Friday, October 23
6:30 Conference dinner
Saturday, Oct 24
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall
9:00 Welcome
What is protest music?
Chair: Andrea Bohlman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
9:15 Musical Contention and Contentious Musics
Eric Drott, University of Texas, Austin
9:45 The Provincialism of Protest Music
Ben Tausig, State University of New York, Stony Brook
10:15 Break
Protest music as social networks and activity
Chair: Marié Abe, Boston University
10:30 Non-Lyrical Dimensions of Protest Music
William Roy and Ashley Gromis, UCLA
11:00 Between Lament and Revolt: Popular and Elite Protest Music in Italy before Unification
Mary Ann Smart, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 Why 1976? Explaining moments in the history of protest music
John Street, University of East Anglia
12:00 Lunch on your own
Playing with pre-existing texts and cultural forms
Chair: Scott Burnham, Princeton University
2:00 A Typology of Intertextuality in Protest Songs
Noriko Manabe, Princeton University
2:30 “The Poetess of Protest”: Locating Black Power Politics in Nina Simone’s
Reinterpretation of the Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes
Heather Buffington Anderson, University of Texas
3:00 The Message of Protest in the Anashid of the Islamic State
Jonathan Pieslak, CUNY, City College
3:30 Argentine rock: from castaways to allegorists
Mara Favoretto, University of Melbourne
4:00 Break
The political role of musicians in the concert hall
Chair: Andy Bennett, Griffith University
4:15 Heroism and Anti-Heroism in Protest Music
Beate Kutschke
4:45 How Does a Boycott Sound?
Andrea Bohlman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
5:15 End
5:30 Dinner and discussion
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall
Festivals as a political space
Chair: John Street, University of East Anglia
9:00 The Legacy of Woodstock: Popular music, protest and the rock festival
Andy Bennett, Griffith University
9:30 Politics of Liveliness and Livelihood: Henoko Peace Music Festa
and the Anti-US Military Base Struggles in Okinawa
Marie Abe, Boston University
10:00 Break
Playing with genre
Chair: Noriko Manabe, Princeton University
10:15 Mahraganat: Fringe Protest Music in Egypt
Mounira Soliman, American University, Cairo
10:45 Marshallese Articulations of Protest
Jessica Schwartz, UCLA
11:15 Consuming Resistance in Global Hip Hop: The Case of Senegal
Catherine Appert, Cornell University
11:45 Hip Hop and the Cybersonics of War: Recent Uploads from the Russian-Ukrainian Border
Adriana Helbig, University of Pittsburgh
12:15 Break
12:30 Wrap-up discussion over casual lunch
2:15 End