Conference Agenda

The Online Program of events for the SEM 2025 Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early October.

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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 22/Oct/2025
7:30am
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6:00pm
Reg: Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:30am
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9:00pm
Pre-Con: Pre-Conference
6:00pm
-
10:00pm
SEM Board

Closed Meeting


Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025
7:30am
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5:00pm
Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am
-
10:00am
SEM Board

Closed Meeting

01A: Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies
Location: M-101
 

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 Reily6
1Wellesley College, 2University of California, Davis, 3Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 4William & Mary, 5Cornell University, 6Universidade Estadual de Campinas

01B: Musicking through European Migratory Spaces: Gendered, Ethnic, and Racial Place-Making
Location: M-102
Chair: Sonia Tamar Seeman, University of Texas Austin
Presenter: Sonia Tamar Seeman, University of Texas Austin
 

Musicking through European migratory Spaces: Gendered, ethnic and racial place-making

Chair(s): Sonia Tamar Seeman (University of Texas Austin,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Performative Social Space: Trauma, Ritual, and Music among Kosovo Romani Migrants in Germany

Carol Silverman
University of Oregon

 

Re-creating “Mu[h]acir” [“Immigrant”] through Women’s Work: Musicking and Social Reproduction

Sonia Tamar Seeman
University of Texas Austin

 

Women, Musicking, and Freedom in the Created Space of Church

Golriz Shayani
N/a

 

Post-Migrant Musicking and the Restriction of Public Space: Sonic color and class lines in provincial Germany

Juniper Hill, Cornelia Guenauer
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

01C: Toward a Ghostly Ethnomusicology
Location: M-103
Presenter: Yun Emily Wang, Duke University
 

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

01D: Political Limits of Music and Sound
Location: M-104/105
Chair: Matt Sakakeeny
 

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

01E: Historical Soundscapes I
Location: M-106/107
Presenter: Hannah Laurel Rogers, Institute for Public Ethnomusicology
Presenter: Armaghan Fakhraeirad, University of Pennsylvania
Presenter: Özgür Balkılıç, Abdullah Gul University
Presenter: Haoran Jiang, Sun Yat-sen University
 

Mozambique!: Cuba’s Revolutionary Music on the International Stage, 1964-2025

Hannah Laurel Rogers

Institute for Public Ethnomusicology,



Arba'in 1401

Armaghan Fakhraeirad

University of Pennsylvania,



From Tradition Transmitters to Public Intellectuals: Changing Roles of Âşık/Alevi Musicians in Modern Turkey, 1960-1980

Özgür Balkılıç

Abdullah Gul University,



Performing Cold War Coalitions: Musical Cosmopolitanism in Taiwan’s Stars Gathering

Haoran Jiang

Department of Chinese (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University

01F: Feeling the Song and Making Sense of the Non-Verbal In Three Vocal Traditions of Central Eurasia
Location: M-109
Chair: Katherine Freeze Wolf
 

Feeling the Song and Making Sense of the Non-Verbal In Three Vocal Traditions of Central Eurasia

Chair(s): Richard K. Wolf (Harvard University)

Discussant(s): Richard K. Wolf (Harvard University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Pain Beyond Words: Weeping Voice, Linguistic Unintelligibility, and Embodied Suffering in Shia Mourning Rituals in Tehran

Hamidreza Salehyar
University of Toronto

 

Plaintive Tunes for Tender Words: Plucked Lutes as Voice Surrogates in Folksong Performance, Tajik Badakhshan

Katherine Freeze Wolf
Boston, MA

 

Twisting the Vowels: Preverbal Multispecies Communication in the Practice of Mongolian Urtyn duu

Sunmin Yoon
University of Delaware

01G: Music and War
Location: M-301
Presenter: Nathan Russell Huxtable, University of California, Riverside
Presenter: Heather MacLachlan, University of Dayton
Presenter: Olga Zaitseva-Herz
Presenter: Briana Nave, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 

“Based on the Spirit of the Empire”: Japanese Military Music and Symbolic Mobility in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II

Nathan Russell Huxtable

University of California, Riverside



Musical Propaganda in Myanmar: Army Songs

Heather MacLachlan

University of Dayton,



Encrypted in Song: Wartime Music as a Medium of Subversive Communication Between Occupied and Free Ukraine

Olga Zaitseva-Herz

University of Alberta



Uncertain Signs: WWI Musico-therapy and Shell Shock

Briana Nave

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

01H: Listening to Archives
Location: M-302
Presenter: Jonathan Lee Hollis
Presenter: Emma Wimberg
Presenter: Peter Verdin, Memorial University of Newfoundland
 

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,

01I: Music, Climate Change and Extractivism around the Arctic and Antarctic
Location: M-303
 

Music, Climate Change and Extractivism around the Arctic and Antarctic

Chair(s): Lonán Ó Briain (University of Nottingham)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Mapping Extractivism, Divining the Present: Sámi More-than-Musical Instruments in a Changing Arctic

Nicola Renzi
University of Bologna/University of Helsinki

 

"Saca el petróleo pa' mi nación": Frontier Nostalgia and the Climate Hyperobject in Songs about the Patagonian Petroleum Industry

Lydia Wagenknecht
University of Colorado Boulder

 

Relistening to the Current Environmental Crises in Chile through Mapuche Ül Metal

Jan Koplow
Duke University

01J: Transnational Soundscapes
Location: M-304
Presenter: Ruby Anethe Erickson, Brown University
Presenter: Ida Maria Tello
Presenter: Chun-Chia Tai
Presenter: Donald Czubernat Bradley, Indiana University
 

“Not Enough Room to Dance”: Urban Disinvestment, Loss, and the Spatial Ecologies of Cabo Verdean/American Music

Ruby A. Erickson

Brown University



Finding Chicagotlan: Danza Azteca and the Coloniality of Being in the Windy City

Ida Maria Tello

Washington University in St. Louis



Island-Reggae Beats in Urban Streets: Navigating Interracial Dynamics through Island Reggae in Southern California

Chun-Chia Tai

University of California, Riverside



Japan’s High Lonesome Sound: Identity and Imagination in Japanese engagement with bluegrass

Donald Czubernat Bradley

Indiana University

01K: Jazz Futures
Location: L-506/507
Presenter: Tom Wetmore, Columbia University
Presenter: Lee Caplan
Presenter: Martin Hundley, University of California, Los Angeles
Presenter: Tim Booth
 

Constellations of Sound: Race, Technology, and Jazz Performance

Tom Wetmore

Columbia University



Nathan Davis and the Jazz Educational Undercommons

Lee Caplan

University of Pittsburgh



Free Jazz and Building Community in South Los Angeles: Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra

Martin Hundley

University of California, Los Angeles



Jazz in Colonial Korea: Exploring the Complex Perceptions of Blackness

Wonseok Lee

Yale University

01L: Jazz, Collectivity, and Space
Location: L-508
Chair: Colter Harper
 

Jazz, Collectivity, and Space

Chair(s): Maya Cunningham (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Colter Harper (University at Buffalo)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Maroon Resonance: Fugitive Ecologies of Sound and Jazz Spatiality

Benjamin Barson
Bucknell University

 

“Keeping Music Live!”: +233 Jazz Bar & Grill and the Making of Ghanaian Jazz History

Samuel Boateng
St. John’s College, Oxford

 

More than Memories: Jazz Clubs and Post-Industrial Urban Redevelopment

Colter Harper
University at Buffalo

 

“Hold the Space, Grow the Space”: The Velvet Lounge & Recent Creative Improvised Music Organizing Strategies in Chicago

Eli Namay
University of Pittsburgh

     
10:10am
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10:40am
Opening Ceremony
Location: M-104/105
10:45am
-
12:15pm
02A: Beyond Colonial Legacies: Cultural Identity, Adaptation, and Musical Hybridity in Ghana
Location: M-101
Chair: John Wesley Dankwa, Wesleyan University
 

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

02B: Beyond Venting in the Dressing Room: Abuses of Power, Trauma, and Resistance in the Early Careers of Classical Singers
Location: M-102
Chair: Anna Valcour, Brandeis University
 

Beyond Venting in the Dressing Room: Abuses of Power, Trauma, and Resistance in the Early Careers of Classical Singers

Chair(s): Molly Doran (Wartburg College)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

The Voice Cult: Trauma and Tribalism in Undergraduate Voice Studies

Stephen Carr
York University

 

“Other Duties as Assigned”: Abuse, Labor, and Surviving the American Opera Industry’s Resident Artist Programs

Anna Valcour
Brandeis University

 

Meeting “The Other’s” Need: An Analytic Framework to Evaluate DEI Initiatives in American Opera Companies as Acts of Care

Danielle Buonaiuto
The Graduate Center, CUNY

02C: Ring Shout Resilience: How to Sustain Intangible Cultural Heritage in America
Location: M-103
Chair: Eric Crawford
 

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 Lotson3
1Georgia, 2University of Georgia, 3Gullah Commission

02D: Music In/As Culture Wars
Location: M-104/105
Chair: Kendra Renée Salois, American 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

02E: Singing Resistance and Solidarity: Counter-hegemonic Belonging through Jewish Diaspora Language Song
Location: M-106/107
Chair: Isabel Frey, University of Music and Performing Arts
 

Singing Resistance and Solidarity: Counter-hegemonic Belonging through Jewish Diaspora Language Song

Chair(s): Isabel Frey (University of Music and Performing Arts,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Koplas as Resistance: The Ladino Liturgy of Reuven Eliyahu Israel in Seattle’s Sephardi Community

Lily Henley
N/A

 

“Everywhere We Gather Power”: Articulations of Blackness Through Yiddish Music

Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell
Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership

 

Lider mit palestine: Articulating Jewish Solidarity with Palestinians through New Yiddish Song

Isabel Frey
University of Music and Performing Arts

02F: Revising Boundaries of Language, Song, and Ritual in the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia
Location: M-109
Chair: Brian Fairley, University of Pittsburgh
 

Revising Boundaries of Language, Song, and Ritual in the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia

Chair(s): Brian Fairley (University of Pittsburgh,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Language and Song in the Caucasian Borderlands: Nikolai Marr and the Sound of Archaeology

Brian Fairley
University of Pittsburgh

 

Meqamî Kurdî and the Shaping of Musical Identity in Contemporary Kurdistan

Jon Bullock
University of Notre Dame

 

Between Code-Switching and Kindred Resonances in the Multilingual Polymusicality of a Lived Kurdish Geography

George Murer
Hunter College, City University of New York

02G: Female Perspectives in Iranian Music
Location: M-301
Presenter: Hannaneh Akbarpour, Yale University
Presenter: Ali Hajmalek
Presenter: Hadi Milanloo
 

“Dancing to Modernity”: Musical Everydayness and Politics of Womanhood in Pre-and Post-Revolutionary Iran

Hannaneh Akbarpour

Yale University,



From Silence to Song: Tracing Women’s Ascension in the Qadiriyya Sufi Rituals of Iran

Ali Hajmalek

Boston University



Canon Reformation and Rewriting Women’s History in Iranian Music

Hadi Milanloo

University of Toronto

02H: Narrations of Black Life
Location: M-302
Presenter: Elizabeth Falade
Presenter: Jake Blount, Brown University
Presenter: Joe Z. Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington
 

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,

02I: Soundscapes of Worship
Location: M-303
Presenter: Sharri K. Hall, Harvard University
Presenter: Conner Singh VanderBeek, Davidson College
Presenter: Ahkeel Andres Mestayer Velasquez, UC Berkeley
 

Affect and Authenticity in Contemporary Christian Worship Soundscapes

Sharri K. Hall

Harvard University



Amplifying the Divine Word, or the Aesthetics of Reverb in Sikh Aural Architecture

Conner Singh VanderBeek

Davidson College



Space, Spirits, and Sound

Ahkeel Andres Mestayer Velasquez

UC Berkeley

02J: Archiving with Indigenous Communities: Perspectives from South Africa
Location: M-304
Chair: Lyndsey Copeland
 

Archiving with Indigenous Communities: Perspectives from South Africa

Chair(s): Lyndsey Copeland (Carleton University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

N/A

Leonard Boetles Gewers
Riemvaasmaak, South Africa

 

N/A

James Mapanka
South African Nama Development Association

 

N/A

Sharon Gabie
Nelson Mandela University

 

N/A

Lee Watkins
International Library of African Music, Rhodes University

02K: Reimagining Belonging through Politics of Sound: Asian/American Artists in Global Popular Music
Location: L-506/507
Chair: Sora Woo
 

Reimagining Belonging through Politics of Sound: Asian/American Artists in Global Popular Music

Chair(s): Sora Woo (University of California, San Diego)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

From the West Coast to the Sea: Hip-hop Music and Its Body/Voice Politics in Taiwan

Heidi Yin-Hsuan Tai
University of California, San Diego

 

Rina, BTS, and The Ethics of East Asian Representation in Western Popular Music

Alissa Liu
University of California, San Diego

 

Beyond Borders: Tokimonsta, Politics of Collaboration, and Sonic Speculation

Sora Woo
University of California, San Diego

02L: Intangible Cultural Heritage of Nigeria's Middle Belt
Location: L-508
Chair: Aaron Carter-Enyi, Morehouse College
 

Intangible Cultural Heritage of Nigeria's Middle Belt

Chair(s): Aaron Carter-Enyi (Morehouse College), Solomon Abu Dauda (CONAECDA Nigeria), David Aina (Lagos State University)

Discussant(s): Christian Onyeji (Morehouse College,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Adamawa

Ebruphiyor Omodoro
University of Nigeria

 

Kaduna

Aaron Carter-Enyi
Morehouse College

 

Plateau

Michael Bulkaam
University of Jos

11:00am
-
6:00pm
Exhibits
Location: Imperial Registration
12:30pm
-
1:30pm
Committee on Labor
Location: M-303
Dance, Music, and Gesture Section Meeting
Location: M-106/107
Ethics Committee
Location: L-504
Gender and Sexualities Studies Section Open Meeting
Location: L-506/507
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Section Meeting
Location: M-104/105
Past Presidents' Lunch
Location: L-505
SIG for Ecomusicology
Location: M-301
SIG for Japanese Performing Arts
Location: M-109
SIG for Jewish Music
Location: M-103
SIG for Music and Violence
Location: M-302
SIG for Music of the Francophone World
Location: M-304
 
1:45pm
-
3:45pm
03A: Who's Music? Essentialism, Appropriation, Investment, Authenticity
Location: M-101
Chair: Anthony Wilford Perman, Grinnell College
 

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

03B: Afrodiasporic Linguistics and Gestures
Location: M-102
Presenter: Warrick Moses
Presenter: Kai Barratt, University of Technology, Jamaica
Presenter: Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon
Presenter: Nathaniel Ash-Morgan
 

They Not Like Us: The Relationship Between (Black) American Sign Language and Hiphop Performance

Warrick Moses

UW Madison



Too Bla (ck)xx? The Trinbagonian Calypso and Soca Experience

Kai Barratt1, Alison McLetchie2, Rae-ann Smith3

1: University of Technology, Jamaica; 2: South Carolina State University; 3: University of the West Indies, Mona



“I ain changing meh dialect, meh patois…” Language change, attitudes and identity in the Carnival musics of Trinidad and Tobago.

Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon

University of Trinidad and Tobago



Afro-Dancehall: The Impact of Global Afrobeats on Ghanaian Dancehall

Nathaniel Ash-Morgan

University of North Texas

03C: Grief and Memory
Location: M-103
Presenter: Valentin Mansilla, University of Turin
Presenter: Omar Sobhy
Presenter: Courtney Elizabeth Blue, UCLA
Presenter: Jessie Lee Rubin, Columbia University
 

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

03D: Sounding the Mexican South: Transborder Musics, Economies, and Belonging in the “Nuevo South”
Location: M-104/105
Chair: Sophia Enríquez, Duke University
 

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

03E: Decolonizing “Black” Genre: Navigating Femininity and Queerness in Performance Spaces Across the Diaspora
Location: M-106/107
Chair: Jordan Renee Brown
 

Decolonizing “Black” Genre: Navigating Femininity and Queerness in Performance Spaces Across the Diaspora

Chair(s): Maureen Mahon (New York University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Hang like a Man: Gender and the Jazz Jam Session

Rebecca F. Zola
Columbia University

 

Centering Blackness at the Margins: Embodying Queerness through Alternative R&B

Jordan R. Brown
Harvard University

 

Her Beat, Her Story: Bridging Practice and Scholarship in African Musicology

Ruth S. Opara
Columbia University

 

We’re So (Emo)tional: Exploring Affect and the Erotic in Queer Black Women’s Participation in Emo Musicking

Victoria Smith
New York University

03F: The Magnetic Politics of Cassette Archives
Location: M-109
Chair: David Novak
 

The Magnetic Politics of Cassette Archives

Chair(s): Farzaneh Hemmasi (U of Toronto)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Unhearing Happy Birthday: A Cassette Deck in the Polish American Kitchen

Andrea Bohlman
UNC Chapel Hill

 

Anarchive in the UK: Tape Collections as Diasporic Recollections

David Novak
UCSB

 

Listening in Plain Sight: Kurdish Cassettes and The Absence of Visual History

Fidel Glitch
UC Berkeley

 

Punjabi Tape Nostalgia in Truck-Borne Obscenity, Village Anomie, and Ethnomusicological History

Davindar Singh
Harvard

03G: Voicing the Unheard: Lament as Memory, Resistance, and Healing
Location: M-301
Chair: Felicia K. Youngblood, Western Washington University
 

Voicing the Unheard: Lament as Memory, Resistance, and Healing

Chair(s): Andrea Shaheen Espinosa (Arizona State University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

N/A

Georgia Curran
University of Sydney

 

N/A

Larissa Mulder
The Ohio State University

 

N/A

Grijda Spiri
University of California Santa Cruz

 

N/A

Felicia K. Youngblood
Western Washington University

 

N/A

Chuyi Zhu
University of Michigan

03H: Reflections on Sound and Movement in Ethnomusicology
Location: M-302
Presenter: Allan Zheng, University of California, Riverside
 

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

03I: Embodiment
Location: M-303
Presenter: Paige Carter Dailey, University of Michigan
Presenter: Inderjit N Kaur
Presenter: Edwin Porras, Haverford College
Presenter: Hamidreza Fallahi, University of Texas at Austin
 

"My Body is a Cage": Genre and Embodiment in Heavy Music

Paige Carter Dailey

University of Michigan



Secularizing Social Identity Through Performing Khayyami

Hamidreza Fallahi

University of Texas at Austin,



Transportive Sensations: Historicity, Aura, and Embodiment in Sikh Musical Worship

Inderjit N Kaur

University of Michigan, Ann arbor



Cuban Lion Dancing: Embodying Alternative Cubanness

Edwin Porras

Haverford College

03J: Fieldwork Considerations
Location: M-304
Presenter: Matthew Gilbert
Presenter: León García Corona, USC
Presenter: Anneli Loepp Thiessen
Presenter: Rachel Horner, Cornell University
 

The Best and the West: Amateur Fieldwork in Early Twentieth-Century California

Matthew Gilbert

Stanford University



Data-Driven Ethnomusicology, AI, and Decoloniality

León García Corona

USC



Beyond the Spotlight: Social and Methodological Considerations for Qualitative Research with Celebrity Musicians

Anneli Loepp Thiessen

University of Ottawa



Registering Community: On Navigating and Translating the Multilingual Field Site

Rachel Horner

Cornell University

03K: Resounding, Unsilencing, and Amplifying Latin America: Global South Possibilities for Sound Archives in the Global North
Location: L-506/507
Chair: Caio Marques Pinto de Souza
 

Resounding, Unsilencing, and Amplifying Latin America: Global South Possibilities for Sound Archives in the Global North

Chair(s): Caio de Souza (State University of Amapá)

Discussant(s): Sergio Ospina-Romero (Indiana University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Resonances of the Crossroads: Lorenzo Dow Turner and the Capoeira Angola Group Estrela do Norte

Caio de Souza
State University of Amapá

 

Bullerengue Unsilenced: Reclaiming Afro-Colombian Women’s Voices in the Sound Archive and in Ethnomusicology

Manuel Garcio-Orozco
Columbia University

 

El Palenque de Delia: Retracing Steps, Re-enacting the Archive, and Activating the Imagination 

Amelia López López
Indiana University

03L: New Modes of Resistance and Connection in Popular Music
Location: L-508
Chair: Justin Patch, Vassar College
 

New Modes of Resistance and Connection in Popular Music

Chair(s): Justin Patch (Vassar College,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

When the Underground Is Above Ground: A Public-Facing Record Store and China’s Curated Indie Music Scene

Diandian Zeng
UCSB

 

In Search of Our “True Academy”: Reflections on Modern Band, Open Jams, and the Purpose of Popular Music Education

Thomas Zlabinger
CUNY

 

Scrambling the genre logic of Spotify in “anime music”

Garrett Groesbeck
Wesleyan University

 

The Wátina Effect: Kaleidoscopic Neo-Traditionalism in Post-2010 Garifuna Popular Music

Amy Frishkey
UTSA

4:00pm
-
5:30pm
04A: The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan
Location: M-101
Chair: Stella Li, RILM
 

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

04B: The ‘Context’ Argument: Three Musical Case Studies in the Instrumentalization of Context
Location: M-102
Chair: Thi Lan Lettner
 

The ‘Context’ Argument: Three Musical Case Studies in the Instrumentalization of Context

Chair(s): Thi Lan Lettner (University of Maryland, College Park)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth-Century Binder’s Volumes

Elizabeth Busch
University of Maryland, College Park

 

Undercontextualizing a Musical Miracle: North America’s Reception to the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra

Thi Lan Lettner
University of Maryland, College Park

 

Decontextualization and the Music Historical Scholarship of Bernice Johnson Reagon

Jackson Albert Mann
University of Maryland, College Park

04C: Musical Networks and Diasporic Communities in Chicago
Location: M-103
Chair: Tanya Landau
 

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

04D: Racial Capitalism and the Materiality of Value in Music
Location: M-104/105
Chair: Esther Viola Kurtz, Washington University in Saint Louis
 

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

04E: Harmonizing Memory: Archives as Sites of Preservation and Resistance in Black Music
Location: M-106/107
Chair: Eric Galm, Trinity College
 

Harmonizing Memory: Archives as Sites of Preservation and Resistance in Black Music

Chair(s): Eric Galm (Trinity College,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Preserving, Documenting and Expanding Access to Histories of Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities through the HBCU Digital Library Trust

Andrea Jackson Gavin
HBCU Digital Library Trust, Harvard University

 

Post-Custodial Archiving and the Lloyd Best Archive: Decentering Custodianship in the Preservation of Caribbean Intellectual Traditions

Christina Bleyer
Trinity College

 

Recovering Musical Memory in São Paulo

Eric Galm
Trinity College

04F: Gendered Voices and Performative Visions of Transnational North India
Location: M-109
Chair: Christian Morgan James, Indiana University Bloomington
 

Gendered Voices and Performative Visions of Transnational North India

Chair(s): Christian Morgan James (Indiana University Bloomington,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Camels, Courts, and Contradictions: Reimagining Gender Performativity in Hindustani Tappa

Ali Hassan
University of Pittsburgh

 

In the Realm of Ecstasy: Sufi Diplomacy at the “Jahan-e-Khusrau” Music Festival

John Caldwell
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

One Billion Rising on Stage: The Inclusive Festival as Resource for Feminist Mobilization in Himachal Pradesh

Christian Morgan James
Indiana University Bloomington

04G: Island Listening
Location: M-301
Presenter: Courtney-Savali Andrews, Oberlin College
Presenter: Isabella Mahal Ortega
 

Chronotopic Formulations: The Making of the Music and Musicians in Modern Samoa

Courtney-Savali Andrews

Oberlin College



Excavating Alcina's codiapi: Filipino boat-tutes in the colonial Visayas

Isabella Mahal Ortega

University of Chicago

04H: Digital Media in Iran
Location: M-302
Presenter: Arya Tavallaei, University of California Santa Cruz
Presenter: Mehdi Rezania
Presenter: Siavash Mohebbi, University of Virginia
 

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

04I: Latin American Musical Experimentalisms in Public Space
Location: M-303
Chair: Andrew Snyder
 

Latin American Musical Experimentalisms in Public Space

Chair(s): Andrew Snyder (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

The Revolution Will Be Sonified: Juan Blanco’s Utopic Soundscapes in Revolutionary Cuba

Marysol Quevedo
University of Miami

 

An Experimental Carnival: Material Engagements with Space and Sound in São Paulo, Brazil

James McNally
University of Illinois Chicago

 

Our Ship Drum Earth: Decolonial Musicking in Ernesto Neto’s Percussion Installation in Lisbon

Andrew Snyder
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

04J: Architectures of Knowledge: Jewish Music, Heritage, and Minority Agency
Location: M-304
Chair: Miranda Crowdus, Concordia University
 

Architectures of Knowledge: Jewish Music, Heritage, and Minority Agency

Chair(s): Jessica Roda (Concordia University,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Alternative Architectures: Sounding Jewishness in Dead Spaces

Miranda Crowdus
Concordia University

 

Transylvanian Fantasy: Jews, Revival and Heritage in the Musical Landscape of Northern Romania

Jeremiah Lockwood
UCLA

 

The European Center for Jewish Music: Constructing a Knowledge Architecture of Jewish Music in Germany

Sarah Ross
European Centre for Jewish Music

04K: Critical Biographies
Location: L-506/507
Presenter: Derrick Reginald Smith, The University of Alabama
Presenter: Maya Celeste Ann Cunningham, American University
Presenter: Susan Hurley-Glowa, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
 

A Biographical Portrait of the Professional Career and Influence of African American Band Leader Thomas E. Lyle

Derrick Reginald Smith

The University of Alabama



Max Roach: Black Power Ideologies and Aesthetics

Maya Celeste Ann Cunningham

University of Massachusetts, Amherst,



Tracing the Barefoot Diva’s Path Through Repertoire: Cesária Évora’s Song Choices

Susan Hurley-Glowa

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley,

04L: Considering Composition(s)
Location: L-508
Presenter: Julian William Duncan, Florida State University
Presenter: Lanxin(Nancy) Xu, Northwestern University
Presenter: Jim Morford
 

Performing Puerto Rican-American Identity in Luis R. Miranda’s “Impromptu”

Julian William Duncan

Florida State University,



Dichotomy of accordion and bandoneon in tango, China, and beyond

Lanxin{Nancy} Xu

Northwestern University,



Pulsation Non-Isochrony in Drumming Music of the Arabian Peninsula

Jim Morford

Western Washington University

5:30pm
-
6:30pm
First Timer Reception
Location: Skyline (10th Floor)
6:00pm
-
8:00pm
Welcome Reception
Location: Skyline (10th Floor)
7:00pm
-
8:00pm
African and African Diaspora Studies Meeting
Location: M-104/105
Asian American Listening Party
Location: M-301
International Student Network Meeting
Location: M-303
LACSEM/DMG Community-In-Dialogue Panel
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio
Publications Advisory Committee
Location: L-504
SIG for Archiving
Location: M-106/107
   
7:00pm
-
9:00pm
Improvisation Section Business Meeting
Location: M-302
Religion, Music, and Sound Section Business Meeting
Location: M-304
SIG for Music Analysis
Location: L-506/507
 
8:00pm
-
9:00pm
Chapters
Location: L-508
DMG Dance Workshop
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio
Gertrude Robinson Network Meeting
Location: M-104/105
Historical Ethnomusicology Section Meetup
Location: M-101
Sound Studies Section Keynote
Location: M-103

Keynote Speaker: Sidra Lawrence

     
8:00pm
-
10:00pm
Association for Chinese Music Research
Location: M-301
9:00pm
-
10:00pm
LACSEM/DMG Dance Party w/ DJ
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio
Sound Studies Section Business Meeting
Location: M-103

Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025
7:30am
-
5:00pm
Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am
-
6:00pm
Exhibits
Location: Imperial Ballroom A
8:30am
-
10:30am
05A: Music and Trauma
Location: M-101
Presenter: Zachary Moreau
Presenter: Moshe Morad
Presenter: Erica Cao
 

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

05B: Participatory Sacred Harp Singing and Discussion on Editing The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition
Location: M-102
Chair: Jesse P. Karlsberg, Emory University
 

Participatory Sacred Harp Singing and Discussion on Editing The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition

Chair(s): Jesse P. Karlsberg (Emory University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

N/A

David Ivey
Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association

 

N/A

Lauren Bock
Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association

 

N/A

Tom George
Sacred Harp Publishing Company

05C: Historical Soundscapes II
Location: M-103
Presenter: Ziwen Zhang
Presenter: Tingting Tang, UCLA
Presenter: Paul David Flood, Eastman School of Music
Presenter: Maeve Carey-Kozlark, New York University
 

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

05D: AI and Ownership
Location: M-104/105
Presenter: David G. Hebert, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Presenter: Matthew Day Blackmar, UCLA
Presenter: Darci Sprengel
Presenter: Katherine Moira Miner, Boston University
 

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

05E: Rethinking the Field in African Music Studies
Location: M-106/107
Chair: Althea SullyCole, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
 

Rethinking the Field in African Music Studies

Chair(s): Shirley Chikukwa (Columbia University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Gifts From Nature: Akan Episteme, Palmwine Music and Galamsey in the Anthropocene

Josh Brew
University of Pittsburgh

 

The Business of Culture: Contemporary Field Sites and African Popular Music

Shirley Chikukwa
Columbia University

 

Colonial Postcard Archives and Reimagining Music Fieldwork in Eritrea

Dexter Story
UCLA

 

Fesfop and the Social Life of Material Cultural Heritage in Senegal

Althea SullyCole
Schulich School of Music, McGill University

05F: Cosmopolitan Creativity in the Southern Balkans: Three Contemporary Responses to Folk Music Institutions
Location: M-109
Chair: Donna A Buchanan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
 

Cosmopolitan Creativity in the Southern Balkans: Three Contemporary Responses to Folk Music Institutions

Chair(s): Donna A Buchanan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,)

Discussant(s): Donna A Buchanan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Parakalamos Blues vs. Pogonisio Jazz: Musical Creativity and Positionality Among Two Epirote Musicians

Gabriel Zuckerberg
Brown University

 

Mediterraneanist and Balkanist Cosmopolitan Visions at Greek Summer Music Seminars: Two Case Studies in Pedagogy and Performance

Dimitris Gkoulimaris
University of Texas at Austin

 

“A Crisis of Ideas”: Institutional Decay, Creative Stasis, and Musical Identity in Contemporary Bulgarian Folk Music

Nathan Bernacki
University of British Columbia

05G: Queer Worldmaking
Location: M-301
Presenter: Charles Hudson Moss, Mercer University
Presenter: Dominika Moravcikova, Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Presenter: Sarah Cooper
Presenter: Brandon Lane Foskett
 

Anglo-Catholicism in Atlanta: Musicking Queerness and Neurodivergence in Liturgy

Charles Hudson Moss

Mercer University



Land of the Rat Kings: Queerness, Romaniness, and Popular Music in the Slovak Periphery

Dominika Moravcikova

Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University,



Sounding Transness: ‘Spliced Collage’ and the Co-Creation of Trans and Queer Storyworlds in Drag Performance

Sarah Cooper

University of Bristol



Hill Country Gay Boy: Topophilia, Queer Embodiment, and Myself in the Music of Sufjan Stevens

Brandon Lane Foskett

University of Texas at Austin

05H: International Rap and Hip Hop
Location: M-302
Presenter: Shiva Ramkumar
Presenter: Julia Catherine Santoli, CUNY Graduate Center
Presenter: Qifang Hu, University of Texas at Austin
Presenter: Susan Ashley Jacob, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
 

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,

05I: Music and the Commons: The Lost Resources and Infrastructures
Location: M-303
Chair: Ioanida Costache
 

Music and the Commons: The Lost Resources and Infrastructures

Chair(s): Ana Hofman (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Ioanida Costache (Stanford University)

Discussant(s): Eric Drott (University of Texas at Austin)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Resonances of the Commons: The Yugoslav Railway and the Infrastructures of Collective Music-Making

Ana Hofman
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

 

The Romani Commons: Extraction and Transformation

Ioanida Costache
Stanford University

 

Leisure Legibility, Bad Faith and Ecologies of Musical Expertise: Contesting the Commons

Ruard William Absaroka
University of Salzburg

 

Discussion

Eric Drott
UT Austin

05J: Operatic Horizons
Location: M-304
Presenter: Alberto Varon, Indiana University
Presenter: Matthew Antony Haywood, Macau University of Science and Technology
Presenter: Meghan Hynson, University of San Diego
Presenter: Xi Lu, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
 

Contemporary Latinx Immersive Opera

Alberto Varon

Indiana University



The Subtle Role of Cantonese Opera in Rethinking Hongkonger Identity

Matthew Antony Haywood

Macau University of Science and Technology



“Mediating Gender Beyond the Arja Stage: Comedic Cross-dressing and the Contemporary Balinese Liku

Meghan Hynson1, Wayan Sudirana2

1: University of San Diego,; 2: Institut Seni Indonesia, Denpasar



“Three Pre-dawn Scenes” ( “Choumo Yinchu” ), a Peking Drum Song: A Case Study of Formulaic Composition in Chinese Music

Xi Lu

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

05K: Encounters in Sound Studies
Location: L-506/507
Presenter: J.A. Strub, University of Texas at Austin
Presenter: Sara Fazeli Masayeh, University of Florida
Presenter: Hani Ahmed Zewail, University of California Santa Barbara
Presenter: Benedict Turner-Berry
 

Why They Pressed Record: Musical Field Documentation in the Huasteca Region of Mexico

J.A. Strub

University of Texas at Austin,



Invisible Sonic Agency of Ethnographic Photos in the Study of Protest Soundscapes

Sara Fazeli Masayeh

University of Florida,



Islam, Grief, and Beauty: The Temporal Aporia of Grief in its Aesthetic and Temporal Dimension.

Hani Ahmed Zewail

University of California Santa Barbara,



Sounding Displacement: (Re)Imagining Kinship and Media in Bordeaux’s Urban Spaces

Benedict Turner-Berry

University of Cambridge

05L: Writing Jazz Encounters: Questions of archives, affect, and transculturation
Location: L-508
Chair: Kari Lindquist
 

Writing Jazz Encounters: Questions of archives, affect, and transculturation

Chair(s): Katherine Brucher (DePaul University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

When Outsiders Become Insiders: Riffs in the Creole of Color Community at the Birth of Jazz

Hannah Krall
Shaw University

 

Women College Musicians Take on the World: Gender in Cold War Jazz Diplomacy and Collegiate Jazz Programs

Kari Lindquist
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

The Angry Man of Jazz: Jazz, Coolness, and the Cultural Politics of Emotion

Varun Chandrasekhar
Washington University in St. Louis

 

“We’re Freaks like You”: Lester Bowie’s Sojourns in Poland (1994–1997)

Jenna Przybysz
Stanford University

10:45am
-
12:15pm
06A: President's Roundtable (Board)
Location: M-101
06B: Engaging Citizenship through Musical Communities: Three Different Approaches in Puerto Rican Music
Location: M-102
Chair: Juan Eduardo Wolf, University of Oregon
 

Engaging Citizenship through Musical Communities: Three Different Approaches in Puerto Rican Music

Chair(s): Juan Eduardo Wolf (University of Oregon,), Hugo R. Viera-Vargas (Universidad Albizu, PR), Jaime O. Bofill-Calero (Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Los Pleneros de la 23 Abajo: Music, Community and Resistance

Hugo R. Viera-Vargas
Universidad Albizu, PR

 

Reimagining the Taino Past: Music, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in Puerto Rico

Jaime O. Bofill-Calero
Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico

 

Building a Local Community in the Homeland through Diasporic Experiences: the case of bomba mayagüezana

Juan Eduardo Wolf
University of Oregon

06D: Transgressive Terrains
Location: M-104/105
Presenter: Kristen Leigh Graves
Presenter: Janie Cole, University of Connecticut
Presenter: Polina Dessiatnitchenko
 

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

06E: Digital Sounds in Communities
Location: M-106/107
Presenter: Ashley Ann Greathouse, University of Cincinnati & Marshall University
Presenter: ZIXUAN WANG, UT Austin
 

Ready Player Two: Embodiment and Social Play in Multiplayer Virtual/Augmented Reality Rhythm/Dance Games

Ashley Ann Greathouse

University of South Carolina



Collective Musicking in the Digital Age: Participation, AI-Singing, and Virtual Community on Bilibili

ZIXUAN WANG

UT Austin,



Cyberspace, Threads, and AI Music: Music’s Role in Taiwan’s 2024 Blue Bird Movement

An-Ni Wei

Indiana University

06F: Border(lands)
Location: M-109
Presenter: Gavin Douglas, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Presenter: Mingyeong Son, Asian Music Research Institute of Seoul National University
Presenter: Jesse Aaron Freedman, University of Rochester - Eastman School of Music
 

On the Borders of ‘Music’: A Freshman Music Ontology

Gavin Douglas

University of North Carolina at Greensboro,



From Intercultural to Intermusical Aesthetics: Borderless Flow in Contemporary Korean Music

Mingyeong Son

Asian Music Research Institute of Seoul National University,



Sounding Across and Against Borders at the East German Festival of Political Songs in the Global Cold War

Jesse Aaron Freedman

University of Rochester - Eastman School of Music

06H: Pop Protests
Location: M-302
Presenter: Andrew Vogel, University of Florida
Presenter: Saman Montaseri, University of California, Los Angeles
Presenter: Cody Black, Vanderbilt University
 

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

06I: Queer Temporalities
Location: M-303
Presenter: Kevin C Schattenkirk
Presenter: Cahlia A. Plett, University of California Riverside
Presenter: Emily Williams Roberts
 

Reframing the Utility of Nostalgia in Gay Chorus Singers’ Recollections of Painful Pasts

Kevin C Schattenkirk

Longwood University



Trans and Queer Religious Expression in Brazil: Music, Mission work, and Queer-Indigenous Temporalities

Cahlia A. Plett

University of California Riverside,



“I Ain’t Livin’ Life My Mama’s Way”: Reframing Nostalgia in Bluegrass through Queer Songwriting

Emily Williams Roberts

University of Chicago

06J: Community, Collaboration, and Cohesion
Location: M-304
Presenter: Tenley Martin
Presenter: Subash Giri
Presenter: Emily Ruth Silks, University of Washington
 

Cohesive Harmonies: an exploration of community music as a mechanism for active citizenship

Tenley Martin

Leeds Beckett University



Community Collaborative Participatory Musicking: A Tool for Fostering Community Empowerment, Community Well-Being, and Cultural Sustainability

Subash Giri

N/A



Learning to Arrive: Reimagining Ethnomusicology through Community-Driven Documentation

Emily Silks

University of Washington,

06K: Black Keywords In Sound
Location: L-506/507
Chair: april lashan graham-jackson, University of Chicago
 

Black Keywords In Sound

Chair(s): april lashan graham-jackson (University of Chicago,), Allie Martin (Dartmouth College)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Sampling With Critical Intention

Allie Martin
Dartmouth College

 

From Root to Route: Scaling Black Sonic Life Across Black Chicagoland

april l. graham-jackson
University of Chicago

 

Timbral Tidepools and Tales of The Tidewater Trio

Danielle Davis
Florida State University

     
12:00pm
-
2:30pm
Council Lunch
Location: L-503
12:30pm
-
1:30pm
Anatolian Ecumene SIG
Location: M-109
Deafness and Disability Studies SIG
Location: M-101
Education Section Keynote
Location: M-104/105
Journal Editorial Board
Location: L-504
SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology
Location: M-303
SIG for Jazz
Location: M-103
SIG for Musics in and of Europe
Location: M-106/107
Society for Arab Music Research Meeting
Location: M-301
1:45pm
-
3:45pm
07A: ICTMD Panel (Board)
Location: M-101
07B: Sound and Sociality in Modern Markets: Three Perspectives on Music and Commoditization
Location: M-102
Chair: Duncan William Reehl, Boston University
 

Sound and Sociality in Modern Markets: Three Perspectives on Music and Commoditization

Chair(s): Duncan William Reehl (Boston University), Brian Barone (Berklee College of Music), Carlos Cuestas (CUNY Graduate Center)

Discussant(s): Marié Abe (University of California, Berkeley)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Sounding Japanese Buddhism in the Attention Economy and Spiritual Marketplace

Duncan William Reehl
Boston University

 

Strumming Against Capital: Decommoditizing Son Jarocho through Radical Collectivities

Carlos Cuestas
CUNY Graduate Center

 

Domesticating Cuban Contradanza: Music, Social Reproduction, and the Value Form

Brian Barone
Berklee College of Music

07C: Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the Ottoman Empire
Location: M-103
Chair: Ahmet Erdogdular
 

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

07D: Sounding Activism and Resistance
Location: M-104/105
Chair: Luis Ricardo Queiroz, Federal University of Paraiba
Presenter: Kim Kattari
Presenter: Tadhg Ó Meachair
Presenter: Tomal M Hossain
 

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

07E: An Insistent Call and Response: Exploring the work and legacy of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Location: M-106/107
Chair: Dwandalyn Reece, Smithsonian, Natl Mus of African American Hist & Culture
 

An Insistent Call and Response: Exploring the work and legacy of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon

Chair(s): Dwandalyn Reece (Smithsonian, Natl Mus of African American Hist & Culture,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

N/A

Maya Cunningham1, Tammy Kernodle2, Krystal Klingenberg3, Maureen Mahon4, Stephen Stacks5, Portia Maultsby6
1University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2Miami University, 3Smithsonian, NMAH, 4New York University, 5North Carolina Central University, 6Indiana University

07F: Hearing Heritage
Location: M-109
Presenter: Stephanie George, CUNY Graduate Center
Presenter: yang Yao
Presenter: Sunhong Kim
Presenter: Sara Hopkins, Western Carolina University
 

Listening for India:The Sonic Politics of Hindu Heritage in Indo-Caribbean ‘Madrasi Religion’

Stephanie George

CUNY Graduate Center



Reviving Xiansuo Beikao: Historicity, Temporality, and the Construction of Social Strata

yang Yao

The Chinese University of Hong Kong



Seoulizing Provincial Sound: Purification, Standardization, and Cultivation in the Aesthetic Practice of the State-driven Korean Folk Instrumental Ensemble

Sunhong Kim

University of Michigan



Demonstration Performance by Uweti Tsalagi Dininogisgi, the Cherokee Language Repertory Choir

Sara Hopkins

Western Carolina University

07G: Asian/American Women in Performance: Trauma, Erasure, and Resilience
Location: M-301
Chair: Shelley Zhang, Rutgers University
 

Asian/American Women in Performance: Trauma, Erasure, and Resilience

Chair(s): Yun Emily Wang (Duke University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Asiatic Femininity and the “Yellow Woman” in Western Classical Music

Shelley Zhang
Rutgers University

 

Beyond Release

Tomie Hahn
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

are we ready?

Lei X Ouyang
Swarthmore College

 

No Voice

Deborah Wong
University of California, Riverside

07H: Film as Ethnography: Reflections from Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, Hurricane-Ravaged North Carolina, and Bloomington, Indiana
Location: M-302
Chair: Rebecca Dirksen, Indiana 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

07I: Non-Human and More Than Human Connections
Location: M-303
Presenter: Jerry Hu
Presenter: Adriana Helbig
Presenter: Jade Conlee
Presenter: David W Samuels, New York University
 

The Songs of Cicadas: The Dong People’s Diverse Imaginaries of Cicadas in Dong Music

Jerry Hu

Hong Kong



Listening to the Bees: Enhancing the Sound-Based Language of Apiology

Adriana Helbig

University of Pittsburgh



Atmospheric Sovereignty: Reclaiming Multi-Species Relations in Hawai‘i Exotica

Jade Conlee

University of Virginia



The Human Scale As Ethnomusicological Template

David W Samuels

New York University

07J: Yogic Traditions and Sacred Sound Practices in the U.S.
Location: M-304
Chair: Brita Renée Heimarck, Boston University
 

Yogic Traditions and Sacred Sound Practices in the U.S.

Chair(s): Brita Renée Heimarck (Boston University,)

Discussant(s): Francesca Cassio (Hofstra University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Yoga, Sacred Sound, and Indian Music in the North American Context

Guy Beck
Tulane University

 

Archaeologies of Sacred Sound: Exploring the Sound Body of God

Brita Heimarck
Boston University

 

Contemporary Musical Expressions of Bhakti: The Kirtan Rabbi and the Changing Kirtan Culture of Los Angeles

Meghan Hynson
University of San Diego

 

Discussion

Francesca Cassio
Hofstra University

07K: Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces
Location: L-506/507
Chair: Maxwell Hiroshi Yamane, University of Oklahoma
 

Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces

Chair(s): Maxwell Hiroshi Yamane (University of Oklahoma,)

Discussant(s): Beverley Diamond (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Sonic Erasure in Idaho: The Land and Its People

Kimberly Marshall
University of Oklahoma

 

Sounding Indigenous Resurgence in Nacotchtank: Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces in the U.S. Capital

Maxwell Yamane
University of Oklahoma

 

Sonic Sovereignty and the Tactile Body: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling

Liz Przybylski1, Tara "T-Rhyme" Campbell2
1University of California Riverside, 2Independent

 

Discussion

Beverley Diamond
Memorial University of Newfoundland

07L: Juntas Llorando: Radical Empathy, Collective Mourning, and Singing Grief Across Fronteras in América Latina
Location: L-508
Chair: Hannah Snavely
 

Juntas Llorando: Radical Empathy, Collective Mourning, and Singing Grief Across Fronteras in América Latina

Chair(s): Hannah Snavely (Stephen F. Austin State University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Towards an Attentive Ethnomusicology: Affective Relationships and Griefwork in the Field

Hannah Snavely
Stephen F. Austin State University

 

Cántame la canción de la Mariquita: Performing and Embodying Grief, Homeland, and Immigrant Womanhood in UndocuAmerica’s SALSA Lotería

Teresita D. Lozano
University of Texas Rio Grande Valle

 

The Song Above, the Sorrow Below: Musical Expression of Loss and Grief-Singing in Animal Fertility Ritual, Q’eros, Peru

Holly Wissler
Texas State University

 

ReSounding the Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan and Communicating Grief Through Performance

Elisa G. Alfonso
University of Utah

4:00pm
-
5:30pm
08A: 08A: BFE Panel (Board)
Location: M-101
08B: Divergent Listening
Location: M-102
Presenter: Ioannis Christidis, Music and Minorities Research Center
Presenter: Janice Protopapas
Presenter: Nalini Ghuman
 

Infusing the Khushboo in Diaspora: Exploring the musical soundscape of the Namdhari child in the UK

Janice Protopapas

Punjabi University, Patiala, India



Decolonial listening across Offa’s Dyke: English Music, Colonialism, and Cymru/Wales

Nalini Ghuman

Mills College at Northeastern University



Relics of Freedom: Resounding Hong Kong’s Muted Voices in Transnational Protests

Winnie W. C. Lai

Dartmouth College

08C: Soundscapes of Sports
Location: M-103
Presenter: Luis Achondo
Presenter: Sarah Politz
Presenter: Eduardo Herrera, Indiana 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,

08D: Challenging Capitalist Realism in Ethnomusicology: Sound Praxis for an Anti-Capitalist Future
Location: M-104/105
Chair: Juliana Catinin, The Graduate Center, CUNY
 

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

08E: Contemporary Black Music in Southern Europe
Location: M-106/107
Chair: Jacqueline Georgis
 

Contemporary Black Music in Southern Europe

Chair(s): Deonte Harris (UNC)

Discussant(s): Deonte Harris (UNC)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Príncipe Discos and the Sonic Politics of Afro Lisboa

Jacqueline Georgis
College of the Holy Cross

 

Transforming Spain’s Cultural Scene: Music collectives and the Rise of Afro-descendant Communities

Genevieve Allotey-Pappoe
Brown University

 

Nero a metà, in realtà: Black-Italian Musicians Sounding the Global South

Clifton Boyd
NYU

08F: South Asian Artistic Pedagogy in Transnational Perspective
Location: M-109
Chair: Varshini Narayanan, The University of Chicago
 

South Asian Artistic Pedagogy in Transnational Perspective

Chair(s): Sarah Morelli (University of Denver)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Guru-Sisya Parampara in the U.S. Diaspora

Varshini Narayanan
University of Chicago

 

Re-Rooting the Art, Re-Routing the Body: Unlearning to Learn the T. Balasaraswati Dance Tradition in the United States

Bianca Iannitti
Wesleyan University

 

Pathways to Tamil Diaspora Worship through Ragam Education in the U.S.

Rachel Schuck
University of North Texas

08G: Studies in Aging
Location: M-301
Presenter: Melanie Ptatscheck
Presenter: Jeongin Lee
Presenter: Ellen Hebden, Syracuse University
 

“Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)”. An Ethnography of Busking, Well-being, and Aging

Melanie Ptatscheck

New York University



Streaming the Streets: Pumba, Digital Fandom, and the Politics of Aging in South Korea

Jeongin Lee

N/A



Rejuvenation through Remembering: Sonic care at night clubs for the aging in northern Mozambique

Ellen Hebden

Syracuse University

08H: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography
Location: M-302
Chair: Russell Skelchy
 

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

Russell Skelchy

RILM

08I: Collective Convergences
Location: M-303
Presenter: Melissa Michelle Rios, University of New Mexico
Presenter: Pramantha Mohon Tagore, University of Chicago
Presenter: Lea Wierød Borčak, Aarhus University
 

The Las Cruces International Mariachi Conference: Redefining Performance Hierarchies on the Student Showcase Stage

Melissa Michelle Rios

University of New Mexico



From Salon to Stage: The All Bengal Music Conference and the Public Life of Hindustani Music

Pramantha Mohon Tagore

University of Chicago



Singing in Times of Crisis: Collective Singing, Social Trust, and Cultural Resilience in the Scandinavian and Baltic Regions

Lea Wierød Borčak, Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig, Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa

Aarhus University

08J: Sound, Identity, and Resistance: Music and Sonic Practices in Marginalized Communities in Iran
Location: M-304
Chair: Azadeh Vatanpour, Emory University
 

Sound, Identity, and Resistance: Music and Sonic Practices in Marginalized Communities in Iran

Chair(s): Azadeh Vatanpour (Emory University,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Music, Ritual, and Community: Participatory Performance in Yārsān Religious Practice

Sirvan Manhoobi
N/A

 

Sounding Kurdish, Singing Kurdishness: The Cultural Connotation of Hasan Zirak’s Voice in Iran

Kajwan Ziaoddini
University of Maryland

 

Sounding the Divine: Yārsān Sacred Soundscapes and the Politics of Sonic Resistance in Iran

Azadeh Vatanpour
Emory University

08K: Coloniality and Vocality
Location: L-506/507
Presenter: Chun-bin Chen, Taipei National University of the Arts
Presenter: Sally Mehreteab
Presenter: Damascus Kafumbe
 

Pathway of the Chants: Transported Soundscapes across the Austronesian World

Chun-bin Chen

Taipei National University of the Arts



Work Songs and Aura: We can take the song out of the field, but can we keep the meaning in the song?

Sally Mehreteab

New York, NY



Decolonizing Ethnomusicological Practice: Power Relations and Representation in Ugandan Court Song Research

Damascus Kafumbe

Middlebury COllege

08L: New Approaches in Music Studies
Location: L-508
Presenter: Jason Reid Winikoff, University of British Columbia
 

On the Global Study of Timbre

Jason Reid Winikoff

University of British Columbia



Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public (Ethno)Musicology

Reba Wissner

Columbus State University



Echoes from the Bengal Tiger: Towards a Transcultural (Micro)historical Musicology

Samuel B. Cushman

University of California, Santa Cruz

7:00pm
-
8:00pm
Association for Korean Music Research
Location: M-101
Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation
Location: M-104/105
Popular Music Section Meeting
Location: L-508
Society for Arab Music Research Keynote
Location: M-302
7:00pm
-
9:00pm
Indigenous Music Section
Location: M-103
Society for Asian Music Keynote and Business Meeting
Location: L-506/507

Keynote Address: “What Asia Taught Me”
Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University

8:00pm
-
9:00pm
Popular Music Section David Sanjek Lecture
Location: L-508
SIG for Celtic Music
Location: M-102
Society for Arab Music Research Mixer
Location: M-302
 

Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025
7:30am
-
12:00pm
Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am
-
1:00pm
Exhibits
Location: Imperial Ballroom A
8:30am
-
10:30am
09A: Historical Sites in Ethnomusicology
Location: M-101
 

Music, Power, and Agency in the 16th- and 17th-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,

09B: Organology
Location: M-102
Chair: Jay Michael Loomis
Presenter: Tsz-ching Tung
Presenter: Wan Huang, Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Presenter: Julio Mendivil, University of Vienna
 

Instrument Making and Sound Design in Son Jarocho: A Multispecies Eco-Organology

Jay Michael Loomis

Brown University



The 'Cantonisation' of Violin and Hawaiian Guitar: Instrumental Adaptation and Performance Practice in Early Twentieth-Century China

Tsz-ching Tung

The University of Hong Kong



The Charango in History. Between Reification and Symbolic Reduction

Julio Mendivil

University of Vienna,



Situating the Sape’ in a 21st Century Soundscape

Melanie Henderson

Dallas International University

09C: Embodiment
Location: M-103
Presenter: Tasaw Hsin-chun Lu
Presenter: Sinem Eylem Arslan
Presenter: Dunya Habash, University of Cambridge
Presenter: Autumn Eckman, Kennesaw State 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,

09D: Discrimination and Violence in the United States
Location: M-104/105
Presenter: Meghan Creek
Presenter: Alexis K Baril
Presenter: Fiona Boyd, University of Chicago
Presenter: Daniel Vidales
 

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

09E: Music and Publics in Emerging Democracies in Africa
Location: M-106/107
Chair: Charles Lwanga, University of Michigan
 

Panel Title: Music and Publics in Emerging Democracies in Africa

Chair(s): Charles Lwanga (University of Michigan,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Japa Syndrome: The 'Postcolonial Normal', Popular Music, and the Precarities of Youth Social Movements in Fourth Republic Nigeria (1999-)

Joshua Kerobo
University of Michigan

 

Music and Bobi Wine’s ‘People Power’ Counterpublic in Uganda

Charles Lwanga
University of Michigan

 

Musical Publics and Counterpublics in Central Cameroon

Dueck Byron
The Open University

 

Sweating the Details: Policy Capture and Protest Music in the 2024 Senegalese Presidential Election

Brendan Kibbee
University of Maryland

09F: Jazz Stories
Location: M-109
Chair: Maurice Restrepo, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
 

Jazz Stories

Chair(s): Maurice Restrepo (Graduate Center, City University of New York), Tracy McMullen (Bowdoin College)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Jazz as Storytelling: Musical and Linguistic Metaphoricity in Jazz

Juwon Adenuga
University of Pittsburgh

 

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Archie Alleyne and Black Placemaking in Toronto

Keisha Bell-Kovacs
York University

 

Jam Sessions, Vibing, and Hegemonic Masculinity in the New York City Jazz Scene

Maurice Restrepo
Graduate Center, City University of New York

 

The Women Who Started Jazz: Gonzelle White, Count Basie, and the Variety Stage

Tracy McMullen
Bowdoin College

09G: Listening for Place
Location: M-301
Presenter: Kira Gaillard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Presenter: Gale Franklin, Carleton University
Presenter: Kai Sze Jessica Fung, Saint Francis University
Presenter: William Tallotte, Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (IReMus), CNRS - Sorbonne Université
 

Straining to Hear Palestine: Al-Khalidi’s Radical Act of Listening During British Mandate

Kira Gaillard

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



Listening to White Supremacy: Race, Space and the Canadian Sonic Imaginary

Gale Franklin

Carleton University,



Localism and Nationalism: The Politics of Cantonese Music in Hong Kong

Kai Sze Jessica Fung

Saint Francis University



Silenced voices, resilient sounds: Devadāsī songs in the periya mēḷam temple repertoire

William Tallotte

Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (IReMus), CNRS - Sorbonne Université

09H: Digital Sound and Data
Location: M-302
Presenter: David VanderHamm, Johnson County Community College
Presenter: Jonathan Benjamin Myers
Presenter: Adai Song
 

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

09I: Transnational Perspectives in Música Urbana: Music Production, Style Hybridy, and Cultural Resonance in Contemporary Reggaetón and Reparto
Location: M-303
Chair: Jorge Luis Mercado Méndez
 

Transnational Perspectives in Música Urbana: Music Production, Style Hybridy, and Cultural Resonance in Contemporary Reggaetón and Reparto

Chair(s): Kaleb Goldschmitt (Wellesley College)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

“Estos son los códigos”: Musical Creation and Sonic Value in Producing Reggaeton

Jorge Luis Mercado-Méndez
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

“Va a tener que cantar reparto”: Money, Community, the Clave, and the Tresillo

Mike Levine
Christopher Newport University

 

Everything Comes From La Mata: Musical Genealogies and Creation in Chilean Reggaetón

Ana María Díaz-Pinto
University of California, Davis

 

Bad Bunny, Yonaguni, and Japón: Japanese Perceptions of Latin American Popular Music

Kelsey Milian-Lopez
City University of New York

09J: Sonic and Affective Spirituality in Caribbean Music and Rituals
Location: M-304
Chair: Vicky Mogollón Montagne, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
 

Sonic and Affective Spirituality in Caribbean Music and Rituals

Chair(s): Michael Birenbaum Quintero (Boston University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Fuerza: Music and (In)Humanity in Venezuelan Espiritismo Marialioncero

Vicky Mogollón Montagne
University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music

 

Bachata as Velación: Amargue’s Afro-Dominican Spiritual Praxis

Wilfredo José Burgos Matos
Lehman College

 

Sonic Gestures: Sound and Territorial Politics in Urban Afro-Cuban Music

Pablo D. Herrera Veitia
Habana Hiphop

 

My body is in Cuba but my mind is in Africa

Ivor Miller
N/A

09K: International Musical Entities in the 21st Century: The Impacts of Global and Transnational Flows
Location: L-506/507
Chair: Mehrenegar Rostami, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
 

International Musical Entities in the 21st Century: The Impacts of Global and Transnational Flows

Chair(s): John Pippen (Colorado State University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

African American jazz in diaspora: The case of Denmark’s Rytmisk Musik conservatories

Leslie C. Gay Jr.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

See Local, Listen Global: Perceiving “Knoxvillian” at the Big Ears Festival

Nicholas Horner
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

The Colorado City Music Festival: Mormonism, Intercultural Hospitality, and Secular Ideals

Mehrenegar Rostami
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

Zamanavi or Emruzi: Music as a Gateway to the World

Hiwa Hawaii
N/A

09L: Sonic Care Work
Location: L-508
Presenter: Carrie Ann Danielson, Florida State University
Presenter: Charlotte Olivia Stewart-Juby, Carleton University
Presenter: Theresa Allison
Presenter: Kevin Akumonyo Kimtai, University of Florida
 

Culture Work as Care Work: Music Education and Refugee Resilience at the Simrishamn Kulturskola

Carrie Ann Danielson

Florida State University



Rehearsing Community: Queer Choral Musicking and the Politics of Care

Charlotte Olivia Stewart-Juby

Carleton University



From ethnomusicology to health sciences research: The importance of lived experience in the design of patient-oriented interventions

Theresa Allison

University of California, San Francisco



Aztec Dance Spaces: Healing and the Ethics of Scholarship in a Fraught Moment

Kristina Nielsen

Southern Methodist University

8:30am
-
12:15pm
Education Section Workshop
Location: Marquis Ballroom A
10:45am
-
12:15pm
10A: Rising Voices Panel
Location: M-101
10B: Alliances and Intersections on the Margins of the Sinophone
Location: M-102
Chair: Charlotte D'Evelyn, Skidmore College
 

Alliances and Intersections on the Margins of the Sinophone

Chair(s): Charlotte D'Evelyn (Skidmore College,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Sounding Queer Indigeneity: Adju Performativity, Nandao Narratives, and Trans-Indigenous Alliance in Taiwan

Yuan-Yu Kuan
University of Hawai'i at Manoa

 

Transnational Networks and Musical Boundary-Making in Inner Mongolia, China

Charlotte D'Evelyn
Skidmore College

 

Yunnan Reggae: Music, Minoritization, and Afro-Asian Imaginaries in Southwest China

Adam Kielman
Chinese University of Hong Kong

10C: Sounding Sufism: Diasporic Approaches to Contemporary Music Forms
Location: M-103
Chair: Payam Yousefi, University of Florida
 

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

10D: Refugees, Forced-Migration, and Ethnomusicology: What Can We Do?
Location: M-104/105
Chair: Lisa Gilman
 

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

10E: Sounding Global Fascism: Inter-Axis Musical Exchange between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany
Location: M-106/107
Chair: Ryan Christopher Gourley, University of California, Berkeley
 

Sounding Global Fascism: Inter-Axis Musical Exchange between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany

Chair(s): Junko Oba (Hampshire College)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Broadcasting German-Japanese Relations, Richard Strauss’s 70th Birthday

Amanda Hsieh
Durham University

 

Harbin-Papa, Berlin-Mama? Inter-Axis Record Circulation and Russian Diaspora

Ryan Gourley
University of California, Berkeley

 

The Revolution will be Broadcasted: Reimagining Music in Imperial Japan through Inter-Axis Music Learning

Emily Lu
Florida State University

10F: Generative Collaborations
Location: M-109
Presenter: Jennifer Lynne LaRue
Presenter: Conny Zhao
Presenter: Chao Tian, N/A
 

Negotiating Geo-Cultural Identity Through Contemporary Urtyn Duu Across Mongolia and China: A Tale of Two Singers

Conny Zhao

NYC, NY



Negotiating Spirituality in Intercultural Improvisation

Chao Tian

Boston University, Boston, MA

10G: Board-Sponsored Panel
Location: M-301
10H: Racialization
Location: M-302
Presenter: Rodrigo Chocano, University of Vienna
Presenter: Martin Ringsmut
Presenter: Kai Tang, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
 

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

10I: Improvisation and Gestures
Location: M-303
Presenter: R.. Anderson Sutton, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Presenter: Jennifer W Kyker
Presenter: Oscar Smith
 

Discourses of Improvisation and Musical Essence in Korean Music: 21st Century Perspectives

R.. Anderson Sutton

University of Hawaii at Manoa,



Makwa: Rhythm and Improvisation in Zimbabwean Handclapping

Jennifer W Kyker

University of Rochester



Unity in Diversity: Regional Identity in Improvised Variations in North Balinese Sekatian

Oscar Smith

University of British Columbia

10J: Global Ensembles
Location: M-304
Presenter: Yun Hao
Presenter: Abiodun Adisa, Wesleyan University
Presenter: Reid Sherwood Orphan
 

De-Westernizing the Modern Chinese Orchestra: The Past and the Present

Yun Hao

Boston University, College of Fine Arts



Afro-Asian Cross-Cultural Encounters: Nigerian Drummers and South Korean Samulnori

Abiodun Adisa

Wesleyan University,



Communist Gamelan in Game Modding

Reid Sherwood Orphan

N/A

10K: Time Travel, Sonic Portals, and Reclaiming Black Musical Futures
Location: L-506/507
 

Time Travel, Sonic Portals, and Reclaiming Black Musical Futures

Chair(s): Alisha Lola Jones Skinner (University of Cambridge)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Lessons from Lemonade and the Future of Interdisciplinary Black Music Courses

Birgitta Johnson
University of South Carolina

 

Aemilia Bassano, Muse of the Dark Lady Portal: Black Women Channeling Verse & Reclaiming the Shakespearean Legacy

Alisha Lola Jones Skinner
University of Cambridge

 

Black Gospel Revelations: Time Travel and Sonic Afrofuturism in Contemporary Gospel Music

Lauren Elizabeth Eldridge Stewart
Washington University in St. Louis

10L: Modes of Storytelling
Location: L-508
Presenter: Jinyizhuo Wang, Xi'an Conservatory of Music
Presenter: Gabriella Saporito-Emler, Florida State University
 

“Welcome to Montero”: Lil Nas X’s Transmedia Storytelling and/as Queer World-Building

Gabriella Saporito-Emler

Florida State University



Reimagining Soundscapes: Cultural Encoding and Aural Narratives in Chinese Shadow Puppetry

Jinyizhuo Wang

Xi'an Conservatory of Music



Preserving Indigenous Musics Survived in Oral Tradition: A Multilingual Parallel Corpus

LIJUAN QIAN, KEYI LIU

University College Cork, Ireland

12:30pm
-
1:30pm
African and African Diaspora Studies Keynote
Location: M-302
Applied Ethnomusicology Section
Location: M-104/105
Diversity Action Committee
Location: L-505
Education Section Business Meeting
Location: Imperial Ballroom A
Historical Ethnomusicology Section Business Meeting
Location: M-103
Investment Advisory Committee
Location: L-504
Rising Voices Student Open Meeting
Location: M-303
Section on the Status of Women Meeting
Location: M-102
SIG for Brazilian Music
Location: M-301
SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology
Location: M-101
SIG for the Music of Iran and Central Asia
Location: L-506/507
SIG for Voice Studies
Location: M-304
1:45pm
-
3:45pm
General Membership Meeting
Location: Marquis Ballroom C/D
4:30pm
-
5:45pm
Charles Seeger Lecture
Location: Marquis Ballroom C/D
6:00pm
-
10:00pm
Sounding Board (Sound Studies Section)
Location: M-201 and M-202
7:00pm
-
8:00pm
South Asian Performing Arts Section Meeting
Location: M-301
7:00pm
-
9:00pm
SEM Orchestra
Location: Imperial Ballroom B
SSW & GSS Speed Mentoring
Location: M-106/107
8:00pm
-
9:00pm
South Asian Performing Arts Section Talk
Location: M-301

Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025
7:00am
-
9:00am
Council Breakfast
Location: L-504
8:00am
-
9:00am
Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am
-
12:30pm
SEM Board
Location: President's Suite

Closed Meeting

8:30am
-
10:30am
11A: Traditional Transformations
Location: M-101
Presenter: Jacob Sunshine, Rhodes College
Presenter: John C Walsh, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Presenter: Abraham Landa, University of Oregon
 

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

11B: Sounding the Environment
Location: M-102
Presenter: Daniel Benson Sharp, Tulane University
Presenter: Haiqiong Deng, Florida State University
Presenter: Eric Sunu Doe, University of Ghana
Presenter: Elizabeth Frickey
 

Musical Responses to the Flooded Ruins of a Brazilian Hydroelectric Project

Daniel Benson Sharp

Tulane University,



Sounding Nature: An Ecomusicological Perspective on Ancient Chinese Guqin Music

Haiqiong Deng

Florida State University



Nsadwase Music Festival: A Context for Nurting Tradition and Safeguarding the Environment

Eric Sunu Doe

University of Ghana,



Sounding the “Ecological City”: Politics of Audibility in the Urban Garden

Elizabeth Frickey

New York University

11C: Drumming Across Cultures
Location: M-103
Presenter: Tim Murray, University of Florida
Presenter: Andrew Aprile, City College of New York, CUNY
Presenter: Michelle Anne Rudder, University of Leeds
Presenter: Eve A. Ma, Palomino Productions
 

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,

11D: Interrogating Gender and Identity
Location: M-104/105
Presenter: Christopher Andrew Hodges
Presenter: Susan Gary Walters, SIL Global/ Dallas International University
Presenter: Daniel Party, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
 

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

11E: In the Classroom
Location: M-106/107
Presenter: Sumeet Anand
Presenter: Robin P. Harris, Dallas International University
Presenter: Rubens De La Corte
Presenter: Scott Spencer, University of Southern California
 

Hindustani classical music and evolving hybrid pedagogy: Experential recounting and implications for learning and practise

Sumeet Anand

Visiting Associate Professor Department of Ethnomusicology Herb Alpert School of Music UCLA



Integrating Analysis, Embodiment, and Ethnography: A Participatory Approach to Teaching Ethnoarts

Robin P. Harris

Dallas International University,



Reimagining Lutherie Education in Argentina and Brazil: Towards Inclusive, Collective, and Sustainable Frameworks

Rubens De La Corte

Graduate Center-CUNY



Digital Humanities in the World Music Classroom: Fostering Peer-Built Diversity and Inclusivity

Scott Spencer, Giulia Bratosin

University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music

11F: Exchanges and Transactions
Location: M-109
Presenter: Jameson Foster
Presenter: Felix Morgenstern, University of Vienna
Presenter: Upatyaka Dutta, University of Toronto
Presenter: Holly Riley, Middle Tennessee State University
 

Down in the River to Pray: Animist Exchange in Nordic Fiddling

Jameson Foster

University of Colorado Boulder



Intercultural Transactions: Irish Traditional Music, Nationalism, and Nostalgia in Germany

Felix Morgenstern

University of Vienna



Acoustemologies of Labor: Sound, Music, and Survival in the Workplaces of Adivasi Tea Tribes on Assam's Tea Plantations

Upatyaka Dutta

University of Toronto



Broadway’s Bars and Stars: Celebrity Capitalism and Brand Identity in Country Music

Holly Riley

Middle Tennessee State University,

11G: Noise and Silence
Location: M-301
Presenter: Tyler Jordan
Presenter: Christopher Copley
Presenter: Yu Hsuan Liao, Duke University
Presenter: Hannah Marie Junco, University of Pennsylvania
 

Unsilenced Bodies: Trauma in Queer Noise Music

Tyler Jordan

Duke University



“The Sound of a Positive Dollar:” The Chicago Bucket Boys and Contestations of Public Spaces Within Chicago’s Street Music Noise Ordinance Debates

Christopher Copley

New York University



Silencing the Nature: The Aesthetic-moralism and Westernization beyond the mountainous Silence Trail in Taiwan

Yu Hsuan Liao

Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, Duke University



“Loud and Unnecessary Noise": Drum Circles in Miami Beach as a Space of Socio-Political Dissensus

Hannah Marie Junco

University of Pennsylvania,

11H: Singing and Spirituality
Location: M-302
Presenter: Ben Griffin, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Presenter: Golam Rabbani, Toronto Metropolitan University
Presenter: Hicham Chami, Yale University
Presenter: Timothy Mangin, Boston College
 

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

11I: Jazz and coloniality in the Netherlands
Location: M-303
Chair: Floris Schuiling, Utrecht University
 

Jazz and coloniality in the Netherlands

Chair(s): Floris Schuiling (Utrecht University,)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Postcolonial Melancholia and the Sonic Golden Age: White Supremacist Nation-Building in the Netherlands

Thomas Overdijk
Utrecht University

 

Whiteness and free improvisation in the Netherlands c. 1970

Floris Schuiling
Utrecht University

 

Formal Dutch jazz education and the colonial politics of power

Loes Rusch
Utrecht University

 

Menjadi perantau: delayed diaspora and indigeneity in Maluku-Dutch improvised music

Reïnda Hullij
Utrecht University

11J: Sounding Black Musical Histories
Location: M-304
Presenter: Andre Jamal Cardine, Indiana University Bloomington
Presenter: Krystal Klingenberg
Presenter: Benjamin P. Skoronski, Cornell University
Presenter: Stefan Fiol, University of Cincinnati
 

Title: Internal/External Sustainability Practices: Toward a Critical Fusion Development (CFD) in Arts Based Education

Andre Jamal Cardine

Indiana University Bloomington



Collected: Creating a Museum Black History Podcast

Krystal Klingenberg

Smithsonian - National Museum of American History



Thomas W. Talley's Harlem Renaissance Musicology

Benjamin P. Skoronski

Cornell University



Researching Sonic Gentrification as a Catalyst for Ethical Engagement and Service Learning

Stefan Fiol

University of Cincinnati

11K: Music and Political Climates
Location: L-506/507
 

From Counter-Publics to Citizens: Understanding Folklorization through the Burrakatha

Shivanand Boddapati

University of Pennsylvania



Turkey’s Paradoxical Sounds of Complicity—Or, the Logic of Populist Culture

Ceyda Cekmeci

UC Berkeley



Campaign Songs as Musical Manifestos in Ghanaian Electoral Politics

Divine Kwasi Gbagbo

Loyola Marymount University,



A Relational Paradigm for Political Geographies of Belonging

Gregory Joseph Robinson

George Mason University

11L: Bridging Musical Pasts and Futures
Location: L-508
 

The Sampling of Brazilian Music in Hip-Hop: Material and Historical Networks

Romulo Moraes Barbosa

CUNY Graduate Center



Echoes of what might have been: hearing speculative futurity in KOZO's Tokyo Metabolist Syndrome

Nour El Rayes

Johns Hopkins University



Musical Journey Of Azerbaijani Mugham

Aqil Suleymanov

Brooklyn,NY

10:45am
-
12:15pm
12A: Religiosity and/as Celebration
Location: M-101
Presenter: Uri Schreter
Presenter: Matthew Williams, University of York
 

“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

12B: From Marginalization to Empowerment
Location: M-102
Presenter: Yuxin Mei
Presenter: Fernando Rios, University of Maryland
Presenter: MingLei Niu, Xi'an Conservatory of Music
 

From Courtesans to Clickbait: Gender, Power, and the Persistent Marginalization of Women in China’s Pipa Tradition

Yuxin Mei

University of North Texas



“Mujer Sandinista” (“Sandinista Woman”): The Nueva Canción Band Sabiá and the Intersections between the US-Central America Solidarity and Feminist/Women’s Movements

Fernando Rios

University of Maryland



Empowering Women Through Song: Analyzing Music and Gender Expression in Chinese Coal Mining Communities Amid Social Transformation

MingLei Niu

Xi'an Conservatory of Music,

12C: Embodied Knowledge
Location: M-103
Presenter: Gus Dalan Holley, UC Berkeley
Presenter: James Gabrillo
Presenter: Erika Jean Soveranes, University of North Texas
 

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,

12D: Asian Metal Scenes
Location: M-104/105
Presenter: Luigi Monteanni, SOAS, University of London
Presenter: Qian Sun, University of Florida
Presenter: Mark Hsiang-Yu Feng
 

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

12E: Listening to Visual Cultures
Location: M-106/107
Presenter: Melanie Kaye Moseley, University of Pittsburgh
Presenter: Kevin Salfen, University of the Incarnate word
Presenter: Hao Yang, City University of New York, The Graduate Center
 

Statutory Rape and R&B: How a Documentary Influenced the Conviction of R. Kelly

Melanie Kaye Moseley

University of Pittsburgh



"Phoenix Fire": From Shinsaku Noh to Film

Kevin Salfen

University of the Incarnate Word

12F: Voices in Context
Location: M-109
Presenter: Hansini Bhasker, Wesleyan University
Presenter: Cheuk Ling Yu, University of California San Diego
Presenter: Jiyoon Auo, University of Pittsburgh
 

Class(ical) Voice: Evolution and Association of Operatic Vibrato in American Pop Culture

Hansini Bhasker

Wesleyan University



Male Voices for Female Fans: A Paradox of Women’s Liberation in Contemporary Japanese Anime Franchises

Cheuk Ling Yu

University of California San Diego



Listening for Vocal Agency: T’ŭrot’ŭ, Enka, and Yi Nanyŏng’s Negotiation of Colonial Voice

Jiyoon Auo

University of Pittsburgh,

12G: International Student Network Discussion
Location: M-301
12H: Being, Breathing, and Aliveness: Transforming Shared Space through Movement
Location: M-302
 

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

12I: Games, Play, and Festivals
Location: M-303
 

“All My Music is Based off My Home Games:”Musical Literacy and Public Play in Tabletop Role-Playing Game Fan Conventions

Andrew James Borecky

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



Transnationalism and South-South Connections in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival

Emily Ruth Allen

University of South Carolina

12J: Music and Mysticism
Location: M-304
Chair: Subash Giri
Presenter: SHAHWAR KIBRIA MAQHFI, UCLA
 

Music and Mysticism

Chair(s): Subash Giri (Assistant Lecturer of Indian Music Ensemble (IME) at the Department of Music, University of Alberta)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Indo-Islamic Music in South Asia: Local and Hyperlocal contexts of performance

Shahwar Kibria Maqhfi
PhD candidate, UCLA

 

The Yoga of Sound: Mediating and Marketing a Unifying Spiritual Framework through Global Networks

Vivek Virani
University of North Texas Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Music Theory

 

Hearing tiqqun: Kabbalistic Music and the Rectification of the World

Yaron Cherniak
PhD student, UCLA

12K: Identity and Preservation
Location: L-506/507
 

Open Online Communities as a Mediation Between Musical Culture and Sustainability: A Case Study of Maame Ode.

Naa Akle Afriyie Okantey

University of Florida,



Performing the Kyrgyz Epic Manas in Contemporary Times: An Endeavor to Preserve the Oral Tradition

Aibek Baiymbetov

Wesleyan University



Resonance in Exile: Young Afghan Musicians, Diasporic Identity, and Cultural Preservation in the United States

Sara Feili

Independent Scholar, New Haven

12L: Media and Music
Location: L-508
Presenter: Panayotis League
Presenter: Kieran Casey, Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University
 

#winning: Folk Dance Competitions and Mediated Authenticity in Greek America

Panayotis League

Florida State University



The Magic of Musubi: Shintoism in the Soundtrack of Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name

Kieran Casey

Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University,



I’m Walkin’ Here!: Experiencing New York City’s Punk Scene through Bootleg Cassette Tapes

Sean Peters1,2

1: Cornell University; 2: Syracuse University