Music Festival Studies Conference

July 10, July 30, July 31, August 1, 11:00am-5:00pm Eastern Time, Virtual Conference

For more information, email musicfestivalstudies@gmail.com. Registration is open!

JULY 10

11:00am-12:15pm ET: Early Music

John Dilworth, “Handel Festivals and Nineteenth-Century Media” (10 min)
Giles Masters, “Early music and the ISCM poly-system: Oxford and London, 1931” (10 min)
Rebekah Franklin, “Performing the Passions: American Bach Festivals and the Creation of Community” (20 min)

2:00pm-3:00pm ET: Workshop

3:30pm-4:30pm ET: Beyond the Local

Pallas Catenella, “Virtually Live, Imagined as Real: Avatarian Embodiment in the Music Festivals of Minecraft” (20 min)
Lucas Henry, “‘Music Moves Europe’: Music Festivals, Music Awards, and the Performance and Consumption of European Identities” (20 min)

JULY 30

11:00am-12:30pm ET: Spirituality

Vivek Virani, “Playing in the Space Between: Cultural and Religious Pluralism in India’s Spiritual Music Festivals” (20 min)
Andrew Mall, “Music / Business / Ethics at Christian Festivals” (20 min)
Eric A. Galm, “Making A Difference Through Music Festivals: The Brazilian Congado Mineiro in Hartford, Connecticut”

1:30pm-2:30pm ET: In Practice

Jody H. Cripps, Ely Lyonblum, and Anita Small, “Signed Music in the Deaf Community: Performing The Black Drum at Festival Clin d’Oeil” (20 min)
Tim Slaughter and Judy Van Zile, “APDF—The Asia Pacific Dance Festival: Stories of the Festival’s Development” (20 min)

3:00pm-4:00pm ET: Comparative Methods

Jeremy Reed, “Celebrating and Selling the Nation: Festivals as Cultural Resource and Performance in Jordan” (20 min)
Steve Waksman, “Festival Reformation: Presenting Jazz and Folk in Newport” (20 min)

JULY 31

11:15am-12:30pm ET: Identities Within and Across Borders

Christi-Anne Castro, “A Contemporary Case Study on the Politics of Multiculturalism, Community, and Difference at the Folklorama Festival” (10 min)
Ian Copeland, “Contesting Musical Refugee-ness at Dzaleka’s Tumaini Festival” (10 min)
Sam Jones, “‘The Irish music is in the walls; it stays there when we leave’: Sense, Affect, and Materiality at Irish Traditional Music Festivals” (10 min)

2:00pm-3:00pm ET: Workshop

3:30pm-5:00pm ET: Contemporary Music: Institutions

Elena Dubinets, “Conductor, Soloist, Composer: Curating a Contemporary Music Festival” (20 min)
Will Robin, “Bang on a Can and New Music America: Competing Festival Visions for Contemporary Music” (20 min)
Ryan Ebright, “Incubation and Integration: The American Music Theater Festival and Anthony Davis’s X” (20 min)

AUGUST 1

11:30am-12:45pm ET: Space, Place, and Politics

Emily Ruth Allen, “White Pageantry on Parade: Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama” (10 min)
Allison Brooks-Conrad, “A Site for Revolution: Musical Performance and Political Mobilization at the Estonian National Song Festival Grounds, 1988-1991” (20 min)
Ryan Gourley, “Social Betweenness in the Soviet Jazz Festival Network” (10 min)

2:00pm-2:50pm ET: Nostalgia

Jake Cohen and Julie Viscardi-Smalley, “‘The Circus is the Place for Me’: The Phish Festival as Microcosmic Rural Spectacle” (20 min)
Kelso Molloy, “More than ‘Oldchella’: Desert Trip 2016 and the Performance of Age(ing) in Classic Rock” (10 min)

3:30pm-5:00pm ET: Gender Politics

Marta Beszterda, “Negotiating Inclusion at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music” (20 min)
Amir Lehman, “Electronic Dance Music Culture in the Postcolony” (10 min)
Kaitlyne A. Motl (kxmotl), “It Couldn’t-Wouldn’t-Shouldn’t Happen Here: Silencing Survivors of Sexual Violence at Music Festivals, Seeking More Comprehensive Solutions” (10 min)
Jessica Pruett, “‘A Gathering of Mothers and Daughters’: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Inclusion at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival” (10 min)

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[Photo: “Angélique Kidjo” at Crashfest 2016 by marzianademarzo is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ]

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