Sunday, December 6
8:30 – 10:30 am
Room 400
What Do “The People” Want?: Demystifying Popular(ism) in Contemporary Middle East and North African Popular Musics
Chair: David McDonald, Indiana University
8:30- Performing Alterity: Race and Cultural Resistance in Transnational Syrian Popular Music
Shayna Silverstein, Northwestern University
9:00- Auto-Tuned Belonging: Coptic Popular Song and the Politics of Neo-Pentecostal Pedagogies
Carolyn Ramzy, Carleton University
9:30- Children of the People: Invoking Cross-Class Solidarities in Moroccan Popular Fusions
Kendra Salois, American University
10:00- Discussant
Richard Jankowsky, Tufts University
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Room 400
Preservation Politics
Chair: Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, University of Cambridge
10:45- The Complexities of Hating Sean-nós Singing in Carna, Ireland
Vanessa Thacker, University of Toronto
11:15- "A Favorite African Tune”: Rowing Songs, Corn Songs, and Other Inland Sources of the “Sea” Chanty Genre
Gibb Schreffler, Pomona College
11:45- Musical Cryonics: The Politics of Preservation in Iceland
Kimberly D. Cannady, Victoria University of Wellington
