Abstracts and speaker/moderator bios

The times are listed first, in bold, in UTC+0 (e.g. London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca), and then, in the speakers’ time zones.

DAY 1. LABELS.

25th January 2022

SESSION 1 (1 ½ hours) PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES

Moderator: Su Yin Mak

Charulatha Mani, 8 am UTC / 6pm UTC+10, ‘Mix it up a bit, shall we? Kyrie Eleison meets Anandabhairavi’

Chris Stover, 8.30 am UTC / 6.30 pm UTC+10, ‘Global musicologies: perspectives from music theory’

Suddhaseel Sen, 9 am UTC / 2.30 pm UTC+5.30, ‘Theorizing cross-cultural exchanges in music: empirical, semiotic, and discursive approaches’

WELCOME & KEYNOTE (1 ½ hours)

Moderator: Fumitaka Yamauchi

Daniel K. L. Chua, 10 am UTC / 6 pm UTC+8, ‘Global musicology has no key note’

SESSION 2 (1 hour) GLOBAL CIRCULATIONS

Moderator: Shzr Ee Tan

Yvonne Liao, 2 pm UTC / 2 pm UTC, ‘“Global winds”: circulations, circularity, and coastal historiography’

Aliah Ajamoughli, 2.30 pm UTC / 8.30 am UTC-6, ‘“I think Islam hates us”: archiving the “unchristlike” noise of Allah in American popular music’

SESSION 3 (1 hour) SIZE, SCALE, PROPORTION

Moderator: James Q. Davies

Talia Bachir-Loopuyt and Gesa zur Nieden, 3.30 pm UTC / 4.30 pm UTC+1, ‘“Global musicology at home”: music, history, and memory in plural societies’

Andrew J. Chung, 4 pm UTC / 10 am UTC-6, ‘Globe, planet, orbis’

ROUNDTABLE 1 (2 hours)

Moderator: Suddhaseel Sen

Olivia A. Bloechl, David R. M. Irving, Nathan J. Martin, Jacob Olley, Katherine Butler Schofield, and Maria Semi, 5 pm UTC / 5 pm UTC, 6 pm, UTC+1, 12 pm UTC-5, ‘“Global”, “music”, “history”: a cocktail of problematic labels’

DAY 2. CASE STUDIES.

ROUNDTABLE 2 (2 hours) *This is still 25th January 2022 in UTC+0.

Moderator: Alejandro L. Madrid

Samuel S. Chan, James Q. Davies, Kim Sauberlich (co-convener), Daniel Walden, Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit (co-convener), and Keisuke Yamada, 11.30 pm UTC / 11.30 pm UTC, 3.30 pm UTC-8, 6.30 pm UTC-5, 6.30 am UTC+7, 7.30 am UTC+8, ‘Rethinking the colonial encounter’

26th January 2022

SESSION 1 (1 ½ hours) NATION, AND BEYOND

Moderator: Salvatore Morra

Lutfi Othman, 11 am UTC / 11 am UTC, ‘Otherworld sounds of Sufi Nusantara: (an attempt at) a sonic history of Malay Muslims and Islam in the Malay world’

Lorane Prévost, 11.30 am UTC / 11.30 am UTC, ‘Identity representations and classical hegemony: the consequences of the 1979 Iranian Revolution on Kurdish folk music’

Christine Fischer, 12 am UTC / 1 pm UTC+1, ‘Swiss choir songs in global contexts – views beyond the national horizons of a nationalized repertoire’

SESSION 2 (1 ½ hours) MOVEMENT AND INTERCONNECTION

Moderator: Emmanuel Nnamani

Min-Erh Wang, 3 pm UTC / 3 pm UTC, ‘Music as propaganda: the reception of Pablo Casals in East Asia during the Cold War’

Janie Cole, 3.30 pm UTC / 5.30 pm UTC+2, ‘Interconnected music histories from Lisbon to Shewa via Goa: music, missionaries and a global renaissance in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia’

Sophie A. Brady, 4 pm UTC / 5 pm UTC+1 or 11 am UTC-5, ‘African experimentalism: (post)colonial radio and the forging of a global avant-garde’

SESSION 3 (1 ½ hours) LOCAL TENSIONS AND GLOBAL ASPIRATIONS

Moderator: Vera Wolkowicz

Isidora Miranda, 5 pm UTC / 11 am UTC-6, ‘Selling the drama: musical nationalism and the politics of representation in the Tagalog Zarzuela La venta de Filipinas al Japon (1906)’

Juan Fernando Velasquez, 5.30 pm UTC / 12.30 am UTC-5, ‘“Democratizing the hear”: mechanical music, musical appreciation, and imperialism in the Americas during the early twentieth century’

Inez Martins, 6 pm UTC / 3 pm UTC-3, ‘From local to global musical practices: Ceará Military Police Force Music Band (Brazil) in the 19th century’

DAY 3. PRACTICE.

27th January 2022

ROUNDTABLE 3 (2 hours)

Moderator: Ma. Patricia Brillantes Silvestre

Semitha Cevallos, Andreas Holzer, Annegret Huber, Ivana Ilić, Weiya Lin, and Silke Wenzel, 11 am UTC / 12 pm UTC+1, 8 am UTC-3, 7 pm UTC+8, ‘Possible worlds: practices of knowing in writing musics’ histories’

SESSION 1 (1 hour) PEDAGOGY I

Moderator: Hon-Lun Helan Yang

Abigail Sin & Khoo Hiu Ling, 1.30 pm UTC / 9.30 pm UTC+8, ‘More than perspectives: nurturing global music citizens in undergraduate music courses at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore’

Fengyi Zhang, 2 pm UTC / 2 pm UTC, ‘Cultural dissonance in popular Chinese piano tutor books’

SESSION 2 (1 ½ hours) PEDAGOGY II

Moderator: Roe-Min Kok

Cory LaFavers, 3 pm UTC / 9 am UTC-6, ‘Afrocentricity, Anti-Racism, and Performance-as-Pedagogy in Brazilian Music Ensembles’

Clara Byom, 3.30 pm UTC / 9.30 am UTC-6 or 8.30 am UTC-7, ‘The Crowdsourced Digital Archive’

Hedy Law, 4 pm UTC / 8 am UTC-8, ‘Singing during a Pandemic: Teaching Global Cantonese Music in Canada in the Age of Disembodied Globalization’

SESSION 3 (1 ½ hours) ENTANGLED HISTORIOGRAPHIES

Moderator: Yuiko Asaba

Pouya Nekouei and Sara Feili, 5 pm UTC / 12 pm UTC-5 and 8.30 pm UTC+3.30, ‘Historiography of Iranian Music and the Problems and Issues of Contemporary History of Music in Iran’

Mauricio A. Pitich, 5.30 pm UTC / 2.30 pm UTC-3, ‘Historiographical Considerations for Tango Study as Global Musical Genre’

Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa, 6 pm UTC / 3 pm UTC-3, ‘Cannibal listening – musicology and popular music studies in Brazil’

DAY 4. THINKING FURTHER.

28th January 2022

SESSION 1 (1 hour) LABELS, AGAIN

Moderator: Charlotte Bentley

Lufan Xu, 11 am UTC / 7 pm UTC+8, ‘“Thema der Orient”: Geschichte der Musik (1862) as source of Ferruccio Busoni’s opera Turandot’

Desirée Mayr, 11.30 am UTC / 8.30 am UTC-3, ‘Leopoldo Miguéz in the early Brazilian Republic: romanticism as musical modernisation’

SESSION 2 (1 hour) CROSSING TIME AND SPACE

Moderator: Christian Onyeji

Runchao Liu, 2.30 pm UTC / 7.30 am UTC-7, ‘How does Chinese rock music become ethnic rock?: a global perspective’

Emmanuel Nnamani, 3.00 pm UTC / 8.00 am UTC-7, ‘From spectral crossings to globalisation: a synthesis of configurations and constructions of time and space in Uzoigwe’s ‘Égwu Àmàlà’ (paddle music/dance) for the piano solo’

ROUNDTABLE 4 (2 hours)

Moderator: Sergio Ospina Romero

Alexandros Charkiolakis, Tatjana Marković (convener), Martin Nedbal, Georgia Petroudi, Florinela Popa, Leon Stefanija, 4 pm UTC / 6 pm UTC+2, 10 am UTC-6, ‘“Universal” versus “national”: Southeast European music histories and scholar colonialism’

CLOSING THOUGHTS 6 pm UTC

Please BYOB (bring your own beverage) and join us for a virtual ‘after-party’!