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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, 08:58:13am EDT
8:00am 01E: Historical Soundscapes I Location: M-101 Presenter: Hannah Laurel Rogers , Institute for Public EthnomusicologyPresenter: Armaghan Fakhraeirad , University of Pennsylvania
8:00am - 8:30am Mozambique! : Cuba’s Revolutionary Music on the International Stage, 1964-2025
Hannah Laurel Rogers
Institute for Public Ethnomusicology,
8:30am - 9:00am Arba'in 1401
Armaghan Fakhraeirad
University of Pennsylvania,
9:00am - 9:30am The Traditional Vocal Repertoire of Central Visayas (Philippines)
Peter George Fielding
Kennesaw State University,
9:30am - 10:00am Sanshin in the Survival of Okinawan Culture through time.
Elizabeth Vieyra
N/A
10:45am 02E: Singing Resistance and Solidarity: Counter-hegemonic Belonging through Jewish Diaspora Language Song Location: M-101 Chair: Isabel Frey , University of Music and Performing Arts
Singing Resistance and Solidarity: Counter-hegemonic Belonging through Jewish Diaspora Language Song
Chair(s): Isabel Frey (University of Music and Performing Arts,)
Presentations in the Session
Koplas as Resistance: The Ladino Liturgy of Reuven Eliyahu Israel in Seattle’s Sephardi Community
Lily Henley (Harvard University)
“Everywhere We Gather Power”: Articulations of Blackness Through Yiddish Music
Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell (Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership)
Lider mit palestine: Articulating Jewish Solidarity with Palestinians through New Yiddish Song
Isabel Frey (University of Music and Performing Arts)
1:45pm 03E: Decolonizing “Black” Genre: Navigating Femininity and Queerness in Performance Spaces Across the Diaspora Location: M-101 Chair: Jordan Renee Brown
Decolonizing “Black” Genre: Navigating Femininity and Queerness in Performance Spaces Across the Diaspora
Chair(s): Maureen Mahon (New York University)
Presentations in the Session
Hang like a Man: Gender and the Jazz Jam Session
Rebecca F. Zola (Columbia University)
Centering Blackness at the Margins: Embodying Queerness through Alternative R&B
Jordan R. Brown (Harvard University)
Her Beat, Her Story: Bridging Practice and Scholarship in African Musicology
Ruth S. Opara (Columbia University)
We’re So (Emo)tional: Exploring Affect and the Erotic in Queer Black Women’s Participation in Emo Musicking
Victoria Smith (New York University)
4:00pm 04E: Harmonizing Memory: Archives as Sites of Preservation and Resistance in Black Music Location: M-101 Chair: Eric Galm , Trinity College
Harmonizing Memory: Archives as Sites of Preservation and Resistance in Black Music
Chair(s): Eric Galm (Trinity College,)
Presentations in the Session
Preserving, Documenting and Expanding Access to Histories of Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities through the HBCU Digital Library Trust
Andrea Jackson Gavin (HBCU Digital Library Trust, Harvard University)
Post-Custodial Archiving and the Lloyd Best Archive: Decentering Custodianship in the Preservation of Caribbean Intellectual Traditions
Christina Bleyer (Trinity College)
Recovering Musical Memory in São Paulo
Eric Galm (Trinity College)
8:00pm Historical Ethnomusicology Section Meetup Location: M-101
8:30am 05E: Rethinking the Field in African Music Studies Location: M-101 Chair: Althea SullyCole , Schulich School of Music, McGill University
Rethinking the Field in African Music Studies
Chair(s): Shirley Chikukwa (Columbia University)
Presentations in the Session
Gifts From Nature: Akan Episteme, Palmwine Music and Galamsey in the Anthropocene
Josh Brew (University of Pittsburgh)
The Business of Culture: Contemporary Field Sites and African Popular Music
Shirley Chikukwa (Columbia University)
Colonial Postcard Archives and Reimagining Music Fieldwork in Eritrea
Dexter Story (UCLA)
Fesfop and the Social Life of Material Cultural Heritage in Senegal
Althea SullyCole (Schulich School of Music, McGill University)
10:45am 06E: Digital Sounds in Communities Location: M-101 Presenter: Ashley Ann Greathouse , University of Cincinnati & Marshall UniversityPresenter: ZIXUAN WANG , UT Austin
10:45am - 11:15am Ready Player Two: Embodiment and Social Play in Multiplayer Virtual/Augmented Reality Rhythm/Dance Games
Ashley Ann Greathouse
University of South Carolina
11:15am - 11:45am Collective Musicking in the Digital Age: Participation, AI-Singing, and Virtual Community on Bilibili
ZIXUAN WANG
UT Austin,
11:45am - 12:15pm THERE ARE NO DWELLERS, ONLY BUYERS: GENTRIFICATION, TOURISTIFICATION, AND THE URBAN AURAL SPHERE IN MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA.
Juan Fernando Velasquez
University of Houston, Moores School of Music
12:30pm Deafness and Disability Studies SIG Location: M-101
1:45pm 07E: An Insistent Call and Response: Exploring the work and legacy of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Location: M-101 Chair: Dwandalyn Reece , Smithsonian, Natl Mus of African American Hist & Culture
An Insistent Call and Response: Exploring the work and legacy of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Chair(s): Dwandalyn Reece (Smithsonian, Natl Mus of African American Hist & Culture,)
Presentations in the Session
N/A
Maya Cunningham (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) , Tammy Kernodle (Miami University) , Krystal Klingenberg (Smithsonian, NMAH) , Maureen Mahon (New York University) , Stephen Stacks (North Carolina Central University) , Portia Maultsby (Indiana University)
4:00pm 08E: Contemporary Black Music in Southern Europe Location: M-101 Chair: Jacqueline Georgis
Contemporary Black Music in Southern Europe
Chair(s): Deonte Harris (UNC)
Discussant(s): Deonte Harris (UNC)
Presentations in the Session
Príncipe Discos and the Sonic Politics of Afro Lisboa
Jacqueline Georgis (College of the Holy Cross)
Espacio Afro: Music, Community, and the Politics of Belonging in Catalonia
Genevieve Allotey-Pappoe (Brown University)
Nero a metà, in realtà: Black-Italian Musicians Sounding the Global South
Clifton Boyd (NYU)
7:00pm Texas Reception Location: M-101
8:30am 09E: Music and Publics in Emerging Democracies in Africa Location: M-101 Chair: Charles Lwanga , University of Michigan
Panel Title: Music and Publics in Emerging Democracies in Africa
Chair(s): Charles Lwanga (University of Michigan,)
Presentations in the Session
Japa Syndrome: The 'Postcolonial Normal', Popular Music, and the Precarities of Youth Social Movements in Fourth Republic Nigeria (1999-)
Joshua Kerobo (University of Michigan)
Music and Bobi Wine’s ‘People Power’ Counterpublic in Uganda
Charles Lwanga (University of Michigan)
Musical Publics and Counterpublics in Central Cameroon
Dueck Byron (The Open University)
Sweating the Details: Policy Capture and Protest Music in the 2024 Senegalese Presidential Election
Brendan Kibbee (University of Maryland)
10:45am 10E: Sounding Global Fascism: Inter-Axis Musical Exchange between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany Location: M-101 Chair: Ryan Christopher Gourley , University of California, Berkeley
Sounding Global Fascism: Inter-Axis Musical Exchange between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany
Chair(s): Junko Oba (Hampshire College)
Presentations in the Session
Broadcasting German-Japanese Relations, Richard Strauss’s 70th Birthday
Amanda Hsieh (Durham University)
Harbin-Papa, Berlin-Mama? Inter-Axis Record Circulation and Russian Diaspora
Ryan Gourley (University of California, Berkeley)
The Revolution will be Broadcasted: Reimagining Music in Imperial Japan through Inter-Axis Music Learning
Emily Lu (Florida State University)
12:30pm SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology Location: M-101
7:00pm SEM Orchestra Location: M-101
8:30am 11E: In the Classroom Location: M-101 Presenter: Sumeet Anand Presenter: Robin P. Harris , Dallas International UniversityPresenter: Rubens De La Corte Presenter: Scott Spencer , University of Southern California
8:30am - 9:00am Hindustani classical music and evolving hybrid pedagogy: Experential recounting and implications for learning and practise
Sumeet Anand
Visiting Associate Professor Department of Ethnomusicology Herb Alpert School of Music UCLA
9:00am - 9:30am Integrating Analysis, Embodiment, and Ethnography: A Participatory Approach to Teaching Ethnoarts
Robin P. Harris
Dallas International University,
9:30am - 10:00am Reimagining Lutherie Education in Argentina and Brazil: Towards Inclusive, Collective, and Sustainable Frameworks
Rubens De La Corte
Graduate Center-CUNY
10:00am - 10:30am Digital Humanities in the World Music Classroom: Fostering Peer-Built Diversity and Inclusivity
Scott Spencer, Giulia Bratosin
University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music
10:45am 12E: Listening to Visual Cultures Location: M-101 Presenter: Melanie Kaye Moseley , University of PittsburghPresenter: Kevin Salfen , University of the Incarnate word
10:45am - 11:15am Statutory Rape and R&B: How a Documentary Influenced the Conviction of R. Kelly
Melanie Kaye Moseley
University of Pittsburgh
11:15am - 11:45am "Phoenix Fire": From Shinsaku Noh to Film
Kevin Salfen
University of the Incarnate Word
11:45am - 12:15pm Collaborative composition approaches for Balinese gamelan on screen and stage
Joshua Robinson
Australian National University
