Cosmology, Media, and Sociality: Sound and Music in Orisha-Ifá Religiosity

Chair(s): Pablo Herrera Veitia (Università Ca' Foscari); Michael Birenbaum Quintero (Boston University)

Presentations in the Session

Toward a Yorùbá Metaphysics of Sound and Music in Ifá Oral Literature

Michael Birenbaum Quintero (Boston University); Táíwò Fátósìn Awóṣọlá (University of Ìbàdàn)

Listening, Non-Listening, and the Musical Cosmology of Afro-Cuban Ifá

Pablo D. Herrera Veitia (Ca’Foscari University of Venice)

Race, Immigration, and Spiritual Kinship: Afro-Cuban Sacred Drumming in Mexico

Ahkeel Mestayer (University of California - Berkeley)

Afro-Atlantic Art, Tradition, and/or Liturgy: Notes on Orisha Music in the Age of Multimedia

David Font-Navarrete (Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center)

Precarity Amplified: Listening to Medicalization through Technology and Trauma

Ailsa Lipscombe

University of Cincinnati

From Racialized Vulnerability to Sonic Resistance: Asian American Children and Older Adults in Musical Activism during COVID-19

Peng Liu

Southern Methodist University

The potential for faith-based musicking to address dementia risk factors

Chiquitha Aminsalehi

University of California, San Francisco

Playing with Difference: Neurodiversity-Affirming Approaches to Performance Pedagogy

Tes Slominski

independent scholar

“Hail to the Redhawks”: Sounding Against Native American Stereotypes in the Washington Football Team

Maxwell Yamane

University of Oklahoma

Poisoned Fish: Aotearoa’s Indigenous Gothic Popular Music

Kimberly Cannady

Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington,

Gendered, Exoticized, and Marginalized: Musical Imaginaries of Alaskan Natives in the Early-Twentieth Century United States

Yui Tim Timothy Yu

Florida State University,

Native Sonic Futures: Sound Back, Sonic Stewardship and the Native Sonic Archive

Jonah Francese

University of Chicago

The Exodus Model: Engineering Legacy and Sustainability in a Trinidadian Steel Orchestra

Kimberley Watson

Indiana University, Bloomington

Inside the Engine Room: The Social Logistics of Conventional Steelbands in Trinidad and Tobago Panorama

Kristin Murrell

Port of Spain

Sonic Pedagogies for Decolonizing Liberal Arts Education. Introducing the Sikh Musical Heritage in College Curricula.

Francesca Cassio

Hofstra University, NY

Integrating Chinese Music into Academic Spaces: Pedagogical Insights and Challenges

Vicki Lu

N/A

John Coltrane and South Africa: A Centennial Meditation

Chair(s): Maya Cunningham (American University,)

Presenter(s): Yonela Mnana (University of Witwatersrand); Dexter Story (UCLA)

From Glitter to Green: EcoSwifties, Material Culture, and Environmental Responsibility in Taylor Swift Fan Communities

Kate Galloway

Wilfrid Laurier University

Branded Postfeminist Intimacies: Music and the Marketization of Romance on TikTok

Mira Vuorinen

Temple University

Algorithmic Infrastructures and Musical Labor in Contemporary Music Scenes

UĞUR CİHAT SAKARYA

TRABZON UNIVERSITY,

From Nana–Nati to Streaming Metrics: Contemporary Gombhira Gaan as Industry Critique in Bangladesh

Golam Rabbani

Toronto Metropolitan University,

Affective Vitalities: Gendered Voice, Place, and Un/Belonging

Chair(s): Elyse Carter Vosen (The College of St. Scholastica,); Bonnie Gordon (The University of Virginia)

Presentations in the Session

Let My People Sing! Gendered Creativity, Song Circles, and Earth-Based Spiritual Practices for Repair and Belonging

Elyse Carter Vosen (The College of St. Scholastica)

Beyond “Amplifying Voices”: Radio, Advocacy, and Refugee Girls’ Sounding Practices

Bonnie Gordon (The University of Virginia)

Permissible Voices: AI Singing, Popular Aesthetics, and Gendered Power in Iran

Mana Pouresmaeil (The University of Texas at Austin)

Brown vs. “Coloured” Song: Indigenous, Gendered Rituals of Restoration in Contemporary South Africa

Carol Muller (The University of Pennsylvania)

Streets and Soundworlds

Chair(s): Eduardo Herrera (Indiana University)

Discussant(s): Eduardo Herrera (Indiana University)

Presentations in the Session

The Street Holds the Stories: Calle de Progreso as a Community’s Sonic Counter-Archive

Kristen Graves (University of Nebraska (Lincoln))

Sound Relations Along Plantation Lanes

Upatyaka Dutta (University of Toronto)

Embers of Memory: Sound and Silence in the Cremà

Rachel Horner (Cornell University)

Discussion

Eduardo Herrera (Indiana University)

Where Is Raga Born? Origin, Soundworlds, and Ksemakarna’s Ragotpatti

Ayesha Sheth

Ahmedabad University,

Gatra: How the West Influences through Analogy

Kenneth Van Dyk

University of Connecticut

Interval Paradigms and Voice Leading in Guinean Susu Balanyi Music

Tiffany Nicely

SUNY Fredonia

In Tune with What? Microtonal Guitar Culture and the Unraveling of "In Tune-ness"

Dylan Rodgers

Los Angeles, CA

Collaboration in Practice: Partnering with Digital Scholarship Librarians to Build a Community-Centered Traditional Music Archive

Laura Risk, Kirsta Stapelfeldt, Bennett Steinburg

University of Toronto Scarborough

“Come in Through the Back Door: Archives, Oral Histories, and Heritage Negotiation at the Louisiana Music Museum”

Michael Broussard

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Sounding the Archive: Nhạc Vàng, Historical Memory, and Postwar Silences

Bryan Le

CUNY Hunter

Mùi, Sến, and the “Bolero Wave”: State Censorship, Cultural Memory, and the Resurgence of a Vietnamese Musical Repertoire

Jason Nguyen

Cerritos College

Across and Beyond Coloniality: What Do Ethnomusicologists Get to Say?

Chair(s): Sergio Ospina Romero (Indiana University,)

Discussant(s): Olimpia Rosenthal (Indiana University)

Presentations in the Session

What Persists? Questioning Colonial Coherence from the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Diane Oliva (University of Michigan)

On the Interchangeability (or not) of Imperialism and Colonialism: A Look from the Early Sound Recording Industry

Sergio Ospina-Romero (Indiana University)

Coloniality and the Event of Musical Antiblackness

Jessica Swanston Baker (The University of Chicago)

Discussion

Olimpia Rosenthal (Indiana University)

Honoring Ancestors: The Toba Batak Mangongkal Holi Ritual Music in Sianjur Mulamula Village, Samosir Regency, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia

Edy Panjaitan

Ohio University and The Ohio State University

Development and Sustainability in the 21st-Century Gender Wayang Complex

Meghan Hynson

University of San Diego

Raminten Cabaret Show: Lip-Syncing and the Production of Liveness in Drag

Hannah Standiford

Allegheny College

AfroAlt: Theorizing on Blackness, Space, and Place in Popular Music

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

Presentations in the Session

Rico Nasty, Black Alt Ageing, and the Gendered Voice in Hip-Hop and Emo

Kabelo Chirwa (University of Cincinnati)

The Black Devil's Music: The Negotiation of Afropunk Identity Through “Devil’s Music” Conservatism

Taylor Howard (University of Colorado Boulder)

#KEEPKPOPKOREAN: Ultranationalism, Historical Revisionism, and Anti-Blackness

Xaria Siplin (University of Denver)

Repositioning Japanese Musical Subcultures

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

Presentations in the Session

Anikura’s Database Intimacy: Remix, Beats, and Tactility

Stephen Tian-You Ai (Harvard University)

The Lesbian Erotics of Cosplay: Musicking in Women Otaku Counterpublics

Christina Misaki Nikitin (Harvard University)

Spirit Prison: Linekraft’s Theory and Practice of Affective Blockage through Noise

Wei Lin Tan (University of California, Berkeley)

“Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Moog Synthesizer”: Analog Technology and Queer Worldbuilding in San Francisco’s 1990s Queer Underground

Moira de Kok

Cornell University

Queering Bach’s Passion: Pride, Heritage, and Community-Building at the 2025 Bachfest Leipzig

Kailan Rubinoff

UNC Greensboro

Kesha Cruises Atopia: Queer Community in International Waters

Katelyn Hearfield

Harvard University

Entangled Jewish Pasts: Chronologies, Memory, and Retelling

Chair(s): Yuval Tessman-Bar-On (New York University); Lily Henley (Harvard University)

Presentations in the Session

Jewish Opera?: The Look and Sound of Jewish Difference in Bates’ Kavalier and Clay

Jardena Gertler-Jaffe (New York University)

The Myth of Antiquity: Desire, Contrafacta, and the Making of a Sephardic Past in “Adio Kerida”

Lily Henley (Harvard University)

The Prayer for the Dead, the Symphony for the Dead

Yuval Tessman-Bar-On (New York University)

Love and Politics in Canciones de mi Padre

Falina Enriquez

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Representations of Post-NAFTA Mexico in Lila Downs’s Border/La Línea (2001)

Edgar Gomez Alvarez

University of Maryland, College Park

Machos, Vampiros, y Mandilones: Deviant Masculinities and the Banda Cumbia

Salvador Hernandez

University of North Texas

Structural Racism in Brazilian Music Programs and Ethnomusicological Perspectives for Confronting This Colonial Legacy

Luis Ricardo Queiroz

Federal University of Paraiba,

Crafting Culture: How Lutherie Education Helps to Define San Miguel de Tucumán and Curitiba as Music Cities

Rubens De La Corte

Graduate Center-CUNY

The Sensory Abyss of Extractivism: Reflections from Listening in the Brazilian Amazon

Maria Fantinato Geo de Siqueira

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Virtual Jazz Engagement in China: An Ethnographic Exploration of Digital Platforms and Cultural Reimagining

YUFEI LIU

Hong Kong Baptist University

Reproducing Jazz through Machines: The Forgotten Master of Player Piano in Early Jazz History — J. Lawrence Cook (1899–1976)

ching-nam Hippocrates Cheng

Binghamton University, United States of America

The Grapevine Twist: Rethinking Early Banjo Song Through Embodied Technique

Rory Corbett

Maynooth University,

Sound, Identity, and Power in the Musical Circulation of Latin America

Chair(s): Tony Rasmussen (The University of Texas at Austin)

Presentations in the Session

Transnational Acoustemologies of Cumbia: From the Caribbean to the South

Constanza Fuentes-Landaeta (The University of Texas at Austin)

Afro-Dominican Music: From Syncretism to Pastiche

Elizabeth Castillo Mena (The University of Texas at Austin)

Younger and Closer to Our Grandparents’ Music: How Gender and LGBTQ+ Occupation of Tango Spaces Has Changed The Repertoire

Laura Camacho (The University of Texas at Austin)

Mexicans Can Swing, Too

Steffan M. Perez-Velez Solis (The University of Texas at Austin)

Teaching Ethnomusicology In Situ: The Challenges and Rewards of Study Away Programs

Chair(s): Andrew Mall (Northeastern University,)

Presenter(s): Andrew Mall (Northeastern University); Michael Allemana (University of Chicago); Damascus Kafumbe (Middlebury College); Nathan Myrick (Mercer University); Sean Williams (Evergreen State College)

Sound Archives as Knowledge Infrastructures: Reframing Ethnomusicology in the U.S. Southwest and the Global South

Chair(s): Brenda M. Romero (University of Colorado Boulder)

Discussant(s): Brenda M. Romero (University of Colorado Boulder)

Presentations in the Session

Uncomfortable Pillars: Knowledge Infrastructures and the Colonial Legacy of Field Music Recording Archives

Rodrigo Chocano (Universität Wien)

Archival Mediation and the Afterlives of Nuevomexicano Song: Juan Bautista Ralliere’s Repertory in the Robb and Cobos Field Recordings

Javier Marin-Lopez (Universidad de Jaen)

“Whose Memory” in the Southwest Hispanic Folk Music Archive: Re-Considering John Donald Robb and Vicente T. Mendoza’s Ethnographic Encounters, Fieldwork Tactics and Collection Strategies

Peter J. Garcia (California State University Northridge)

Mobility, Affect, and Style: Cross-Border and Trans-Oceanic Identity Politics in South Asian Frame Drum Practices

Chair(s): Jim Sykes (University of Pennsylvania); Zoe Sherinian (University of Oklahoma)

Presentations in the Session

Mapping the parai frame drum’s contemporary diversity and historical retentions

Zoe Sherinian (University of Oklahoma)

Sonic Density as Diasporic ‘Copresence’: Indo-Caribbean Tappu Drumming and Tamil Belonging in ‘Madrasi Religion’

Stephanie Lou George (The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

Skin to Subwoofer: Transducing the Dappu Frame Drum and the Affective Politics of Bonalu Festival in Hyderabad, India

Chris McGuiness (City University of New York / Universität Zürich)

“Blue Check Fame”: Rap Narratives and Social Media Addiction

Abimbola Kai-Lewis

Berklee College of Music

“Es que existes por lo que haces”: Care Practices and Audibility in the Work of “El Mulato” Muñoz

Julia Monaco

University of Toronto

Rockist Critical Aesthetics of Seriousness, Accessibility, and Kendrick Lamar’s GNX (2024)

Spencer Stevens

University of North Texas

Who sounds Puerto Rican? Bad Bunny, Tego Calderón, and the politics of local racialized folklore.

Ailish Quinones Rivera

The University of Texas at Austin

Listening as Ontological Practice in More-Than-Human Worlds

Chair(s): Marie Comuzzo (Brandeis University)

Presentations in the Session

Listening into Transcendence: Gender, Genius, and the Cultural Politics of Whale Song

Marie Comuzzo (Brandeis University)

Bowhead Song and the Disappearing Acoustic Habitat of the Arctic

Finley Woodson-Gammon (University of Nevada, Reno)

Listening to Nuclear Landscapes in Eurasia: Sound, Ecology, and More-than-Human Temporalities

Anya Shatilova (Wesleyan University)

Sounding the Vegetal: Imaginaries of Consciousness, Communication, and the More-Than-Human World

Gabriel Andruzzi (University of Maryland College Park)

A Legacy Supreme: Making Meaning of the John Coltrane Centennial

Chair(s): Maya Cunningham (American University)

Presenter(s): Dexter Story (UCLA); Nia I'man Smith (Indiana University); Marvin McNeill (Emory University)

How the Membrane Makes Voice: Material Emergence in Yorùbá Dùndún Drumming

Sunday Oluwaseun Ukaewen

Harvard University

When the Paṟai Travels: Diaspora, Local Pedagogy, and the Making of a Singapore-Style Tamil Frame-Drum Tradition

Gene Lai¹, Thirukumaran M.L.²

1: National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University; 2: Damaru Singapore

Beyond the Limits of Materiality: Rethinking Instrumentality through the Quills

Benjamin Skoronski

Cornell University

Negotiating Ethical Aesthetics: Moral Evaluation and Musical Value in Turkmen Dutar Performance

Mohammad Geldi Geldi Nejad

Brown University

Mana Wāhine at the Mic: Establishing a Framework for Hawaiʻi Hip Hop Feminism

Susan Jacob

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa,

Repetition and Iteration: Network Formation and Sustenance in Boston's Underground Techno Scene

Corin Duey

Boston University

No Room to Party: Sound Ecology and Queer Collisions at Furry Conventions

Forest Jordan

Duke University

From Boogie to Ba-Ba-Boom: Re-Indigenization and Cosmopolitanism in Rocksteady Bass Conception

Scott Currie

University of Minnesota,

Singing Basque Witches: Linguistic Colonization, Auto-Exotification, and the Affordances of the ‘Master’s Tools’

Caitlin Brown Romtvedt^1,2

1: University of California, Berkeley,; 2: University of the Basque Country

Witches and Other Border-Crossers: Sonic Pathways of Solidarity Through Transcarpathia in the Works of Alina Pash

Melissa Miller

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Listening to Ruin: Aural Hauntings and the Phenomenology of Dereliction

Johnathan Rhodes

University of North Texas

Hearing Things: Haunted Acoustemology and the Sound of Supernatural in Postcolonial Malaysia

Isobel D’Cruz Barnes

University of Pennsylvania

Háblame de Miami: Sonic Citizenship and the Negotiation of Diasporic and Indigenous Belonging

Chair(s): Marysol Quevedo (University of Miami)

Presentations in the Session

Where the Condor and Eagle Fly Together: Miami’s plant medicine music subculture and the postcolonial deconstruction of identity politics and indigeneity in South Florida

Hannah Junco (University of Pennsylvania)

Diasporic Citizenship and Puente Libertad: Reparto, Mobility, and Belonging between Havana and Miami

Mike Levine (Christopher Newport University)

Why is Nobody Dancing? An Affectual Theorization of Movement at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Miami

Madison Allwein (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Sonic Afterlives and the Politics of Audibility in Post-Protest Hong Kong

Chair(s): Winnie W. C. Lai (University of Hong Kong)

Discussant(s): Ho Chak Law (The New School)

Presentations in the Session

Sonic Hauntology: Hong Kong’s Ghostly Voices After The National Security Law

Elizabeth Lawrensen (Stony Brook University)

From Street Protest to State Ritual: The Politics of Sound on Hong Kong’s July 1

Samantha Sasaki (Princeton University)

Cranking Dissent: Object Agency and Precarious Collectivity after “Glory to Hong Kong”

Winnie W. C. Lai (University of Hong Kong)

Practices of Translation: Negotiating Identity and Agency in African Art Music

Chair(s): Sunday Oluwaseun Ukaewen (Harvard University)

Presentations in the Session

Mediation in African Art Music: Insights from Àkójọpọ̀’s African Art Music Commissioning Project

Seyi Ajibade (University of Pittsburgh)

African Pianism as Translative Praxis: Memory, Mediation, and Imagination

Echezonachukwu Nduka (University of Pennsylvania)

Women, Gender and African Art Music

Kamilla Arku (New York University)

Dancing the Cycle of Life: An Introductory Workshop on Cambodian Dance and Movement

Chair(s): Rane Prak (University of California, Los Angeles); Allan Zheng (Loyola Marymount University)

Sounding Developments, Potentialities, and Power within the Contemporary Background Music Industry

Chair(s): Amy Frishkey (University of Texas at San Antonio)

Presentations in the Session

Automating Atmosphere: Generative AI in the B2B Background Music Industry

Ryan Blakeley (Northeastern University)

Holiday Music as the Frontlines of the Dying Art of Background Music Curation

Amy Frishkey (University of Texas at San Antonio)

“Spotify-core” as “Neo-Muzak”: Shifting between Background and Foreground Listening

Paul Allen Anderson (Indiana University)

Sing Hard: Wrestling and Masculine Vocal Aesthetics in Southern Senegal

Scott Linford

University of California, Davis,

Afrocentric Eco-feminism in the Music of Angelique Kidjo

Sarah Politz

City College of New York

“A Human Should Act Like a Human”: Interspecies Divine Community in Senegal

Margaret Rowley

University of Iowa

Between Sounds and Silences: Black Slavery, Abolition, and Public Sounding in Southern Iran

Armaghan Fakhraeirad

University of Pennsylvania,

Listening as Decolonial Mediation: Golha, Balanced Modernity, and the Feminine Principle in Iran

Mehdi Rezania

N/A

The Fade of Reng in Iranian Classical Music Since the Late Twentieth Century: Social Aesthetics, Ideology, and Reformed Identities

Nasim Ahmadian

University of Alberta

A Cyborg Destruction: Feminine Vocality, Techno-Pessimism, and Death of Humanity

Yiqing Ma¹, Conner Singh VanderBeek²

1: Colby College; 2: Davidson College

K-pop Viewer Hunters: “K-pop in Public” and the Globalized City

Heather Couture

Texas Lutheran University,

Exploring human creativity in AI-generated J-rock

Markos Koumoulas

University of Sydney

"Sound Awareness": Robert Northern and the Ecological Dimensions of Black Experimentalism in the 1970s

Mark Mahoney

Cornell University

Cauleen Smith’s Arkestral Marching Band (2010): Activating Sun Ra’s Archive as South Side Coalitional Repertoire

Alejandro Cueto

University of Chicago

Lessons on Tactical Urbanism from Brooklyn's Jouvé and Toronto's Caribana Parades

Kyle Rogers

New York University

Untangling the “Mongolian-Javanese-Celtic-Nordic-Anglosaxon”: The Ethnomusicological Origins of Percy Grainger’s “A General Study of the Manifold Nature of Music”

John Gabriel

University of Melbourne

“Doubtless the Chinese think our harmony barbarous”: Problematizing Eurocentrism through Christian Universalism in Mary Martin Richard’s A Paper on Chinese Music (1907)

Yi Ching {Kevin} Tam

University of Pittsburgh

The Curtain that Never Quite Fell: (Geo)politics of Teaching and Translating Ethnomusicology for East-Central Europe

Vit Zdralek

Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Recording Industries and Craftmanship: What Romani musicians tell us

Sonia Tamar Seeman

University of Texas Austin

Armenian Heritage Language Revitalization Through Music

Sona Nalbandian

Royal Holloway, University of London

Gendered Sonic Authority: Female Islamic Singing between Asia and Europe

Dr Razia Sultanova

Cambridge Muslim College, 14 St Paul's Rd, Cambridge CB1 2EZ, UK