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Session Overview
Session
03H: Reflections on Sound and Movement in Ethnomusicology
Time:
Thursday, 23/Oct/2025:
1:45pm - 3:45pm

Presenter: Allan Zheng, University of California, Riverside
Location: M-302

Marquis Level 96

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Presentations

Reflections on Sound and Movement in Ethnomusicology

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

Sound and movement are deeply entangled with each other. In response to an outgrowth of scholarship on choreomusicology over the past decade and multiple conference panels at SEM about dance and movement, this roundtable draws attention to these rich conversations about embodied praxis, musician-dancer interactions, spatial-temporal relationships in performance, and movement as a conceptual resource. While music and dance remain separate disciplines in the academy, this roundtable engages the intersections of music and dance studies, reflecting on current patterns and trends as well as the future of scholarship on sound and movement. Bringing together perspectives from early career and senior scholars, we plan to discuss each of our approaches to navigating these disciplinary challenges, including writing about embodiment and navigating institutional barriers. Roundtable panelists come with a variety of perspectives from across the globe with differing relationships to their music-dance practice of study. Each panelist will share their provocation and response, drawing or diverging from the following questions: (1) How do you see your scholarship fit into the trajectory of the music and dance studies, scholarship on sound and movement? (2) In what ways does working along the intersections of music and dance begin to unsettle and challenge systemic issues in academic research? (3) How has your work presented issues with legibility in the academy and beyond?

 

Presentations in the Session

 

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Holly Tumblin
University of Florida

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Matthew Rahaim
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Shayna Silverstein
Northwestern University

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Christina Sunardi
University of Washington

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Corinna Campbell
Williams College

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Allan Zheng
University of California, Riverside

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