IASPM-US MEETING
October 14 - 17, 2004
Charlottesville, VA
Program
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"A" sessions take place in the South Meeting Room, "B" sessions in the Commonwealth Room, and "C" sessions in 168 Newcomb
Papers begin at times listed, with a total of 30 minutes for each paper and discussion. The only exception is when a speaker listed on the program does not appear: then, other papers on the session will move to earlier times to avoid a gap in the session.
Executive Committee Meeting
Best Western Cavalier Inn
Plenary session: Feminist, lesbian/feminist, and queer music
South Meeting Room, Newcomb Hall
Elizabeth Ladenson (U. Virginia), chair
Maria V. Johnson (Southern Illinois U., Carbondale), “'Kickin' Ass & Takin' Names': Saffire and the Tradition of 'Uppityness' in Women's Blues”
Elizabeth K. Keenan (Columbia U.), “'I Went to School in Olympia... Where Everyone's the Same': Space and Place in a Feminist Rock Music Festival”
Boden Sandstrom (U. Maryland), “Negotiation of Gender in the Women's Music Network Today: Lesbian, Queer, or Women-Identified?”
Rachel Devitt (U. Washington), “'Talk softly and carry a big . . . stick!' Stealing the Spotlight and Building a Dyke Community with Seattle's All-Grrrl Queer Cabarets”
Opening Reception
Indian food by Milan
Hosts: IASPM, the University of Virginia Department of Music, and Routledge, in celebration of the publication of Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal, That's the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
Best Western Cavalier Inn
A. Revising the narratives
Scott DeVeaux (U. Virginia), chair
8:30 AM J. Bradley Rogers (U. California, Berkeley), “Interpellation by Interpolation: Integration & Disintegration in American Musical Theatre”
9:00 AM Norma Coates (U. Wisconsin-Whitewater), “If Anything, Blame Woodstock: Altamont and the Myths of Rock Culture in the Late 1960s”
9:30 AM Steve Waksman (Smith College), “Rethinking the Punk Explosion, 1975-1979”
B. Johnny Cash
Richard Will (U. Virginia), chair
8:30 AM Alicia C. Levin (U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Audience, Authenticity, and the Man in Black: How Johnny Cash Joined the Carter Family Circle”
9:00 AM David Sanjek (BMI Archives), “In My Time of Dying: Johnny Cash, Gary Stewart, Johnny Paycheck and Cycles of Hipness”
9:30 AM Jonathan Silverman (Pace U.), “The Semiotic Bird: Johnny Cash Re-Inscribes His Finger”
C. After socialism
Lee Bidgood (U. Virginia), chair
8:30 AM Bjorn Ingvoldstad (Indiana U.), “The 'Global Now' and Popular Music in Lithuania”
9:00 AM Brian Locke (Dalhousie U.), “Choose Your Gallows: Cechomor and the Folk-Pop Transformation of Czech Identity”
9:30 AM C. Michael Elavsky (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Between the Bloc and a Hard Place: Czech Pop/Rock Musicians, 'Second World' Sounds, and the Barriers of Entry to 'World Music'”
A. Innovation and Local Traditions(10:15 - 11:15 AM)
Anahid Kassabian (Fordham U.), chair
10:15 AM Christopher Smith (Texas Tech U.), “Music as Weapon: Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the jeliya, and the Sack of Kalakuta”
10:45 AM Hong Lun Yang (Hong Kong Baptist U.) and Michael Saffle (Virginia Tech), “Pop Spectacles: Hong Kong Concerts as Personal and Communal Fantasies”
B. Constructing Blackness
John H. Mason (U. Virginia), chair
10:15 AM Eden Kainer (U. Wisconsin), “Trafficking in the Sounds and Images of Blackness on the Early Vaudeville Stage: Sophie Tucker's Role in the Transformations of Blackface Minstrelsy”
10:45 AM Kathryn Fenn (Duke U.), [Blues & Railroads]
11:15 AM Natalie Zelensky (Northwestern U.), “Too Black: Images of Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters in Early Blues Marketing”
C. Masculinities 1
Susan Fraiman (U. Virginia), chair
10:15 AM Theo Cateforis (Carleton College), “I'll Sing a Song for You: Performing Music and Gender in the Teen Movie”
10:45 AM Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Southern Illinois U., Carbondale), “The Homoerotics of the Power Ballad”
11:15 AM Kenneth McLeod (Belmont U.), “'We are the Champions': The Politics of Sports and Popular Music”
A. Media and politics
Aniko Bodroghkozy (U. Virginia), chair
1:00 PM Rose Theresa (U. Virginia), “Michael Jackson's Melodrama: Innocent Until Proven Guilty”
1:30 PM Stefan Hyman (Stony Brook U.), “'Future Shock': Techno-Science and Racial Politics in Late-20th Century Black Popular Music”
2:00 PM James Deaville (McMaster U.), “Selling the War in Iraq: Broadcast News Music and the Shaping of American Public Opinion”
B. Contemporary gospel
Melvin Butler (U. Virginia), chair
1:00 PM Emmett G. Price (Northeastern U.), “Instrumental Gospel Music—Is It Gospel or Jazz?”
1:30 PM Horace J. Maxile (U. North Carolina, Asheville), “Diverse, Yet Divine: The Interaction(s) of Gospel and Classical Music”
2:00 PM Tammy L. Kernodle (Miami U., Ohio), “One Gospel Nation Under a Groove: Exploring the Influence of Hip Hop-Influenced Gospel”
C. Masculinities 2
Rita Felski (U. Virginia), chair
1:00 PM Cynthia Fuchs (George Mason U.), “'Shake it like a Polaroid picture': OutKast, Process, and Persona”
1:30 PM Shana Goldin-Perschbacher (U. Virginia), “Me'shell NdegéOcello and Black Female Masculinity”
2:00 PM Sarah Williams (Northwestern U.), “'Again I Go Unnoticed': The Musical Semiotics of Fragile Masculinity in Emo Rock”
A. Film and embodiment
Elizabeth Hudson (U. Virginia), chair
2:45 PM Eugene Montague (U. Central Florida), “Beethoven Goes to Rock 'n' Roll High School, or the Transformation of Mr. McGree”
3:15 PM Melina Esse (Eastman School of Music), “Resonant Bodies: The Sounding Image in D. W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm”
3:45 PM Amy Herzog (Queens College, CUNY) “Infectious Melodies: Popular Music and Corporeality in Tsai Ming-Liang's The Hole”
B. Different texts
Rob Walser (UCLA), chair
2:45 PM John Brackett (U. Utah) and Andy Flory (U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “The Value of Bootleg Recordings in Popular Music Research”
3:15 PM Charles Kronengold (Wayne State U.), “Mistakes and the Contingencies of Genre”
3:45 PM Anahid Kassabian (Fordham U.), “Distributing Subjectivity in Bus Stations”
C. Music scenes
Richard Peterson (Vanderbilt U.), chair
2:45 PM Andy Bennett (U. Surrey) & Richard Peterson (Vanderbilt U.), “The Nature and Importance of Scenes to the Vitality of Music”
3:15 PM David Grazian (U. Pennsylvania), “The Symbolic Economy of Authenticity in the Chicago Local Blues Scene”
3:45 PM Steve Lee (Vanderbilt U.), “Internet-Based Virtual Music Scenes: The Case of P2 in Alt.Country Music”
A. Rap
Murray Forman (Northeastern U.), chair
4:30 PM Cynthia C. Beard (U. North Texas), “Constructing the Self: Resistance, Containment, and Contradiction in Missy Elliott's Music”
4:45 PM Marnie Binfield (U. Texas, Austin), “'Ain't No Shame Ladies Do Your Thang:' Femininity and Sexuality in the Work of Missy Elliott and Lil' Kim”
5:15 PM Venise Berry (U. Iowa), “The Rap Experience: Exploring Perception and Interpretation in Fandom”
5:45 PM Loren Monte Ludwig (U. Virginia), "'Oh Bubba, Where Art Thou?': Bubba Sparxxx as Hip Hop's White Other"
B1. Tracing two songs (4:30 - 5:30 PM)
Richard Will (U. Virginia), chair
4:30 PM Jocelyn R. Neal (U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Why Everyone Wanted to Be a Muleskinner: An Iconic Country Song”
5:00 PM Lydia Hamessley (Hamilton College), “A Resisting Performance of an Appalachian Traditional Murder Ballad: Giving Voice to 'Pretty Polly'”
B2. Representing stars (5:30 - 6:30 PM)
Merrie Snell (U. Iowa), chair
5:30 PM David Shumway (Carnegie Mellon U.), “Theorizing Rock Stardom”
6:00 PM Thomas Swiss (U. Iowa), “Picturing Musicians”
C. Female performers
Jacqueline Warwick (Dalhousie U.), chair
4:30 PM Laura E. Dyer (U. Wisconsin-Madison), “'Just the Two of Us': Issues of Voice, Violence, and Cover in Two Different Recordings of '97 Bonnie & Clyde'”
5:00 PM David Cosper (U. Virginia), “Emotional Landscapes: Intimacy in Bjork's Musical Imagination”
5:30 PM David Sigler (U. Virginia), “Sigmund Freud, Analyze This: Madonna's 'Die Another Day' Beyond the Pleasure Principle”
6:00 PM Carey Sargent (U. Virginia), “Opportunities for Disobedience: How Women Rock Musicians Negotiate Gender within Rock Music Performances”
A. 1960’s and 70’s
David Shumway (Carnegie Mellon U.), chair
8:30 AM Daniel Sonenberg (U. Southern Maine), “No 'Lady in Gingham': Joni Mitchell's Guitar-Driven Break With Folk”
9:00 AM Kim Simpson (U. Texas, Austin), “Watching Scotty Grow: Discovering the Preteen Radio Demographic in Early 1970s America”
9:30 AM Dale Carter (U. Aarhus), “Songs of the Forgotten South: Van Dyke Parks and the Circum-Caribbean”
B. Race and gender in midcentury
Deborah McDowell (U. Virginia), chair
8:30 AM Kristin McGee (U. Groningen), “The Novelty of All-Girl Bands, Mass Culture and the Rise of Jazz Criticism”
9:00 AM Catherine Cooper (U. Southern California), “Green Pastures and the Secularization and Popularization of the African-American Spiritual”
9:30 AM Gayle Wald (George Washington U.), “Sister on Tour: Rosetta Tharpe, Race, and the Folk Revival in Europe”
C. Latin America
Alejandro L. Madrid (U. Texas, Austin), chair
8:30 AM Marc Gidal (Harvard U.), “'Didá Escola de Música and Afro-Bahian Women's Empowerment”
9:00 AM Daniel Party (U. Pennsylvania), “Maldita Primavera: Eurocentrism in Latin American Pop Music”
9:30 AM Oliver N. Greene, Jr. (Georgia State U.), “Contemporizing Garifuna Identity through Punta Rock”
A. Scandinavia
Scott DeVeaux (U. Virginia), chair
10:15 AM Leslie C. Gay, Jr. (U. Tennessee), “The Silkeborg Rytmiske Konservatorie: Black Music and the Danish Conservatory”
10:45 AM Per F. Broman (Bowling Green State U.), “'Money, Money, Money'—'The Winner Takes It All': Ideological Conflicts in the ABBA Reception in Sweden During the 1970s”
11:15 AM Kevin Holm-Hudson (U. Kentucky), “'Like a flower blooming through the mist created by a waterfall on a brisk autumn day': The Spirit in the Machines of Sigur Rós”
B. Recombination (10:15 – 11:15 AM)
Mark Katz (Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins U.), chair
10:15 AM Joanna Demers (U. Southern California), “The Grey Album and the Mainstreaming of the Remix Underground”
10:45 AM J. Griffith Rollefson (U. Wisconsin), “Tom Zé's Fabrication Defect and the 'Esthetics of Plagiarism': A Postmodern/Postcolonial 'Cannibalist Manifesto'”
C. Structure (10:15 - 11:15 AM)
Michael Puri (U. Virginia), chair
10:15 AM Mark Spicer (Hunter College, CUNY), “What Makes a Great Chorus?”
10:45 AM Carol Vernallis (Wayne State U.), “Music Video Directors, Songs and the Transformation of Cinema”
Plenary session: "African Musicians in the Disapora:" Am I African Enough or Am I too African?
Abdoulaye Diabate
Cabell Hall Auditorium, Old Cabell Hall
Michelle Kisliuk (U. Virginia) and Heather Maxwell (U. Virginia), moderators
A. Translation
Robynn Stilwell (Georgetown U.), chair
3:15 PM Robert Walser (UCLA), “Musical Translation”
3:45 PM Peter Kvetko (U. Texas, Austin), “Beatlemania in Bombay”
4:15 PM Andy Fry (U. California, San Diego), “'Bechetmania': How New Orleans Jazz Became French Pop”
4:45 PM S. Louis Winant (U. Washington), “Global Massive: The Glocalization of Jungle/Drum 'n' Bass”
B. Media and commerce (3:15 - 4:45 PM)
Ravi Krishnaswami (Sacred Noise, NYC), chair
3:15 PM Rob Sloane (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “What Plan Will We Follow? The Importance of Record Stores in Music Culture”
3:45 PM Joseph L. Terry (U. Colorado, Boulder), “State of Independence? A Political Economic Analysis Questioning the Conceptualization of Independent Labels in the Popular Music Industry, 1980-2000”
4:15 PM Marc Leverette (Rutgers U.), “Ghosts Against the Machine and Proof in the Playlists: A Political Economy of Contemporary Radio and the Culture Industry”
C. 1950's and 60's (3:15 - 4:45 PM)
Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Southern Illinois U. Carbondale), chair
3:15 PM Mark Burford (Columbia U.), “'On the Other Shore': R. H. Harris and the Politics of Sacred-Secular Crossover”
3:45 PM John R. Covach (U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Leiber and Stoller, The Coasters, and the 'Dramatic AABA' Form”
4:15 PM Patricia Juliana Smith (Hofstra U.), “Waterloo Sunsets and the Twilight of the British Empire: The Kinks' 'Kronikles' of Postimperiality”
Business Meeting
South Meeting Room
A. Early phonographs
Mark Katz (Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins U.), chair
9:00 AM Kyle Barnett (U. Texas, Austin), “Furniture Music: The Shared Genealogy of the Phonograph and Furniture Industries”
9:30 AM Paul D. Fischer (Middle Tennessee State U.), “Vesti La Hound Dog: A Victrola Recital”
A. Place and identity (10:15 - 11:45 AM)
Norma Coates (U. Wisconsin, Whitewater), chair
10:15 AM Larissa Chace (U. Texas, Austin), “Take Me to the Border: Changing Soundscapes in Reggae and Jamaican Identity”
10:45 AM Anthony Kwame Harrison (Virginia Tech), “The Production of Localized Subcultures: Genre-Fluidity among Folk Musicians”
11:15 AM Ho Kim (U. Wisconsin-Madison), “Little Chang Big City: Asians in American Independent Rock”
B. Electronic dance music
Kai Fikentscher (Ramapo College of New Jersey), chair
10:15 AM Mark J. Butler (U. Pennsylvania), “'Everybody Needs a 303, Everybody Loves a Filter': Electronic Dance Music and the Aesthetics of Obsolescence”
10:45 AM Rebekah Farrugia (Western Michigan U.), “Beyond the Dance Floor: Women and the Production of Electronic/Dance Music”
11:15 AM Kariann Goldschmitt (UCLA), “Foreign Bodies: Innovation, Repetition, and Corporeality in Electronic Dance Music”
11:45 AM Alejandro L. Madrid (U. of Texas, Austin), “Dancing with Desire: Cultural Embodiment and Contestation in Tijuana's Nor-tec Music and Dance"
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