8:00 - 11:00pm

JOINT RECEPTION with CSTM

• Flux School of Human Movement, 3424 13th Ave.
• Food provided; Cash bar

10:00 - 10:30am

Break (RC 175)

10:30am - 12:30pm

SESSION 1

1A: Time is of the Essence: Popular Music, Ageing, and Memory (RC 175)

Moderator: Mark V. Campbell, Ryerson University

• Knowledge Production and Nostalgia Production: Exploring the Impact of Archiving Hip Hop Cultures in Institutional and Community Contexts
  • Mark V. Campbell, Ryerson University
• Hip-Hop Nostalgia and Competing Discourses of the Past
  • Murray Forman, Northeastern University
• Music at your fingertips: Exploring the music-trajectories of signing Deaf seniors in Montreal
  • Line Grenier, Université de Montréal; Véro Leduc, Université du Québec à Montréal
• Aging Intimacies with Marie Bernard
  • David Madden, Concordia University

1B: Cross-Cultural Collaborations (RC 286)

Moderator: Chris McDonald, Cape Breton University

• Indigenous Nation-to-Nation Musical Solidarity in Quantum Tangle
  • Alexa Woloshyn, Carnegie Mellon University
• Exploring the Impact of the Punjabi Sufi Revival and its Implications for Reconciliation Between East and West Punjab
  • Arshdeep Khaira, University of Alberta
• Lecture-Demonstration: Weaving Bridges:  A Case Study of the Canada-Chile Music Teacher’s Exchange as Cross Cultural Collaboration
  • Heather Horak, Carleton University

12:30 - 2:00pm

Lunch

2:00 - 3:00pm

SESSION

2A: Aging and the Female Icon (RC 175)

Moderator: Annie Janeiro Randall, Bucknell University

• Vera Lynn 100: Legacy, Diversity, and National Belonging in the Brexit Era
  • Christina Baade, McMaster University
• Lucky Punk:  Authenticity and Debbie Harry’s Aging Vocal Identity
  • Tiffany Naiman, Stanford University

3:00 - 3:30pm

Break (RC 175)

3:30 - 5:00pm

SESSION 3

3A: Girls Rock (RC 175)

Moderator: Susan Fast, McMaster University

• What’s So Bad About Groovy? Teen Magazines of the mid-1960s as Proto-Rolling Stone
  • Norma Coates, University of Western Ontario
• Goldie and the Gingerbreads: A Case Study of the All-Girl Band in 1960s Rock ‘n’ Roll
  • Brittany Greening, Dalhousie University
• “When She Plays We Hear the Revolution”: A Case Study of Girls Rock Regina
  • Charity Marsh, University of Regina

3B: Classical/Popular Encounters and Crossovers (RC 286)

Moderator: David Brackett, McGill University

• Wagner the Gardener: Uncovering a Popular Cult
  • Emilie Hurst, York and Ryerson University
• Le cross-over comme outil de diversification des programmations de concerts : portrait d’une pratique des orchestres symphoniques de Québec et de Montréal
  • Laura Trottier, Université Laval
• Frank Zappa’s Lament: Musical Meaning and Mystique in “Watermelon in Easter Hay”
  • Alexander Hallenbeck, UCLA

5:00 - 5:15pm

Break (RC 175)

5:15 - 7:00pm

Special Professional Development Session (RC 175)

Teaching Popular Music

Moderator: Line Grenier, Université de Montréal

Panelists:

• Melissa Avdeeff, University of Victoria
• Christina Baade, McMaster University
• Charity Marsh, University of Regina

7:00 - Late

OPENING BANQUET/RECEPTION with DJ VERBAL & SPECIAL GUEST EEKWOL

• Flux School of Human Movement, 3424 13th Ave.
• Food provided; Cash bar

9:00 - 10:30am

SESSION 4

4A: Popular Music Economies and the Politics of Labour (CW 237.1)

Moderator: Line Grenier, Université de Montréal

• Music’s role in political-economic transformation: Demolishing diversity in the Anglo-American world of work
  • Matt Stahl, University of Western Ontario
• Popular music and the transformation of cultural work: (not so) new conceptions among Québec workers and creators
  • Martin Lussier, UQAM; Anouk Bélanger, UQAM
• The Uber of House Concerts? Sofar Sounds in a Prairie Music Context
  • Daniel Akira Stadnicki, University of Alberta

4B: Prophecy, Populism, and the Sardinian Posse (CW 237.3)

Moderator: Murray Forman, Northeastern University

• Hip-Hop’s New Saviour: Syncretic Prophecy and Conversion on Kendrick Lamar’s D.A.M.N (2017)
  • Alyssa Woods, Carleton University; Robert Michael Edwards, University of Ottawa
• Sam Hui, Hong Kong Identity, and the Voice of the Commoners
  • Chan Yuen Woon, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• "Represent" the Island: Rap in and about Sardinian Language
  • Diego Pani, Memorial University of Newfoundland

10:30 - 11:00am

Break (CW 237.1)

11:00am - 12:30pm

SESSION 5

5A: Contesting Nations - Popular Music and National Identities in Present-Day Canada and America (CW 237.1)

Moderator: David Wilson, Stanford University

• Natalie Cole’s Beautiful America: Identity and Nationalism at Super Bowl XXVIII
  • Kirstin Haag, Stanford University
• Truth and Reconciliation at the Polaris Music Prize Gala: Hearing Indigenous Voices in a Post-TRC Canada
  • Michael Evans Kinney, Stanford University
• From ‘Pub Fight’ to ‘Angelic’: Of Trump, Anger Management, and Music
  • David Wilson, Stanford University

5B: Negotiating Popular Culture Online (CW 237.3)

Moderator: Melissa Avdeeff, University of Victoria

• From the Streets to SoundCloud: A Look At Hip-Hop’s Genre Evolution Online
  • Kristopher R. K. Ohlendorf, Independent Scholar
• The Semiotics of Instagram in the Study of Popular Music: #findingdiversityinsurfbands
  • Anne Smith, University Paul Valery
• Sociocultural Immersion in Pop History’s Past: A Community of Inquiry Approach to Online Pedagogy
  • Allison Fairbairn, University of Saskatchewan

12:30 - 2:00pm

Lunch

2:00 - 3:00pm

KEYNOTE PLENARY (CW 237.1)

• Performance/Discussion with RPM Recording Artists
  • Eekwol (Lindsay Knight)

3:00 - 3:30pm

Break (CW 237.1)

3:30 - 5:00pm

SESSION 6

6A: Diversity, Canadian Identity, and Cultural Policy (CW 237.1)

Moderator: Matt Stahl, University of Western Ontario

• “Canada was Joined at the Hip”: Issues of Diversity in the Connections between The Tragically Hip, the CBC, and Canadian Identity
  • Michelle MacQueen , Carleton University
• “Our Hopes are High:” Diversity, Cultural Policy and Canadian Popular Music During the Trudeau Era
  • Chris McDonald, Cape Breton University
• Discovering Diversity: Canadian Music Industry Policy and Cultural Expression
  • Richard Sutherland, Mount Royal University

6B: Sounding Difference: Queerness and Collectivity (CW 237.3)

Moderator: Michael Evans Kinney, Stanford University

• Collective Listening: Popular Music, Temporal Drag, and the Politics of Difference
  • Craig Jennex, McMaster University
• Lecture-Performance: masc4masc presents dawson’screamo
  • Joshua Hochman, UCSD; Hillary Jean Young, UCSD

5:00 - 6:30pm

Annual Business Meeting (CW 237.1)

9:00 - 10:00am

SESSION 7

7A: Hip Hop(TM) (CW 237.1)

Moderator: Alyssa Woods, Carleton University

• Promotional Vehicles: Financialization, Cultural Analytics, and Hip Hop Branding
  • Andrew deWaard, University of California, Los Angeles
• We the North: Understanding the Symbolic Associations between Toronto Raptors Basketball, Drake, and Nike’s Jordan Brand
  • Jordan William Zalis, Memorial University of Newfoundland

7B: DJs and Mashups (CW 237.3)

Moderator: Charity Marsh, University of Regina

• DJs Dancing around Diversity
  • Tami Gadir, University of Oslo
• Capturing the Zeitgeist: Preserving American Music and Culture in the Mashups of DJ Earworm
  • Jeff Yunek, Kennesaw State University

10:00 - 10:30am

Break (CW 237.1)

10:30am - 12:00pm

SESSION 8

8A: Close Listening and Popular Music Analysis (CW 237.1)

Moderator: Eric Smialek, McGill University

• Caractériser le timbre : le « plan de consistance » d’une communauté d’instrumentistes-saxophonistes
  • Martin Desjardins, Université Laval
• Stratégies extratextuelles dans «That’s What I Like» de Bruno Mars
  • Charlotte Bonneau-Crépin, Université Laval; Jacqueline Fortier, Université Laval: Jérémi Gendron, Université Laval
• Listening to Electric Miles: Collaboration and Creativity in the Jazz Recording Studio
  • David Brackett, McGill University

8B: Gender, Image, and Music Video (CW 237.3)

Moderator: Norma Coates, University of Western Ontario

• Muscles, a Mullet, and a RoMantic: Michael Bolton and Masculine Melodrama
  • Saesha Senger, University of Kentucky
• Björk’s Future Femininity: Biophilia Meets Technophilia
  • Melissa Avdeeff, University of Victoria
• Lyric Video: Controlling Artistic Image, Sound, and the Stories They Tell
  • Laura McLaren, University of Ottawa

12:00 - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00 - 2:30pm

WORKSHOP (RC 049)

• Beatmaking/DJ 101 at the IMP Lab
  • Charity Marsh, University of Regina

2:30 - 3:00pm

Break

3:00 - 4:30pm

SESSION 9

9A: Constructing Myths of Authenticity (CW 237.1)

Moderator: Steven Baur, Dalhousie University

• I’ve Got to Keep Moving: Movement and Myth in “Hellhound on My Trail”
  • Thomas Hanslowe, UCLA
• The Myth of the Delayed Backbeat in Southern Soul: Discourses of Rhythmic, Corporeal, and Racial Authenticity
  • Eric Smialek, McGill University
• Hearing Tradition on Satellite Radio: Bob Dylan, Storytelling, and the “Authenticity Celebrity”
  • Brian Fauteux, University of Alberta

9B: K-Pop Cultures (CW 237.3)

Moderator: Martin Lussier, UQAM

• Multiculturalism and Assimilation in K-pop Idol Groups
  • Gina Choi, University of British Columbia
• Les pratiques faniques en tant que marques d’engagement culturel : le cas de la K-pop sur le web
  • Charlotte Bonneau-Crépin, Université Laval

4:30 - 5:00pm

Break

5:30 - 6:30pm

SESSION 10

10A: Incarceration, Social Justice, and Popular Music (CW 237.1)

Moderator: Christina Baade, McMaster University

• A Musicologist in Prison
  • Annie Janeiro Randall, Bucknell University
• Nihilism and Rage: The Activism of Gangs and Gangsta Rap in Chiraq
  • Ty Hall, Carleton University 

10B: Compilations, Song Sheets, and Material Culture (CW 237.3)

Moderator: Brian Fauteux, University of Alberta

• Curating the Rock and Roll Archive: the Role of Reissue Anthology Compilations in the Garage Rock Revival
  • José Vicente Neglia, University of Hong Kong
• "Uptown Funk" and the Politics of Retro: Privilege and Precarity in Sounding the Pop Music Archive
  • Susan Fast, McMaster University

7:00 - 10:00pm

CLOSING DINNER

• Bushwakkers Brew Pub, 2206 Dewdney Ave