Sympathetic Vibrations: Sound, Communities, Environments
8th Biennial Yale Graduate Music Symposium | March 4-5, 2022
Held virtually, register here. | PDF Version of program here. | Click here for paper abstracts.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Allison Chu | Áine Palmer | hallie voulgaris
The YGMS 2022 chairs would like to thank the following individuals and committees for their support in the planning and execution of this conference:
Ian Quinn, Chair of the Music Department | Daniel Harrison, Director of Graduate Studies, Music Department | Kristine Kinsella, Department Registrar, Music Department | Jennifer Gambaccini-Denillo, Assistant to the Chair | Elaine Culmo and custodial staff | Logistics and Catering Committee (Philip Bixby, Emily Korzeniewski, Jessica Sipe) | Publicity and Website Committee (Nathan Smith, Chloe Smith, Alec Wood)
YGMS 2022 is generously supported by a grant from the Yale Graduate School Dean’s Fund for Student-Organized Symposia.
Yale University acknowledges that indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land.
Schedule
Friday, March 4 – All events listed in Eastern Time
| 11:45am | Zoom room opens |
| 12:00-12:15 | Opening remarks
Daniel Harrison, Director of Graduate Studies |
| 12:15-1:45 | Digitizing Environments
Alec Wood, moderator
Natalie Farrell (University of Chicago) K. K. Covid-19: Temporality, Cultural Trauma, and the Animal Crossing New Horizons Soundtrack
Lydia Wagenknecht (University of Colorado Boulder) Una conciencia antartica: Lluvia Acida and the Politics of Polar Identity
Lara Weaver (Queens University Belfast) Sounding and Ungrounding Sacred Spaces: Acousmatism, Site-Specific Practice, and Resonating from Afar |
| 1:45-2:00 | Break |
| 2:00-3:30 | Workshop
Tavia Nyong’o (Yale University) Braxton Shelley (Yale University) |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-5:30 | Constructing Religious Identities
Zac Stewart, moderator
C. E. Aaron (Yale Institute of Sacred Music) “Baby this melody will show you another way”: Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturist Worldbuilding
Philip Oddi (York University) Taqwacore: Punk as a Secular, Social, and Religious Commentator
Alexandra Dreher (Yale Institute of Sacred Music) The Unsung Violence of a “Völkisch” Hymnal |
| 5:30-5:45 | Break |
| 5:45-7 | Zoom Reception and Happy Hour |
Saturday, March 5 – All events listed in Eastern Time
| 9:00am | Zoom room opens |
| 9:15-11:15 | Singing Together
Taryn Dubois, moderator
Bidisha Chakraborty (Banaras Hindu University) Songs of Power: A Study of Gaari Geet
Scott Gray Douglass (Pennsylvania State University) Fishers of Song: Community Music Education in Madagascar
Katelyn Hearfield (University of Pennsylvania) Collective Trauma, Communal Singing: Musicking in Manchester in Response to Terror
Jennifer Sherrill (University of California, Davis) Singing for Siniparxi: Lessons on Contact Theory and Community Building from the Moria Refugee Camp |
| 11:15-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-1:00 | Performing Queerness
hallie voulgaris, moderator
Alexander F. Hardan (Brown University) “…Leader of the Free Spirit Camp”: The Queer Counterpublic of Martha Argerich
Elizabeth Lawrensen (Stony Brook University) The Modern Body in Lil Nas X’s Montero: Call Me By Your Name
Cana McGhee (Harvard University) Marbled Kweens: Digitally Performing Plant Parenthood |
| 1:00-2:30 | Lunch |
| 2:30-4:00 | Relocating Sound
Hannah Rosa Schiller, moderator
Jessica Chow (Royal College of Art) Popular Syncopated Music: Elisabeth Welch and the Influence of Jazz Modernity in 1930s Britain
Joshua Tolulope David (University of Toronto) Naija Hip-hop: Towards the Indigenization of Hip-hop Music in Nigeria
Jade Conlee (Yale University) Empire of Leisure: Race and Mobility in Martin Denny’s Musical Textures |
| 4:00-4:15 | Break |
| 4:15-5:45 | Keynote lecture
Jessica Bissett Perea (University of California, Davis) |
| 5:45-5:50 | Closing remarks |