1:45 – 3:45 pm
Acoustics and Experiences of the Limit
Louise Meintjes (Duke University), Chair
Louise Meintjes (Duke University), “Pushing at the Edge of the Social”
Jairo Moreno (University of Pennsylvania), “Signatures of the Audible”
Ana Maria Ochoa (Columbia University), “South American Acoustics: Amerindian Perspectivism and Non-Linear Musical Histories”
Gary Tomlinson (Yale University), “Singing at the Limit of the Human”
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Music and Modern Life in Contemporary China
Frederick Lau (University of Hawai’i), Chair
Frederick Lau (University of Hawai’i), “Rise Up and Dream: New Work Songs for the New China”
Hon-Lun Yang (Hong Kong Baptist University), “Patrolling the Chinese Internet: Song Censorship in 2011”
Siuwah Yu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), “Music Meets Technology in the Survival of 21st Century Cantonese Opera Production”