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

Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025
7:30am - 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 - 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
7:00pm - 8:00pm	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
8:00pm - 9:00pm	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
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5:00pm

Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration

8:00am
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6:00pm

Exhibits
Location: Imperial Ballroom A

8:30am
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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
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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
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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
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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

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 16^th- and 17^th-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 21^st 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 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	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: 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	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
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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 Peters^1,2

1: Cornell University; 2: Syracuse University

SEM 2025 Annual Meeting

October 23-26, 2025

Marriott Marquis Downtown Hotel Atlanta, Georgia

Conference Agenda