Join us at the newly renovated Maxwell Hall, located in the heart of the Old Crescent, to celebrate two years of research with our Global Popular Music Scholars.
All are invited to attend in person, and we hope to see you there! If you're still not up for in-person events, you can find all our talks via Zoom at links provided below.
9:00 am: Coffee and donuts
9:15 am: Welcome
9:30-10:50: DANCE
Charles Exdell, Indiana University, God Save You, Holy House: Brazilian Catholicism and the Black Radical Tradition
Mitia D’Acol, Indiana University, Krump meets Rameau: Affect, Body, and the Communication of Emotions
Stafford Berry, Indiana University
11:15-12:15: KEYNOTE
Deborah Wong, University of California - Riverside, Keywords for Musicking Bodies
12:30-1:30: Break for Lunch
1:45-3:15: Musical Metaphysics Roundtable “Vibrate Higher”
Moderated by Calvin Taylor Skinner with Nairobi, Red Pill, Blue Pill, Archbishop E. Bernard Jordan, and Alkebulan.
(NOTE: This event is all online, but you are welcome to watch in Maxwell Hall.)
3:45-5:00: PERFORMING BODIES
Jamaal Baptiste, Indiana University, Musical Versatility and Awareness: A Metaphor for Sound in Aruban Society
Jake Cozza, Indiana University, Popular Music and Bodily Presentation: How the Human Body Can Inform Perspectives on Music Theory
Tanya Palmer, Indiana University, IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS HOUSE
5:15-6:15 KEYNOTE
Alisha Lola Jones, Indiana University, Ultrasonic Tastemakers
10:45-12:15: I Sing Therefore I am: Hearing Health/Self through Dialogic Ethnography
Ross Brillhart, Indiana University, Health/Self
Daniel Reed, Indiana University, Hearing Parkinson’s
12:15-1:00 Break for Lunch
1:00 - 2:00: Performance
Bomani Armah, hip-hop artist and educator
2:30-4:00: Born This Way: Black Bodies and Black Voices
Ayana Smith, Indiana University
Marquese Carter, Murray State University
(Note: This event takes place at the University Club in the Indiana Memorial Union.)
