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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: 18th Oct 2025, 09:01:34am EDT
8:00am - 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 - 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 - 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 - 5:30pm
04L: Considering Composition(s) Location: L-508 Presenter: Julian William Duncan , Florida State UniversityPresenter: Lanxin(Nancy) Xu , Northwestern UniversityPresenter: Jim Morford
4:00pm - 4:30pm Performing Puerto Rican-American Identity in Luis R. Miranda’s “Impromptu”
Julian William Duncan
Florida State University,
4:30pm - 5:00pm Dichotomy of accordion and bandoneon in tango, China, and beyond
Lanxin{Nancy} Xu
Northwestern University,
5:00pm - 5:30pm Pulsation Non-Isochrony in Drumming Music of the Arabian Peninsula
Jim Morford
Western Washington University
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Chapters Location: L-508
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 - 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 - 5:30pm
08L: New Approaches in Music Studies Location: L-508 Presenter: Jason Reid Winikoff , University of British Columbia
4:00pm - 4:30pm On the Global Study of Timbre
Jason Reid Winikoff
University of British Columbia
4:30pm - 5:00pm Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public (Ethno)Musicology
Reba Wissner
Columbus State University
5:00pm - 5:30pm Echoes from the Bengal Tiger: Towards a Transcultural (Micro)historical Musicology
Samuel B. Cushman
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
8:30am - 10:30am
09L: Sonic Care Work Location: L-508 Presenter: Carrie Ann Danielson , Florida State UniversityPresenter: Charlotte Olivia Stewart-Juby , Carleton UniversityPresenter: Theresa Allison Presenter: Kristina Nielsen , Southern Methodist University
8:30am - 9:00am Culture Work as Care Work: Music Education and Refugee Resilience at the Simrishamn Kulturskola
Carrie Ann Danielson
Florida State University
9:00am - 9:30am Rehearsing Community: Queer Choral Musicking and the Politics of Care
Charlotte Olivia Stewart-Juby
Carleton University
9:30am - 10:00am 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
10:00am - 10:30am Aztec Dance Spaces: Healing and the Ethics of Scholarship in a Fraught Moment
Kristina Nielsen
Southern Methodist University
10:45am - 12:15pm
10L: Modes of Storytelling Location: L-508 Presenter: Jinyizhuo Wang , Xi'an Conservatory of MusicPresenter: Ella Saporito-Emler , Florida State University
10:45am - 11:15am “Welcome to Montero”: Lil Nas X’s Transmedia Storytelling and/as Queer World-Building
Ella Saporito-Emler
Florida State University
11:15am - 11:45am Reimagining Soundscapes: Cultural Encoding and Aural Narratives in Chinese Shadow Puppetry
Jinyizhuo Wang
Xi'an Conservatory of Music
11:45am - 12:15pm Preserving Indigenous Musics Survived in Oral Tradition: A Multilingual Parallel Corpus
LIJUAN QIAN
University College Cork, Ireland
8:30am - 10:30am
11L: Bridging Musical Pasts and Futures Location: L-508
8:30am - 9:00am The Sampling of Brazilian Music in Hip-Hop: Material and Historical Networks
Romulo Moraes Barbosa
CUNY Graduate Center
9:00am - 9:30am Echoes of what might have been: hearing speculative futurity in KOZO's Tokyo Metabolist Syndrome
Nour El Rayes
Johns Hopkins University
9:30am - 10:00am Musical Journey Of Azerbaijani Mugham
Aqil Suleymanov
Brooklyn,NY
10:00am - 10:30am Negotiating Spirituality in Intercultural Improvisation
Chao Tian
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
10:45am - 11:15am #winning: Folk Dance Competitions and Mediated Authenticity in Greek America
Panayotis League
Florida State University
11:15am - 11:45am The Magic of Musubi: Shintoism in the Soundtrack of Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name
Kieran Casey
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
Sean Peters1,2
1: Cornell University;
2: Syracuse University