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: