Bluegrass, Noise, and Railroad Memory at Monon World Headquarters

Joseph O'Connell

Duke University

Institutionalizing the Hang: Conferences, Community, and the Meeting Spaces of String Band Music

Holly Riley

Middle Tennessee State University,

Resituating the Banjo: Performance, Authority, and Stylistic Fusion in Béla Fleck’s Music

Siying Su

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Imagining Americana in Japanese Engagement with Bluegrass Music

Donald Bradley

Indiana University,

Beyond Jazz: Cuban Experimentalisms in Gender and Genre

Chair(s): Ruthie Meadows (University of Nevada, Reno)

Presentations in the Session

‘Sonidos siderales’: Synthesizing Traditions in Cuban Music

Marysol Quevedo (University of Miami)

"The 'New Vanguard': Cuban Women in Jazz and Fusion (Fusión)"

Ruthie Meadows (University of Nevada, Reno)

“At the Thresholds of Memory: Technologies of Transmission and Tools of transformación in the Recombinant Pianism of David Virelles”

Mark Lomanno (University of Miami)

Voicing the Unresolved: Listening at the Thresholds of Life, Death, and History

Chair(s): Juan David Rubio Restrepo (UC Berkeley)

Presentations in the Session

Inhabiting Indeterminacy: Singing, Absence and Unsettled Time in Kurdistan

Fidel Glitch (UC Berkeley)

Voicing a Home in the Wound: Pain, Listening, and the Afterlives of War in Zana (2019)

Landry Krebs (UC Berkeley)

Resonances of the Restless Dead: Voice and Transcorporeality in Ukrainian Rusalki Songs

Kristine Barrett (UC Berkeley)

Listening in the presence of…: Distributed aurality as theory

Juan David Rubio Restrepo (UC Berkeley)

Ethnomusicology and Music Teaching and Learning

Chair(s): Stephanie Espie (University of Pittsburgh)

Presenter(s): Amanda Soto (Texas State University); Loneka Battiste (University of Houston); Kyra Gaunt (University at Albany); Carrie Danielson (Florida State University); Sonja Lynn Downing (Lawrence University)

WE ARE NOT AFRAID: Music and Resistance in Apartheid PrisonsCaptions: full subtitles.Original languages: English, Xhosa, Zulu. Runtime: 65 mins

Janie Cole¹, Shameela Seedat²

1: University of Connecticut,; 2: Undercurrent Film & Television

Performing Black & Green: The African and Irish Musical Roots of Montserrat

Colin Harte

Bard College- Bronx,

Songs of Living: Musical Life and Creativity among Twentieth-Century Village Women in Central China

Jun Feng

SOAS, University of London

Film presentation: Who Has Seen the Sound?

Xiaohui Liu

the University of Texas at Austin,

Remapping Listening Publics Across the Global South

Chair(s): Kira Mackey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,)

Presentations in the Session

From Public to Counterpublic: Rohingya Listening Practices and Nationalism Since 1961

Tomal Hossain (University of Chicago)

Consumer Voice: Radio, Listening Publics, and the 1936 Palestinian Strike

Kira Mackey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

A “Merciful” and “Compassionate” Voice: Mediating Gender and Nation in Egyptian Women’s Magazines (1922–1952)

Melissa Camp (Trinity University)

The Sonic and Aesthetic Politics of Japanese Anime

Chair(s): Cheuk Yu (University of California San Diego); Kieran Casey (John Hopkins Peabody Institute); Hakeem Watson (Duke University,); Avery Wright (University of North Texas)

Discussant(s): Garrett Groesbeck (Wesleyan University)

Presentations in the Session

Transmedia Women’s Bodies in Japanese Anime Voices

Cheuk Yu (University of California San Diego)

A Cultural Canvas: Perception and Representation of Blackness in the Japanese anime Gachiakuta

Kieran Casey (John Hopkins Peabody Institute)

Voicing the Mukokuseki: The racial & dialectic politics of representation in anime characters and voice acting.

Hakeem Watson (Duke University)

The Aural Representations of Male Desire in Anime

Avery Wright (University of North Texas)

Materiality and Meaning of Instruments and Instrument-Building in Africa

Chair(s): Nathaniel Braddock (Boston University)

Presenter(s): Adebola Ola (Boston University); Althea SullyCole (McGill University); Dexter Story (UCLA); Eric Schmidt (Babson College)

Sounding In and Beyond Trauma

Chair(s): Jeffrey Dyer (Ball State University)

Presentations in the Session

Killing Me Softly: The Traumatic Mediation of Quiet in Contemporary Black Horror

Deonte L. Harris (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Listening in the Negative Space: Voice and Public Secrecy in Post-COVID Urban China

Fanyi Faye Ma (Duke University)

The Acoustic and Non-Acoustic Sounds of Mutual Care

Jeffrey Dyer (Ball State University)

Your Silence Speaks Volumes: Testimonial Injustice and the Perils of Narration

Sidra Lawrence (Bowling Green State University)

A Philosophy of World Music Instruction for the Age of AI

David Hebert

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences; Education University of Hong Kong

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

Ruxin LI

No.2 High School of East China Normal University

Evolution, Expressive Authority, and Politics of Mediation in the Irish Slow Air Tradition: A Case Study of The Wounded Hussar

Anthony Cahill

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick

Deviant Propaganda: Festivity and Femininity in Anti-ISIS Propaganda Music

Hannaneh Akbarpour

Yale University,

“Boycott or Compliance”: The Soundtrack of 2026 Protests and War in Iran

Mehrenegar Rostami¹, Hiwa Hawaii²

1: University of Tennessee, Knoxville,; 2: Independent Filmmaker

When Silence is Enforced, Dance Becomes the most Rebellious Act

hozan hashempour

University of Alberta,

The Perilous Fight: Musical Compilations as Sites of Resistance and Collective Political Action

Peter Verdin

N/A

“Hacer daño”: Magic and the Gendered Withdrawal in a Cajamarca Festival

Julio Mendívil

University of Vienna,

Esa Pollerita…: The social life of the pollera and the ¿subversion of racism? in the sonic political interruptions of Milena Warthon’s music.

Eloy Neira de la Cadena

UC Riverside,

Feverish Lions in Lima: Atmospheres around the Chinese New year in Lima, peru

Diego Salinas

University of Texas at Austin,

Composing Place and Presence: Landscape and the Nature of Being in Jia Guoping’s 2014 piece The Pine-soughing Valleys

Stephen Jones

Brigham Young University,

Performing the Marriage Law: Lüju Opera, Cultural Reform, and Marital Imaginaries in Socialist China

CHEN Chen

Shandong Sport University,

Diasporic Musical Strategies in the Context of Heritage and Commercialization: Performance Practices and Musical Choices of Chinese Clan Associations in Jonker Walk, Malacca

Manqi Ding

Xinghai Conservatory of Music

Between Sanctity and Stigma: The Social Construction of Blind Musicians in China and Japan

Ilsa Xiaoshan Yin

N/A

Elective Heritage: Identity Construction among Highland Bagpipers in Texas

David Alexander

University of Sheffield

Creating Home(land) in the Bay Area: The Diasporic Presence of Amazigh Musical Communities

Sasha Desberg

University of California, Berkeley

Building a Home Away from Home: Brazilian Diasporic Communities along Colorado’s Front Range

Victor Xavier Vieira Goulart

University of Colorado Boulder

Improvisation as Archive in Pittsburgh

Chair(s): Benjamin Barson (Bucknell University)

Presentations in the Session

Stewarding Ephemeral Histories: Improvisation, Jazz, and the Community Archive in Pittsburgh

Colter Harper (University at Buffalo)

Four Rivers: Archiving Loft Jazz in Post-Industrial Pittsburgh

Jay Rauch (University of Pittsburgh)

The Politics of Commemorating Improvisation: Roger Humphries, Black Geographies, and Pittsburgh’s North Side

Lee Caplan (Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University)

“Lift Off Judgement”: Social-Emotional Experience as Embodied Archive at Open Improvisation Lab

Eli Namay (University of Pittsburgh)

“Build Your Conservatories in the Mountains”: Chasing the Phantasm of Rural Anatolia

Shireen Nabatian

University of California, Santa Cruz

On Top of Mount Budalang: Russian Minorities and the Recontextualization of Folksongs in Post-Invasion Tbilisi

Christopher Troutman

Artists for Community Transformation

The Instrumental Cry: Re-Voicing Albanian Women’s Laments through the Solo Violin

Grijda Spiri

University of California Santa Cruz

Listening for Care: Gender, Labor, and Social Reproduction that Sustains Musical Worlds

Chair(s): Ezgi Benli-Garcia (George Mason University)

Presentations in the Session

Sustaining Togetherness: Gendered Labor in Alevi Muhabbet Gatherings

Ezgi Benli-Garcia (George Mason University)

"This Is All I Can Do For You": Negotiating Care and Gendered Labor in Chipko’s Afterlives

Anchal Khansili (Florida State University)

Sound, Care, and Gendered Labor in Mozambique during Crisis

Ellen Hebden (Syracuse University)

Between Scores and Cradles: Reproductive Labor and the Professional Musician in Bolivia

Vivianne Asturizaga (California State University)

Aquatic Mediations: Toward a “Blue Ethnomusicology”

Chair(s): Ryan McCormack (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Discussant(s): Daniel Sharp (Tulane University)

Presentations in the Session

Island Logic: Roots, Reggae, and Postcolonial Critique

Justin Patch (Vassar College)

Watery Vibrations and Hydroacoustic Transformations

Kim Kattari (Texas A&M University)

So Close, SOFAR: Terrible Intimacy and Sound Below the Ocean’s Okeanos

Ryan McCormack (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Sonic Temporalities: Kurdish Music, Media, and the Reimagining of Community

Chair(s): Azadeh Vatanpour (Emory University)

Presentations in the Session

Intermundane Collaborations: Remix and the Revivification of Kurdish Musical Icons

Kajwan Ziaoddini (University of Maryland)

Hebrew Chopi: Kurdish Jews in Israel and the Musical Making of a Digital Kurdistan

Hadas H. Bram (Yale University)

Sacred Sound in the Age of Social Media: Yārsān Ritual Music and Online Mediated Identity

Azadeh Vatanpour (Emory University)

Music as Resistance: Sound, Trauma, and Historical Consciousness in Kurdish Music

Sirvan Manhoobi (University of Maryland)

Invented Traditions: The Revival of Musical Instruments in Central Asia

Chair(s): Richard Wolf (Harvard University)

Presentations in the Session

Strings of Memory: The Jetigen Revival in Kyrgyzstan

Aidai Kalmamatova (Wesleyan University)

From the Epic Memory to Sonic Practice: The Reconstruction of Kyrgyz Signaling Instruments

Aibek Baiymbetov (Wesleyan University)

Kieli Aspaptar: Sacred Materialities and More-Than-Human Lives of Revived Musical Instruments

Saida Daukeyeva (Wesleyan University)

Australism: Taiwanese Indigenous Music as a Pathway for Exploring the Austronesian World

Chun-bin Chen

Taipei National University of the Arts

Maternal and Queer Alliances in Amis Musicking in Postcolonial Taiwan

Chia-Yin Hung

PhD Candidate in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London

Toward an AI-Assisted Analysis of Performance Practices in Historical Recordings of Taiwanese Hakka Folksongs

HSIN-WEN HSU¹, Yu-Fen Huang², Su Li³

1: Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University; 2: Department of Music, National Taiwan University of Arts; 3: Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica

Amplification and Sovereign Sensibility in Taiwanese Indigenous Communities

DJ Hatfield

National Taiwan University,

Geographies of Auto-Tune: Pitch Correction and Vocal Practice in Global Contexts

Chair(s): Amy Skjerseth (University of California, Riverside); Catherine Provenzano (University of California, Los Angeles)

Presenter(s): Samuel Lamontagne (University of California, Riverside); Amy Skjerseth (University of California, Riverside); Sarra Chahbane (Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco); Catherine Provenzano (University of California, Los Angeles); Kiranmayi Indraganti (Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology, Bengaluru Campus, India); Noraliz Ruiz (Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico)

Resources in the study and performance of African music in American Academies.

Chair(s): John Njenga (Ball State University,)

Presentations in the Session

Expanding the American Choral Curriculum Through African Choral Music: Arrangements of Kenyan Folk Songs.

John Njenga (Ball State University)

ulturally Responsive Pedagogical Strategies from African Choral Directors in U.S Universities

Kevin Kimtai (University of Florida)

Singing in (Ki)Swahili: Mitigating Challenges in Meaning and Understanding

Sylvester Makobi (Indiana University)

Open Portals: Invigorating African music studies in the US music departments.

Jean Kidula (University of Georgia)

Haunted Economies: Ethnomusicology beyond Liberal Democracy

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

Presenter(s): Rasika Ajotikar (University of Hildesheim); Benjamin Barson (Bucknell University); Ana Hofman (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts); Samuel Araujo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)