July 10, July 30, July 31, August 1, 11:00am-5:00pm Eastern Time, Virtual Conference
For more information, email musicfestivalstudies@gmail.com. Registration is open!

JULY 10
11:00am-12:15pm ET: Early Music
- John Dilworth, “Handel Festivals and Nineteenth-Century Media” (10 min)
- Giles Masters, “Early music and the ISCM poly-system: Oxford and London, 1931” (10 min)
- Rebekah Franklin, “Performing the Passions: American Bach Festivals and the Creation of Community” (20 min)
2:00pm-3:00pm ET: Workshop
3:30pm-4:30pm ET: Beyond the Local
- Pallas Catenella, “Virtually Live, Imagined as Real: Avatarian Embodiment in the Music Festivals of Minecraft” (20 min)
- Lucas Henry, “‘Music Moves Europe’: Music Festivals, Music Awards, and the Performance and Consumption of European Identities” (20 min)
JULY 30
11:00am-12:30pm ET: Spirituality
- Vivek Virani, “Playing in the Space Between: Cultural and Religious Pluralism in India’s Spiritual Music Festivals” (20 min)
- Andrew Mall, “Music / Business / Ethics at Christian Festivals” (20 min)
- Eric A. Galm, “Making A Difference Through Music Festivals: The Brazilian Congado Mineiro in Hartford, Connecticut”
1:30pm-2:30pm ET: In Practice
- Jody H. Cripps, Ely Lyonblum, and Anita Small, “Signed Music in the Deaf Community: Performing The Black Drum at Festival Clin d’Oeil” (20 min)
- Tim Slaughter and Judy Van Zile, “APDF—The Asia Pacific Dance Festival: Stories of the Festival’s Development” (20 min)
3:00pm-4:00pm ET: Comparative Methods
- Jeremy Reed, “Celebrating and Selling the Nation: Festivals as Cultural Resource and Performance in Jordan” (20 min)
- Steve Waksman, “Festival Reformation: Presenting Jazz and Folk in Newport” (20 min)
JULY 31
11:15am-12:30pm ET: Identities Within and Across Borders
- Christi-Anne Castro, “A Contemporary Case Study on the Politics of Multiculturalism, Community, and Difference at the Folklorama Festival” (10 min)
- Ian Copeland, “Contesting Musical Refugee-ness at Dzaleka’s Tumaini Festival” (10 min)
- Sam Jones, “‘The Irish music is in the walls; it stays there when we leave’: Sense, Affect, and Materiality at Irish Traditional Music Festivals” (10 min)
2:00pm-3:00pm ET: Workshop
3:30pm-5:00pm ET: Contemporary Music: Institutions
- Elena Dubinets, “Conductor, Soloist, Composer: Curating a Contemporary Music Festival” (20 min)
- Will Robin, “Bang on a Can and New Music America: Competing Festival Visions for Contemporary Music” (20 min)
- Ryan Ebright, “Incubation and Integration: The American Music Theater Festival and Anthony Davis’s X” (20 min)
AUGUST 1
11:30am-12:45pm ET: Space, Place, and Politics
- Emily Ruth Allen, “White Pageantry on Parade: Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama” (10 min)
- Allison Brooks-Conrad, “A Site for Revolution: Musical Performance and Political Mobilization at the Estonian National Song Festival Grounds, 1988-1991” (20 min)
- Ryan Gourley, “Social Betweenness in the Soviet Jazz Festival Network” (10 min)
2:00pm-2:50pm ET: Nostalgia
- Jake Cohen and Julie Viscardi-Smalley, “‘The Circus is the Place for Me’: The Phish Festival as Microcosmic Rural Spectacle” (20 min)
- Kelso Molloy, “More than ‘Oldchella’: Desert Trip 2016 and the Performance of Age(ing) in Classic Rock” (10 min)
3:30pm-5:00pm ET: Gender Politics
- Marta Beszterda, “Negotiating Inclusion at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music” (20 min)
- Amir Lehman, “Electronic Dance Music Culture in the Postcolony” (10 min)
- Kaitlyne A. Motl (kxmotl), “It Couldn’t-Wouldn’t-Shouldn’t Happen Here: Silencing Survivors of Sexual Violence at Music Festivals, Seeking More Comprehensive Solutions” (10 min)
- Jessica Pruett, “‘A Gathering of Mothers and Daughters’: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Inclusion at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival” (10 min)

Organizers:
- Lisa Jakelski, Eastman School of Music
- Emily Richmond Pollock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Caitlin Schmid, St. Olaf College
[Photo: “Angélique Kidjo” at Crashfest 2016 by marzianademarzo is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ]