Second Conference of the IMS Study Group
Global History of Music 2023
Resonances: Exploring Global Music Histories Across Cultures
Manila, Philippines / Hybrid
3–4 November 2023
Friday 3 November 2023
8.00am Registration
9.00am–9.30am Opening Ceremonies
9.30am–11.00am
Session 1: Historiographies of Musical Connections
Chair: Jose S. Buenconsejo, UP College of Music
Egberto Bermúdez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Traditional Music Collecting in Colombia, 1895–1930: Between the Global (Universalism) and the Local (Nationalism)
Michael Christoforidis (University of Melbourne)
Spanish estudiantinas and the global rise of plucked string ensembles and sonorities in the Belle Epoque
Beatriz Magalhães Castro (Universidade de Brasília)
Historiography of Latin-American Musical Practices: Is a Global History Viable?
11.00am–11.15am Merienda
11.15am–12.45pm
Session 2: Bodies, Voices, and Identities in Global Music History
Chair: Patricia Brillantes -Silvestre, UP College of Music
YuHao Chen (University of Pittsburgh)
Listening to Carnal Globality in Joseph Edkins’s Chinese Philology: Toward an Organology of the Body
Laura Case (University of Sydney)
Deborah Cheetham-Fraillon (University of Sydney)
Christopher Coady (University of Sydney)
Amanda Harris (University of Sydney)
Black Identities in Indigenous Opera of Australia
Mingyeong Son (Asian Music Research Institute, Seoul National University)
Together This Moment: Collaborative Music-Making by Korean and American Musicians
12.45pm–1.45pm Lunch
1.45pm–2.45pm
Keynote Lecture
Moderator: Maria Alexandra Chua, UST Research Center for Culture, Arts and Humanities
Yvonne Liao (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Global (Un)Doing, the Pig, and the Piano
2.45pm–3.00pm Merienda
3.00pm–5.00pm
Session 3: Music and Politics in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Chair: Arwin Tan, UP College of Music
Amanda Hsieh (Durham University)
Music Radio Programmes for the 2600th Anniversary of the Founding of Japan
Tom Peterson (SOAS University of London)
“Kāk, Kāk, Basil, Basil!”: Sounding Satire in Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya Protests
Natasha Loges (Hochschule für Musik Freiburg)
Musical Globalism in Musical Practice: A Case-Study in Art Song
Amanda Harris (University of Sydney)
Cultural mobilities and exchange between Indigenous performers in Australia’s Far North and Oceania in the 1970s
Saturday 4 November 2023
9.00am–10.30am
Session 4: Round Table
Chair: Micah Oelze, Adelphi University
Musically Mapping the Globe and the Psyche: The Forgotten Use of Sonic Cartographies for Interwar Nationalism and Cold War Subjectivities
Liliana Toledo-Guzmán (University of Arizona)
Feeling in Spanish, Feeling in Song: The Nationalizing-Subjective Aims of the 1920s Moíses Saenz Rural Education Missions
Micah Oelze (Adelphi University)
Melodic Contour Intake Assessments: Teaching Young Brazilian Educators to Psychoanalyze Folksongs for the Good of the Nation, 1924–1944
Lee Cannon-Brown (Harvard University)
The Global Turn, Historicized: Henry Cowell, the Rhythmicon, and Instruments of Global Music Theory
Jason Borge (University of Texas at Austin)
Excavating Esquivel, Mexican King of Space-Age Pop
10.30am–10.45am Merienda
10.45am–12.15pm
Session 5: Music, Ritual, and Materiality
Chair: Crisancti Macazo, Centro Escolar University
Linda Pearse (Mount Allison University)
Austrian Habsburg Sonic and Musical Responses to the Ottoman Empire (1593–1606)
David J. Kendall (La Sierra University)
From Literary Artifact to Oral Tradition: The Tagbilaran Catón
Julia Byl (University of Alberta)
Many a Slip Between Tape and Script: Transcribing Toba Batak Ritual Work
12.15pm–1.15pm Lunch
1.15pm–2.15pm Documentary Screening
José Semblante Buenconsejo (University of the Philippines Diliman)
Si Tokan: Ang Manggagawa ng Kulintang sa Maguindanao Ilaya
[Tokan: Kulintang Maker from Upriver Maguindanao]
2.15pm–2.30pm Merienda
2.30pm–4.00pm
Session 6: Black and Afrodiasporic Musics
Chair: Jen-yen Chen, National Taiwan University
Mattia Scravaglieri (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Half-Black Aesthetic and Global Resonances: A Case Study in Neapolitan Popular Music through the 70s
Gabriel Solis (University of Washington)
Revisiting the ‘Heterogeneous Sound Ideal’: Resonance and the Search for New Metanarratives for Global Music History
Chidi Obijiaku (University of the Witwatersrand)
European Music in African Aesthetics: The Transformation of Western Hymnody in Modern Nigerian Choral Music
4.00pm–5.30pm
Session 7: Musical Encounters in the Early Modern Period
Chair: David Irving, ICREA
Ziluo Huang (University of Manchester)
The Permeation and Adaptation of Western Violin Music Culture in China from the 17th to the Mid-20th Century
François Picard (IReMus, Sorbonne Université)
Zhuangzi, Shen Kuo, Galileo, Descartes and Resonance
Rachel Carpentier (Boston University)
Resonance Between Global Music History and Historical Ethnomusicology in the Early Modern Era
5.30pm Closing Remarks and Reception