“Cornbread and Cuchifritos”: Ethnic Identity Politics, Transnationalization, and Transculturalization in American Urban Popular Music

Martin Butler, Universität Duisburg-Essen:
Sound Tracks: Towards a Topography of Hybridization in US Urban Popular Music

Jürgen E. Grandt, Georgia Institute of Technology:
“And yet I can’t imagine that you want me too”:The Spectacle of Whiteness and the Black Jazz of Art Pepper

Martin Lüthe, Universität Gießen:
“Damn Straight, It’s Called Race!” – Rap and the Transcultural Logic of Race

Christoph Schaub, Columbia University:
Beyond the Hood? Detroit Techno, Underground Resistance, and African American Metropolitan Identity Politics

John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California:
The Death of Francis Scott Key and Other Elegies: Music and the New American Studies