Friday


8:00-9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks Eric Usner, Conference Convener
9:15-11:00 Panel I Chair: Michael Beckerman Respondent: George Lewis
"Diasporic Communities and Negotiated Identities: Alan Hovhaness's
Recovery of the Armenian Folk Music Idiom"
Sylvia Alajaji
(Musicology, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music)
"Relationships Between Music and Racial Ideas in the Context of Romani
Music Making in the Czech Republic: Diasporic Dimensions"
Melissa Payne
(Ethnomusicology, SOAS, University of London)
"The Whiteness of Henry Flynt"
Ben Piekut
(Musicology, Columbia University)
11:15-1:00 Panel II Chair: ______ Respondent: Deborah Kapchan
"The Ballet Folklórico de México & the Construction of the Mexican
Nation Through Dance"
Sydney Hutchinson
(Ethnomusicology, New York University)
"Imagine Me Otherwise: Ritual Drumming as Native American Daydreams"
Tina Majkowski
(Performance Studies, New York University)
"'Foreign Dancers': The Dance Club as a Field for the Construction
of Collective Identity Among African Labor Migrants in Israel"
Uri Dorchin
(Cultural Anthropology Ben Gurion University, Israel)
1:00-2:00 Lunch (provided)
2:00-3:45 Panel III Chair: Tavia Nyong'o, Respondent: Arthur Jafa
"Recuerdos de los Repatriados: Remembrances of the Repatriated
Illegal Deportation, Memory, and Performance"
Lessa Bouchard
( Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago)
"The Taxonomy of Vocal Timbre and the Construction of Race"
Nina Sun Eidsheim
Critical Studies and Experimental Practices, University of California, San Diego)
"Mutiny in the UK: South Asian Youth, Music, and Politics in 1970s-90s Britain"
Vivek Bald
4:00-5:45 Panel IV Chair:____ , Respondent: Sherrie Tucker
"Starring Hazel Scott as Herself: The Representation of Race and
Gender in the Hollywood Films of Hazel Scott"
Monica Hairston
(Ethnomusicology, New York University)
“Muting” Mahalia: Visual Representations of Gospel Music
Brian Hallstoos
(American Studies, University of Iowa)
"Great Black Music? Janis Joplin and 'Authentic' Female Blues”
Rachel Gillet
(History, Northeastern University)
6:00-7:00 Opening Keynote
"The Silence of Genocide"
Philip Bohlman
(University of Chicago)
7:00- Opening Reception Hosted by Michael Beckerman, Chair, Dept. of Music

Saturday


9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:30-11:15 Panel V Chair: Kyra Gaunt Respondent: Ellie Hisama
"Hearing Hip-hop’s Jamaican Accent"
Wayne Marshall
(Ethnomusicology, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Oh Bubba, Where Art Thou??: Bubba Sparxxx as Rap's White Other"
Loren Ludwig
(Critical and Comparative Studies in Music, University of Virginia)
"What’s So German About It?: Race and Cultural Identity in Berlin’s
Hip Hop Community"
Inez Templeton
(Stirling Media Research Institute, University of Stirling, Scotland)
11:30-1:15 Panel VI Chair: Greg Tate Respondent: Juan Flores
"American Afrobeat: Transnational, Transcultural, and Transracial"
Matt Sakakeeny
(Ethnomusicology, Columbia University)
"Binational Rock: Images of Self and Other in American and
Mexican Rock Music"
Adriana Martinez
(Musicology, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester)
"Kafin: The Quest For Wealth"
Iddrisu Saaka with Taisha Paggett and Kate Foley
(Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA)
1:15-2:15 Lunch
2:15-4:00 Performance Panel Curated by Byron Au Yong
Located in 636, 6th Floor of Tisch
Chair: Karen Shimakawa
Du Yun
P.I.C.
Kevin So
4:15-6:00 Panel VIII Chair: Jason King Respondent: _____
"Representing Complexity: Vijay Iyer, Resistance, and In What Language?"
Niko Higgins
(Ethnomusicology, Columbia University)
"Odd man out: Dystopia and Black Hard Rock"
Justin Patch
(Ethnomusicology, University of Texas, Austin)
"Faders, Breaks & Scratches: Pilipino American Turntablism’s Technologics"
Christine Balance
(Performance Studies, New York University)
6:00-7:00 2nd Keynote
"A Manifesto for Race, Performance, and Scholarship."
Deborah Wong
(University of California, Riverside)
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