8:30 – 11:30 am
Prison Music: Ethnography between the Bars
Gage Averill (University of British Columbia), Chair and Discussant
Maria Mendonca (Kenyon College), “Music Interventions, Structural Violence, and Self-Harming in Women’s Prisons in Britain”
Benjamin Harbert (Georgetown University), “Politics and Privacy of Talent: Music at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women”
John Runowicz (Independent Scholar), “The Missing String Incident: Social Tension and Release in an Upstate New York Prison Music Room”
10:45 am - 12:15 pm
SEM President’s Roundtable: Music and Power – Ethnomusicological Contributions to the Study of Politics and Culture
Harris Berger (Texas A&M University), Chair
Jayson Beaster-Jones (Texas A&M University)
Jocelyne Guilbault (University of California, Berkeley)
Maureen Mahon (New York University)
Henry Spiller (University of California, Davis)
Deborah Wong (University of California, Riverside)
