1:45 – 3:45 pm
Roundtable: New Orleanians Discuss Music and Their City’s Future
Sponsored by the Applied Ethnomusicology Section
Matt Sakakeeny (Tulane University), Chair
Matt Sakakeeny (Tulane University), “New Orleans under Siege”
Jordan Hirsch (Founder, Sweet Home New Orleans), “New Orleans Music and the Cultural Economy”
Derrick Tabb (Executive Director, Roots of Music), “New Orleans Music and the State of Education”
Truth Universal (Founder, Grassroots Hip-Hop Collective), “New Orleans Music and the Problem of Hip-Hop”
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Musically Meaningful Soundscapes
Tom Porcello (Vassar College), Chair
Alison Furlong (Ohio State University), “Sound, Space, and Social Practice in the Zionskirche”
Kate Galloway (Memorial University of Newfoundland), “Sounding and Composing the Harbour: Performing Landscape and Re-contextualizing the Soundscape of Place in the Harbour Symphony (St. John’s, Newfoundland)
Jessamyn Doan (University of Pennsylvania), “‘Bringin’ Back the Roots’: Rearticulating a Creole Sound in Southern Louisiana”
