Programme 2023

Opening of the Conference

Sini Mononen and Kim Ramstedt

Keynote I (online)

Martha Gonzalez: Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles

chair: Sini Mononen

Session 1 (online): Resistance and Community Organisation 1

chair: Inka Rantakallio

Gonzalo Carrasco: The Chilean Social Outburst and ‘nueva canción’: Older musical forms for contemporary resistance

Sudiipta Shamalii Dowsett: Embodied politic of hip-hop: from Khayelitsha, South Africa to Lajamanu, Australia

Radoš Mitrović: Hip Hop Song as the “Soundtrack” of Major Political Upheaval in Montenegro

Session 2: Politics in Musical Works and Practices 1

chair: Yumi Notohara

Emmi Kujanpää: Transnational Collaboration and Activism in Contemporary Eastern European Folk Singing

Thorsten Philipp: Soundscapes of Ecofeminism: Renegotiating gender and environment through pop music

Beatrix Vieira Nunes: Victims No More: how women and non-binary musicians are collaborating for gender justice in jazz

Session 3: Ecomusicology 1

chair: Juha Torvinen

Małgorzata Heinrich: Environmental sound, Non-Heteronormativity, and Gender in the works by Barry Truax

Sara Beimdieke: Back to the roots? Music addressing climate change as part of a (music) history of crises

Rowan Bayliss Hawitt: Musical ecologies of grief: breathing and environmental justice in Love Ssega’s “Our World (Fight for Air)” 

Session 4: Resistance and Community Organisation 2

chair: Ann Werner

Nora H. Leidinger: Baraye Azadi – Music at the 2022 Iranian Feminist Protest Movement

Woojin Na: Fan’s activism and collective flourishing: BTS French fan’s social engagement against racism and for environment

Nina Öhman: Mahalia Jackson’s gospel music mastery and the force of the sonic

Session 5 (online): Resistance and Community Organisation 3

chair: Pirita Näkkäläjärvi

Stefanie Barschdorf: Chicken to Change: When a Song Challenged Robert Mugabe

Moira de Kok: Sounds of Solidarity: Music in the 1984–85 Miners’ Strike

Mathieu Guillien: The Politics of Techno

Session 6: Politics in Musical Works and Practices 2

chair: Imke Misch

Ignacio Soto-Silva: The trutruka playing in popular music: activism and resistance in the region of los Lagos, Chile

Reetta Näätänen: Cultural sensitivity and the interpretation of cross-cultural contemporary Western music

Kirsten Hedegaard: Eco-Choral Music: Mobilizing the Choral Art for Environmental Activism

Session 7: Ecomusicology 2

chair: Leena Julin

Rebekah E. Moore: “A Method to Match the Message”: A Story of Art and Activism on a Wooden Sailing Ship

Tuulikki Laes: Artists for a sustainable future: Art-science activism within higher music education

Elizabeth Frickey: Musical Protest and Power in the Fight for New York City's Community Gardens

Session 8: Resistance and Community Organisation 4

chair: Sini Mononen

Dominik Schlienger and Liisa Tuomi: Gaia Lava – A low carbon performance stage

Brigitta Davidjants and Marju Raju: Identity and Mental Health. Case study of LGBTQ+ Mixed Choir Vikerlased

Riikka Suhonen: Decades of singing together about societal causes that matter: Case study of a choir in Finland

Session 9 (online): Ecomusicology 3 & Resistance and Community Organisation)

chair: Juha Torvinen

Kirsten Zemke and Luka Amber Leleiga Lim-Bunnin: Tangaroa-Tagaloa: Environmental justice in Oceanian Indigenous popular music

Grace Healy: From the Archives: British Punk, Fanzines and Rock Against Prejudice!

Session 10: Politics in Musical Works and Practices 3

chair: Carolin Müller

Uri Agnon: An Activist Shift: New Music and Political Action

Javier Silva-Zurita: Language revitalization and integration of traditional music: The case of Leftraru Hualamán, a Mapuche Williche musician and activist from southern Chile

Kimi Kärki: Finnish Fascism and its Affective Musical Heritage

Session 11: Institutions, Structures, and Systems 1

chair: Kaj Ahlsved

Cassandra Gibson: Gender, Power and Silence: The shaping forces of women’s engagement in the Australian classical music industry

Wilhelm Kvist: Symphony orchestras as promotors of human rights – a utopia?

Ann Werner (and Cecilia Ferm Almqvist): Ethical and equal: Policy for social justice in higher music education

Session 12: Resistance and Community Organisation 5

chair: Marita Buanes Djupvik

Sam Coley: Ballade de la Désescalade: Profiling Graeme Allwright as Activist

Ondřej Daniel: Czech Punk, Activism and Research

Paola Elean Nieto Paredes: Music, tradition, and bottom-up practices for crossing borders: The diplomatic role of Fandango Fronterizo at the U.S.-Mexico border

Conference Reception, hosted by the University of Helsinki

Lauri Supponen, Riikka Talvitie and Juha Torvinen: Wave Motion – Perspectives to Nature (for string quartet, video and live-electronics), more information here

Kamus String Quartet

Session 13 (online): Politics in Musical Works and Practices 4

chair: Emmi Kujanpää

Carlos Pérez Tabares: “I Am the Song I Sing”: Identity, Resistance, and Embodiment in the Music of Bola de Nieve

Gustavo Souza Marquez: Racial Play in a Music Video Trilogy: Analysing Tyler, The Creator’s “Yonkers”, “Buffalo” and “Find Your Wings”

Christine Dysers: Haters, Twelve Points: Tacit Social Activism in Iceland’s 2019 Eurovision Entry

Session 14: Studies of Distress and Disadvantage 1

chair: Saijaleena Rantanen

Leena Julin: Hate speech in the name of God – hiding discrimination behind religion

Yalda Yazdani: Music between creativity and censorship in post revolutionary Iran: Ethnographic fieldwork research by focusing on musical activities of women singers in different regions of Iran  

Session 15: Institutions, Structures, and Systems 2

chair: Nina Öhman

Pauliina Syrjälä: Licence to compose – Oral composing practices as a catalyst for inclusivity

Marita Buanes Djupvik: Where do broken hearts go? Gender, race and academic neglect in Whitney Houston’s music

Ken Ueno: Towards the Un-Corseting of Non-Western Bodies

Session 16: Resistance and Community Organisation 6

chair: Ondřej Daniel

Chia-An (Victor) Tung: Music Power and Cultural Identity: The Siraya Revitalization Through Activism in Formosa

Outi Ahonen and Katja Sutela: Decolonizing music education – experiences of deaf at the centre

Katherine Mary Griffiths: Recovering the 1980s and 1990s London lesbian club scene through archival activism

Keynote II (online)

Aaron S. Allen: Ecomusicological Listening as Activism

chair: Juha Torvinen

Session 17 (online): Work for Social Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion 1

chair: Katja Sutela

Stephanie A. Budwey: Liturgies of Livability or Liturgical Violence: What Kind of Space is Christian Congregational Song Creating for LGBTQIA+ and Nonbinary People?

James Hazel Maher: The Collaborative Sonic Anarchive; Working Through Precarity

Linus Eusterbrock: From coal train to classroom: What can a climate-conscious music education learn from climate activism?

Session 18: Studies of Distress and Disadvantage 2

chair: Kim Ramstedt

Anu Lampela (Vehviläinen): Two Praxes of Anxiety: Similarities between the Finnish Awakened of the 19th Century and Practicing Piano Today

Pirita Näkkäläjärvi: “Lou leig-u luu” and a fake Sámi hat: How to identify cultural appropriation of Sámi yoiking in Finnish music

Yumi Notohara: The A-Bombed Musical Instruments of Hiroshima: Cultural and Peace Education Roles as Testimonies of Wars

Session 19: Institutions, Structures, and Systems 3

chair: Susanna Välimäki

Lea Jung: “Taking Up Space” – Safer and digital spaces created by feminist music networks

Anna Ramstedt: Outlining preventive measures for gendered and sexual misconduct, and emotional abuse in classical music education in Finland

Session 20: Resistance and Community Organisation 7

chair: Kimi Kärki

Xulia Feixoo: A Illa é nosa! Ethnomusicology, activism and community engagement in Ons Island (NW Iberian Peninsula)

Joanna Zienkiewicz: Music against Populism: How to Redefine the ‘Will of the People’?

Jackson Albert Mann: Jawsmith Quartets: Communist Folklorism, IWW Music, and U.S. Left-wing Performance Practice

Roundtable (hybrid): T-Bone Slim – a songwriter, an activist and a hobo

chair: Saijaleena Rantanen

Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and Lotta Leiwo: Music and Poetry in Ashtabula and Erie during T-Bone Slim’s Childhood and Youth

Saku Pinta: The Mysteries of Other Popular Wobblies

Marija Dalbello: The Workers' Dream and Rebel Worker Group Poets

John Westmoreland: T-Bone Slim “Mostly Song”

Session 21: Politics in Musical Works and Practices 5

chair: Reetta Näätänen

James Chikomborero Paradza: Beyoncé’s Lemonade in South Africa: Exploring perceptions of the visual album as a medium for intersectionality

Alexandra von der Embse: Gabriella Smith’s “Kisiabaton” as Agent of Climate Change Activism

Panel 1: Sonic Rebellions: Music, Resistance and Social Justice

chair: Juha Torvinen

Baljit Kaur: The American Dream ‘Made in LDN’: Young People’s Production of Rap Music in the Neoliberal Youth Club

Markus Hetheier: Queer Resistance: DIY Culture in Manchester’s Electronic Music Scene 

Celeste Cantor-Stephens: Border Spaces and Sounds of Resistance

Conference Dinner

Live music: Jaranas del Norte and John Westmoreland

Session 22 (online): Politics in Musical Works and Practices 6

chair: Anna Ramstedt

Claudia Lubao: Using Music for Cultural Heritage Sustainability: The Challenge of Producing both, Activist Songs and Popular Songs

Elise Haller-Shannon: Women’s Work: Composing a feminist interpretation of the Scottish waulking song tradition

Anchal Khansili: An Ecomusicological message from Congo to the World

Session 23: Resistance and Community Organisation 8

chair: Sam Coley

Aimée George: Surveillance and Strategy from contemporary South African women in jazz

Melissa Arkley: “It’s metal as fuck to address these topics”: How women and non-binary extreme metal vocalists are using the conventions of extreme metal to do feminist activism

Panel 2: Levelling the Music Playing Field: Diversity and Inclusion in Music. Necessary conditions but are they sufficient for equity?

chair: Samuli Korkalainen

June Fileti: Activist Research through Action Research: Creating Cultural Capital through Assessment in Instrumental Music Tuition

Vasileios Stamatis: Music Graded examinations revenue model and global inequality: Time for a different approach?

Session 24: Methods of Activism in Research 1

chair: Pauliina Syrjälä

Andrea Dankić: But what if my research interest ends up hurting me or my family?: Reflections on methodology and ethics

Matti Huttunen: Music and Militant Optimism: Some Implications of Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of Music

Sarah Sauvé: How do you solve a problem like capitalism? Capitalism and anti-capitalism in music research

Keynote III

Minna Salami: Revelation and Revolution: The Connection of Black Feminist Theory and the Arts

chair: Kim Ramstedt

Lunch

Parallel Sessions VIII

Session 25 (online): Resistance and Community Organisation 9

chair: Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik

David Irving: Violins, Communism, and Decolonisation: Activism and Praxis in the Work of Australian Luthier John Godschall Johnson (1912-2003)

Tessa Balser-Schuhmann and Nicole Kiruka: Claim the Space! Music, Performance, and Corporeality in the Feminist Movements in Vienna

Monika Żyła: Diversity, equity, and inclusion in contemporary music and sound art festivals: Contemporary music and sound art festivals as sites for resilience, empowerment, care, and societal change

Session 26: Politics in Musical Works and Practices 7

chair: Tuulikki Laes

Imke Misch: Nuclear disasters in music: Aspects of artistic activism in works of Toshio Hosokawa, Mayako Kubo and Keiko Fujiie

Inka Rantakallio: Hip hop feminism, women rappers, and whiteness in Finnish hip hop

Dan Mollenkamp: Globality and Universalism from the Exclusive and the Elite: Reframing John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’

Session 27: Work for Social Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion 2

chair: Nina Öhman

Van Armenian: Music Education as Active Reconciliation: A Model for Degenociding Colonial States

Allison Alcorn: You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught: A Case Study of Agency in University Music History Students

Session 28: Methods of Activism in Research 2

chair: Susanna Välimäki

Eirik Skjelstad: Between the Binaries: Neptune’s Story

Ieva Gudaityte: On hosting and being hosted: community music radio research and practice

Carolin Müller: Whose Crisis is It? Embodied Resistance and Sonic Warfare 

Closing of the Conference

Nina Öhman