CU graduate student and faculty papers at the 49th Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology [1] in Tuscon, Arizona, November 3–7, and the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society/Society for Music Theory [2] in Seattle, November 11–14:

• Mark Burford: "Eduard Hanslick, Idealism, and the 'Celebrities and Knights of Matter'"

• Giorgio Biancorosso: "Melodrama and its Aura: Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt"

• Christopher Doll: "The Problem of Prolongation in Modal Rock Music"

• Rebecca Fan: "Indigenous Modernities: A Participant's Observation at the United Nations"

• Farzaneh Hemmasi: "Moving Bodies, Moving Images: Khordadian and Exile Dance and Music in Iran"

• Brian Karl: "Parallel Play: The Emergence and Submergence of Political Histories in the Reception of Khaled and Emil Zrihan"

• Toby King: "Improvising Bluegrass in the Urban Country"

• Kristina Jacobsen: "'Oh Shí Baby, Hold Me Tight': Anchoring Place and Meaning in Navajo Country Bands"

• Morgan Luker: "The Cultivation of 'National' Musics through Transnational Circulation: The Case of Tango"

• Amanda Minks: "Mimesis, Power, and Pleasure in Miskitu Expressive Practices: An Historical Perspective"

• David Novak: "2.5 x 6 Meters of Space: Social Listening in Japan's Music Coffeehouses"

• Ana María Ochoa: "Silencing versus Sounding: Music and Cultural Policy in the Colombian Armed Conflict"

• Chris Washburne: "'Play Like There's a Gun to your Head!': Violence, Drugs, and Machismo in New York Salsa"

• Paul Yoon: "Praying Identities: Second-Generation Korean-American Christians and T'ongsongkido"