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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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 26th Aug 2025, 07:04:45pm EDT

 
 
Session Overview
Location: L-508
Lobby Level 100
Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025
8:00am
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10:00am
01L: Jazz, Collectivity, and Space
Location: L-508
Chair: Colter Harper
 

Jazz, Collectivity, and Space

Chair(s): Maya Cunningham (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Colter Harper (University at Buffalo)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Maroon Resonance: Fugitive Ecologies of Sound and Jazz Spatiality

Benjamin Barson
Bucknell University

 

“Keeping Music Live!”: +233 Jazz Bar & Grill and the Making of Ghanaian Jazz History

Samuel Boateng
St. John’s College, Oxford

 

More than Memories: Jazz Clubs and Post-Industrial Urban Redevelopment

Colter Harper
University at Buffalo

 

“Hold the Space, Grow the Space”: The Velvet Lounge & Recent Creative Improvised Music Organizing Strategies in Chicago

Eli Namay
University of Pittsburgh

10:45am
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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

Chair(s): Aaron Carter-Enyi (Morehouse College), Solomon Abu Dauda (CONAECDA Nigeria), David Aina (Lagos State University)

Discussant(s): Christian Onyeji (Morehouse College,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Adamawa

Ebruphiyor Omodoro
University of Nigeria

 

Kaduna

Aaron Carter-Enyi
Morehouse College

 

Plateau

Michael Bulkaam
University of Jos

1:45pm
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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

Chair(s): Justin Patch (Vassar College,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

When the Underground Is Above Ground: A Public-Facing Record Store and China’s Curated Indie Music Scene

Diandian Zeng
UCSB

 

In Search of Our “True Academy”: Reflections on Modern Band, Open Jams, and the Purpose of Popular Music Education

Thomas Zlabinger
CUNY

 

Scrambling the genre logic of Spotify in “anime music”

Garrett Groesbeck
Wesleyan University

 

The Wátina Effect: Kaleidoscopic Neo-Traditionalism in Post-2010 Garifuna Popular Music

Amy Frishkey
UTSA

4:00pm
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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”

Julian William Duncan

Florida State University,



Dichotomy of accordion and bandoneon in tango, China, and beyond

Lanxin{Nancy} Xu

Northwestern University,



Pulsation Non-Isochrony in Drumming Music of the Arabian Peninsula

Jim Morford

Western Washington University

8:00pm
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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

Chair(s): Katherine Brucher (DePaul University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

When Outsiders Become Insiders: Riffs in the Creole of Color Community at the Birth of Jazz

Hannah Krall
Shaw University

 

Women College Musicians Take on the World: Gender in Cold War Jazz Diplomacy and Collegiate Jazz Programs

Kari Lindquist
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

The Angry Man of Jazz: Jazz, Coolness, and the Cultural Politics of Emotion

Varun Chandrasekhar
Washington University in St. Louis

 

“We’re Freaks like You”: Lester Bowie’s Sojourns in Poland (1994–1997)

Jenna Przybysz
Stanford University

1:45pm
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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

Chair(s): Hannah Snavely (Stephen F. Austin State University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Towards an Attentive Ethnomusicology: Affective Relationships and Griefwork in the Field

Hannah Snavely
Stephen F. Austin State University

 

Cántame la canción de la Mariquita: Performing and Embodying Grief, Homeland, and Immigrant Womanhood in UndocuAmerica’s SALSA Lotería

Teresita D. Lozano
University of Texas Rio Grande Valle

 

The Song Above, the Sorrow Below: Musical Expression of Loss and Grief-Singing in Animal Fertility Ritual, Q’eros, Peru

Holly Wissler
Texas State University

 

ReSounding the Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan and Communicating Grief Through Performance

Elisa G. Alfonso
University of Utah

4:00pm
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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

Jason Reid Winikoff

University of British Columbia



Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public (Ethno)Musicology

Reba Wissner

Columbus State University



Echoes from the Bengal Tiger: Towards a Transcultural (Micro)historical Musicology

Samuel B. Cushman

University of California, Santa Cruz

7:00pm
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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: Kevin Akumonyo Kimtai, University of Florida
 

Culture Work as Care Work: Music Education and Refugee Resilience at the Simrishamn Kulturskola

Carrie Ann Danielson

Florida State University



Rehearsing Community: Queer Choral Musicking and the Politics of Care

Charlotte Olivia Stewart-Juby

Carleton University



From ethnomusicology to health sciences research: The importance of lived experience in the design of patient-oriented interventions

Theresa Allison

University of California, San Francisco



Aztec Dance Spaces: Healing and the Ethics of Scholarship in a Fraught Moment

Kristina Nielsen

Southern Methodist University

10:45am
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12:15pm
10L: Modes of Storytelling
Location: L-508
Presenter: Jinyizhuo Wang, Xi'an Conservatory of Music
Presenter: Gabriella Saporito-Emler, Florida State University
 

“Welcome to Montero”: Lil Nas X’s Transmedia Storytelling and/as Queer World-Building

Gabriella Saporito-Emler

Florida State University



Reimagining Soundscapes: Cultural Encoding and Aural Narratives in Chinese Shadow Puppetry

Jinyizhuo Wang

Xi'an Conservatory of Music



Preserving Indigenous Musics Survived in Oral Tradition: A Multilingual Parallel Corpus

LIJUAN QIAN, KEYI LIU

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

Romulo Moraes Barbosa

CUNY Graduate Center



Echoes of what might have been: hearing speculative futurity in KOZO's Tokyo Metabolist Syndrome

Nour El Rayes

Johns Hopkins University



Musical Journey Of Azerbaijani Mugham

Aqil Suleymanov

Brooklyn,NY

10:45am
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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

Panayotis League

Florida State University



The Magic of Musubi: Shintoism in the Soundtrack of Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name

Kieran Casey

Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University,



I’m Walkin’ Here!: Experiencing New York City’s Punk Scene through Bootleg Cassette Tapes

Sean Peters1,2

1: Cornell University; 2: Syracuse University