenter: Charlotte Olivia Stewart-Juby, Carleton University Presenter: Theresa Allison Presenter: Kristina Nielsen, Southern Methodist University Culture Work as Care Work: Music Education and Refugee Resilience at the Simrishamn Kulturskola Florida State University 9:00am - 9:30am Rehearsing Community: Queer Choral Musicking and the Politics of Care Carleton University 9:30am - 10:00am From ethnomusicology to health sciences research: The importance of lived experience in the design of patient-oriented interventions University of California, San Francisco 10:00am - 10:30am Aztec Dance Spaces: Healing and the Ethics of Scholarship in a Fraught Moment Southern Methodist University |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
10L: Modes of Storytelling Location: L-508 Presenter: Jinyizhuo Wang, Xi'an Conservatory of Music Presenter: Ella Saporito-Emler, Florida State University “Welcome to Montero”: Lil Nas X’s Transmedia Storytelling and/as Queer World-Building Florida State University 11:15am - 11:45am Reimagining Soundscapes: Cultural Encoding and Aural Narratives in Chinese Shadow Puppetry Xi'an Conservatory of Music 11:45am - 12:15pm Preserving Indigenous Musics Survived in Oral Tradition: A Multilingual Parallel Corpus University College Cork, Ireland |
| Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
11L: Bridging Musical Pasts and Futures Location: L-508 The Sampling of Brazilian Music in Hip-Hop: Material and Historical Networks CUNY Graduate Center 9:00am - 9:30am Echoes of what might have been: hearing speculative futurity in KOZO's Tokyo Metabolist Syndrome Johns Hopkins University 9:30am - 10:00am Musical Journey Of Azerbaijani Mugham Brooklyn,NY 10:00am - 10:30am Negotiating Spirituality in Intercultural Improvisation Boston University, Boston, MA |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
12L: Media and Music Location: L-508 Presenter: Panayotis League Presenter: Kieran Casey, Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University #winning: Folk Dance Competitions and Mediated Authenticity in Greek America Florida State University 11:15am - 11:45am The Magic of Musubi: Shintoism in the Soundtrack of Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, 11:45am - 12:15pm I’m Walkin’ Here!: Experiencing New York City’s Punk Scene through Bootleg Cassette Tapes 1: Cornell University; 2: Syracuse University |