8:30 – 10:30 AM
Music and Evolution
Chair: Judith Becker, University of Michigan
*Sponsored by Cognitive Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group
8:30 The Evolutionary History of Human Musicality: Empirical Approaches
Aniruddh Patel, Tufts University
9:00 Mediating Social Uncertainty: Music as Communicative Social Interaction
Ian Cross, University of Cambridge
9:30 Cultural Evolution of Music
Patrick Savage, Tokyo University of the Arts
10:00 General discussion
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Film Music
Chair: Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, Arizona State University
10:45 Tracing Musical Cosmopolitanism in 20th-Century Bengal: The Case of “Baajey Koruno Shurey”
Suddhaseel Sen, Presidency University, Kolkata (India)
11:15 Re-sounding the Mexican Revolution: Music and Changing Conceptions of the Revolution in Contemporary Mexican Cinema
Jacqueline Avila, University of Tennessee
11:45 Don't Tell Me How to Listen: The Music of North American Observational Cinema
Benjamin Harbert, Georgetown University
