Thursday, 10 November
10:15AM – 11:45AM, Camp ◆ Faith, Solidarity, & Musical Expression
Chair(s): Jackson Mann, University of Maryland, College Park
The Many Saints of Spokane: Labor Religion in IWW Hymnal Contrafacta. Jackson Albert Mann, University of Maryland, College Park
Jewish Immigrant Contribution to Labor Movement Music. Gabriela Cameron, University of Maryland, College Park
Interfaith Singing for Social Justice. Alexandria Pecoraro, University of Maryland, College Park
1:45PM – 3:45PM, Camp ◆ After Jews and Arabs: Musical Paths of Arab Jews
Chair(s): Nili Belkind, Hebrew University; Edwin Seroussi, Hebrew University
Presenter(s):
Jonathan Glasser, College of William and Mary
Jonathan Shannon, CUNY
Clara Wenz, Universität Würzburg
2:15PM – 3:45PM, Grand Salon 7/10 ◆ Music and the Cold War Left
Chair(s): Kevin Bartig
The Forgotten Radical: Miriam Gideon’s “Scottsboro” Cantata (1937). Anne C. Shreffler, Harvard University
Performing the Authoritarian Voice: Mauricio Kagel’s Radio Plays as Staged Documentarism. Janina Müller, KU Leuven
Peekskill 1949: Paul Robeson and the Intersection of Cold War and Black Racial Politics. Aldwyn Anthony Hogg Jr, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4:00PM – 5:30PM, Grand Salon 15/18 ◆ Holocaust Memory
Chair(s): Ronit Seter
“Although Music Here is Chronic, Many Lives are Disharmonic”: Cabaret Songs as Discord to the Harmonizing Narrative of Theresienstadt. James A. Grymes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Rehearing the Warsaw Ghetto: Literary Collaboration, Authorial Erasure, and the Creation of Holocaust Memory in the Memoirs of Władysław Szpilman. Mackenzie Pierce, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Composing the Polish Jewish Past: The Politics of Memory in Szymon Laks’s Elégie pour les villages juifs. Nicolette van den Bogerd, Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music
4:00PM – 5:30PM, Prince of Wales ◆ Constructing Narratives of Nazism and Fascism: History, Historiography, and Canonical Memory
Holocaust Ventriloquism?: Virtual Spectacles or Living Performance. Kathryn Agnes Huether, Bowdoin College Performing Folklore:
4:00PM – 5:30PM, Chart A ◆ The Concept of Mode in Jewish Music Studies
Chair(s): Yonatan Malin, University of Colorado Boulder
Discussant(s): Marc Perlman, Brown University
Presenter(s): Mark Kligman, UCLA; Tina Frühauf, Columbia University; Rachel Adelstein; Yonatan Malin, University of Colorado Boulder; Daniel Shanahan, Ohio State University
4:00PM – 5:30PM in Grand Ballroom C ◆ Border-Crossing and Code-Switching in Opera
Chair(s): Colleen Renihan
Dirtying the Waters: Reversing History and Reevaluating Political Musiktheater in Mauricio Kagel’s Mare Nostrum (1975). Elaine Fitz Gibbon, Harvard University
4:30pm – 5:00pm, Grand Salon 19/22 ◆ Exchange, Mobility, and the Archive
The Crowdsourced Digital Archive. Clara Byom, Klezmer Institute
8:00 pm, Commerce ◆ Special Interest Group Meeting of the Jewish Studies and Music Study Group – “The American Southern Jewish Experience through Music in New Orleans”
Chair: Samantha M. Cooper, Harvard University
Performer: Mark Rubin, NOLA
Presenter: Tine Rassalle, Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
Discussant: Zeke Levine, NYU
Friday, 11 November
8:30AM – 10:30AM, Camp ◆ Music, Migration, and Nostalgia
Chair(s): Jesse Freedman, Saint Joseph’s University
Challenging the Theater of Memory: Yiddish Song beyond Kitsch and Stereotype. Isabel Frey, Music and Minorities Research Center, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna; Benjy Fox-Rosen, Music and Minorities Research Center, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
12:30pm, Grand Ballroom ◆ Jewish Music Studies Joint Business Meeting
A joint business/social meeting for two study groups:
AMS Jewish Studies and Music Study Group (JSMSG)
SEM Special Interest Group (SIG) for Jewish Music
An opportunity to meet Jewish music scholars from all three disciplines.
1:45PM – 3:45PM in Grand Salon 3/6 ◆ Queer Worlding
Chair(s): Hannah Burge Luviano, Humber College
Yes, Your Mother’s Archive: Queer and Ethnic Identity in Yiddish Revival Music. Gabriel Aaron Zuckerberg, Brown University
1:45PM – 3:45PM, Prince of Wales ◆ Engagements with Gastromusicology
Eating from the Plates of Ghosts: Iraqi Biographical Songs and the Gastromusicology of Trauma. Liliana Carrizo, Colorado College
4:00PM – 5:30PM, Chart A ◆ Contemporary Israeli Youth Cultures
Chair(s): Rachel Adelstein, Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel
Drag Kings, Queens, and Non-Binary Monarchs: LGBTQ Hegemony and Misogyny in Tel Avivi Nightclubs. Richard Smith, University of Michigan
This is Ethiopia: TikTok Sounds and the performance of Diasporic Identities among Ethiopian-Israeli Teens. Leeya Mor, Bar-Ilan University
4:00PM – 5:30PM, Grand Salon 24 ◆ The Pirkei Avot of Istanbul: A Lecture-Demonstration on a Para-Liturgical Synagogue Repertoire
The Pirkei Avot of Istanbul: A Lecture- Demonstration on a Para-Liturgical Synagogue Repertoire. Joseph Alpar, Bennington College
Saturday, 12 November
9:00AM – 10:30AM, Grand Salon 7/10 ◆ Film Music
In Search of Greener Fields: Edgar G. Ulmer, Peretz Hirschbein, and Looking Forward to Look Back. Ezekiel Levine, New York University
10:45AM – 12:15PM, Chart A ◆ Remembrance and Reconstruction of Jewish Musical Traditions: Old and New Methodologies and Technologies
Chair(s): Tamar Sella, Rice University
Singing with Yiddish voices from the past: Engaging with field recordings of Magid and Beregowski as memory work. Monika E. Schoop, Leuphana University
“Mi Monastir”: Remembrance and Reconstruction of Monastir’s Jewish Musical Life. Tara Jordan, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Sunday, 13 November
8:30AM – 10:30AM, Quarterdeck ◆ Socially Distanced Spirituality: Music, Prayer, and Technology during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Chair(s): Gordon Dale, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion; Melvin Butler, University of Miami; Ryan Mackey, Durham University; Anna Nekola, Canadian Mennonite University; Marcia Ostashewski, Cape Breton University; Jeffrey Summit, Tufts University
9:00AM – 10:30AM, Grand Salon 7/10 ◆ Sacred Music in Germany
Chair(s): Tina Frühauf, RILM / CUNY
German Oratorios and Jewish Politics. Barry Wiener