Speakers and Papers

Julie Baggenstoss (Emory University)

“Flamenco in Sarduy’s Ellipse”

Fernando Barros and Melissa Moore 

“Island Life and Conservation of Culture”

Ninotchka Bennahum (University of California, Santa Barbara)

“Israel Galván de los Reyes: An Ethics Instantiated in Motion”

Alice Blumenfeld (Hollins University)

“Spanishness and the Fandango: When Culture Becomes Patrimony, Do We Protect or Hinder an Art Form’s Ability To Evolve?”

Josh Brown (Chapman University)

“Distant Malagueñas: Sounding Spin in U.S. American Popular Culture”

Loren Chuse (Independent Scholar)

“The Development of the Malgueña: From Café Cantante to the Present”

Gabriela Estrada (Independent Scholar)

“Zapateados: de ida y vuelta”

Rafael Figueroa-Hernández (Centro de Estudios de la Cultura y la Comunicación de la Universidad Veracruzana)

“’El Zapateado’: música, danza y decimal en el son jarocho”

Nubia Flórez Forero (Universidad Del Atlántico [Colombia], Grupo de Investigación CEDINEP)

“Zapateado Dances in Colombia and their Imaginarium of Seduction”

David García (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

“’A strange sound, between crying and chanting’: The Malagueña and Aural Techniques of American Empire at the End of the Nineteenth Century.”

Peter García (California State University, Northridge)

“Decolonizing Nuevomexica, Castiza, Hispana, Genizara, and Indigenous racialized Dances, Classes, and Heteronormativity in Territorial Nuevo Mexico Fandango Diversions: Recovering Musical Heritage from Northern Rio Grande Bailes, Sones, Jarabes, and Danzas through the Mid-20th Century”

Theresa Goldbach (University of California, Riverside)

“Malagueña desplazida: Málaga and Placing Flamenco”

Meira Goldberg (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Anna de la Paz, and Elisabet Torras Aguilera 

“’The Name Might Change, But the Form Will Not’: Figuring Race and Empire from the Villano to the Guaracha

Jessica Gottfried (Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura / Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural)

“Zapatear, a Son, a Dance, a Verse, a Procession: Reflections on the Evolution of the Zapateado in the Fandango Jarocho”

Michelle Habell-Pallán (University of Washington)

“Zapateadofuturism ‘Sobre la Tarima’ in the Academia and our Scholarship”

Michelle Heffner Hayes (University of Kansas)

“Lo que queda/That which remains…”

Keynote Address
Constance Valis Hill
(Hampshire College)

“From Jig and Gioube to Majumba and Zapateados: Tracing the Diaspora of African-derived Drum Dance Forms in the New World”

Bernat Jiménez de Cisneros Puig (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona [Spain])

“The Metric Matrices of Flamenco: An Approach through Hand-Clapping”

Suki John (Texas Christian University)

“Chancleta”

Adam Kent (State University of New York at Oneonta)

“From España to Iberia: Returning the Malagueña to Málaga”

Adair Landborn (University of New Mexico, Taos)

“La Malaguña y El Torero: Flamenco Dance and Bullfighting as Transatlantic Traditions of Embodied ‘Spanishness‘”

Javier León (Indiana University)

“The Zapateo in Peru: Situating Afro-Peruvian Performance Practice Between the Archive and the Repertoire”

Montse Madridejos (Independent Scholar)

“Carmen Amaya, Fast and Furious: Algunas claves de sus primeros éxitos en Norteamérica (1939-1944)”

María Luisa Martínez (Foundation for Iberian Music, The Graduate Center, CUNY)

“The Restored Musical Memory of the 19th Century Rondeña

Yesenia Martínez (New York University)

“Rumba! Cual Rumba?”

John Moore (University of California, San Diego)

“Malagueñas de Chacón: The Racialization of Cante Andaluz

Kiko Mora (University of Alicante [Spain])

“Distinguished malagueñeros in Early US Phonograph Industry: Artists & Repertoire in the Catalogues of Edison Companies (1904-1910)”

Liz Mullis (Director), and Tiffany Walton (Producer)

“Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans in Southern California” (a film)

Álvaro Ochoa Serrano (Centro de Estudios de las Tradiciones de El Colegio de Michoacán, “Personajes y tradiciones populares del Occidente de México”)

 “Jarabe in a Fandango”

Raquel Paraíso (Independent Scholar)

“Zapateados in Sones Huastecos and Sones de Xantolo”

Keynote Address
Raúl Rodríguez

Razón de Son: Creative AntropoMúsica and Ida y Vuelta Afro-Flamenco”

María José Ruiz Mayordomo (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Compañía de Danza “Esquivel”) and Aurèlia Pessarrodona (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

“From Caroso to Sarasate: the Canario as Predecessor of the Zapateado (1: Choreological Components; 2: Musical Components)”

Anthony Shay (Pomona College)

“Was the Fandango Ever Danced in Early California?”

Brynn Shiovitz (University of California, Los Angeles: School of Theater, Film and Television)

“Animating Rhythm: Tap Dance’s Amputation from the Black Body in Silly Symphonies and Merry Melodies

Sarah Town (Princeton University)

“Afro-Cuban Molleo: Rhythms, Aesthetics and Meanings in the Dancing Body and Beyond”

 

Iris Viveros (University of Washington)

 Title forthcoming

Gretchen Williams (Texas Tech University)

“Hidden in Plain Sight: Deciphering the Code of the Calé in Early Spanish Colonial Documents”

Emmy Williamson (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

“Reclaiming the Tarima and Remaking Spaces: Examining Women’s Leadership in the Son Jarocho Community of New York City”