American Musicological SocietyRochester 2017Jennifer Ronyak (University of North Texas), “Reassessing Felix Mendelssohn’s Song Aesthetic through the Lens of Religion: The Case of ‘Entsagung’”
Panel: “Jewish Studies, Music, and Biography” Sponsored by the AMS Jewish Studies and Music Study Group Amy Beal (University of California, Santa Cruz), Chair Howard Pollack (University of Houston), David Josephson (Brown University), Evan Rapport (New School), Ralph Locke (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester), Amy Lynn Wlodarski (Dickinson College), Lily E. Hirsch (California State University, Bakersfield) Barbara Milewski (Swarthmore College) and Bret Werb (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), “Chopin’s Little Jew” Mili Leitner (University of Chicago), “Separate but Equal? The Palestine Broadcasting Service and the Musical Racialization of Zionism in Mandatory Palestine” Brigid Cohen (New York University), “Performing Sabotage: George Maciunas’s German Remigration and the Insider/Outsider Politics of Fluxus” Karen Uslin (Rowan University), “Reviewing Music of the Abyss: The Terezin Music Critiques of Viktor Ullmann” Yael Sela Teichler (Open University of Israel), “Music and Political Critique in Jewish Women’s Epistolary Writings from Berlin ca. 1800” Amy Lynn Wlodarski (Dickinson College), “Composing After the Ruins: The War-Inspired Works of George Rochberg” Mackenzie Pierce (Cornell University), “Polish Music in Soviet Exile During the Second World War” “Jews and Judentum” Tina Frühauf (RILM/Graduate Center, CUNY), Chair Vanessa L. Rogers (Rhodes College), “Populism, Patriotism, and the Public: Musical Theatre in London and the ‘Jew Bill’ of 1753” Amanda Ruppenthal Stein (Northwestern University), “Sounding Judentum within Nineteenth-Century Deutschtum” Vancouver 2016Songs of the Jewish Enlightenment: Vocal Music in the Circle of Sara Levy (1761–1854)
Sponsored by the AMS Jewish Studies and Music Study Group Rebecca Cypess, lecturer, fortepiano Sonya Headlam, soprano Sahoko Sato Timpone, mezzo soprano Nancy Sinko, respondent Daniel Goldmark (Case Western Reserve University), “Musical Stereotyping American Jewry in Early Twentieth-Century Mass Media” Rosa Abrahams (Northwestern University), “Synchronization in the Synagogue” Natalie Oshukany (Graduate Center, CUNY), “‘Brighton Beach Has Long Been Odessan’: Willi Tokarev and the Third Wave Soviet Jewish Immigrant Community in 1980s New York City” |
Society for EthnomusicologyDenver 2017Jardena Gertler-Jaffe (University of Toronto) “Yiddishists and Politics: Rewriting Collective Memory Through Song”
Rachel Adelstein (University of Cambridge) “‘Sheila’s Adon Olam:’ Problems of Ownership in Synagogue Music” Panel on Popular Culture, Activism, Violence, and the State in Israel/Palestine, Chaired by David McDonald (Indiana University). Papers include: David McDonald (Indiana University) “If I Could Go Back in Time: Rethinking Popular Culture, Activism, and the Public Sphere in Palestine”; Mili Leitner (University of Chicago) “Happy Birthday to Whom?: Israeli Nationhood, Musical Collaboration, and the Exclusionary Semiotics of Bat Shishim”; Michael Figueroa (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) “Musical Memory, Animated Amnesia: Traumatic Soundscapes in Waltz with Bashir” Nili Belkind (Independent Scholar) “Jowan Safadi’s ‘To Be an Arab’: Music Video from the Disputed Borderlines of Nation, Ethnicity and Class in Israel” Ilana Webster-Kogen (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) “Listening, Censoring, Representing: Arab Voices, the State, and Israeli Society” Oded Erez (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Minor Transnationalism and Popular Music: the Case of Greek Music in Israel” Washington, DC 2016Lilian M. Wohl (Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion), “Memory Labor, Musical Work: Jewish Musical Performance in Buenos Aires after the AMIA Bombing”
Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago), “A Not Inconsiderable Part of the Jewish People?: The Sound of Self at Time of War” Panel: “Music and Religious Propriety: Conflicts at the Boundaries of Acceptability” Sponsored by the Special Interest Group for Jewish Music Chair: Joseph M. Alpar, The Graduate Center, City University of New York Joseph M. Alpar (The Graduate Center, City University of New York), “Is It My Prayer or Yours?: Makam and the Persistence of Heritage in Turkish Hazzanut” Alex Kreger (University of Texas, Austin), “Intergenerational Conflict and Reconciliation among Alevi Zakirs in Nurhak, Turkey” Gordon Dale (Hebrew Union College and The Graduate Center, CUNY), “Kosher Music: Liquid Modernity, Public Reasoning, and Contemporary Haredi Jewish Musical Life” Discussant: Mark Kligman, University of California, Los Angeles Jeffrey A. Summit (Tufts University), “Old Wine in New Bottles: Torah Reading, Digital Technology and the Sustainability of Tradition” Jonathan Glasser (College of William & Mary), “Muslim-Jewish Musical Interaction at Algeria's Spanish-Ottoman Frontier” Panel: “Emergent African Jewish Communities: Reconfiguring Local Selves within a Global Politics” Chair: Jeffrey A. Summit, Tufts University Sponsored by the Jewish Music Special Interest Group and the African Music Section Mili Leitner (University of Chicago), “The Ethical Challenges of the Ethnomusicologist's Day Job” Michelle Kisliuk (University of Virginia), “Theorizing the Personal in Ethnographic Research and Writing: African Jews in Ghana -- Challenges and Chances” Lior Shragg (Ohio University), “It is Good to be Jewish: An Exploration of Social Identity in the Musical Practices Of the Igbo Jews of Nigeria” Discussant: Jeffrey A. Summit, Tufts University |
