Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, October 24-28, 2008.

• “President’s Roundtable 2008: SEM and American Imperialism." Panelist: "A Japanese Perspective."
  

Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, October 24-28, 2008.

• "The Evolution of Japanese Text Setting in Western Idioms."  

• "For Whom the Bell Rings: Differences in Use of Ringtones in Japan and the United States."

Cultural Typhoon, Sendai, Japan, June 28-29, 2008. 

Digital Youth in East Asia conference, Temple University in Japan, Tokyo, Japan, June 21-22, 2008. 

• “A Mulata’s Memory: Musical Mestizaje in the Characterization of Femme Fatales in Cuban Zarzuelas” 

Use of devices from Verdi, particularly La Traviata, and Afro-Cuban techniques in depicting mixed-blooded heroines (mulatas) in Cuban musical theater. Social reasons for fascination with mulatas.

International Musicological Society, Biennial Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, July 10-15, 2007.

Popular Musics of the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, International Conference, July 14-16, 2006, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

AMS-Greater New York, May 6, 2006, Princeton, NJ.

Afro-Latino/Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, March 17, 2006, New York, NY.

National Opera Association, Annual Conference, January 5-8, 2006, Ann Arbor, MI.

Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-century Music, August, 2005, Sussex, UK.

• “Lovers and Rulers, the Real and the Surreal: Harmonic Metaphors in Silvio Rodríguez’s Songs” 

• “Ring My Bell: Impact of Cell Phone Technologies on the Japanese Music Market.”

Ongoing project examining the impact of cell phone and internet technologies on record companies, consumer behavior, and the music market.

IASPM International Executive, Biennial Conference, ¡Que Viva la Música Popular!, Mexico City, Mexico, June 25-29, 2007.

Plenary session, Technology and Industry Stream.

Music of Japan Today 2007, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 

March 30-April 1, 2007

Society of Ethnomusicology, Annual meeting, November 16-19, 2006, Honolulu, HI. 

Organizer and Chair of Panel, “Fast Forward: Impact of Asian Mobile Phone and Game Technologies on Production, Consumption, and Transnational Expression.”

IASPM-UK and Ireland, The Futures of Music 2006/25^th Anniversary Conference, Birmingham, UK, September 1-3, 2006

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 27-30, 2006, Seattle, WA.

MACSEM Conference, Hunter College, April 7-8, 2006, New York, NY.

• "The Influence of Italian Opera on the Cuban Bolero and Canción.” 

• “Reinterpretaciones del Son: Versiones de Motivos de son de Guillén por Grenet, García Caturla, y Roldán.”  

• "Germont Uproots a Flower: Changing Colors in La Traviata.” 

• “Globalization and Japanese Creativity: Adaptation of Japanese Language to Rap.” 

Analyzes the interaction of Japanese prosody, rhythms, and rhymes in rap.

Revised version following field work in Japan:

Cultural Typhoon 2006, Annual Conference, July 1, 2006, Tokyo, Japan

Asian Studies Conference Japan, Annual Conference, June 24-25, 2006, Tokyo, Japan.

Washington and Southeast Japan Conference, April 22, 2006, Washington, DC.

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Annual Conference, April 15, 2006, Atlanta, GA

IASPM-US, February 16-19, 2006, Murfreesboro and Nashville, TN.

Asian American Research Institute, February 3, 2006, New York, NY.

Forty-five minute presentation including videotaped interviews with Scha Dara Parr and clips from a performance by artists from Da Me Records. Webcast of lecture and handouts available.

Society of Ethnomusicology, Annual National Conference, November 20, 2005, Atlanta, GA. As “Beyond Imitation: Adaptation of Japanese Language to Rap.”

Northeast Popular Culture Association, October 2005, Fairfield, CT.

IASPM-Nordic, The Local, Regional, and Global: Globalization of Rock Conference, October 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Abstract
 

Earlier versions:

MIDSEM, March, 2005, Bowling Green, OH.

MACSEM, March, 2005, College Park, MD. 

• “Caracterización musical de femme fatales mestizas en las zarzuelas cubanas.” 

VII Congreso IASPM-AL (IASPM Latin America), June 19-24, 2006, 

Havana, Cuba

• “Don Giovanni’s Elvira: Analysis of the Evolution of a Mezzo Carattere”

Discusses the evolution of the tragicomic aspects of Elvira character from the Molière play to the Bertati-Gazzaniga opera to the Da Ponte-Mozart masterpiece, as expressed in the drama and the music.

Interpretare Mozart: Convegno internaziole di studi, a cura della Societa Italiana di Musicologia e di Fondazione Arcadia, May 19-21, 2006, Milan.

Abstract

• “Musical Interpretations of Don Quixote: Reflections of Time, Place, and Meaning.”