Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology

Friday, April 3 to Saturday, April 4, 2026

Ball State University | BSU Alumni Center

Schedule

Friday, April 3, 2026

9:00 am:  Registration Check-in Begins in BSU Alumni Center Lobby

10:00 am - 11:30 am: Panel Session 1 (Popular Music)

11:45 am - 12:00 pm: Welcome, Dr. Franklin Larey, Director, School of Music, Ball State University

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Panel Session 2 (Wartime Musics and Nationalsim)

Lunch Break

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Panel Session 3a (Culturally Expansive Music Pedagogies) and Panel Session 3b (Prioritizing Minoritarian Ways of Being)

4:15 pm - 5:15 pm: Roundtable. Cincinnati Sounds: A Model for Place-Based Sound Studies

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Workshop on Open Educational Resources and the World Music Textbook

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm: MidSEM Business Meeting

Saturday, April 4, 2026

9:00 am - 11:00 am: Panel Session 4a (The Voice) and Panel Session 4b (Interculturalism)

11:15 am - 12:15 pm: Keynote Address. Ethnic Metal and the Globalization of Authenticity

Lunch Break

12:14 pm - 1:45 pm: Panel Session 5a (Dance and Embodiment) and Panel Session 5b (Racial Imaginaries)