Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies

Chair(s): Eduardo Sato (Virginia Tech), Cibele Moura (Cornell University)

Presentations in the Session

Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies

Kaleb E. Goldschmitt¹, Juan Diego Díaz², Dennis Novaes³, Michael Iyanaga⁴, Cibele Moura⁵, Suzel A Reily^6
1Wellesley College, ²University of California, Davis, ³Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, ⁴William & Mary, ⁵Cornell University, ⁶Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Beyond Colonial Legacies: Cultural Identity, Adaptation, and Musical Hybridity in Ghana

Chair(s): John Wesley Dankwa (Wesleyan University,)

Presentations in the Session

Beyond Missionary Legacies: Examining the Musical Practices in Ghanaian Methodist Worship

Susana Gyamfuaa Agyei
Wesleyan University

Cultural Identity and Future Directions in Ghanaian Choral Music: A Synthesis of Tradition and Innovation

Emmanuel Abeku Ansaeku
Wesleyan University

Colonial Residue or Sheer Love for Music? G.F. Handel in Ghanaian Choral Art Music

John Wesley Dankwa
Wesleyan University

Who's Music? Essentialism, Appropriation, Investment, Authenticity

Chair(s): Tony Perman (Grinnell College,)

Presentations in the Session

The Problem of the Banjo

Tom Turino
Scranton, KY

“You’re Not My Kind of Balinese”: Carving Musical Identity in the Silencing of Cultural Essentialism

Putu Hiranmayena
Grinnell College

From Empathy to Justice: Ethnomusicological Paradoxes, Music Participation, and the Utility of Indebtedness

Tony Perman
Grinnell College

Bridging the Gap: The Complicated Politics and Potentials of Creative Bi-musicality

Donna Lee Kwon
University of Kentucky

The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan

Chair(s): Stella Zhizhi Li (RILM)

Presentations in the Session

“When Will You Return?”: The Voice(s) of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Annie Y. Liu
Princeton University

Reclaiming the Voices of Chinese Singsong Girls Beyond “Yellow” in 1940s Shanghai

Shuang Wang
Brown University

Jazz Queens in Women’s Magazines: Negotiating Femininity in Occupied Japan

Stella Zhizhi Li
RILM

Disasters and Mutual Aid: “Band Together” as a Critical Moment of Care

Zachary Moreau

Florida State University

The Nova Festival Massacre: Exploring the Intersection of Music, Horror, Trauma, and Healing

Moshe Morad

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Music and a politics of care: Collaborative songwriting in US social service and community mental health settings

Erica Cao

Stanford University, San Mateo County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services

Music, Power, and Agency in the 16^th- and 17^th-Century Kingdom of Kongo

Janie Cole

University of Connecticut,

The “Burundi Beat”: Appropriation and Opportunity in 1980s Global Pop

James Revell Carr

University of Kentucky,

Tuning to Fit In: The Reform of the Miao Lusheng and the Construction of Modern Chinese Soundscape in Post-1949 China"

Zhishan Cai

Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University,

BEZMARA’S FATE: Why the Ottoman Early Music Movement Never Took Off

Mehmet Ali Sanlikol

New England Conservatory,

The Rise and Fall of the Azmaribet: Traditional Music Venues as Urban Form in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

John C Walsh

University of Wisconsin, Madison,

Fluidity in Tradition: Gender and the Chilena in Costa Chica

Abraham Landa

University of Oregon,

Shifting Sounds of Yemen in Ofra Haza's music

Inbar Shifrin

Brandeis University

The Dombra and Minority: Making Fusion Music in Lijiang

Yanxiazi Gao

the Chinese University of Hong Kong

“As Natural to Me as Breathing”: Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City

Uri Schreter

Harvard University

Gospel, the Monarchy, and the Politics of Representation in British Popular Culture

Matthew Williams

University of York

The Return of the Prayer: Navigating Identity through Cantonese Contemporary Christian Music in Postcolonial Hong Kong

Ching Yuet Kan

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong