MACSEM 2023

Preliminary Schedule

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Friday, March 31

8pm - Welcome Concert & Reception (food provided)

Ewell Recital Hall, free admissions

A joint concert by the University of Richmond Gamelan Ensemble (directed by Andy McGraw), Raga Kusuma, with special guest Peni Candra Rini AND the W&M Middle Eastern Music Ensemble with their surprise guests.

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Saturday, April 1

AM - Coffee and muffins provided

9:00 - 9:45 Panel 1 - History (Chair: Michael Iyanaga)

• Jackson Albert Mann, "Jawsmiths and Folk-Singers: Communist Folklorization, U.S. Left-wing Musical Performance Practice, and the Songs of the Industrial Workers of the World"

• Isaac Mast, “Far Across the Ocean (They've got the Honolulu Craze): The Uncanny Migration of a Tin Pan Alley Tune”

• Shuang Wang, “Media as a Sieve in the Ages of Transformation -- Trends of Popular Music in 20th-Century China”

 

10:00 - 11:00 Panel 2 - Sampling (Chair: Kendra Salois)

• Rômulo Moraes, “Sampling as Telematic Collaboration”

• Basile Koechlin, “Activating sound archives through sampling: the acholitronix of Leo PaLayeng”

• Hexing Xiao, “Neoliberalism and Dialect Rap: GAI’s Accent, Resilience, and the Chinese Dream”

• Vishruth Nagam

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11:00 - 11:45 Panel 3 - Critical Interventions (Chair: Anne Rasmussen)

• Molly Joyce, “Virtuosity from Disability: Exploring multidisciplinary offerings from dance to music”

• Dilshan Weerasinghe, “I Got A Story To Tell”: Hip hop, Storytelling, and Music Making as Creative Ethnographic Practice Through Feeling as Knowing”

• Dani Hawkins, "Writing Music / Writing Movements"

 

11:45 - 1:00 Lunch (provided) & Informal Mentoring Event

 

1:00 - 1:45 Panel 4 - West African Jazz (Chair: Noel Lobley)

• Juwon Adenuga, "Music Synthesis: Jazz appropriation in Yoruba Popular Music"

• Taiwo Nelson, "Gospel Jazz in Nigeria: A Case Study of Elijah Alebo"

• Ernest Owusu-Poku, "Impact of Jazz on Highlife: the contribution of Records"

 

2:00 - 2:45 Panel 5 - Material Culture (Chair: Agustina Checa)

• Josh Brew, “Of Materiality and the Environment: Towards a Sustainable Ecology with Palmwine Music?”

• Melissa Camp, “Echoes of the 1919 Revolution: Arabic Nationalist Records at the British Library”

• Kajwan Ziaoddini, “Tape Masters: Negotiating Iranian Classical Music through Governmental Policies and the Cassette Industry”

 

3:00 - 3:45 Panel 6 - Environments (Chair TBC)

• Rachel Horner, "Tracing the Communicative Sound Space of València’s Mascletà"

• Nic Vigilante, “‘The Future of Live Music’: Video Game Concerts and Liveness in Virtual Worlds”

• Rubens De la Corte, “Blocos Feministas: The Latest Feminist Movements Reclaiming Women's Space in the Street Carnaval of Brazil”

 

4:00 - 5:30 Keynote: Steven Lewis

 

Evening event TBC

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Sunday, April 2

AM - Coffee and muffins provided

9:00 - 9:30 Panel 7 - Indigeneity (Chair TBC)​

• Tim Booth, “‘Giving Nature a Voice’: The Settler-Colonial Soundscape of a New Zealand Forest Sanctuary”

• Kathleen King, “Silent Preservation and the Harmful Eradication of Noisy Humanity”

 

9:45 - 10:45 Panel 8 - War / Protest (Chair: Tracey Stewart)

• Alexandra Yaralian, “Repurposing Music for a Revolution: Patriotic Songs of Armenia”

• Sepehr Pirasteh, “Pushing against the social norms through different ways of creating protest music”

• Daniel Murray, “Echoes of Change: How the Shift in Palestinian Protest Music has Garnered Global Attention”

• Cibele M. Moura, “On Transgression, ‘Alternative Facts,’ and the New Right in Brazil”

 

11:00 - 12:15 Panel 9 - Scenes (Chair TBC)

• Flan Sheahan

• M. Rizky Sasono, “We’re an indie band, not a World Music ensemble! Claims and politics of indie in Indonesia’s independent music scene.”

• Hannah Nieman, "Punk House: A Comparative Examination of DIY Music Scenes in Williamsburg and Richmond Virginia"

• Evelyn Zelmer, "Grimalkin Records: Genderqueer Identities, Genrequeer Music, and Radical Reciprocity in Richmond, Virginia"

• Stephanie Espie, “Impact of COVID-19 on Network Building in Trinidadian Youth Spaces”

 

12:15 - 1:15 Business Meeting