Music and Cats / Book of Abstracts - Catalog - Page 8
Program Day Two
15:30 – 16:15 Panel 5 (Meme Culture)
12: 15:30 – 15:45 To Purr-tect and Serve: Online Cat Videos, Music, and Copaganda
(Michael Austin / Edge Hill University)
13: 15:45 – 16:00 Paw-Some Synths: Memetic Gesture, Experimental Sound Play, and the Cats
at the Synthesizer Interface of Audiovisual Meme Culture
(Kate Galloway / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
16:00 – 16:10 Discussion
16:40 – 17:20 Panel 6 (Feline Metaphors)
14: 16:40 – 16:55 Feline Metaphors for Female Empowerment in 1920s-30s Blues
(Dani Wilde / BIMM University Brighton)
15: 16:55 – 17:10 Hepcats and Canaries: Cats and Birds in American Swing Era Slang and Music
(Sarah Caissie Provost / University of Hartford in Connecticut)
17:10 – 17:20 Discussion
17:30 – 19:00 Panel 7 (Gender)
16: 17:30 – 17:45 Pussy Power? Cats, German Rap, and Intersectional Animal Studies
(Benjamin Burkhart / Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media)
17: 17:45 – 18:00 “I Am a Kitten” Married and Managed: Momus, Kahimi Karie, and Personal
Ownership Contra Authorship in 1990s Cosmopolitan Pop
(Davindar Singh / Harvard University)
18: 18:00 – 18:15 Between Agency and Objectification: The “Feral Feminine Feline” in Ariana Grande’s
2024 Music Video for the Song “The Boy Is Mine”
(Lara May, Fynn Wörth / Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Leibniz University Hanover)
19: 18:15 – 18:30 Amplified Meows: From Josie and the Pussycats to Poison Ivy Rorschach
(Aline V. Fagundes, Giulia Calloni / University of Caxias do Sul)
18:30 – 18:50 Discussion
18:50 – 19:00 Closing Session
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