Music, Migration, and the Exchange of Knowledge: Spain – North America – Latin America 

New York
22–23 April 2025
The CUNY Graduate Center

This New York symposium is the second part of a bicontinental symposium, with the first part in Barcelona at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans on 28–29 November 2024. For further information, visit https://sites.google.com/view/bicontinentalsymposium/home

 

Music, Sound, and Antisemitism 

This symposium is co-organized with The Jewish Music Forum and The American Society for Jewish Music. It takes place in two parts:

28–29 May 2025 (Center for Jewish History, New York)

		5/28	5/29
		WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY
8:30 AM		Registration and coffee	Registration and coffee
9:15 AM		Welcome & Introduction
9:30 AM		Panel 1 – In Early Modern Music, Chair: Jill Abramson	Panel 5 – Aesthetics and Representations
		Rebecca Cypess, Popular Song and Jewish Musical Agency in England, ca. 1789–1830	Miseo Cho, “The Voice of ‘Le Juif Errant’: Musical Representations of Antisemitism in d’Indy’s Opera L’Étranger”
10:15 AM		Paul G. Feller-Simmons, Schoon het in de Wet uitdrukkelijk is verboden: Christian Representations of (Anti-)Jewish Aurality and Jewish Acoustic Communities in Early Modern Northwestern Europe	Joseph Straus, The Antisemitic Aesthetics of Stravinsky’s Poetics of Music and Webern’s Path to the New Music
11:00 AM		Break	Break
11:30 AM		Panel 2 (2 speakers) – On the Radio, Chair: Evan Rapport	Panel 6 (2 speakers) – On Social Media, Chair: Rachel Schaff
		David Catchpole, Henry Ford’s Apology is Bunk: Veiled Antisemitism and the Ford Sunday Evening Hour	Kathryn Huether, Sonic Antisemitism: Auditory Mechanisms of Hate on Social Media
12:15 PM		Elias Berner, Music and Antisemitism in Austrian Broadcasting after 1945	Matthias Pasdzierny, 15 Second Songs of Hate – The Sound of Antisemitism on TikTok (and with a little help of AI driven music)
1:00 PM		Lunch Break	Lunch Break
2:00 PM		Panel 3  – During the Holocaust	Panel 7  – In Popular Music, Chair: Mark Slobin
		Jules Riegel, Redemption for Whom? Musical Antisemitism and Jewish Musicians in Treblinka, 1942–1944	Jamie R. Noulty, From Lyrics to Violence: The Impact of White Power Music on Antisemitism
2:45 AM		Emily Marker and Melina Burlaud, The Sound of Persecution and Internment in the Work of Leonhard K. Märker	Adam Behr, Towards A Typology of Popular Musical Antisemitism
3:30 AM		Break	Break
4:00 PM		Panel 4  – In Polish Concert Music	Panel 8  – In Everyday Life / Communal Memory and Identity Construction
		Mackenzie Pierce, Dialectics of Acculuration and Antisemitism in Interwar Polish Concert Music	Miriam Borden, Singing the Unspeakable: Antisemitism in Ukrainian Yiddish Lullabies and Children’s Songs
4:45 AM		Montagu James, Krzysztof Penderecki, Representations of Auschwitz, and Antisemitism in Polish Classical Music Production	Amanda Ruppenthal Stein, Resilience in Song: Antisemitism and the Rebirth of Jewish Identity through Music among the Abayudaya of Uganda
5:30 AM			Closing

4–5 June 2025 (Zoom)

		6/4	6/5
		Wednesday	Thursday
10:15 AM EST		Welcome and Introduction	Panel 3: Post Holocaust
10:30 AM EST		Panel 1: In the Academy, Concert Hall, and Online Assaf Shelleg, Where Philosemitism and Antisemitism Collapse	Abby Anderton, Antisemitism and the Voice: Singing as Survival after 1945
11:00 AM EST		Patrick Domico, The Jewish Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky in the Anti-Semitic Imaginaries of Emil Medtner and Igor Stravinsky	Roxane Lindlacher, Jewish Agency, Antisemitism and Coming to Terms with the Past? Developments of the Schlager in German-language Sheet Music Editions from 1945 to 1950
11:30 AM EST		Milijana Pavlović, Passion Plays and Church Walls: The Conspiracy Youtube of Yore	Break
11:45 AM EST		David J. Buch, Anti-Jewish Bias and Related Distortion in the late 20th- and 21st-century Musicology	Panel 4: In Latin America Paula Ansaldo, “A Grotesque Jargon that Provokes Laughter”: The Jewish Voice in Argentinian Popular Theatre (1910-1930)
12:15 PM EST		Break	Paulo Tiné, Judiação” and “Judiaria’: The Presence of Antisemitic Words in Brazilians Popular Songs
12:45 PM EST		Panel 2: During Nazism Nastasia Heckendorff, Annkatrin Babbe, Responding to Antisemitism: Alban Berg and Universal Edition Vienna in the Early Years of National Socialism	Closing discussion
1:15 PM EST		Julianna Hinton, Antisemitic Ideologies and Film Music: A Comparative Study of Nazi-Era and Contemporary Multimedia Propaganda
1:45 PM EST		Henriette Engelke, Silly Geese, Cunning Foxes, and Pre-existing Music