Programme & Abstracts

Wednesday 20 October 2021

10:30-10:45 (CEST): Opening Words (Jasmine Kelekay and Kim Ramstedt)

10:45–12:45 (CEST): Musical exoticism, appropriation, appreciation and adaptation
(Chair: Kim Ramstedt)

Anna Beatriz Zanine Koslinski: ”Brazilian Inspired Drumming Groups: Dilemmas of Appropriation and Appreciation”
Leslie C Gay, Jr: ”Armstrong's Trumpet and Josephine's Dance: A children's jazz oratorio at the intersection of music and racism in Denmark”
Marika Kivinen: ”Rarahu (1922) and racializing discourse in Finland in the 1920s”
Livia Jiménez Sedano: ”Kizomba: dancing racism and anti-racism in Europe”
12:45–13:30 (CEST): Lunch
13:30-15:00 (CEST): Whiteness as a power, an epistemology and an aesthetic in music
(Chair: Inka Rantakallio)
Anna Ramstedt: “‘A [White] Man is Practically the General Norm’ — a study of how whiteness and male normativity impact performers in the classical music scene in Finland”
Kasturi Chatterjee & Katha Alexi: “‘Let me be your slave’: Power Amnesia and Presumptuous Self-Positionings in Popular Music”
Mischa van Kan: “Whiteness and jazz in postwar Sweden”
15:00-15:15 (CEST): Break
15:15-16:15 (CEST): Keynote Lecture
(Chair: Jasmine Kelekay)
Kira Thurman: “Singing Brahms, Hearing Race: Black Musicians and the German Lied in Interwar Germany and Austria”
16:15-18:15 (CEST): IASPM-Norden: General Meeting (Zoom link sent separately to IASPM-Norden members)

10:00–12:00 (CEST): Resistance to racism in and through music
(Chair: Livia Jiménez Sedano)

Dominika Moravčíková: “Enlarged Territory: Alternative Cultural Homes for Slovak Roma Children and Practices Against Whiteness of Music Education in Slovakia”
Otávio Raposo: “Rap and anti-racism in Portugal“
Emma Grove: “(Re)Making Home Through Music: Race, Immigration, and The Politics of Belonging in Irish Hip Hop”
Bregje Van Deun: “Symbolic Boundary Work, Belonging, and Musical Meaning-Making in the Lives of Youth in Superdiverse Neighborhoods”
12:00–12:45 (CEST): Lunch
12:45-14:45 (CEST): Structures and experiences of racism in local music industries and scenes
(Chair: Jasmine Kelekay)

Hakeem Stevens: “Is The UK Music Industry Institutionally Racist?”
Kwaku: “From John Blanke To George Floyd: Capturing British History, Black Music, Racism, Afriphobia And The UK Music Industry”
Elina Westinen: “Racism and discrimination in Finnish hip hop culture”
Kim Ramstedt: “Research ethics and club autoethnography: How and when to call out racism”
14:45-15:00 (CEST): Break
15:00-16:00 (CEST): Music Industry Panel Discussion
Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité, Musician, Sweden
Renaz Ebrahimi, Journalist, Finland
Lena Midtveit, Managing Director, Sony Music Norway
Moderator: Anthony Kwame Harrison, Professor, Virginia Tech
16:30-18:00 (CEST): Online Afterparty

10:00-11:00 (CEST): Keynote Lecture

Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta: “Bouncers & Multiculturalism, #DJsForPalestine, And Other Tales”
(Chair: Kim Ramstedt)
11:00-11:15 (CEST): Break

11:15-12:45 (CEST): Rivers of Babylon: The Role of Racism in the Postcolonial Trajectories of Black British Gospel Music
(Chair: Nina Öhman)
Dulcie Dixon McKenzie: “Migration, Memories and Music: Towards a History of Black British Gospel Music“
Pauline Muir: “The Colour of Christian Copyright”
Monique M. Ingalls: “One in the Spirit?: Examining British Racism and Anti-Racism through Community Gospel Choirs”
12:45-13:30 (CEST): Lunch
13:30-15:30 (CEST): Discourses of racism in music media and institutions
(Chair: Mischa van Kan)

Inka Rantakallio & Susanna Välimäki: “Racism debates in music journalism: Case study of Finland’s two largest media outlets 2017–2020”
Rainer Prokop & Rosa Reitsamer: “Racialisation Processes: The Case of Western Art Music”
Mikkel Vad: Colorblind Listening: “The Roy Eldridge 1951 Blindfold Test, "Crow Jim," and the American-European Racial Imagination”
Cecilia Ferm Almqvist & Ann Werner: “Conservatory cultures of whiteness”
15:30-15:45 (CEST): Break
15:45-16:15 (CEST): Final Reflections

Abstracts will be made available for registered participants on the Eventbrite event page.