IASPM-US 2021 Conference Program

• Program is preliminary and subject to change. All listed times are in Eastern Time. • All conference presentations will be posted online and made available to registered conference attendees for asynchronous viewing. Scheduled panel times will be devoted to discussion and Q&A. • Registration is now open!

Jump to • Tuesday, May 18 • Wednesday, May 19 • Thursday, May 20 • Friday, May 21 • Saturday, May 22

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

2:00 PM - Christian Punk: Identity and Performance • “Grow a Beard and Be Somebody”: Disavowal and Vector Space at Rocketown, Nashville Joshua Kalin Busman, UNC Pembroke • Todd and Becky: Authenticity, Dissent, and Gender in Christian Punk and Metal Nathan Myrick, Mercer University • “A heterosexual Male Backlash”: Punk Rock Christianity and Missional Living at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington Maren Haynes Marchesini, Carroll College • “Lift Each Other Up”: Punk, Politics, and Secularization at Christian Festivals Andrew Mall, Northeastern University 2:00 PM - Folk Histories • Come All Ye Coal Miners: Forty Years of Dissent and Music in Harlan County Reed Puc, University of Montana • Isolation and Connection: Narratives of Technology and Aesthetics in Early 20th Century Folk and Pop Discourse Brian Jones, Eckerd College • “Exiled Man”: Bob Dylan’s Complicated Relationship with American Jewishness Erica K. Argyropoulos, Northeastern State University • The Lost and Found Musical History of Merthyr Tydfil: A Case Study in Local Music Making Paul Carr, University of South Wales

3:30 PM - As Pop Music Ages • Forever Eighteen: Alice Cooper and His Comedy of Canes and Crutches Kelso Molloy, New York University • What are the Teaches of Peaches? David Madden, Pepperdine University • Nostalgia, Race and Irony in the Information Age: New Wave Covers of Motown And Soul Music Claudia Lonkin, McGill University

3:30 PM - Records, Labels, and Marketing • Anthologizing Rock and Roll: Rhino Records and the Repackaging of Rock History Daniel Goldmark, Case Western University • Lost Recordings, “Recording” and Modernity in Jazz Age Hartford Tyler Sonnichsen, Central Michigan University • JAZZ IS DEAD – Long Live Jazz Andrew Kluth, Case Western University • Promotion Effects in Arcade Fire’s Everything Now Mark Samples, Central Washington University

5:00 PM - Welcome Happy Hour All conference attendees welcome!

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

2:00 PM Roundtable: Country Music, Who Are You? • Co-Chairs: Nadine Hubbs and Francesca T. Royster • Participants: Chelsea Burns, University of Texas; Sophia Enriquez, Ohio State University; Kimberly Mack, University of Toledo; Amanda Martinez, UCLA; Karen Pittelman, Karen And the Sorrows; Ryan Shuvera, Western University

2:00 PM - The UK and Popular Music • Performing Paramilitarism: Popular Music and the laundering of Loyalist Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland Stephen Millar, Cardiff University • “Every time we sing, we win”: Collective Singing, Community, and islamophobia After the Manchester Arena Bombing Katelyn Hearfield, University of Pennsylvania • From Detroit to Dundee: Examining the Impact of Northern Soul on Learning in Communities Ian Fyfe, University of Edinburgh • Singled Out: Decentralizing Motown in the English Northern Soul Scene Ali Faraj, Northwestern University

3:30 PM - Music and the Dynamics of Place • WHO DAT? Music, Media and the (Re)defined Spirit Nation Sarah Suhadolnik, University of Iowa • Last Two Dollars: Tips, Tourism, and Musical Labor on Beale Street Lydia Warren, University of Virginia • Electric Avenue: Race, Real Estate, and the Gentrification of Vinyl Michael Palm, UNC Chapel Hill • Uptown Dancers Carmela Muzio Dormani, CUNY 3:30 PM - Jazz and Popular Culture • Americana a la Russe: Jazz and Popular Song in Russian Ballets for American Audiences of the 1920s through the 1940s Alexis L. Witt • Primal Scream: Maynard Ferguson, Pop Jazz, and the Physicality of Virtuosity Ken Prouty, Michigan State University • Crime Jazz Diasporas: African-American Music in British Sixties Cinema David Melbye • Sonny Rollins, Yogi John Kapusta, University of Rochester

5:00 PM - Race, Class, Resistance and Performance • Race-ing The Rock: Mixed Race identity and the Timbral Mainstreaming of Dwayne Johnson’s WWE Entrance Music, 1997-2013 Christi Jay Wells, Arizona State University • UK Grime Music as a Practice of Refusal: Exploring the Role of Black Women and Queer MC’s Challenging the Grime Scene’s Black Male Dominance Cheraine Donalea Scott, New York University • Kendrick Lamar’s Rhythmic Praxis and Black Arts Movement Aesthetics Mitchell Ohriner, University of Denver 5:00 PM - Whiteness and the Voice • Tin Pan Alley’s Lace Curtains: Irish Diaspora and Italian opera in the Music of Chauncey Olcott Sarah Gerk, Binghamton University • Popular Styles, Musical Topics, and the Integration in Early Broadway Musicals Greg Decker, Bowling Green State University • Everyone in Harmony? Preservation, Inclusivity and Musical Style in the Present- Day Barbershop Harmony Society Clifton Boyd, Yale University • Whiteness as Vocal Aesthetics: An Ethnography of Judging Practices within Collegiate A Cappella Competitions Daniel Fister, Washington University in St. Louis

Thursday, May 20, 2021

2:00 PM - “…Where I Can and Can’t Go”: Kanye West and Space • “Lost In the Woods”: Bon Iver, Kanye West and Environmentalism Cana F. McGhee, Harvard University • Kanye Goes West: Trump-Era American Masculinity and West’s Wyoming Sessions Siriana Lundgren, Harvard University • This Voice from Heaven: Ritual and Sanctity of Kanye West and the Coachella Mountaintop Chris Benham, Harvard University

2:00 PM - Guitars, Gender and Embodiment • Lightning Boys-Electric Demons: White Masculinity and Guitar Mythology in 1980s Hollywood Kai West, University of Michigan • Room for a Breast or Two: St. Vincent and the Post-Structural Feminism of “Friendly Instrument” Design Alyxandra Vesey, Univesity of Alabama • Doublenecks and Doubleness: Steel Guitars and the Embodiment of Genre Tim Sterner Miller, William and Mary • Play Sister Play!: Rosetta Tharpe, the Guitar, and Gesture Kate Lewis, Brunel University London

3:30 PM - Histories of Performance • Hip Hop Under and Overground: Live Performance and Rap Crossover in the Early 1980s Steve Waksman, Smith College • Audio Two’s “Top Billin’”: A Beat that Moved Because of it was Peopled Eric Weisbard, University of Alabama • ‘Permanently Closed’: Dissonant heritage and the Preservation of the Grande Ballroom Leonieke Bolderman, University of Groningen • Shirley Caesar, Civil Rights, and the Black Gospel Music Market Economy, 1966- 1975 Angela Nelson, Bowling Green State University

3:30 PM - Mobilizing Korea: Renegotiating Transnational Identities in Korean Pop • The White paper project: Reimagining Koreanness in the American K-Pop Market Stephanie Choi • Z-POP DREAM PROJECT, Technology, and Trans/National K-Pop So-Rim Lee • National Identity in Mono-ethnic and Multi-ethnic South Korean Rock Bands Kendra Van Nyhuis • Industrial Hip-hop against Hop-Hop Industry: The Critical Sound of XXX Pil Ho Kim and Wonseok Lee

5:00 PM - Technologies of Identity • Parodic Sampling and “Keeping it Real” in Polish Hip-Hop Alena Aniskiewicz, University of Michigan • ‘A ‘ole TMT: Hip-Hop for the Protection of Sacred Land in Hawai’i Susan Jacob, University of Hawai’i • Social media, Music, and Empty Space: Loneliness and Mediated Intimacy Through User-Created Music Video Sound Meredith C. Ward, Johns Hopkins University • Cassettes and Cultural Mobility in the 1980s Indie Scenes Rob Drew, Saginaw Valley State University

5:00 PM - Music and the Politics of Whiteness • “Take That, Tipper Gore”: Alanis Morisette, US Suburbia, and the Politics of Consumer-Friendliness H. Megumi Orita, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • Showdown in “No Man’s Land”: From Boredom to Anger in Billy Joel’s Suburbia Joshua Duchan, Wayne State University • Rated X by an All-White Jury: Sweetback, Aesthetics, and Protest Psychosis Matthew Tchepikova-Treon, University of Minnesota • Fiona Apple’s Shifting Personal and Political Narrative in Fetch the Bolt Cutters Kelly Cole, Bowling Green State University 6:30 PM - Roundtable: Thinking Through Diversity

Calling All Music Writers! Diversity and Inclusion at the IASPM-US Conference • Kimberly Mack, Chair • Panelists: Kathy Meizel, Kwame Harrison, Tiffany Naiman, Kathryn Metz, Elijah Wald, Eric Hung

Friday, May 21, 2021

12:00 PM - Representations of Race and Ethnicity • Place, Geographic Mobility, and Race in American Popular Sheet Music, 1865- 1900 Colin Anderson, George Washington University • “Sweet Trinidad”: Imitation and Representation in Van Dyke Parks’s Discover America Taylor Smith, Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College • Sonic Historiography, Genre and K-Pop Crystal Anderson, George Mason University • The New York City Ruedathon: Dancing the City Streets a lo Cubano Sarah Town, Duke University

12:00 PM - London Scenes • Brexit Techno and the Politics of Hard Melancholy Robin James, UNC Charlotte • Not Just a Comedown: London’s Ambient Scene, 1990-1994 Victor Szabo, Hampden-Sydney College • The bebop Scene in Soho, London, 1946-1950 Ray Kinsella, • “It’s a 140 BPM way of life”: London’s Pirate Radio Network and its Impact on Performance Practice in Grime Music Alex De Lacey, Goldsmith’s College, UCL

2:00 PM - Hands up for Detroit • Enter the Void: Timbre, Techno, and Modes of Embodiment Maria Perevedentseva, Goldsmiths College • Cars and Guitars: The Sounds of Liberation? Lindsey Eckenroth, • Driving Rhythms: Automobility, Automation, and Trans-Pacific Musical Time Greg J. Smith, McMaster University • The Sonic Invention of Everyday Life: Motown and Three Film Soundtracks Landon Palmer, University of Alabama

2:00 PM - Asian Pop • Rebels of the Neon Goddess: Media Environment and Cultural Techniques of 1980s Taiwanese Disco Music Kun Xian Shen, UCLA • Internment Camp Swing: Memory, Identity, and popular Music in Camp Dance Diana Wu, University of Western Ontario • They Tried to Stop Us, They Tried to Rob Us, They Tried: “Chnam-oun 16” and The Search for New Cambodian-ness Brian V. Sengdala, Rutgers University • Music From Chinatown’s Basement: Performing Race, Activism and Community In New York’s Asian American movement, 1970-1975 Grace Kweon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil

3:30 PM - Roundtable: Honk! United: A Virtual Global Festival of Activist Brass Bands • From Live to Virtual Brass Bands: Challenges and Opportunities in the Creation of HONK!United Reebee Garofalo, University of Massachusetts Boston • The Political Force of Sonic Assembly in the Virtual Space of the HONK!United Festival Erin T. Allen, Ohio State University • Activist Frictions at the Global HONK!United Virtual Festival Andrew Snyder, New University of Lisbon 3:30 PM - Music and Queer Performances • Queer Articulations in Ballroom Rap Lauron Kehrer, Western Michigan University • Disco, Affect, Intimacy, and Public Cultures in Montreal’s Gay Village Kiersten van Vliet • “I’m not a trumpet”: Betty Carter and the Queering of Vocal Jazz in the Black Arts Movement Heather Buffington-Anderson • Trans Vocal Authenticity and SOPHIE’s Hyperreal Voices Lee Kimura Tyson, Cornell University

5:00 PM - Music Industries • Mediating Music and Culture Through the Global Music Industries: Lessons from Teaching, Research, and Practice Rebekah E. Moore, Northeastern University • Navigating Troubled Waters: How Music Festivals are Affecting Local Concert Promoters Jeffrey Apruzzese, Drexel University • Building Subcultural Utopia Based on “PLUR” at Electronic Dance Music Festivals Kim Kattari, Texas A&M • Funk Pedagogy: An Ethnographic, Historical, and Pedagogical Study of Funk in Dayton, OH Caleb Vanden Eynden, University of Dayton

5:00 PM - Music and/as Criticism • Of Bodies and Narratives: Discourse, Disability, and the Music of Daniel Johnston Maria Cizmic, University of South Florida • Just the Right “Temperature”: Measuring the Success of Reggaeton Icon Sean Paul Jennifer Dumoulin, University of Ottawa • Wood, Grain, Language, and the Fibrous Beats in Turning Tables Kate Galloway, Rensselaer Polytechnic University • Towards the Analysis of Lyric Videos Varun Chandrasekhar, University of Minnesota

Saturday, May 22, 2021

12:00 PM - IASPM-US Business Meeting

2:00 PM - Latinx Popular Music • The Questions of ? and the Mysterians: The Performance of Racial Dissonance and the Creation of a Trans-Borderlands Sonic Imaginary Joseph Gonzalez, University of New Mexico • The Noticeable Absence of Tejano Musics at SXSW: Criticism of Selective Transculturalisms Erin E. Bauer, Univ. of Wisconsin, Whitewater • From Music Tejana to Musica Michicana: Locating Texas-Mexican Music in Michigan Richard Cruz Davila, Michigan State University • “!Estoy Pegao!”: Piracy and Virality in Cuba’s Underground Internet Mike Levine, UNC Chapel Hill

2:00 PM - Genre, Creation and Boundaries • Little Miss Brenda Lee, The Original “Crossover” Queen Phoebe Hughes, Ohio State University • “Where the Rhymes At?”: How Contemporary Hip-Hop Artists are Transforming Notions Of Liveness Kevin P. Green, UCSD • Pitbull isn’t Zumba: Authenticity, Latinness, and Latin Music in Zumba Fitness Petra Rivera-Rideau, Wellesley College

3:30 PM - Music and Policy • What Music Copyright Law Can Learn from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Dana Devlieger • Restricted Spaces for Scripted Reality: The Voice, Auditions and Non-Disclosure David Arditi, University of Texas at Arlington • Disperse and Preserve the Perverse: Computing How Hip-Hop Censorship Changed Popular Music Production in China Ke Nie, UCSD • Buying In and Selling Out: Alternative Music and Corporate Sponsorship in Lebanon Nour El Rayes, UC Berkeley

3:30 PM - Women in Pop: Confrontation and Creation • Suck on My Balls, Bitch: A Paradigm Shift Hannah Strong, University of Pittsburgh • Jane(lle) Monae: Android Made Flesh Larissa Irzarry, University of Pittsburgh • Rediscovering Abjected Sonics: Mapping the Affective Politics of Noise Within Con-Dom and Moor Mother Peter Woods, USC • ’Daddy Said Shoot’: Race, Genre, and Beyonce and the Dixie Chicks’ Collaboration at the 2016 Country Music Awards Cloe Gentile and Lauren Vanderlinden, UCSB

5:00 PM - Music and Feminist Theory • Many Small other Worlds: Feminist Movement in the Music of the Ophelias Dan Di Piero, Miami University (Ohio) • “As the Model Breaks”: Resisting Imposed identity with Meta-Songwriting on Sleater-Kinney’s All Hands on the Bad One Hannah Blanchette, University of Cincinnati • Artivism in Oakland: Sh8peshifter’s Ecowomanist Music Rachel Wilson Cota, Arizona State University • Twenty-First Century Jolene: Dolly Parton’s Netflix Reimagining and Social Justice Leigh H. Edwards, Florida State University

5:00 PM - Sound, Identity, Politics • Welcome to the Jungle: Post-War Exotica and Its Relations Jennifer Messelink • Twice in a Lifetime: Remain in Light and the African Global Imagination Sophie Lewis, Princeton University • Same Difference: The Racial Politics of Cover Songs in Cape Town’s Kaapse Klopse Francesca Inglese, Northeastern University • ‘The Streets of Bakersfield’: The Meeting of Hard Country Personas Aubrie Powell, University of Illinois

6:00 PM - Closing Happy Hour • All conference attendees welcome!