Western Music at Society for Ethnomusicology Conference
Western musicology graduate students, faculty and alums made a strong contribution to this year's Society for Ethnomusicology conference in Ottawa (October 19-22, 2023).
Dr. Emily Abrams Ansari and students Ala Krivov, Huang (Patrick) Huang and Zhengyi (David) Zhu made the road trip together to Ottawa, and were joined there by postdoc Raj Shobha Singh. Ansari, Krivov, Huang and Singh all presented papers at the conference, along with several Western alums including PhD graduate John Pippen (2014).
Although Western Music has no program in ethnomusicology, the subdiscipline and its methods are playing an increasingly significant role in musicological research. The Western papers presented were highly varied in their subject matter and all well-received. The graduate students, who were all attending SEM for the first time, learned much from the other talks at this large conference.
The papers presented by current students and faculty were:
- Patrick Huang (PhD student), "The Tetratonic and Pentatonic Music System in Warring States China (476-221 B.C.): A Textual and Musical Analysis"
- Ala Krivov (PhD student), "The Little Dog Loved to See Such Sport: Musicality in Dog Training"
- Raj Shobha Singh (postdoc), "Inuit Hip Hop: Voicing Modernity, Lived Experiences, and Cultural Health"
- Emily Abrams Ansari (associate professor), "Faith, Trauma, Resistance, and Resilience in the Revolutionary Songs of Civil War El Salvador"
Photo 1: PhD (Musicology) student Patrick Huang
Photo 2: PhD (Musicology) student Ala Krivov
Photo 3: Postdoctoral Associate Raj Shobha Singh
Photo 4: Associate Professor Emily Abrams Ansari
