Spring 2024 Joint Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern Plains Chapter & American Musicological Society, Southwest Chapter. University of Oklahoma
Friday, April 5: Pitman Recital Hall, Catlett Music Center
12:00-5:00pm Registration
12:45-1:00pm Welcome
1:00-3:00pm Performance demonstrations
- Ashutosh (University of North Texas), “Indo-Jazz Fusion: A Multicultural Fusion that Surpasses Cultural Constraints”
- Yuxin Mei (University of North Texas), “Bridging Cultures through Music: The Journey of the UNT Chinese Music Ensemble”
- Jose Macias (Independent Scholar) “The Legacy of Bene Medina”
3:00-3:30pm Coffee Break in Gothic Hall
Posters will be on display
3:30-5pm Roundtable
- “Music Curriculum on the Border by the Sea and Beyond: Perspectives on Linguistic and Cultural Inclusivity”
- Andrés R. Amado, Jason Jones, Teresita Lozano, and Katrina Roush (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
5-6pm Welcome Reception, sponsored by the University of Oklahoma
Posters will be on display
7:30pm Concert at Sharp Hall in the Catlett Music Center
- gl-OK-al Masala: A Kaleidoscope of Global Sounds from Oklahoma: Brazilian, Vietnamese Lion Dance, Native American
9:00pm Dance and Refreshments: Gothic Hall, Catlett Music Center
- The concert will be followed by a participatory Irish “Session” with a caller and community dancers to lead participants in contra dance. There will also be refreshments available.
Saturday, April 6: Wagner Hall, 1005 Asp Ave
8:00am-3:00pm Registration
8-8:30am Coffee and refreshments, included in registration fee
Posters will be on display
8:30-10:30am Paper Session 1
Panel 1A: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
- Matthew Jones (Oklahoma City University), “Something to Give Each Other: Reflections on Poppers, Queer Utopias, Togetherness, and Troye Sivan,”
- Steve Parkhurst (Dallas International University), “The concept of “Flow” in Deaf Expressive Arts”
- Robbie Segars (University of North Texas), “‘Forming in a Straight Line’: The Ramones, Violent Masculinity, and Punk Historiography”
- Bre Lunday (University of Oklahoma), “Two-Spirit Indigeneity: An Exploration of Meaning and Reclamation,”
Panel 1B: Film Music
- Stephen Husarik (University of Arkansas – Fort Smith), “Discovery of the Psycho Theme: Raising the State of Research in Film Music”
- Emily Peterson (Independent Scholar), “Uninterrupted Melodies: Examining the Impact of Reducing Intermission in Live-Capture Musicals”
- Michael Lee (Independent Scholar), “‘Children of the Night, What Music They Make:’ Re-Examining the Soundtrack of Dracula (1931)”
Panel 1C: Sounds of Women: Survival and Resistance Through Performance, Aesthetics, and Memory in Latin America and Korea
- Eli Mena (University of Texas at Austin), “Women Combating Anti-Blackness through the Performance of Afro-Dominican Salve”
- Vicky Mogollón Montagne (University of Texas at Austin), “Women in Malandreo: Aesthetics, Violence and Urban Sociability in Caracas”
- Jeong-In Lee (University of Texas at Austin), “Gendered Memories and Sounding Silence in the Korean Borderland”
- Mercedes Alejandra Payán Ramírez (University of Texas at Austin), “Polyphony of Indigenous Identities in ‘Mujeres del Viento Florido’: Strategic Alliances in the Face of the Labor Dynamics of Colonial Capitalism”
10:30-10:45am Coffee Break, included in registration fee
10:45-12:15pm Paper Session 2
Panel 2A: Pedagogy
- Matt Roberson (Abilene Christian University), “‘A Journey into American Music’: Case-Study Pedagogy in Online Music History Courses in the General Education Curriculum,”
- Sanna Pederson (University of Oklahoma), “In Search of the ‘New Musicology,’”
- Tyler Stark (University of Oklahoma), “Listen, Respond, Repeat: Assessing the Impact of Scottish Aural Learning Pedagogy with U.S. Wind Bands,”
Panel 2B: Popular Music
- Brian Wright (University of North Texas), “Harold Bradley, the Nashville A-Team, and the ‘Tic-Tac’ Bass Style”
- Brian Sanders (University of North Texas), “La Santa Cecilia and the Rehumanization of the Undocumented Community”
- Ashley Thornton (University of Texas at Austin), “‘Does Anyone Hear My Voice?’: Musical Foregrounding of Traumatized Voices During Turkey’s 2023 Earthquake”
Panel 2C: Mexican/American Borderlands
- Kristina Nielsen (Southern Methodist University), “The Slipperiness of Indigenismo and Decolonization in Aztec Dance”
- Ramiro Godina (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León) “El mariachi regiomontano en Texas”
- Amanda Minks (University of Oklahoma), “Indigenous Audibilities across Borders: Henrietta Yurchenco’s Radio Scripts for the Inter-American Indian Institute”
12:15-1:30pm Lunch Break
Complimentary sandwiches available, or on your own in the Memorial Union or in Campus Corner (two blocks north)
1:30-3pm Paper Session 3: Three Concurrent Panels
Panel 3A: Listening
- Jessica Hajek (Our Lady of the Lake University), “An Ethnography of Listening: Alibabá and the Soundscape of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (1976-2001)”
- Eduardo Martinez (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), “Queretaro v. Atlas: A Story of Tragedy through Song”
- Breanna Plummer (Texas State University), “Tuning In’: Pauline Oliveros and the Sounds Around Us”
Panel 3B: Africa
- Chineye Okoro (Washington University in St. Louis), “Colonialism and Festival Music: A Case Study of Women’s Participation in Eastern Nigerian Festivals”
- Nathaniel Ash-Morgan (University of North Texas), “Zongo Identity in Ghanaian Popular Music”
- Andrew Normann (University of Texas at Austin), “The Museum of South African Hip-Hop: Building and Studying Hip-Hop and Popular Music Archives”
Panel 3C: Aesthetics
- Lesley Hughes (Sam Houston State University), “‘A New Style for a New Time’: Continuity and Conservatism in the Music of Paul Hindemith”
- James MacKay (Loyola University New Orleans), “When Analysis Intersects Performance: Flexible Formal Boundaries and Schmalfeldt’s “Becoming” in Beethoven’s Sonata in F major, Opus 10, no. 2, First Movement”
- Hunter S. Hancock (University of North Texas), “Memento Musica 1897: Music, Death, and the Secret Concert in the Paris Catacombs”
3-4pm SEM-SP & AMS-SW Business Meetings
4-5pm Keynote Lecture
- Marysol Quevedo, “Composing Opera Beyond Labels: Liquid Sonority in Tania J. León’sScourge of Hyacinths”
5-6pm Special Reception (TBA)