Columbia Ethnomusicologists at the 52nd Annual SEM Conference
The Society for Ethnomusicology's 52nd annual SEM Conference will take place October 24th - 28th at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. This year's theme is Music, War and Reconcilliation.
A complete list of presenters and other participants from Columbia University follows.
Tyler Bickford will be presenting his paper Phonology and Singing: Grammar, Markedness, and Expressive Vocal Performance during the Pre-Conference Symposium on New Directions in Cognitive Ethnomusicology. He will also present his paper “Tweens,” Kidz Bop, and Childhood Music Consuption during the conference.
Andrew Eisenberg, Ryan Skinner, and Matt Sakakeeny will all present papers during SEM's "Who's Listening? The Politics of Aurality in Urban Spaces" session. Eisenberg will present Soundly Placed Subjects: Resonant Voices and Spatial Political in Mombasa, Kenya; Skinner will present Making Malu Kunkan: Performance Piracy and the Production of Musical Liveness in Contemporary Bamako; Sakakeeny will present A Sound-Body Politic: Making Claims on Public Space Through Sound.
Professor Aaron Fox will chair Music Commodification, Marketing, and Patronage. He is also on the Programming Committee for this year's conference.
Melissa Gonzalez will presnt her paper A Bailar Pindin! The Musical and Commercial Transfiguration of a Panamanian Rural Music Genre.
Farzaneh Hemmasi will present her paper The Iranian Music Revolution Has Been Uploaded: Technologically Mediated Interactions at the Intergalactic Iranian Music Festival.
Adriana Helbig will present her paper Making Musical “Cents” of Post-Socialit Market Reforms: A Broader Looka t the Mediaization of Agricultural Song Repertoires in Ukraine in the "Musical Practices and Cultural Policies: Ethnomusicologies of Musical Management" session, chaired by Morgan Luker. Luker will also present his paper The Managers, The Managed, and the Unmanageable: Negotiating Values at the Buenos Aires International Fair during the session.
Niko Higgins will present his paper Improvising Beyond the “Classical”: Fusion Musicians in Chennai, India.
Elizabeth K. Keenan will present her paper "I don’t see what the war has to do with feminism": Third Wave Feminism, the War on Terror, and the Politics of the American Middle Class
Jonathan King will present his paper Harnessing Place: Linking Performance Identity in American Country Musics.
David Novak and Lorraine Plourde will chair "Listening in the Urban Soundscapes of Modern Japan". Novak will present his paper The Distinctive Sound of the Japanese Train? Composing Soundscapes in Global Cities and Plourde will persent her paper Disciplining the Ear in Tokyo during this session.
Lauren Ninoshivili will present her paper Acoustic Archaisms and the Poetics of Georgian Folk-Fusion.
Anna Marie Stirr will present her paper Poila Jaana Paam: Lok Dohori and Women’s Honor in a Changing Nepal.
Alumni of Columbia's program in Ethnomusicology will also be participating in the conference.
Travis Jackson (PhD, Columbia University, 1998; now at the University of Chicago) will be chairing "Music, Space, Place and Environment". He is also on this year's Programming Committee.
John Murphy (PhD, Columbia University, 1994; now at UNT College of Music) will chair "Improvising Tradition: The Jazz Avant-Garde in Historical and Ethnographoc Perspective".
Janet Sturman (PhD, Columbia University, 1987; now at the University of Arizona) is on the Board of Director's for this year's SEM Conference. She will also be chairing a session on "Gender and Music".
Lois Wilken (PhD, Columbia University; now with New York's La Troupe Makandal and City Lore) will give her paper The Prayer: Haitian Vodou’s Sweet Drama of Resistance.
