Archive and Experimentation across Transnational Arab Cultural Geographies

Chair(s): Shayna Silverstein (Northwestern University)

Discussant(s): Anne Rasmussen (William & Mary College)

Presentations in the Session

Water as Archive: Tamara Al-Mashouk’s I’d search forever, I want to remember (2023)

Rim Irscheid (Kings College London)

Archival Play with the “Halim El Dabh Papers”

Shayna Silverstein (Northwestern University)

Market as Archive / Market as Method: Music and Materiality in Cairo’s Used Goods Markets

Sophie Frankford (Kings College London)

AI Anti-ICE Protest Songs: Aesthetic and Sociopolitical Considerations

Noriko Manabe

Indiana University,

Resistance Music in Occupied Minneapolis

Colleen Bertsch

Minneapolis, MN

Refracted National Identity through “Island’s Sunrise”: Protest Music as Crafting—or Cracking—Taiwan

Darren Sheng-Hsuan Chuang

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Lyrics in Contention: Song, Power, and Identity in Latin America

Chair(s): Sean Bellaviti (Toronto Metropolitan University)

Presentations in the Session

Lyrical Insults and Collective Fun: The Social Dynamics of Carnival in a Panamanian Town

Sean Bellaviti (Toronto Metropolitan University)

México Canta y la Apología del Delito: Music, Authority, and the Idea of Justice

León F. García Corona (University of Southern California)

Buscando Al Caballo: Song Lyrics and the Conjuring of Dominican Identity

Heather Sloan (Indiana University Bloomington)

Voicing against Voicelessness: An Ethnomusicology of Voice through Rupture

Chair(s): Bradley DeMatteo (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill,)

Discussant(s): Joshua Pilzer (University of Toronto)

Presentations in the Session

Sounding the “Blank Slate”: Examining the Roles and Ramifications of the Refugee Child’s Voice in Cold War Propaganda

Elisa Alfonso (University of Utah)

Voicing Long-Term Refuge in Cambodian American Lowell, Massachusetts

Bradley DeMatteo (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

A Vocal Politics of Empathy in Palestinian Personal Narrative Storytelling

Hanna Salmon (Austin Community College)

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

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)

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)

“Bad Ecomusicology” and Dissident Environmental Affects

Chair(s): Elizabeth Frickey (New York University)

Presenter(s): Fabian Almazan (Harvard University); Tyler Yamin (Bucknell University); Max Gibson (University of California, Davis); Brooks Toliver (University of Akron); Bailey Hilgren (New York University)

Present Dynamics in African Music: Liturgy and Pedagogy, Practice and Paradigms

Chair(s): Kayode Samuel (University of Ibadan)

Presentations in the Session

Ethnomusicology in South Africa: Beyond the tokenistic inclusion of African Music

Joseph Kunnuji (Odeion School of Music, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)

Liquidating Localities: Christian Contemporary Worship as Cultural Colonialism

Jonathan Crossley (Department of Music Technology, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

Hearing Africa in Europe: African Music and Transnational Choral Practices in Germany

Toyin Ajose (University of Wurzburg, Germany)

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)