Patrick Deer, “‘The Cassette Played Poptones’: Punk’s Pop Embrace
of the City in Ruins”
Jessica Schwartz, “Conform or Die: Composing the City as National Security Threat, 1945-1962”
John Melillo, “Revenant Frequencies: Destructive Sound in “The Waste Land” to NYC Ghosts and Flowers”
J. Martin Daughtry, “Evocative Objects and Provocative Actions on the Acoustic Territory of War”
Moderator: John Melillo
William Hutson, “Abrasive Nostalgia: A Noisescape of Deindustrialization”
Vivian L. Huang, “Not That Innocent: Britney Spears,
Laurel Nakadate and Strangers”
Julia DeLeon, “Dance Through the Dark Night: Distance,
Dissonance and Queer Belonging”
Moderator: Gustavus Stadler
Matthew Hayes, “Preserving America’s Endangered Soundscapes: An Emerging Field in Historic Preservation”
Barrett Martin, “Preserving Musical Memory: Physical Space and dSocio-Economic-Cultural Identity”
Devon Powers, “Writing Music (Into) History”
Moderator: Laura Lavernia
Kemi Adeyemi, “Hipster Soul: Sonic Blackness and the Gentrifying City”
Molly McGlone, “The Sounds of Philadelphia: Examining the Creative Economy in a Post-Industrial City”
Fabian Holt, “How Live Music Clubs in New York City Have Adapted to Gentrification: The Case of the Bowery Presents”
Moderator: Keith Negus
David Cantwell, “Tired of this Dirty Old City: Country Music’s Freedom Problem, and Ours…”
Jasen Emmons, “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Loud, Loud Music: How the Bakersfield Sound Saved Country Music from Itself”
Sara Marcus, “Country Music and Urbanism”
Moderator: Lauren Onkey
