This autumn, many UChicago Department of Music faculty and students are presenting at the Society of Ethnomusicology, the Society for Music Theory and the American Musicological Society Annual Meetings. With topics ranging from “Hindustani Music, Paracolonial Networks, and Global Flows of Knowledge in Late Colonial Bengal,” to “Settling the Listening Flesh: Applause as Proto-sociality in Istanbul,” these presentations discuss diverse and varied topics within music.
Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting — October 19-22, 2023 / Ottawa, Canada
The Society for Ethnomusicology was founded in 1955 to promote the research, study, and performance of music from all historical periods and cultural contexts. With a network of scholars, educators, students, musicians, activists, and curators from diverse humanistic and social science perspectives. In addition to hosting an annual meeting, the society publishes the journal Ethnomusicology as well as four online publications and a podcast, and it provides awards for excellent scholarship in the field.
Thursday, October 19
8:30 am — Jonah Francese, "Hñähñu Language Revitalization through Indigenous Mexican Hip Hop: Building Towards an Indigenous Hip Hop Futurism"
8:30 am — Chris Batterman Cháirez, "Weaving Time and Singing History: The Tempos and Temporalities of the Postcolonial Sound Archive in Mexico"
11:45 am — Tomal Mahmud Hossain, "The Field of Rohingya Culture: Paradox and Survival in a Refugee Camp Economy"
4:00 pm — Pramantha Tagore, "Hindustani Music, Paracolonial Networks, and Global Flows of Knowledge in Late Colonial Bengal"
Friday, October 20
9:30 am — Rachel Genny Chery, "Radio Haïti: Broadcasting a Caribbean Diaspora through Music and Solidarity"
10:45 am — Jessica Swanston Baker, President's Roundtable "Tell Me a Story—Translating Experience into Ethnography"
1:45 pm — Erol Gregory Mehmet Köymen, "Settling the Listening Flesh: Applause as Proto-sociality in Istanbul"
Sunday, October 22
9:00 am — Fiona Boyd, "Live from WPAQ: Sounding Pastness for the Living"
10:45 am — Varshini Narayanan and Jonah Francese, Roundtable "Improvisation and its Discontents: Alternative Epistemologies of Creative Practice"
See the full conference program.
American Musicological Society & Society for Music Theory Joint Annual Meeting — November 9-12, 2023 / Denver Colorado
The mission of the Society of Music Theory is to promote "the development of and engagement with music theory as a scholarly and pedagogical discipline." Embracing all approaches to and perspectives of music theory, the Society furthers the field of music theory through the publication of three scholarly journals, the promotion of scholarly research through awards and grants, and the convening of an annual meeting for the presentation and exploration of the latest research.
Founded in 1934, the American Musicological Society serves to advance research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship. Every year, the Society convenes an annual meeting of scholars from around the world for the reading and presentation of nearly 200 papers, as well as study sessions, panel discussions, and performances.
Theorizing African American Music Preconference — Audrey Slote, "Nicole Mitchell’s Mandorla Awakening II and the Sounds of Black Utopian Social Theory"
Thursday, November 9
2:15-3:45 pm – Jacob Reed, “Stretched to the Breaking Point: Singing as Phonological Analysis in Kunqu Theory”
Friday, November 10
2:15-3:35 pm — Devon J Borowski, “Voices from the East and the South: Isaac Nathan’s Global-Historical Pedagogy in Regency Britain”
4:00-5:00 pm – Session Chair, Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska, “Classical Forms”
8:00-10:00 pm — University of Chicago Reception
Saturday, November 11
10:45 am - 12:45 pm — Aimmee Gonzalez, Roundtable "European Music and Caribbean Slavery in the Eighteenth Century"
Sunday, November 12
9:00-10:30 am – Thomas Christensen, “Expanded Anthology of Sources in the History of Music Theory”
9:00-10:30 am — Christina Colanduoni, “Belisario’s Blindness: The Disabling of Operatic Conventions”
10:45 am – 12:15 pm — Chris Batterman Cháirez, “Tracing Sounds, Sounding Traces: Indigenous Musical Histories of a Mexican Island”
See the full conference program.