Sunday, November 4
8:30 – 10:30 am
Musical Modernities
Brian Diettrich (New Zealand School of Music), Chair
Benjamin Steege (Columbia University), “Max Weber’s Musical Modernity and the History of Aurality”
Sylvia Alajaji (Franklin and Marshall College), “’We’ll Make Our History’: Performing the Past, Producing the Present in the West Bank”
Yuanyuan Voelkl (University of Maryland, College Park), “From Unison to Harmony:Old Order Amish Church and Youth Singings in Lancaster, Pennsylvania”
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Sounds and Space in New Orleans
Marié Abe (Boston University), Chair
Danielle Adomaitisd (Florida State University), “Sonic Fixtures and Drifting Buskers: Soundmarks of New Orleans and the Street Musicians Who Construct Them”
Zarah Ersoff (University of California, Los Angeles), “Treme’s Aural Verisimilitude”
Julie Raimondi (Tufts University), “Music, Agency, and the Social Construction of Space in New Orleans”
