IASPM 2018 Nashville Conference Program SCHEDULE 1

Welcome Message from IASPM-US President Steve Waksman This will be my eighteenth (!) IASPM-US conference, if I’m counting right. But, it is my first for which I’m serving as president. The past Welcome to Nashville, and to the 2018 IASPM-US conference! Our year has been full of challenges for our organization. Looking back, I conference theme, “Going to the Country,” was inspired by our host am amazed at how much we have accomplished. Most notably, we setting. A look through the program tells you that this is probably the have rejuvenated our long-running journal, the Journal of Popular most country music-oriented installment of our annual conference to Music Studies, under the editorship of Oliver Wang and Diane date. It also indicates how resonant “country” is as a term that allows Pecknold and with a new arrangement with the University of us to reflect on the importance of region and place, the influence of California Press. We’ll be celebrating the rebooted journal at our nationalism, and the symbolic power of the rural/urban divide as reception on the opening night of the conference, Thursday, March 8, factors that shape popular music regardless of genre. We are in store so please come and toast to new beginnings. for three days of invigorating dialogue and deep reflection on how popular music matters. For that, we owe thanks to our program Let's also toast the fact that we can come together and talk about committee: Eric Hung, Roshy Kheshti, Evelyn McDonnell, Elliott popular music in these troubled times. I do not see the IASPM-US Powell, Kendra Preston Leonard, Alex Woloshyn, and especially presidency as a bully pulpit, but I have issued statements on current program chair Amber Clifford-Napoleone, who has gone above and events when the moral imperative has been too overwhelming to beyond the call of duty to bring this conference to fruition. ignore. It seems as though every day brings a new crisis or cause for concern. As president, I want to affirm our commitment to values of Also going above and beyond has been our local arrangements chair, social justice, tolerance, inclusion and equality for all. I hope the Robbie Fry. This is not the first time IASPM-US has visited middle conference embodies those values and that we all come out of it Tennessee – we have had two great conferences in past years hosted feeling some sense of renewal for the challenges ahead. by Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, where we have a great group of supportive long-time members. It is the first For Your Information time in two decades, though, that we are coming to Nashville proper All IASPM-US attendees have access to Wifi through the Vanderbilt system. Check your packets or ask for assistance at registration if you have trouble connecting. and that is all due to Robbie. Music City is a natural fit for our Parking is available across the street from the conference site at the Blair School of conference, and we hope you all will find time to discover some of Music. All rooms are equipped with sound, microphones, and projection. If you the city beyond the Vanderbilt campus, especially if this is your first have any technology issues please ask for assistance from your moderator or at the time visiting. On Friday night, we have a special event planned at the Registration table.

Country Music Hall of Fame, one of Nashville’s main attractions, with IASPM-US is dedicated to equal access for all attendees. In order to make the a panel discussion moderated by NPR journalist Ann Powers and conference welcoming to all, please use your microphone at all times, and keep assembled largely through the efforts of Eric Weisbard – thanks to front row seating open for those who need them. Any issues pertaining to access, Eric! including concerns about harassment of any kind, should be reported to a Board member, the Local Arrangements Chair, or the Program Chair. IASPM 2018 Nashville Conference Program SCHEDULE 2

THURSDAY, MARCH 8 and Memory in Final Fantasy X Thursday, 9:00am- IASPM Board Room Holley Replogle- March 8 Noon Meeting 11670 Wong Thursday, March 8 2:00-3:30pm IN69: A Field Guide to Digital Naturalism: PL1: Opening Plenary The Ludic Video Performance in the round: Nashville songwriter culture Game Soundscape and Playing the Organizer: Toby Seay Spatiality of Proteus Moderator: Anthony Kwame Harrison Kate Galloway Turner Hall Thu, 4:00- P1-1: The Blues IN8: Muddy Waters, 2192 IN61: Country, March 8 5:30pm Folk Singer(?) Metal, and Horror: Sean Lorre, McGill Imagining Texas in University House of 1000 Corpses (2003) IN40: Endless Boogie, Rachel May Golden Hypnotic Timbre, Thu, 4:00-5:30 P1-3: Country IN5: “Our Winter 2190 and the Circulation March 8 Music History Love,” Bill Pursell, of Regional Style in and the Nashville Mississippi’s Blues Sound Economy Terry Klefstad Benjamin DuPriest IN95: What is a IN111 Exactly Reissue? A Case Where We’re Going I Study of the Bear Cannot Say: The Family Bristol Transformation of Sessions Henry Thomas’ “Bull Peter Schaefer Doze Blues” into Canned Heat’s “Goin’ IN63: “He Just Takes Up the Country” My Land and Apologize:” Tom Zlabinger Disappearing Farms Thu, 4:00- P1-2: IN48: Hymnodies for 2175 in Country and March 8 5:30pm Audio/Video Virtual Nations: Americana Music, Uncovering “Fayth” 1929-2015 IASPM 2018 Nashville Conference Program SCHEDULE 3

William Holly FRIDAY, MARCH 9 Thu, 4:00-5:30 P1-4: Bob Dylan Panel Organizer: Choral March 8 In and Out of the Sean Latham Hall Friday, 8:00am- REGISTRATION Archive Sean Latham, Brian March 9 3:00p OPEN Hosmer, and Mark Fri, March 8:30- P2-1: Country IN47: It Ain’t Your 2190 Davidson 9 10:00am Musicology Mama’s Country: Thursday, March 8 Vocal Backbeat in 6:00-7:30pm Contemporary IASPM-U.S. Opening Reception Country Music A special reception celebrating the new home of the Journal of Popular Kristi Hardman Music Studies. Guests: Boards of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) and the International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS). IN68: “Three Chords Thursday March 8 6:30-7:30pm and the Truth”?: A PERFORMANCE: Corpus Analysis of Old Devil Time: Drone-Folk Meditations Harmony in Country Emily Lacy & Daniel Brummel Music Trevor DeClercq Although Emily Lacy (M.F.A., CalArts) and Daniel Brummel (M.M., CSULA) have been vocalizing together for 15 years, their deep work together is only IN59: Making now beginning to crystallize. As a pure vocal duo, Emily and Daniel humbly Associations and seek to elevate the oral folksong tradition to new contemplative plateaus, Developing Transfer and bury it deeply in freshly dug crevasses of the heart. Skills Through Inspired by minimalism, raga, shape note congregations, shamanic Country Music In The practices, the Harry Smith Folk Anthology, Pauline Oliveros' deep listening, Composition and Jean Philippe Rykiel's lush orchestrations of Lama Gyurme's Tibetan Classroom chants, their unadorned, quasi-a cappella delivery over a gently made bed Megan Hoelting of drones should stimulate, restore, and fortify the inner spiritual country of Fri, March 8:30- P2-2: British and IN75: Revisiting the 2175 all who listen. A carefully crafted kaleidoscopic tapestry of tanpuras, synths, 9 10:00am Irish Nationalism 'Hippie Aesthetic': strings, and light pulsations effortlessly supports their plain voices placed in Myths, Legends, and cathedrallic spaces. Emily and Daniel proffer meditations on the poetry of British Identity the greatest folk and protest music of recent generations in a set list According to Rick tempered with originals which both resonate alongside and respectfully Wakeman contrast the words and melodies of those who came before. Ivan Tan Emily has released two dozen solo folk records; Daniel just one (2005's Speak Easy). But when their voices meet, there is a magical connection over IN52: Transatlantic the power of the collective, transpersonal voice found in the vast recesses Call: Alan Lomax’s of the American folk tradition. Emily and Daniel seek to honor the ancestral Radio Programs for spirit of the pure folk tune, in gratitude to all beings that have transmitted the BBC, 1943-1960 its wonders to us, through this performance at IASPM 2018. IASPM 2018 Nashville Conference Program SCHEDULE 4

Andrew J. Bottomley Fond of Each Other”: Hiding IN43: “Frank Ryan Homosexuality In Bought You Whiskey Mainstream Country in a Brothel in Music Madrid”: Wild Michael Austin Geese, Joycean Exiles, and IN89: Personae and Transnational Gender Critique in Irishness in the Stromae’s Racine Music of the Pogues Carrée Kevin Farrell Michèle Duguay Fri, March 8:30- P2-3: IN38: “Pullin’ Out of 2192 9 10:00am Conceptualizing Here to Win:” The IN97: Sincerity and Pop Music Changing Narrative Camp in Queer and of Springsteen’s Trans Covers of “Thunder Road” “Frankie and Dana DeVlieger Johnny” Shana Goldin- IN76: Switched-On- Perschbacher Country: Gil Trythall, Rick Powell, and IN10: Silence = Early Arrangements Death: Country of Country Music for Music’s Failure to the Moog Respond to HIV/AIDS Synthesizer John Brackett Matthew Jones Fri, March 11:00- PL2: Plenary- Roundtable Turner IN24: Applying the 9 12:30pm “As for me and Organizer and Hall Elaboration my house”: Moderator: Andrew Likelihood Nashville, the Mall Processing Model to Home of Panelists: Dean Musical Genre Christian Music Diehl, Chris Hauser, Classification: The Gina Miller, Jackie Special Case of Patillo, and John J. Bluegrass Music Thompson Lance Kinney Fri, March 9 12:30-1:00pm LUNCH BREAK Fri, March 8:30- P2-4: Queer(ing) IN74: “Cowboys are Turner Fri, March 1:00- P3-1: Diplomacy IN84: The Cultural 2175 9 10:30am Visions Frequently, Secretly Hall 9 2:30pm and Populism Frontline: Music and IASPM 2018 Nashville Conference Program SCHEDULE 5

U.S. Diplomacy in the Age of Trump IN67: The Influence Rebekah E. Moore of American Divas and Pop Rockers on IN99: The Office of Contemporary Strategic Services Philippine Music Musac Project: “Lili James Gabrillo Marleen,” Marlene Dietrich, and the IN86: Reworking the Weaponized Popular Brasilidade Music of WWII Narrative: Danielle Stein Dekassegui, Música Sertaneja, and the IN103: The Populist Identity Performance Sensorium: Popular in the Japanese Sounds and Brazilian Expatriate Sensation in the Community 2016 Campaign Junko Oba Justin Patch Fri, March 3:15- P4-1: Is Country IN23: Desperation 2190 Fri, March 1:00- P3-2: Margins, Organizer and Choral 9 4:45pm Homogeneous? Mode: Factors that 9 3:00pm Borders, Moderator: Nadine Hall Promote Boundaries and Hubbs Homogeneity in Crossings Panelists: Jewly Country Music Songs Hight, Nadine Hubbs, Rachel E. Skaggs Charles L. Hughes and Diane Pecknold IN50: Listening for Fri, March 1:00- P3-3: Blurring Organizer: Andrew 2190 Consent in the 9 3:00pm Genre in the City Lipow Contemporary of Country Music Panelists: Andrew Country Love Song Lipow, Rick Phoebe Hughes Wilkerson, Nicole Boggs, and Joseph IN108: “Girl on the Lekkas Billboard”: Changing Fri, March 1:00- P3-4: IN85: Songs of 2192 Billboard 9 2:30pm Negotiating Remembrance and Methodologies and Borders Longing from Distant Ecological Diversity Lands: The Case of in Hot Country Songs the Syrian Refugees Jada Watson Guilnard Moufarrej Fri, March 3:15- P4-2: Searching Organizer: Bryan Turner IASPM 2018 Nashville Conference Program SCHEDULE 6

9 4:45pm for Viability: Bardine Hall 1930s Sing-Along Dynamics in Panelists: Bryan Radio Programs Three Metal Bardine, Lewis Esther Morgan-Ellis Scenes around Kennedy, Edward Fri, March 3:15- P4-4: Rural IN35: “Out in the 2175 the World Banchs 9 4:45pm Romanticism Country”: Rural Romanticism, The ‘This Is the City of Western and Folk Hate’: Survey of the Ideology in American Hull Metal/Hardcore Rock Music at the Scene Turn of the 1970s Lewis Kennedy Caitlin Vaughn Carlos

Scene Study: IN79: The Meaning Gauteng of Backwards: Jack Edward Banchs White and Romantic Agrarianism Breaking It Down: Josh Moon Analyzing Dayton’s Metal Scene through IN93: “They Shot a Multiple Lenses Western South of Bryan Bardine Here”: Josh Ritter’s Fri, March 3:15- P4-3: Symbols of IN13: “Hail 2192 Imaginary West 9 4:45pm American Columbia! Happy Lily Corwin Nationalism Land!”: An Untold Fri, March 5:00- P5-1: IN16: Recording “The 2175 Story of National 9 6:30pm Gatekeeping and Country People”: Anthem as Political Tastemaking Talent Scouts as Protest Tastemakers and Laura Lohman Mythmakers Kyle Barnett IN26: Let Your Freak Flag Fly: Rick James, IN109: The Literature Black Politics, and of Country Music: Bill Sounding Allegiance Malone and Richard to a Flag Peterson, sure, but Elliott H. Powell what about Nick Tosches, Sharyn IN62: The McCrumb, and Zora Construction of Neale Hurston? National Identity in Eric Weisbard IASPM 2018 Nashville Conference Program SCHEDULE 7

IN57: When Alt- IN51: The Way Back Country Was New: Home: Joshua Uncle Tupelo and the Davis’s Journeys Question of Alt- Across the Mackinac Country's Innovation Bridge Robert Loss Evelyn McConnell Fri, March 5:00- P5-2: Music IN72: Rocking Late- 2190 Friday, March 9, 7pm to 9:15 pm 9 6:30pm Media Night: Rock Concert Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum reception, tour, and Programs Carve a roundtable "Telling the Story of Country Music" Moderator: Niche in Network Victor Szabo Television Explore the city's leading music museum and meet local music Norma Coates scholars at a reception and gallery tour from 7 pm to 8 pm. (A shuttle bus will take those at conference sessions to the museum, IN64: Playing leaving just after 6:30.) Records: Theorizing records, the public Then, from 8pm to 9:15, in the Ford Theater, attend the panel sphere, and popular "Telling the Story of Country Music," presented in partnership music with the museum. People active in museum work, journalism, Timothy J. Anderson recording, and programs like the new Ken Burns documentary on country will talk about presenting the genre's history in non- IN78: Ubiquitous academic ways: stories that have been told, stories that still need Production: Making to be told, ways that have been found to tell them, and the Music with the challenges of particular questions. iPhone Mike D’Errico Fri, March 5:00- P5-3: Current IN32: Authenticity 2192 9 6:30pm Trends in County and “Country” Music Vocalists in Fundamental

Christian Churches Sarah Bereza Participants: Moderator Ann Powers, NPR Music critic; Panelists: Ketch Secor, Old Crow Medicine Show; Ali Tonn, Director of IN42: “My Church”: Education, CMHOF; Michael Gray, Museum Editor and curator, Nostalgia, Tradition, CMHOF; Juli Thanki, country music reporter, The Tennessean; and and the Rise of the author, former CMHOF director, and NEA chair Bill Ivey. Secular Praise and Worship Anthem Nathan Fleshner IASPM 2018 Nashville Conference Program SCHEDULE 8

SATURDAY, MARCH 10 IN33: “Playboy Really Digs Country”: Sat, 8:00am- REGISTRATION Playboy Records and March 10 3:00p OPENS the Search for Sat, 8:30- P6-1: Revivals IN18: "Pinegrove, 2192 Playboy Identity in March 10 10:00am and Tributes Alt-Country, and the the 1970s Changing Landscape Monique Bourdage of the Emo Revival" Sat, 8:30- P6-3: Music and IN105: “Don’t Want 2175 Nathaniel Cortas March 10 10:00pm American Polonium, Rolled up Militarism in my Sushi”: IN58: Country Music Jimmy Buffett, that Does Not Suck: Margaritaville Bloodshot Records’ Americana, and Cold Use of Covers and War Becoming(s) Tribute Albums Rachel Tollett Nancy P. Riley IN104: “The Army IN15: Folksong for Goes Country and Sale: Aesthetics of Western”: Race, Commercial Politics, and Music Recording in the Row Militarism in Midcentury the 1950s American Folk Joseph M. Thompson Revival Brian Jones IN87: “Songs of the Sat, 8:30- P6-2: Gendering IN96: Sentimentality, Turner Golden Age: Music March 10 10:00am Country Toxic Masculinity, Production in Hanoi and the Country during the American Recitation Song War” Travis Stimeling Lonán Ó Briain Sat, 8:30- P6-4: Gendered IN29: Liverpool 2190 IN102: The Coal March 10 10:00am Authenticity Lullabies: Cilla Black, Miner’s Daughter in Moderator: Gendered the Kitchen: Loretta Roshanak Khesti Authenticities, and Lynn, Crisco, and the Scouse Industry Mediating Southern Alexandra Apolloni Femininity Alexandra Vesey IN46: The “Good Hearted Woman”: IASPM 2018 Nashville Conference Program SCHEDULE 9

Tina Turner Repatriating Castilian Emily Milius Country Music Ana I. Simón Alegre IN73: Creative Process and the IN4: Going to Indian Quest for Freedom in Country: the Music of Erykah Repatriating Native Badu American Musics Sean Peterson Recorded by Frances Sat, 10:15- P7-1: Space and IN22: Southern 2175 Densmore in the March 10 11:45am Place Sounds, Northern Early 1900s Voices: Distorting Jay Loomis Borders Through Country Music IN20: Politicizing Ryan Shuvera Carnival Brass Bands in Olympic Rio de IN65: Bobbie Janeiro: Instrumental Gentry’s Odes to Protest and Musical Mississippi: Repertoires of Considering Musical Contention Biographies of a Andrew Snyder Place Sat, 10:15- P7-3: Music IN19: "'Behind every 2192 Kristine M. McCusker March 10 12:15 History- New rock is an ambuscade Perspectives of native minstrels';" IN66: “The Big English travelogues Country”: and the Ambivalence and commercialization of opposition in David the Ranz des Vaches Byrne’s report from in 19th-century flyover America Bernese Oberland Kevin Holm-Hudson Emily Loeffler Sat, 10:15- P7-2: Diaspora IN30: Remembering 2190 March 10 12:15am and Repatriation Zion: Senegambian IN1: “A Belly Full of Reggae between Spaghetti and Ears Nation and Diaspora Full of Songs”: Felice Catherine Appert Bryant and Country Music Songwriting in IN98: Cubero’s the 1950s Brothers Paula J. Bishop IASPM 2018 Nashville Conference Program SCHEDULE 10

IN80: Portrait of the Sat, 3:15- P8-1: Organizer: Ross Turner Artist as Andy March 10 5:15pm (un)Wanted, Hagen Hall Warhol: Lou Reed Dead or Alive: Panelists: Ross and John Cale’s Retrospective Hagen, Stephen Songs for Drella Lineages of Hudson, Eric Elizabeth Ann Lindau 1980s Heavy Smialek, and Kevin Metal Ebert IN7: The Politics and Aesthetics of Self- “We take everything Discovery in John to an extreme”: Lennon/Plastic Ono Rejection of Band (1970) Metallica’s Soft Nicholas Tochka Singing and the Birth Sat, 10:15am- P6-2: Bluegrass Organizer and Turner of Extreme Metal March 10 12:15pm Scenes: Moderator: Gregory Hall Stephen Hudson Geography, Reish Performance, Panelists: Jordan Glam Metal Goes and Mobility in Laney, Benjamin Country!: An “Country” Krakauer, Lee Examination of the Spaces Bidgood, and Unexpected Jonathan King Connections of Glam Sat, March 10 12:15-1:15 LUNCH BREAK Metal to Country Saturday, March 10 Western Themes and 1:30-3:00pm Imagery PL4: Plenary- Kevin Ebert

Guthrie Lecture by Allison McCracken “Every Thorn has its “The Politics of The Voice”: What NBC’s Reality Singing Contest Teaches Us Rose”: The Problem About Contemporary American Popular Music Culture of Pop Music in Turner Hall Metal Ross Hagen

Extreme Metal and Its Others: Metal Audiences’ Hostility Towards Adolescence Eric Smialek

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Sat, 3:15- P8-2: Race and IN91: Redneck 2190 Sat, 3:15- P8-4: Hip Hop IN60: Gender/Queer 2192 March 10 4:45pm Identity Meskin’ Boy: Little March 10 4:45pm Identity Formation in Joe, Greater Mexico, Detroit’s Hip Hop and the Politics of Underground Race and Class in Kellie D. Hay and Country Music Rebekah Farrugia Rodolfo Aguilar IN34: Producing IN 112: Religion and Southernness, the Voice in the Producing Blackness: Music of Prince The Sound of Griffin Woodworth Contemporary Southern Hip Hop IN53: She’s A Justin Adams Burton Country Girl All Right: Rhiannon IN82: From California Giddens’ Powerful to Ca$hville: “Flow Reclamation of Palimpsests” as Hip Country Culture Expression between Kimberly Mack the U.S. North and Sat, 3:15- P8-3: Mixing IN100: “Straight 2175 South March 10 4:45pm Genre in/with Outta Nashville:” Maxwell Williams Country Music Hip-Hop Allusions in Sat, March 10 5:30-6:30pm Contemporary IASPM Business Meeting Country Music Choral Hall Jeremy Orosz

IN41: Country and Blue: Jimmie Rodgers and the Three Hanks Daniel H. Ferris

IN90: A Subtle Gesture of Irony? On the Cultural History of the (Mis-)Uses of Country Music in Heavy Metal Culture Peter Pichler