Toward a Ghostly Ethnomusicology

Chair(s): J. Martin Daughtry (New York University)

Discussant(s): J. Martin Daughtry (New York University)

Presentations in the Session

Of Ghosts and Goddesses: Musical Commemoration and the Afterlives of Teresa Teng

Meredith Schweig
Emory University

Romani Agency, Remembrance, and Recording with the Ghosts of “Du Schwarzer Zigeuner”

Siv Lie
University of Maryland

How to Listen in Taiwan’s Time of No Future

Yun Emily Wang
Duke University

Discussant Remarks

J. Martin Daughtry
New York University

Ring Shout Resilience: How to Sustain Intangible Cultural Heritage in America

Chair(s): Eric Crawford (Claflin University)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Erika Carter¹, Brenton Jordan¹, Quintina Carter-Enyi², Griffin Lotson^3
1Georgia, ²University of Georgia, ³Gullah Commission

When Death Sounds: Exploring the Sound-Death Relationship in the Mocoví, Abipón, and Qom Cultures of the Southern Chaco

Valentin Mansilla

University of Turin, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Old Cairo’s Mourning: Nostalgic Pop’s Rise Over Mahraganat in Egypt

Omar Sobhy

Carleton College

Nodes of Memory: Reconciling Individual Agency with Forces of Representation in Sephardic Song

Courtney Elizabeth Blue

UCLA

Irish Sound Paintings: Belfast’s Palimpsestic Politics in the Aftermath of October 7th

Jessie Lee Rubin

Columbia University

Musical Networks and Diasporic Communities in Chicago

Chair(s): Inna Naroditskaya (Northwestern University)

Presentations in the Session

Carnatic Music in the Chicago Diaspora: Tradition, Transformation, and Transmission

Anisha Srinivasan
Northwestern University

Religious Hybridity and Musical Circulation in Chicagoland’s Ukrainian Community

Tanya Landau
Northwestern University

Migrations Meeting in Chicago: The Influence of Migrant Communities on Chicago’s Black Musical Networks, 1930-1950

Reed Williams
University of Chicago

A glance takes Hani’s 1,300 years

Ziwen Zhang

University of Iowa

From Cultural Adaptation to Representation: The Naxi People in Tibet and the Tibetan pi wang (Fiddle) of Markam County

Tingting Tang

UCLA,

Music, our Empire: The Skopje 2014 Project and the Politicization of Roma

Paul David Flood

Eastman School of Music

From Berlin to Teelin: Principles of WWII Radio Propaganda in Ireland

Maeve Carey-Kozlark

New York University

Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the Ottoman Empire

Chair(s): Denise Gill (Stanford University)

Discussant(s): Denise Gill (Stanford University)

Presentations in the Session

Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatnâme and Ottoman Music Theory: Mythmaking and Textual Ethnography

Lara Balikci
The University of Chicago

Virtuosity as Resistance: Yorgo Bacanos and the Cosmopolitan Legacy of Ottoman Music

Adem Birson
New York University

Gazel: Rupture and Continuity in Vocal Improvisation in Ottoman Turkish Classical Music

Ahmet Erdogdular
Makam New York, Inc.

Discussion

Denise Gill
Stanford University

The Sounds of Aguante: Necropolitics, Acoustemology, and Soccer Fandom in Chile

Luis Achondo

Memorial University

Aya Nakamura, Language Ideology, and Francophone Afrobeats at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics

Sarah Politz

The City College of New York

Affective Economies, Excitation Transfers, and Sonic Atmospheres in Argentine Soccer Stadiums

Eduardo Herrera

Indiana University,

Secular Trance in Cultural Context: The Dynamics of Body, Emotion, and Entrainment

Tasaw Hsin-chun Lu

Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Musicology at National Taiwan University

Maqsum Rebranded: Affective Colonial Remaking of Rhythm in White Feminist Spirituality

Sinem Eylem Arslan

University of Toronto

From Maqām to Makam: Syrian Musicians and the Cultural Dynamics of Forced Migration in Türkiye

Dunya Habash

University of Cambridge

Emboided Cartographies: Choreographic Tools For Place-Making

Autumn Eckman

Kennesaw State University,

Sounding Sufism: Diasporic Approaches to Contemporary Music Forms

Chair(s): Payam Yousefi (University of Florida,)

Presentations in the Session

Awakened Hearts: Remembrance and Listening as Creative Process in the Contemporary Sufi Music of the MTO Shahmaghsoudi Zendeh Delan Ensemble

Payam Yousefi
University of Florida

Invoking the Unseen: The Virtues and Virtuosities of Sufi Jazz

Mark Lomanno
Assistant Professor, University of Miami

Sufi Aesthetics and Musical Minimalism: Sonic Desolation in the Music of Arooj Aftab

Sonia Gaind-Krishnan
University of the Pacific

Inuit Drum Dancing and the Unfolding Taskscape

Tim Murray

University of Florida,

Weave Notation: Visualizing Kadodo with a Color-Coded Metric Matrix

Andrew Aprile

City College of New York, CUNY

The African Influence in Panorama Steelband Music: Illustrated in the Panorama Music of Leon “Smooth” Edwards composer-arranger for the Trinidad All Stars steelband.

Michelle Anne Rudder

University of Leeds, Leeds, England

From Box to Cajón: Peta's Heritage

Eve A. Ma

Palomino Productions,

Heterokinesis as Embodied Knowledge Production: China’s New Music Historiographies

Gus Dalan Holley

University of California Berkeley

Embodied Listening, Sonic Mediation, and Ivo Van Hove’s Theatrical Liveness

James Gabrillo

University of Texas at Austin

Tradición al Talón: Mariachi, Identity and Embodying Tradition Through Musical Work

Erika Jean Soveranes

University of North Texas,