Saturday, December 5
8:30 – 10:30 am
Room 400
Music in the Vortex of the Ebola Epidemic in West Africa
Chair: Daniel Reed, Indiana University
*Co-Sponsored by the African Music Section and the Medical Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group
8:30- A ye dung sondomoo kono (“Let it enter the heart”): Kanyeleng Women Performers and Ebola Prevention in The Gambia
Bonnie McConnell, University of Washington
9:00- Singing Ebola: Music, Media and Cultural Messages in West Africa
Michael Rivera, Florida State University
9:30- Beyond Ebola: A Performance-Based Response to the Financial Impacts of Ebola on Musicians and Dancers in Guinea
James Morford, University of Washington
10:00- “Ebola in Town”: Music, Wailing, and Funerals during the Liberian Epidemic
Ruth Stone, Indiana University
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Room 400
Roundtable: Synthesizing Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives of Musical Experience and Affect/Emotion/Sentiment/Feeling
Tony Perman, Grinnell College
Denise Gill, Washington University in St. Louis
Judith Becker, University of Michigan
Harris Berger, Texas A&M University
