Conference

This year’s ECHO conference, Music in Action, will take place April 27th-29th 2017 at Charles E Young Research Library. We are pleased to welcome Regina Bradley as the Keynote speaker.

Registration is now open! Click here to register now!

Download PDF of program here.

Thursday, April 27th

 

10:00 – 1:00 Registration

 

11:00 – 1:30

 

• Power Structure and Agency – Chair: Tim Taylor
  
  • Henrique Rocha, “Musica Practica: Do It Yourself“
  • Sarah Schoonhoven, “Gender, Timbre, and Metaphor in the Music of Wendy Carlos“

(break)

• Sound Design and Concept Albums – Chair: Mike D’Errico
  
  • Navid Bargrizan, “The Monkey is Amused to Death:
    Roger Waters’ Masterpiece and its Commercial Failure“
  • Matthew Blackmar, “Post-Colonial Gender Politics Come First, Music Comes Second”

 

1:30 – 2:30 Late Lunch

 

2:30 – 4:00

• Cabaret, HUAC, and Nazis – Chair: Raymond Knapp
  •  Suzanne Scheibihofer, “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”: The Journey of a Show Tune from Broadway to Rechtsrock”
  • James Parsons, “Song in Action:  Hanns Eisler’s “Nightmare”“
  • Andrew Tubbs, “Reclaiming Their History: a Disabled Repositioning of Cabaret “

4:00 – 4:30 Break

 

4:30 – 6:00 Keynote Speaker Regina Bradley, “Living Comfortable but Not Good: Sounding Protest in the Hip Hop South“

 

6:00 – 7:00 Reception, Hosted by the UCLA Music Library

 

Friday April 28th

 

9:00-9:30 Registration

 

9:30 – 12:30

 

• Punk – Chair: Tiffany Naiman
  
  • Josh Hochman, ““Queercore”: PWR BTTM and Sounding a Queer Alternative“
  • Kristie Valdéz-Guillén, “Sounds of diaspora, sites of transfer: L.A. Chicanx ska punk as a working class diasporic sonic franchise 1960-2015“

Break

• Worldviews – Chair: Danielle Stein
  • Erin Bartosch, “Voice, Identity, and Multi-Vocality in Female Protest Singers of Latin America“
  • Helga Zambrano, ” Rewriting and Re-Musicking in Post-Cold War Nicaragua: Popular Music and Sergio Ramírez’s Un baile de mascara and Clave de Sol“
  • Teri Herron and Jung Won Shin, “A Song of One’s Own: Korean Art Song after the End of Colonization“

 

12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH

 

1:30 – 5:00

• Grass Roots and People’s Movements – Chair: Graham Raulerson
  
  • James Deaville, “Occupying Music: Collective Protest, Voice, and “Microphonality”“
  • Kathryn Smart, “Landfill Harmonic: A New Approach to Activism?“

Break

• Queer Punk LA – Moderators: Candace Hansen & Audrey Silvestre
  • Alice Bag
  • Drew Arriola-Sands
  • Oscar M Santos
• Performance by QT Pi and the Vixens, Choir Room

 

Saturday April 29th

 

9:00-10:00 Registration

 

10:00 – 11:00

• Black Activism/Experimentalism – Chair: Raquel Bernard
  
  • Wade Dean, ““Throwing Ugly:” Soul and the Organization of the Black Public Sphere“
  • AJ Kluth, “Old and New Dreams:
    Reflecting on the music of Flying Lotus, Thundercat, and Kamasi Washington“

 

11:00 – 12:00 Lunch

 

12:00 – 2:00

• Musical and/as Propaganda
  
  • Jake Johnson,
  • Tara Prescott,
  • Shana Redmond,
  • Arreanna Rostosky,
  • Danielle Stein
  • Respondent: Jessica Sternfeld

 

2:30 – 4:00 

• Teaching Under Trump – A roundtable discussion chaired by Elisabeth Le Guin