8:30 – 10:30 am
Music and Nuclear Experience
Gregory Barz (Vanderbilt University), Chair and Discussant
Jessica Schwartz (New York University), “Singing Towards a Cure: The Role of Marshallese Music in Local and Transnational Anti-Nuclear Movement
Joseph Pilzer (University of Toronto), “Music in ‘Korea’s Hiroshima’”
Maria Sonevytsky (Columbia University), “Chernobyl Songs: Musical Heritage and the Challenges of Environmentalism in Post-Soviet Ukraine”
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Popular Musics in New Orleans
Cheryl Keyes (University of California, Los Angeles), Chair
Sarah Geller (University of California, Davis), “’I am New Orleans like Carnival’: Production of Locality in the Music of Lil Wayne”
Holly Hobbs (Tulane University) and Alison Fensterstock (Independent Scholar), “Hiphop in New Orleans: Genre and Archiving”
Ari Ben Mosha Gagne' (University of Colorado at Boulder), “Big Freedia, ‘The Queen Diva’: Bouncing Safe Spaces in Hip Hop”
