Feminist Theory and Music Conference
Feminist Theory and Music 16 Conference Program
OPENING DAY: Thursday, July 7th
10:00-12:00 Pre-conference meeting, Grove Music Online, Revision on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Mackinnon Building, Rm. 129)
1:00 Registration Opens (Rozanski (ROZ) Lobby)
1:30-2:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks,
Samantha Brennan - Dean, College of Arts, University of Guelph (ROZ, Lobby)
2:30 - 4:00
Paper Session I: Feminist Cultural Work (ROZ 107)
Chair: Tes Slominski
Notes from Dodie: Hidden Labor and Unmarked Whiteness in the 1960s Music Industry
Alexandra Apolloni
American Jewish Women and the Nurturing of New York Opera Culture
Samantha Madison Cooper
Roundtable I: On Not Breaking up with Jazz, A Roundtable on Gender and Embodiment in Jazz Studies (ROZ 106)
Nichole T. Rustin, Celeste Day Moore, Karen Campos McCormack, Rebeca Munoz-García, Sarah Town, and Vilde Aaslid
4:00 – 5:00 Keynote Speaker – Charity Marsh (ROZ, 102)
5:00 – 6:00: Welcome reception (ROZ, Lobby)
DAY TWO: Friday, July 8th
9:00-10:30
Paper Session II (short): Pleasure and Empowerment (ROZ, 102)
Chair: Christi-Jay Wells
“Now I’m Gonna Move”: The Embodied Listening and Desirous Rock Criticism of Ellen Willis."
Briana M. Nave
Aging, Trans-aging, and Empowerment in Alanis Morrisette's "Reasons I Drink
Karen Fournier
10:30-11:30
Paper Session III (short): Ecofeminism (ROZ, 107)
Chair: Ellen Waterman
Ecofeminist Community in Björk’s Music Video Utopia (2017)
Anna-Elena Pääkkölä
“If I Were a Little Sparrow”: Women Folksingers’ Narrative Perspectives in Woman as Bird Songs
Kari Lindquist
Special Session on Publishing - Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture (10:30-11:15) (ROZ, Atrium)
Lisa Barg and Vanessa Blais-Tremblay
Lecture Recital I (ROZ 106)
Betty the Mom
Clara Latham, Katherine Brook, and Alice Teyssier
11:30-12:30
Roundtable II: "Better Be Good to Me": Narratives of Domestic Violence in American Popular Song (ROZ, 102)
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Samantha Bassler, Lindsey Eckenroth, Lauron Kehrer, and Anna Gotlib
Lecture Recital II (ROZ, 106):
Jazz's Silent Theatre: Explorations of Black Women Performers in Paris
Rashida K. Braggs
12:30-1:45 Lunch Break and Grad Student Reception (ROZ, Lobby)
1:45-3:45
Paper Session IV: Consent & Violence (ROZ, 106)
Chair: Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
p r i s m: Bearing Witness to Sexual Assault and Trauma
Jessica Sipe
Hey Siri, Play Me Something I Like: Smart Speakers, Ubiquitous Music, and Legacies of Oppression
Christina Baade
“I Live the Life I Love and I Love the Life I Live": Covering Jackie Shane's Toronto
Vange Holtz-Schramek
Bikini Kill’s “Liar”: Trauma, Screams, and Embodied Confusion
Emily Milius
Paper Session V: Modern Institutions, Issues and Solutions (ROZ, 102)
Chair: Emily Wilbourne
Charting Culture: Industry Data and the Curation of Institutional Memory
Jada Watson
Genealogy-Making: Creating Anti-Imperial Feminist Practices of Repair in Music Research
Denise Gill
Investigating & Addressing Gendered Abuse in 21st-Century Musicological Institutions
Jillian C. Rogers
1:00-2:30 Special Session - Roundtable and Performance, Musique 3 Femmes and Justine et les machines (Massey Hall, Lower Theatre)
Students of the University of Guelph Experiential Learning class and Marie-Eve Bouchard and Sonia Paço-Rocchia
** PLENARY ROUNDTABLE, KEYNOTE, and BANQUET **
LOCATION: University of Guelph, Arboretum
4:00 -5:30
Plenary Roundtable Discussion: Feminist Musicology – A Retrospective
Moderator: Alisha Lola Jones
Sommer Forrester, Bonnie Gordon, Gayle Murchison, Tes Slominski, and Alyssa Woods
5:30-6:30
Plenary Keynote Speaker: Maureen Mahon
6:30-9:00
Conference banquet
DAY THREE: Saturday, July 9th
9:00-11:00
Roundtable III: Women’s Musical Leadership as Lens for Feminist Musical Study: Salon Culture, Collectives, Mentorship, and Networks (ROZ, 106)
Chair: Christina Baade
Ann Grindley, Laura Watson, Laura Hamer, Helen Julia Minors
Paper Session VII: Envoicing Difference (ROZ, 102)
Chair: Gayle Murchison
Singing OUR stories: Researcher as “Insider”
Laura Curtis
An Intersectional Approach to Gender Differences in Classical Singers’ Experiences of Music Performance Anxiety
Meaghan McKay
“It’s Just You Swirling into Your Own Abyss”: Complicated Legacies and Fraught Possibilities in a Twenty-First-Century Mad Scene
McKenna Milici
“F Delano”: Omoiyari and the Legacy of Japanese Incarceration Camps
Jamie Ascher
11:00-11:30 – Coffee/Tea
11:00-12:30
Roundtable IV: Building a Feminist Research-Creation Partnership in Quebec’s Music Industry (ROZ, 106)
Researchers: Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, Nour Amjahdi, Lysandre Champagne, Raphaël Jacques, Jade Lupien, Vicky Tremblay, Émilie Versailles
Industry Partners: Lola Baraldi (shesaid.soMTL), Sara Dendane (Mtl Women in Music), Alex Guimond (F*EM), Marcelle Partouche (Lotus Collective MTL Coop)
Paper Session VIII (short): The Beauty of Womanhood (ROZ, 107)
Chair: Ellie Hisama
Afro-diasporic Womanhood in Tania León’s ‘Oh Yemanja’
Marysol Quevedo
The Baroness Elsa Project: Envoicing Marginalized Genders and Sexualities
Ellen Waterman
12:30-1:45 Lunch and Business Meeting (ROZ, 102)
1:45-3:45
Paper Session IX: Transformative Pedagogies (ROZ, 106)
Chair: Mary Natvig
B is for Beyoncé: Picture Books as a Tool for Intersectional Music Education
Anneli Loepp Thiessen
Jazz Education After 2017: The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and the Pedagogical Lineage
Tracy McMullen
Cyberfeminism as Artivism for Music Teaching and Learning
Marissa Silverman
1:45-4:30
Paper Session X: Indigeneity, Decolonization, and Allyship (ROZ, 102)
Chair: Charity Marsh
Respondents and Performers:
Rena-Marie Roussin, Renata Yazzie, and Taqralik Partridge
Hip Hop, Feminist Spaces, and Decolonization
Liz Przybylski
Ceremony and Sistering: Care Ethics, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Dramaturgy
Margaret Cormier
Glitch in the [Settler] Machine: Radical Acts of Ind'ins in the Digital Age
Kate Pewenofkit Briner
Dismantling Settler Colonial Structures in Canadian Music Studies through Feminist Approaches
Gale Maranda Franklin
4:30-5:30
Keynote Speaker (ROZ, 102): Emily Wilbourne
7:30-9:30
Opera Performance (Massey Hall, Lower Theatre): Musique 3 Femmes: Anna Pigdorna and Maria Reva, Plaything
CLOSING DAY: Sunday, July 10th
9:00-11:00
Paper Session XI: Protest & Resistance (ROZ, 106)
Chair: Kimberly Francis
Simone on the Keys: A Protest Dressed in Black Feminine Identity
Abigail C. Lindo
Resisting the Funk Patriarchy: Lyn Collins’s “Mama Feelgood” and Revolutionary Time
Rachael Dennis
The Bad Girls Club
George Preston Wilson Jr
Black Feminist Resistance in Barbershop
Daniel Carsello
Lecture Recital III: O Blissful Loss of Self: Explorations of Ecstasy in the Music and Poetry of Women (ROZ, 102)
Carole Ott Coelho and Tadeu Coelho
11:00-12:00 – Closing Remarks (Lobby)