Contested Frequencies Conference Schedule

9:45-10:00

Welcome
Patrice Rankine, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences

10:00-12:00

Mediating Difference
Chair: Joanna Love (University of Richmond)

• Decolonizing Game Audio and Approaching Sound in Digital Storytelling
  Kate Galloway (Wesleyan University)
• Colonial Encounters, Alien Languages, and the Exotic Music of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival
  Paige Zalman (West Virginia University)
• Decolonizing Disability: “Muteness,” Music, and Eugenics in Screen Representation
  James Deaville (Carleton University)
• Untamed Vocalities: Eliding Difference Through Vocal Discipline in Operatunity
  Allison Smith (Boston University)

12:00-1:00

Lunch

1:00-2:30

Hybridities
Chair: Andy McGraw (University of Richmond)

• Performance and Discussion: Bhajan and String Quartet
  Reena Esmail
• Politics-Identity-Globalisation-A Personal Account Shirish Korde (College of Holy Cross)
• Rethinking Transpacific Boundaries: Analyzing Miyata Mayumi’s Solo Shō Performance
  Toru Momii (Columbia University)

2:30-2:45

Coffee/Tea Break

2:45-4:15

Representing Oppression and Change
Chair: James Deaville (Carleton University)

• Performance and Discussion: Excerpts from a new work on Confederate monument removal
  David Kirkland Garner (University of South Carolina) Performers: Jennifer Lawson, Thomas Schneider, Rachel Velvikis, led by David Niethamer (University of Richmond)
• Performance Possibilities: Digital Repatriation and the Musical Archives of Slavery, Mary Caton Lingold (Virginia Commonwealth University)
• Mapping the Sonic Geography of Social Change in Richmond, VA

Andy McGraw (University of Richmond)

4:15-4:30

Coffee/Tea Break

4:30-6:00

Contested Meanings
Chair: Jessie Fillerup (University of Richmond)

• “We Are Nothing without the Other”: Shifting Meanings and the Uses of the Music of the Aymara among a Transnational Community of Andean Music Revivalists
  Daniel Castelblanco (Elon University)
• “Affrilachian” Rhythm and Essentialism in U.S. Old-time Music
  Landon Bain (University of California San Diego)
• Compositional Agency and Strategic (Anti-)Essentialism in the Global Song Repertoire

  Marissa Glynias Moore (Yale University)

6:00-7:30

Dinner

7:30-9:00

Richmond Symphony Orchestra Concert 

Featuring South Asian connections and works by Reena Esmail
and Shirish Korde

9:00-10:30

Walking tour of Richmond monuments
Led by Julian Hayter (University of Richmond, Jepson School of Leadership Studies). Transportation provided by shuttle

10:30-12:30

Forging Communities

Chair: Kendra Salois (American University)

• All Black Everything: Self-Determination from the Streets to the Void
  Andrew Kluth (UCLA)
• Hymn Parodies and the Metatextual Resonance of Anti-Slavery Songsters
  Erin Fulton (University of Kentucky)
• Represent: Recordings Made in the Richmond City Jail
  Members of the Richmond City Jail Studio Program

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:30

Contesting Exoticism
Chair: Jessie Fillerup (University of Richmond)

• Multimedia Performance: Lanna Dream. The Tourist Gaze in Northern Thailand
  Waewdao Sirisook (Chiang Mai University)
• Exoticism Upside-down: Otherness in Messiaen’s Île de feu I & II
  
David Wolfson (Hunter College)
• Politics of Extraction in Moroccan Heritage Pop 

  Kendra Salois (American University)
• American Blackness in Berlin: Race and Nationality in Contemporary Jazz Performance

  Bertram D. Ashe (University of Richmond)

3:30-4:00

Coffee/Tea Break

Exhibit of selected items from the Dr. and Mrs. Wyatt Tee Walker Collection at the University of Richmond

4:00-5:30

Decolonialization
Chair: Mary Caton Lingold (Virginia Commonwealth University)

• The Limits of Representation and the Silence of the Law
  Lee Veeraraghavan (University of Pennsylvania)
• Rupture, Remembrance, and Reform: Operatic Decoloniality in The Head and the Load
  
Juliana Pistorius (University of Huddersfield)
• Indianist Music and Decolonizing Methodologies: Rethinking Indigenous Agency (University of Virginia)

5:30-7:30

Dinner

7:30-9:00

Frederick Neumann Lecture: “Hide/Melt/Ghost: Writing the Early History of African-American Music”
Guthrie Ramsey (University of Pennsylvania) with Bridget Ramsey and Vince Anthony

10:30-11:00

Coffee/Tea

11:00-1:00

Panel discussion: Inclusivity and Change in the Richmond
Music Scene
Moderator: Sarmistha Talukdar (Virginia Commonwealth
University)

• Jafar Flowers
• Mitchie Shue
• Kenneka Cook
• Heaven Imanchinello
• Mars El-Tahir