Saturday, April 4

9:00 – 11:00, Panel Session 4

Panel 4a, The Voice (Meeting Room 1)

Chair: Dr. Cynthia Smith, Ball State University

9:00 Precenting Community: Transmission and Participation in Contemporary Gaelic Psalm Singing 

Molly Davis, Oberlin College

9:30 The Commentary on Worldwide Politics in Indian Composer Nakul Krishnamurthy's "Democracy" for Mezzo-soprano and Harp

Dr. Cynthia Smith, Ball State University

10:00 Examining Roles, Voices, and Instruments in Operas that Reflect Lives of Vietnam Veterans

Renee Anderson, Ball State University

10:30 At the Limits of the Singable: Wartime Music and the Absence of Nanjing

Jingyu Tian, Ball State University

Panel 4b, Interculturalism (Meeting Room 2)

Chair: Dr. Nolan Warden, Purdue University

9:00 Constructing Cultural Identity in Chen Yi’s Chamber Music

Wenting Wu, Ball State University

9:30 Interculturalism in Kenyan Choral Music.

J.K Njenga, Ball State University

10:00   Imagining Americana: Authenticating Processes and Journeys in Japanese Bluegrass

Donald Bradley, Indiana University

10:30   The Oneness of Sound: An Exploration of the Fusion Between East and West Through the Flute Works of Isang Yun

Amanda Paust, Ball State University

11:15 – 12:15, Keynote Address: Ethnic Metal and the Globalization of Authenticity (Hughes Assembly Hall)

Dr. Jeremy Wallach, Bowling Green State University

12:15 – 12:45: Lunch Break

12:45 – 1:45, Panel Session 5

Panel 5a, Dance and Embodiment (Meeting Room 1)

Chair: Dr. Emmanuel Cudjoe, Ball State University

12:45 Drumming to Dancing Bodies: An Afrocentric exposition of Asante Kete music and movement symbiosis

Dr. Emmanuel Cudjoe, Ball State University

1:15 Honoring Ancestors: The Toba Batak Mangongkal Holi Ritual Music in Sianjur Mulamula Village, Samosir Regency, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia

Edy Panjaitan, Ohio University

Panel 5b, Racial Imaginaries (Meeting Room 2)

Chair: Dr. Nana Hemma Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum, Illinois State University

12:45 CARNAVAL DE NEGROS Y BLANCOS EN PASTO, COLOMBIA: Interdisciplinary Technologies of Memory

Johanna Andrea Amaya Conejo, Ohio University

1:15 “I Shall Not be Moved”: Appalachian Music and Rural Blackness in Twentieth-Century Beaver Dam, North Carolina

Olivia Philips, Indiana University

1:45: Conference Close