Political Limits of Music and Sound

Chair(s): Matt Sakakeeny (Tulane University)

Presentations in the Session

The Normative Sexism of Alternative Music Economies: Brazilian Indie Rock’s #MeToo Contradictions

Shannon Garland
University of Pittsburgh

“Music Can’t Stop a War Machine”

Matt Sakakeeny
Tulane University

Sound and Silence in the Shadow of the Surveillance State

Lee Veeraraghavan
Tulane University

Can Music Actually Do Anything?

Gavin Steingo
Princeton University

Music In/As Culture Wars

Chair(s): Kendra Renée Salois (American University,)

Presentations in the Session

n/a

Aleysia Whitmore
University of Denver

n/a

Benjamin Teitelbaum
University of Colorado

n/a

Justin Patch
Vassar College

n/a

Sophia Zervas
Harvard University

n/a

Christian Poske
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

n/a

Ioannis Tsioulakis
Queen's University Belfast

Sounding the Mexican South: Transborder Musics, Economies, and Belonging in the “Nuevo South”

Chair(s): David Garcia (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)

Discussant(s): Alex Chávez (University of Notre Dame)

Presentations in the Session

“Uno anda buscando la música”: Mapping Southern Latinx Musical Economies

Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez
Emory University

Ralph Peer and the Emergence of the Mexican Popular Music Market

Amanda Marie Martinez
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

“We played fiddle and we left smelling like tamales”: Mexican Music and Memory in the Mississippi Delta

Sophia Enríquez
Duke University

Racial Capitalism and the Materiality of Value in Music

Chair(s): Esther Viola Kurtz (Washington University in Saint Louis,)

Discussant(s): Tim Taylor (UCLA)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Esther Viola Kurtz
Washington University in Saint Louis

N/A

Eric J. Schmidt
Babson College

N/A

Deonte Harris
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

N/A

Otto Stuparitz
University of Melbourne

AI vs. IP: Who Owns the World’s Music Today?

David G. Hebert

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen

What Madonna and Kraftwerk Can Teach Us about Music Copyright after The "AI Turn"

Matthew Day Blackmar

UCLA

Can AI in the Music Industry Be Decolonised?: Notes from the Arabic Music Industry

Darci Sprengel

King's College London, United Kingdom

Performing the Human: Artificial intelligence and popular music

Katherine Moira Miner

Boston University

WE ARE NOT AFRAID: Music and Resistance in Apartheid Prisons

Janie Cole

University of Connecticut,

“Así Chiflamos”: Whistling Cadences in the Oaxaca City Garbage Dump

Kristen Leigh Graves

Universiy of Toronto

“We All Suffered as One Nation”: Nagorno-Karabakh War, Voice, and Martyrdom

Polina Dessiatnitchenko

Waseda University

Activism and social awareness in afro-Brazilian music: Antiracist performances in Northeastern Brazil

Luis Ricardo Queiroz

Federal University of Paraiba,

Musical Micro-Resistances: Late-Night Sessions at the Irish Music Festival Afterparty

Tadhg Ó Meachair

Indiana University Bloomington

Global Tarana: Anthems of an Oppressed Ummah

Tomal Hossain

University of Chicago

Raving in Ukraine: A Restoration Effort

Kim Kattari

Texas A&M University

Challenging Capitalist Realism in Ethnomusicology: Sound Praxis for an Anti-Capitalist Future

Chair(s): Ana Hofman (Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

Discussant(s): Samuel Araújo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Juliana Catinin
The Graduate Center, CUNY

N/A

Pedro Fadel
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

N/A

Agustina Checa
Lehman College, CUNY

N/A

Falina Enriquez
University of Wisconsin-Madison

N/A

Anaar Desai-Stephens
The Graduate Center, CUNY

The Rise of Anti-Fascist Black Metal: Combatting White Supremacy in the US Metal Scene

Meghan Creek

Minneapolis, MN

Revenge Anthems: Violence and Gender in Country Music

Alexis K Baril

University of Alberta

Black Opry’s Radiophonic Alternatives

Fiona Boyd

University of Chicago

School Shootings, Cultural Action, and the Arrival of an Unnerving Musical Tradition

Daniel Vidales

University of California Riverside

Refugees, Forced-Migration, and Ethnomusicology: What Can We Do?

Chair(s): Lisa Gilman (George Mason University)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Harvard University

N/A

Jennifer Sherrill
University of California Davis

N/A

David A. McDonald
Indiana University

N/A

Bradley DeMatteo
University of Toronto

N/A

Tomal Hossain
University of Chicago

Sing Music, Experience Change: New England Sacred Harp as a realization of political ideology

Christopher Andrew Hodges

Boston University

Mapping the Functions of Local Song Genres: A Global Analysis Using the Song Genre Dataset

Susan Gary Walters

SIL Global/ Dallas International University,

Latinidad and the Billboard Hot Latin Songs Chart (1986-2024)

Daniel Party

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

The Warrior Songstress: Transcendent Listening Aesthetics, Memory, and Music Making for Black Women in the Central Valley of California

Chiquitha Aminsalehi

University of California, Merced

Gangsters And Kings: Sundanese Indigeneity And Cosmopolitanism In The Bandung Death Metal Scene

Luigi Monteanni

SOAS, University of London,

Zuriaake’s “Li Gui”: Abjection, Gender, and Horror Aesthetics in Chinese Black Metal

Qian Sun

University of Florida,

Global Metal, Local Struggles: White Supremacy and Internalized Orientalism in Taiwanese Metal

Mark Hsiang-Yu Feng

University of California, Davis