Listening to Armenian Baku: History and Memory in Digital Diaspora

Jonathan Lee Hollis

Independent Scholar

The Changing Function of a Choctaw Hymn: Closing Conference, Close of Worship, and Farewell

Emma Wimberg

University of North Texas

Schrödinger’s Tapes? – The Discos Smith Collection in the Ralph Rinzler Archive

Peter Verdin

Memorial University of Newfoundland,

Scenes Behind the Zines: Global Music Connections in the pre-Internet Era

Beatriz Goubert

RILM (International Repertory of Music Literature)

Fluid Frequencies: Alternative R&B as a site of new and renewed Black consciousness.

Elizabeth Falade

University of Groningen

In the Breath of the Dead: Remixing Black Uchronia in Spirituals, Work Songs, and Avant-Garde Metal

Jake Blount

Brown University,

Black Banjo Bodylands: Conjuring Ancestral Memory and Navigating the White Gaze

Joe Z. Johnson

Indiana University, Bloomington,

Reflections on Sound and Movement in Ethnomusicology

Chair(s): Allan Zheng (University of California, Riverside)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Holly Tumblin (University of Florida)

N/A

Matthew Rahaim (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

N/A

Shayna Silverstein (Northwestern University)

N/A

Christina Sunardi (University of Washington)

N/A

Corinna Campbell (Williams College)

N/A

Allan Zheng (University of California, Riverside)

Broadcasting Ethnic Identity: Cultural Resistance, Hybridization, and the Invention of Urban Gilaki Popular Music in Mid-20th Century Iran

Arya Tavallaei

University of California Santa Cruz

Tradition, Modernity and the Rise of Music Industry in Iran

Mehdi Rezania

University of Alberta

Nuanced Neutrality: Iranian Musicians and Politics of Avoidance in the Social Media Era

Siavash Mohebbi

University of Virginia

Rhyme and Flow in Tamil Rap

Shiva Ramkumar

Harvard University

Configuring Gender through Hip Hop: Subôi

Julia Catherine Santoli

CUNY Graduate Center,

From Shima-uta to Hip-Hop: Okinawan Popular Music and the Global Echoes of Black Musical Resistance

Qifang Hu

University of Texas at Austin

“Honour Your Mother and Father, Ya Bastards”: the New Masculinity in Aotearoa New Zealand Hip Hop

Susan Ashley Jacob

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa,

Somos Mexicanos, No Somos Criminales: Sounding Resistance Through Chican@ Ska

Andrew Vogel

University of Florida,

Islamic Disco: Protest and Cultural Remix in Iran

Saman Montaseri

University of California, Los Angeles

Playlisting the City: “City Pop,” Alienated Listening, and the Aural Politics of Belonging in Postcolonial South Korea

Cody Black

Vanderbilt University

Film as Ethnography: Reflections from Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, Hurricane-Ravaged North Carolina, and Bloomington, Indiana

Chair(s): Rebecca Dirksen (Indiana University)

Discussant(s): Rebecca Dirksen (Indiana University)

Presentations in the Session

Tabanok

Rowan Glass (Indiana University)

(Re)Building: Crafting Relief for Victims of Hurricane Helene

Robert McCormac (Indiana University)

How I Hear the Blues: The Oral & Aural Narrative of Black America

Lamont Jack Pearley (Indiana University)

Walk Over Here: Walkover Sounds and Stones and the People Who Love It (Part 1)

chloē noelle fourte (Indiana University)

Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography

Russell Skelchy

RILM

Working with the Algorithm: Surveillance Capitalism, Digital Labor, and Crises of Value in Online Virtuosities

David VanderHamm

Johnson County Community College

Precarity of Virtualization: Layered Displacement in the Kurdish Exile Museum's Audio Collections

Ashley Nicole Thornton

The University of Texas at Austin

Pluralising Bias in Music AI: Specialized Data Architectures for a World of Musical Idioms

Jonathan Benjamin Myers

University of California, Santa Cruz

The Disruption of Encoded Gender in Pop Music— A Comparative Study of Technology, Sound Design, and Female Agency in U.S. Pop and Mandopop/C-pop

Adai Song

University of Virginia

Fritz Bose and the Concept of Race in Comparative Musicology

Martin Ringsmut

University of Vienna

Engineering the Minorities: Folk Music, Indigenous Peoples, and the Creation of Ethnicities in China

Kai Tang

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

"We Are Not Like the Blacks from Other Places": Afro-Peruvian Musicians, Elite Racializing Representations, and Grassroots Agency (1920-1955)

Rodrigo Chocano

University of Vienna

Bondye fè l: Singing Resilience in Central Ohio’s Haitian Protestant Churches

Ben Griffin

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Spiritual Resonances of Maizbhandari Songs: Eco-Centrism, Adivasi Rights, and Resistance in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Golam Rabbani

Toronto Metropolitan University

Singing the Walī: Moulay Abdeslam, Resonant Reverence, and the Poetics of Devotion

Hicham Chami

Yale University,

“Echoes of Devotion: Sonic Sufism, Senegalese Pop, and the Afrodiaspora”

Timothy Mangin

Boston College

Being, Breathing, and Aliveness: Transforming Shared Space through Movement

Chair(s): Juan Diego Diaz (University of California, Davis)

Presentations in the Session

Feather’s Breath, Spirit’s Mouth: Phono-choreography at the Chefoo School for the Deaf

YuHao Chen (Ohio State University)

The Politics of Audibility and Visibility in Basque Plaza Dances

Caitlin Romtvedt (University of California, Berkeley)

Black Aliveness – A Drummer’s Take: Black Nationalist Music, Black Music Criticism, Black Worlding, 1965-1969

Max Jefferson (University of California, Berkeley)