REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“’Listeners’ Ideal National Barn Dance’: Musical Personae and Downhome Virtuosity on 1930s Radio,” Joint Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, American Musicological Society, and Society for Music Theory, New Orleans, November 2022.
“’Listeners’ Ideal National Barn Dance’: Musical Personae and Downhome Virtuosity on 1930s Radio,” International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US Branch) Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2022.
“‘Merely a Mighty Good Fiddler’: Downhome Virtuosity and the Stakes of Language,” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 2021.
“‘He’s Using his Feet!’: Tony Melendez, Disability, and the Meanings of Musical Skill,” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2018.
“‘The Excitement is Precisely Because We are Different’: Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin, and the Construction of Cosmopolitan Virtuosity,” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 2018.
“‘Merely a Mighty Good Fiddler’: Downhome Virtuosity and the Stakes of Language,” Society for American Music Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec,
March 2017.
“Historical Phenomenology and the Lived Experience of Mediated Virtuosity,” Anthropology of Sound Forum at Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 2016.
“Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin, and the Social Construction of Cosmopolitan Virtuosity,” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 2016.
“The Other End of the Cable: Guitar Amplifiers, Instrumentality, and Sonic Ecology,”Musical Networks and Ecologies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, August 2016.
“Agency in Excess: Tony Melendez and the Intersecting Performance of Virtuosity, Disability, and Religiosity,” International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. and Canada Branch, Calgary, May 2016.
“Agency in Excess: Tony Melendez and Musical Virtuosity at the Intersection of Disability, Religiosity, and Latino Identity,” Society for Disability Studies, Atlanta, GA, June 2015.
“African Others and the Virtuoso Self: Collaboration and Cultural Capital in Béla Fleck’s Throw Down Your Heart,” Sight and Sound Conference, London, UK, May 2015.
“Cosmopolitan Virtuosity, Cultural Capital, and Representations of Africa in Béla Fleck’s Throw Down Your Heart,” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2014.
“Sounding the Limits: Technology, Virtuosity, and Disability,” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, November 2014.
“Simple Shaker Folk: American Mythology, Appropriation, and Copland’s Appalachian Spring,” Aaron Copland and the American Cultural Imagination, Chapel Hill, NC, August 2014.
“‘The Martyrs of Artworks’: Adorno on Virtuosity, Performance, and Musical Labor,” Music, Marxism, and the Frankfurt School, Dublin, Ireland, July 2014.
“Sounding the Limits: Technology, Virtuosity, and Disability,” Technology in Music: Production, Preservation, and Dissemination, Chapel Hill, NC, May 2014.
“Them Boys kin Shore Tromp on the Strings:’ Down-Home Virtuosity in Rural Variety Radio,” International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2014.
“Where Does this Cable Go?: Guitar Amplifiers, Instrumentality, and Sonic Ecology,” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN,
November 2013.
“Broadcasting ‘Hillbilly’ Virtuosity: Showcasing Musical Skill in a Down-Home Way,” Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Southeast Chapter, Greenville, NC, November 2013.
“The Other End of the Cable: Guitar Amplifiers, Instrumentality, and Sonic Ecology,” Western University Graduate Symposium on Music, London, Ontario, August 2013.
“Bringing the Banjo (Back) to Africa: Construction of Origins and the Ethics of Virtuosity in Béla Fleck’s Throw Down Your Heart,” Southern Sounds/Out of Bounds Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, February 2013.
“A Time for Wit: Listening to Haydn’s Op. 76 Quartets,” South Central Graduate Music Consortium, Charlottesville, VA, September 2012.
“The Commodified Comprehensible: Schoenberg’s String Trio and the ‘Contemporary Classic’ Recording,” Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Southeast Chapter, Boone, NC, September 2012.
NON-REFEREED PRESENTATIONS
Comment on “Différance, Inherent Variation and Musical Notation,” Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, Edmond, Oklahoma, October 2019.
“Game of Thrones, Cameos, and (Failed) Entertainment Value,” A Roundtable of Ice and Fire, hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma Philosophy Club, Edmond, Oklahoma, September 2019.
“‘Inexorable Foe’ Turned Essential Ally: The Role of Recording and the String Trio, Op. 45,” Arnold Schönberg Akademie, Vienna, Austria, June 2012.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Virtuosity, Ravi Shankar, and the Valuation of Skill,” Phenomenology and Ethnomusicology 2018: The St. John’s Conference, St. John’s, Canada, June 2018.