International Association for the Study of Popular Music US Branch Meeting Reconfiguring, Relocating, Rediscovering February 16 -19 2006, Murfreesboro/Nashville, TN Hosted by Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Recording Industry Conference Program and Abstracts Program Thursday, Friday 2 Saturday 5 Sunday 9 Abstracts 11 Index of Presenters & Participants 65 Conference Program IASPM-US 2006 Updated 1/3/06 Reconfiguring, Relocating, Rediscovering Thursday February 16 4:00 – 8:00 PM Conference Registration Open (Doubletree Hotel Lobby) 4:00 – 6:30 PM Executive Committee Meeting (Doubletree Hotel) 7:30 – 11 PM Evening Reception at Doubletree Hotel Murfreesboro, TN Heavy Hors d’oeuvres, Cash Bar MUSIC: The Karg Boys, with Stones River String Band (www.kargboys.com) Friday February 17 1st shuttle to campus departs 7:35 AM 2nd shuttle to campus departs 8:15 approx. (Will miss start of plenary) All Day Book/Media Display - Bragg Mass Comm Mezzanine 8 AM – All Day Conference Registration Opens - Bragg Mass Comm, Main Floor 8:30 – 10:00 Plenary Session 1: Roundtable on Diversity Issues in IASPM Chair: Deborah Wong, University of California, Riverside Panelists: Melvin L. Butler (University of Virginia), Cynthia Fuchs (George Mason University), Kevin Fellezs (University of California, Berkeley), Boden Sandstrom (University of Maryland, College Park), Sheila Sumitra (University of Southern California) State Farm Lecture Hall 10:00 – 10:30 Break with refreshments: State Farm Hall Lobby 10:30 – 12:30 PM Panel Session 1, Bragg Mass Comm 1) Panel: Liveness and Mediation. David Novak, Columbia University/Sarah Lawrence College, Organizer and Moderator 10:30 – Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College: “Is It Live or is it Playback? Performance, Technological Mediation, and the bounds of female respectability in South India” 11:00 – Daniel Fisher, Rutgers University: “Here’s a Song—you Mob Listen!: Radio, Recording, and Performance in Aboriginal Northern Australia” 11:30 – Morgan Luker, Columbia University: “Locating ‘Liveness’ Across Time: the Recorded Form and the Uses of Music History in Contemporary Tango” 12:00 – David Novak, Columbia University: “Noise is Dead, Long Live Noise: Recorded Sound, Circulation, and Technologically Mediated Listening” 2) Whiteness – Barbara Ching (University of Memphis), Chair 10:30 – Philip Gentry, UCLA: “Doris Day, Calamity Jane and the Sound of Whiteness” 11:00 – Angela Hammond, University of Kentucky: “Wash All Day and You’ll Be Whiter than God Made You: The Racialization of the Hillbilly and His Music” 11:30 – Diane Pecknold, University of Louisville: “Race, Class and Respectability in the Nashville Sound” Conference Program IASPM-US 2006 2 Updated 1/3/06 Reconfiguring, Relocating, Rediscovering Friday morning, 10:30 – 12:30 12:00 – John Karr, California State University, Fresno: “The Politics of Crossover: the Temptations and Motown’s Focus on Reaching White Audiences” 3) Music Festivals – Beverly Keel (Middle Tennessee State University), Chair 10:30 – Silvia Giagnoni, Florida Atlantic University: “Recasting the Revival Experience for the Young: Rock, Action Sports, and Evangelism” 11:00 – David Uskovich, University of Texas at Austin: “The No Idea Free Music Festival: What Do You Get Out of It?” 11:30 – Elisabeth K. Keenan, Columbia University: “Ladies, Womyn and Grrls: Policing the Borders of Generation, Gender and Sexuality at Women’s Music Festivals” 12:00 – Judy Brady, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Everyone’s Going to Bonnaroo! Tradition, Identity and the Mega-Rock Festival” 4) Regional and Ethnic Tensions – Joanna Demers (University of Southern California), Chair 10:30 – Barry J.Faulk, Florida State University: “The Vanishing Irishman at Punk Ground Zero: On the Sex Pistols and Diaspora” 11:00 – Bjorn Ingvoldstad, Indiana University: ‘”Europe” and Eurovision’ 11:30 – Maria Sonevytsky, Columbia University: “Leather, Metal, Wild Dances: Ukrainian Pop’s Victory at the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest and the Politics of Auto- Exoticism” 12:00 – Christopher A. Miller, Arizona State University: “Karaoke Modernity: The (Re)presentation of Pa’O Identity on Music VCD” 5) Global/Diasporic Hip Hop – Murray Forman (Northeastern University), Chair 10:30 – DJ Hatfield, College of William and Mary: “Keepin’ it Real in Taipai: of Hip Hop and History” 11:00 – Noriko Manabe, CUNY Graduate Center: “Globalization and Japanese Creativity: Adaptation of the Japanese Language to Rap” 11:30 – Rachel Devitt, University of Washington: “Listen Closely Yo, I Got A Story to Tell: Transnational Hip Hop, the Black Eyed Peas, and Remembering Diaspora(s)” 12:00 - Joel Isabirye, Center for Basic Research, Kampala, Uganda: "MTV Base, Hip-hop and the African Chapter" 12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch On Your Own On Campus/In Community Local Dining Guide will be provided 1:30 - 3:00 PM Panel Session 2, Bragg Mass Comm 6) War, Memory and Music – Karen Pegley (Queen’s University), Chair 1:30 – Christina Baade, McMaster University: “Glenn Who? Re-Placing Glenn Miller in Second World War Nostalgia” 2:00 – Nicole Biamonte, University of Texas at San Antonio: “Wordless Rhetoric in Jimi Hendrix’s Versions of the Star-Spangled Banner” 2:30 – Linda Pohly, Ball State University: “Teaching a Special Topics Course on Music and War” 7) Constructing Artist Identities Online – Jason Toynbee (Open University), Chair 1:30 – Laura Ahonen, University of Helsinki, Finland: “Artist Websites and the Construction of Author Images” 2:00 – Paul Aitkin, McMaster University: “Sisters are Doing it For Themselves: Women Artists and Internet Self-Promotion” 2:30 – Laura Wiebe Taylor, Brock University: “A Case Study in Symbiosis: The Internet, Filesharing and the Digital Hardcore Underground” Conference Program IASPM-US 2006 3 Updated 1/3/06 Reconfiguring, Relocating, Rediscovering Friday afternoon, 1:30 – 3:00 8) National Identities – Deborah Wong (University of California, Riverside), Chair 1:30 – Robynn Stilwell, Georgetown University: “Canadian Content: Marketing Canadianness in Due South” 2:00 – Christina Magaldi, Towson University: “Before and After Samba: Globalization, Modernity, and Popular Music in Rio de Janeiro at the Beginning and End of the 20th Century” 2:30 – Adriana Martinez, Eastman School of Music: “Immigration and Free Trade in American and Mexican Popular Music” 9) Challenging Generic Boundaries, Rethinking Authenticity – Harris Berger (Texas A&M University), Chair 1:30 – Kevin Fellezs, University of California, Berkeley: “Musicians of Colors: Multiply- Positioned Identity in Fusion Band, Hiroshima” 2:00 – C. Michael Elavsky, Penn State University: “From Timmins to Tuticorin: Tracing Shania Twain Within the Global Imagination” 2:30 – Leigh H. Edwards, Florida State University: “Johnny Cash and American Ambivalence” 10) Cross-Cultural Expressions – (Chair TBA) 1:30 – Jason Robinson, University of California, San Diego: “ Dubbing the Reggae Nation: Transnationalism, Globalization and Interculturalism” 2:00 – Suheyla Kirca Schroeder, Bahcesehir University: “Global Electronic Dance Music Meets Anatolian Local Music: Ethnographies of “glocal” Music Cultures” 2:30 – Claudia Abate, York University: “Pop Music as a Counter-Culture? Hybrid Identities and the Global Youth” 3:15-4:45 PM Panel Session 3, Bragg Mass Comm ONLY shuttle to Doubletree Hotel departs 4:55 PM 11) Music and Gaming Culture – David Sanjek (Director, BMI Archives), Chair 3:15 – Ben Aslinger, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Playstation Vibes: Popular Music, Gaming and Gender” 3:45 – Kiri Miller, University of Alberta: “Jacking the Dial: On the Radio in Grand Theft Auto” 4:15 – Chris Tonelli, University of California, San Diego: “The Temporary Avatar Zone: A Reading of Pico-Pico’s Emergence as a New Genre of Japanese Indie Pop” 12) Popular Music in Film – Robynn Stilwell (Georgetown University), Chair 3:15 – Carol Vernalis, Wayne State University, “Music, Video, Song, Sound: Experience and Emotion in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” 3:45 – Kevin J.H. Dettmar, Southern Illinois University, “Inventing Rock & Roll in the Movies” 4:15 – Sindhu Revuluri, Princeton University: “I’m Very Sorry, Shakira: Borrowed Melodies and Notions of the Local in Indian Film Music” 13) Hands-On Learning – Jason Hanley (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum), Chair 3:15 – Emily Daus Ferrigno, Wesleyan University: “Understanding DJ Performance Practice: A Tool for the Classroom and Beyond” 3:45 – David Borgo, University of California, San Diego: “Improvising in the Classroom: The Embodied, Situated, and Distributed Aspects of Learning” 4:15 – Dennis Hutchison, Cornell College: “Four Fathers, Output, and Pyres of Lemongrass: An Imaginative Approach to Understanding the Music Press” Conference Program IASPM-US 2006 4 Updated 1/3/06 Reconfiguring, Relocating, Rediscovering Friday afternoon, 3:15 – 4:45 14) Roundtable: Rockism and its Discontents – Barbara Ching (University of Memphis), Organizer and Moderator Beverly Keel (Middle Tennessee State University), Paul Fischer (Middle Tennessee State University), and Theo Cateforis (Syracuse) 15) Panel: Tradition, Style, Nostalgia and the Kitsch in Latin America, Alejandro L. Madrid, Organizer and Moderator 3:15 – Alejandro L. Madrid, CIESAS: “De a tiro corrientón: Kitsch and Cultural Resignification in Tijuana’s Nor-Tec Music” 3:45 – Daniel Party, Saint Mary’s College: “Guilty Pleasures and Pop Music Culture” 4:15 – Ketty Wong, University of Texas, Austin: “La música del recuerdo in Ecuador: Nostalgia for the Present?” 4:55 PM ONLY shuttle to Doubletree Hotel