Students, faculty, and recent alumni from UT Austin’s Musicology and Ethnomusicology division will present their research and chair sessions at the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting held virtually on October 17 to 26, 2024. Covering a wide range of themes, the presentations (listed below) highlight the division’s diverse research interests and interdisciplinary approaches. For the full conference program, visit https://www.conftool.pro/sem2024/sessions.php.
Oct 17, 10:00am-12:00pm
Session 1D: Queering Performance
Sounding Queer World-Building in the Musical Performances of Muna
Andrea Kate Klassen
Oct 17, 10:00am – 12:00pm
Session 1F: Teaching Palestine through Music, Dance, and the Arts (Roundtable)
Hanna Salmon
Oct 17, 10:00am – 12:00pm
Session 1J: Ethnomusicology and Urban Planning: Reflection on New Research Opportunities
Chair: Robin Moore
Austin’s Sp/R/acialized Histories
Cultural Sustainability in Practice
Austin’s Live Music Fund and Urban Musical Financing
Charles Carson, Catherine Heemann
Music Cities: Policy, Impact, and Collaborative Research
The Musician Income Crisis: A Performer’s Perspective
Oct 18, 12:00pm-2:00pm
Session 5I: Cumbia Aesthetics and Politics in Latin America
The beginning of Chilean cumbia: La Sonora Palacios band as part of the Chilean popular culture
Oct 19, 10:00am-12:00pm
Session 7F: Contemporary Perspectives on Afro-Venezuelan Tambor
Electro Tambor: Diasporic Stories of Collaboration and Experimentation with Afro-Venezuelan Music
Oct 19, 12:30pm-2:00pm
Session 8G: Sound Studies I
From Ruins to Reverberations: Mapping the Auditory Landscape of the US Camptown in the Korean Borderland
Jeong-In Lee
Oct 19, 12:30pm-2:00pm
Session 8I: Musical Representation and Identity II
Chair: Sonia Seeman
La Policia del Son: Navigating Purism, Taste, and Authority in the Contemporary Huasteca
Oct 20, 10:00am-11:30am
Session 9A: Time and Periodicity
The Veil Was Torn: Inverse Perspective in Sofia Gubaidulina’s St. John Passion
Madeline Styskal
Oct 20, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Session 10G: Community, Transmission, and Revival in the “Music Village”
Transnationalism, postnationalism, and cosmopolitanism in folk-revivalist music workshops: the case of Müzik Köyü
Oct 20, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Session 10H: Virtual Communities
Resistance Through Musicking: Guichu Community on Bilibili
Oct 23, 12:30pm-2:00pm
Session 12C: Social Movements/Protest/Resistance I
Chair: Robin Moore
Oct 23, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Session 13A: Queering Media
Pretty and Problematic: The Use of Music in Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name
Brandon Lane Foskett
Transnational Transmedia Pop Texts on Drag Race Philippines
Oct 25, 10:00am-12:00pm
Session 17C: Violence, Trauma, Witness
“Does Anyone Hear My Voice?:” Digital Cultural Intimacy and Sonic Witnessing in Turkish Popular Music Following the February 6th, 2023 Earthquake
Oct 25, 10:00am-12:00pm
Session 17F: Blackness, Anti-Blackness, and Praxis
Afro-Dominican Salve Performance and Resistance to Anti-Blackness
Oct 25, 10:00am-12:00pm
Session 17G: Transnational Studies
Nostalgia, Memory, and Neo-colonialism: Neo-traditional Hip-Hop Music and Okinawan Identities
Qifang Hu
