8:30 – 10:30 AM
Music and Disability Studies
Devin Burke (Case Western Reserve), Chair
William Ellis (Saint Michael’s College), “I Can’t Make the Journal by Myself: Blindness as a Transformative Trope in the Music of Reverend Gary Davis”
Daniella Santoro (Tulane University), “The Dancing Ground: Embodied Knowledge, Health, and Visibility in New Orleans Secondlines”
Brian Hogan (University of California, Los Angeles), “Enemy Music: Blind Birifor Xylophonists of Northwest Ghana”
Elyse Marrero (Florida State University), “Staff Benda Bilili and the Need to Overcome the Ableist Trope of ‘Overcoming Disability’”
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Music, Public Discourse, and Affect in Truth and Reconciliation Processes
Sponsored by the Special Interest Group on Indigenous Music
Jonathan Ritter (University of California, Riverside), Chair
Jonathan Ritter (University of California, Riverside), “Echoes of Violence: Music Post-Memory and Indigenous Voice after the Truth Commission in Peru”
Dylan Robinson (University of London), “The ‘Crude Empathy’ of Song”
Beverley Diamond (Memorial University of Newfoundland), “Music, Resilience, and an Uneven Distribution of Hope”
