Conference Agenda

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. Goldschmitt (Wellesley College), Juan Diego Díaz (University of California, Davis), Dennis Novaes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Michael Iyanaga (William & Mary), Cibele Moura (Cornell University), Luis Ricardo Queiroz (Federal University of Paraiba)

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)

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

Juniper Hill (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), Cornelia Guenauer (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

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)

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)

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

Sophia Enríquez (Duke 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,

The Traditional Vocal Repertoire of Central Visayas (Philippines)

Peter George Fielding

Kennesaw State University,

Sanshin in the Survival of Okinawan Culture through time.

Elizabeth Vieyra

N/A

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)

“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

Listening to Armenian Baku: History and Memory in Digital Diaspora

Jonathan Lee Hollis

Independent Scholar

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

Emma Wimberg

University of North Texas

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

Peter Verdin

Memorial University of Newfoundland,

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

Beatriz Goubert

RILM (International Repertory of Music Literature)

Music, Climate Change and Extractivism around the Arctic and Antarctic

Chair(s): Jan Koplow (Duke University)

Presentations in the Session

"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)

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

Ruby A. Erickson

Brown University

Finding Chicagotlan: Reflections on Danza Azteca 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

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

Confluence and Collaboration: How Zakir Hussain Transformed World Music

David Trasoff

Lila Vihun Music,

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 (Harvard University)

“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)

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)

“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

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,

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

The Magnetic Politics of Cassette Archives

Chair(s): David Novak (UCSB)

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)

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)

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)

"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

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

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 Garcia-Orozco (Columbia University)

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

Amelia López López (Indiana University)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

Girlhood on Stage: Navigating Girls' Ensembles in Trinidad and Tobago’s School Panorama

Stephanie R.H. Espie

University of Pittsburgh

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

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)

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)

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,

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

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)

Thirteen Hundred Years in a Glance: Hani Harvest Song during the Kuzaza Festival

Ziwen Zhang

University of Iowa

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

WE ARE NOT AFRAID: Music and Resistance in Apartheid Prisons

Janie Cole

University of Connecticut,

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

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)

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)

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

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,

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)

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

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,

Reclaiming the Voice: The Naxi Metal Fusion of Five Penalties and the Sonic Subversion of "Authentic" World Music

Ruxin Li

No.2 High School of East China Normal University

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)

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)

“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

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

Conny Zhao

NYC, NY

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,

THERE ARE NO DWELLERS, ONLY BUYERS: GENTRIFICATION, TOURISTIFICATION, AND THE URBAN AURAL SPHERE IN MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA.

Juan Fernando Velasquez

University of Houston, Moores School of Music

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

Gavin Douglas

University of North Carolina at Greensboro,

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

Art and Desolation: The Practice of Art in Tbilisi's War-Initiated Communities

Christopher Paul Troutman

Dallas International 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

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

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,

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)

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)

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)

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

Raving in Ukraine: A Restoration Effort

Kim Kattari

Texas A&M University

The Ballad of Janek Wiśniewski: For Bread and Freedom and a New Poland

James Deutsch

Smithsonian Institution

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 Cunningham (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Tammy Kernodle (Miami University), Krystal Klingenberg (Smithsonian, NMAH), Maureen Mahon (New York University), Stephen Stacks (North Carolina Central University), Portia Maultsby (Indiana 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

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)

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)

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

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)

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 Przybylski (University of California Riverside), Tara "T-Rhyme" Campbell (Independent)

Discussion

Beverley Diamond (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

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)

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

Janice Protopapas

Punjabi University, Patiala, India

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

Winnie W. C. Lai

Dartmouth College

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,

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)

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)

Espacio Afro: Music, Community, and the Politics of Belonging in Catalonia

Genevieve Allotey-Pappoe (Brown University)

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

Clifton Boyd (NYU)

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, West Chester University of PA)

“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

Jeong-in Lee

University of Southern California

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

Ellen Hebden

Syracuse University

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

Russell Skelchy

RILM

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

Aarhus 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)

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

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

Music, Power, and Agency in the 16^th- and 17^th-Century Kingdom of Kongo

Janie Cole

University of Connecticut,

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,

Music Crosses Time and Space: From Ancient Chinese Poetry to Modern English Song – A Study Case of SU Shih’s “Prelude to Water Melody”

Gene Hsu

VerseVoice.org, UK

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,

Decolonizing the Classical Saxophone Field: Operating Within “Otherness” as a Singaporean Saxophonist

Yun Qu Tan

University of Georgia

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,

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

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)

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)

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

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

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)

Sonic and Affective Spirituality in Caribbean Music and Rituals

Chair(s): Vicky Mogollón Montagne (University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music)

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)

My body is in Cuba but my mind is in Africa

Ivor Miller (N/A)

International Musical Entities in the 21^st 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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

Disasters and Mutual Aid: “Band Together” as a Critical Moment of Care

Zachary Moreau

Florida State University

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

The Nova Festival: Exploring the Intersection of Music, Horror, Trauma, and Healing

Moshe Morad

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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

Chair(s): Eric Crawford (Morehouse College)

Presentations in the Session

N/A

Erika Carter (Georgia), Brenton Jordan (Georgia), Quintina Carter-Enyi (University of Georgia), Griffin Lotson (Gullah Commission)

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

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

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

Communal Gamelan in Game Modding

Reid Sherwood Orphan

N/A

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)

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

Ella 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

University College Cork, Ireland

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

Classical Music as Cultural Capital: The Lived Experiences and Harmful Stereotypes of Gen-Z Asian American Pianists

Matthew Sehjin Lim

Skillman, New Jersey

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

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

Elizabeth Frickey

New York University

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,

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

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

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 Limerick

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,

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,

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

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)

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

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

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

Negotiating Spirituality in Intercultural Improvisation

Chao Tian

Boston University, Boston, MA

“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

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,

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,

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

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

Collaborative composition approaches for Balinese gamelan on screen and stage

Joshua Robinson

Australian National University

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,

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)

“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

“At the End of the Street”: The Marching Band as a Sonic Marker of U.S. American Identity

Anna Marinela Lopez

University of Texas at Austin

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)

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

#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 Peters^1,2

1: Cornell University; 2: Syracuse University