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2008 – Iowa City, IA 2008 Conference Schedule :: IASPM-US at University of Iowa Global Pop, Space and Place All sessions will take place in the Adler Journalism Building, unless otherwise noted. April 25th Friday ________________________________ 12-5 Registration (Rotunda) 10:00-1 Lunch/Sightseeing at Amana Colonies 1:30-4 Executive Board Meeting (E250) 4-5:15 “Freedom of Expression®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property” – Documentary Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Kembrew McLeod (BCSB 101) 5:30-7:00 Welcome Reception and Jon Langford Art Show (at the Chait Gallleries, 218 Washington St.) 8pm-Until Jon Langford & Sally Timms Concert / dj.henri of Soukous Radio (upstairs at the Picador, 330 Washington St.) April 26th Saturday ________________________________ 8-5 Registration / Book Silent Auction (Rotunda) 8:30-9 Coffee reception (Rotunda) 9-10:15 Plenary Session A: Folk Music and the Public Doman, a roundtable discussion w/ Jon Langford and Sally Timms moderated by Kembrew McLeod (E105) 10:30-12:30 Panel Session 1 E120 Popular Music and the Negotiation of Trauma (chair: Andy Hicken) Vilde Aaslid, "The Rise of the Jazz Lament" Kevin Schwandt, "'Rhythm is My Bitch': Kevin Aviance, Matthew Shepard, and the Embodied Music of Hate, Violence, and Healing" Fred Everett Maus, "Trauma and Expression in the Music and Videos of the Pet Shop Boys" Anthony Kwame Harrison, “Tragedy at Virginia Tech: Music and the Social Construction of Trauma” E126 iPod Aesthetics (chair: Kiri Miller) Ben Aslinger, Black and White Make Grey: The Life Cycle of the iPod Justin D. Burton, Space is the Place: The iPod's Urban Ethos Melissa Avdeeff, The Effects of iPod Culture on Musical Tastes in a Rural Setting. Daniel Guberman, Post-Fidelity: Why Listen to Music When You Can Wear It? E132 Religion and American Music (chair: Melvin Butler) Katherine Meizel, “God and Country: Civil Religion and Popular Music in America” Monique Ingalls, "‘You Are the Lord, the Famous One’: Negotiating the Religious and the Popular in the Performance Spaces of North American Contemporary Worship Music” Cyrus Schleifer, "‘Can't Help What Other People Do with My Songs’: Bob Dylan's Religious Music and the Public Sphere” Rogers 2 E138 Pedagogical Initiatives in Popular Music (chair: Nicole Biamonte) Sonia Vasan, “Practical Innovations: Audiovisual Stimuli in the Popular Music Classroom” Jnan Blau, “Inter/Cultural Communication in/and Music: A Multimedia Presentation on Musical Genre B(l)ending” Andrew Krikun, “Mixing Memphis Soul Into the Community College Curriculum Stew” Jason Hanley and Susan Oehler, “Bridging the Academic-Community Divide with Popular Music Education” E146 The Politics of Place, Race, and Space in the Selling of Popular Music (chair: Adriana Helbig) Aaron Sachs, “Black to the Bronx: Reexamining the Origins of Hip-Hop as Black Popular Culture” Brian Goedde, “Selling College Radio in the Geographical Place and Conceptual Space of the University, the City, and Beyond” Raphael Ginsberg, “North Cackalacky: Discursive Constructions of Geographic Identity in Southern Hip-Hop” Evan Sult, “Drumming up Sales: An Auto-Ethnography of Space and Place as an Indie Rock Drummer” 12:30 – 2 Lunch on your own; An Interest Group Meeting will be held at Vitos Restaurant (118 E College St.) 2-3:30 Panel Session 2 E120 Global Pops, Local Stops (chair: Jayson Beaster Jones) Kaley Mason, “Provincializing Bollywood: Cinematic Song Sensibilities in Southwestern India” Donna Lee Kwon, “Exploiting the Tension between the Transnational and National Spheres in Korean Hip-hop” E126 Blues Authenticities (chair: Portia Maultsby) Ulrich Adelt, “Born in Chicago: The Racial Politics of Living Blues Magazine” Jessica Calvanico, “The ‘Real’ Crossroads? Debating Authenticity in the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta” Robert Webb Fry II, “‘I Went Down to the Crossroads’: Blues Tourism and the Performance of the Delta” E132 Cultural Politics in Texas (chair: Kristin Solli) Eric Lovelin, “Taking the Long Way: the Dixie Chicks' Search for a Musical Space and Audience” Jada Watson, “Lubbock? Or Leave It? Place, Space and Home in Country Music” Jason Mellard, "‘Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas’: Revisiting the Performance of Regional Identity at Austin's Armadillo World Headquarters, 1970-1980” E138 Mediating Intimacy (chair: Fred Maus) Luis-Manuel Garcia, “You, Me, and Vocoder Makes Three: Distortion and Digital Intimacy” Laura Hawley, “Intimacy, Ecstasy, and Euphoria in Bjork's ‘Cocoon’" Tamar Brown, “Private Music, Public Noise: Portable Stereos in Urban Spaces, 1979-1984” Rogers 3 E146 Reading Jazz (chair: Deborah Whaley) Alex Frank, “Fantasy and Resistance in Sun Ra” Anya Holland-Barry, “‘Just Who Do You Think I Am?’: Nina Simone and the Challenge of Binaries in Musical Space” Marianna Ritchey, "Of Fluttering Tongues and Luxuriant Hair: Kenny G and the Problem of Gender in Modern Jazz Reception" 3:30- 5 Panel Session 3 E120 Music in the World (Wide Web) (chair: Jonathon Grasse) dj.henri, “Streaming Translocalism” Pieter Schoonderwoerd, “Transcending Myth” Adrian Dusanowskyj, “Potentials for ‘Pandora’: Revisiting Musical Form in Lieu of Social Networks in the Quest for Global Pop Online” E126 Virtuosity & Value (chair: Luis Manuel Garcia) Henry Adam Svec, “Smells Like a Genius: Bastard Pop and the Reincarnation of the Author” Kiri Miller, “Guitar Hero's Rock Pedagogy” Nicole Biamonte, “Tonal Spaces in the Music of Rush” E132 Art, Rock, Industry (chair: Daphne Carr) Elizabeth Ann Lindau, "‘The patron saint of art rock?’ Connections between Sonic Youth and John Cage” Josh David Jackson, "‘MIDI-Life Crisis:’ The Industrial Logic of Music Celebrity and the Engineering of David Bowie's ‘Return to Relevance’ in the 1990s” E138 Engaging Hip-hop Abroad (chair: Wayne Marshall) J. Griffith Rollefson, “Musical (African) Americanization in the New Europe: Hip Hop, Race, and the Politics of Postcoloniality in Contemporary Paris, Berlin, and London” Adriana Helbig, "‘Make Me a Hip, Make Me a Hop’: Afro-American Music and Class Identity in Ukraine” David Morris, “Opposition and Appropriation in Global Subculture: The Case of Japanese Underground Hip Hop” E146 Reading Rock (chair: Jason Hanley) Barry Promane, “Any Way the Wind Blows: Uncovering the Musical Construction and Cultural Signification of Queen's ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’” Stephanie Doktor, “Covering the Tracks: P.J. Harvey, Björk, and The Rolling Stones' ‘Satisfaction’” Sarah Culpeper, “Selling Out Sexually? Liz Phair's Move to the Mainstream” 5-5:15 Cookie Break (Rotunda) 5:15-6:45 Panel Session 4 E120 Shaping Sound (chair: Paul D. Fischer) Steve Waksman, “Metal Massacre: Metal Blade Records and Independent Metal Production” Theo Cateforis, “Isolation: Ambient Reverb and the Spatial Meanings of British Post-Punk” Jessica Wood, “Manufacturing the Primitive: Recording the ‘Whisperchord’ in Postwar Exotica” Rogers 4 E126 Inventing Tradition (chair: J. Meryl Krieger) Alejandro L. Madrid, “‘¿Dónde está la tambora?’: Nor-tec Music and the Production of a Cosmopolitan Sound at the U.S.-Mexico Border” Christina Baade, “Performing British Heritage? Place, Memory, and Big Bands in the 2000s” Jeffrey Callen, “Re-traditionalizing ‘Popular’ Islam as a Means of Cultural Critique in Moroccan Alternative Music” E132 Music in Contemporary India (chair: Kaley Mason) Paul Greene, “Circulation and Encounter at the Speed of Wired Sound: Remixes in North India” Jayson Beaster-Jones, “Where the Women Aren't: Gendering the Indian Music Store” Sangeet Kumar, “Vedic Metal: Nostalgia and Difference in Indian Rock Music” E138 Hip-hop in Ethnographic Perspective (chair: Venise Berry) Justin Schell, “‘From the Accra Heat to the Minnesota Bitter Cold’: Diasporic Hip- Hop in the Twin Cities” Kyra D Gaunt, “Downloading P2P Networks and Uploading Underground Hip- Hop (or How Spain, a Russian, J Dilla and Garage Band Inspired a Brother from Brooklyn to Become a Living Room Producer)” Timothy Storhoff, “‘The Battle for World Supremacy’ and the Changing Role of the North American Turntablist” E146 Songs & Cities (chair: Barry Promane) Keith Russell, “‘Bright New Minneapolis’: The Hold Steady's Journey to a Dystopian Twin Cities” Susan Thomas, “Musical Cartographies of the Transnational City: Mapping Havana in Song” Penny Duff, “Life in L.A.: Theodor Adorno's Rubato in the Music of Ariel Pink” 7-Until Riverfest April 27th Sunday _________________________________ 8-12 Registration / Book Silent Auction (Rotunda) 8:30-9 Coffee reception 9-10:15 Plenary Session B: Guthrie Award Winner, Steven Pond (E 105) 10:30-12 Panel Session 1 E120 Pop Aesthetics (chair: Paul Greene) Christopher Smit, “Pour Britney, Poor Britney: Exiling Britney Spears as a Non- Resident of Non-Place” Zack Stiegler, "‘Hard Times Are Over’: The Pop Cultural Validation of Yoko Ono” Dan Faltesek, “Everybody Is A Sellout: Cynical Distance and Popular Music” E126 Music Making Nation (chair: TM Scruggs) Katie J. Graber, “Europe Comes to America: Opera, Immigrants, and National Labels in Nineteenth-Century Chicago” Kariann Goldschmitt, “Samba do Avião: Travel and Conflict in the International Bossa Nova of the 1960s” John Kimsey, "‘She Moved Through the Bazaar’: Davey Graham & Irish Orientalism” Rogers 5 E132 Cross-Cultural Politics (chair: Pieter Schoonderwoerd) Luke Stacks, “Planetary Consciousness and the Voyager Interstellar Message Project” Karl Haas, “Intercultural Integration in American Music: Club d'Elf and Pluralistic Music Subculture” Rachel Devitt, “Green Card Blues: Popular Music, Passing, and Marriages of Convenience,
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