Juliet Hess Michigan State University Title: “How Does That Apply to Me?” The Issue With Having to Translate Abstract: As a young child, I grew up in one of two Jewish families in a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant community. My experience…

Wm. Keith Heimann Boston University Title: The True and Unutterable Great Sin: Heteronormative Discourse in The Etude Music Magazine Abstract: The influence of traditional heteronormative bias can be found in contemporary music education discourse.  Researchers have discovered that challenges to…

Travis Hale Kansas State University Title: Out In The Open: The lived-experiences of an openly homosexual future music educator Abstract: Evident in the current events on campuses across the country, colleges and universities are becoming more aware of the importance of…

Elizabeth Gould University of Toronto Title: Ecstatic Abundance: Queer Temporalities in LGBTQ Studies Abstract: This third conference suggests LGBTQ Studies are normal(izing) in music education. The push to normalize variant sexualities, evident in society and education, notwithstanding music education’s tardiness, is…

Patrick Freer Georgia State University Title: An Ethical Response to the “Gender Trouble” in Choral Music Abstract: Masculinities. Heteronormativity. Gendered discourse. Misandry. Gender order. These topics have been at the center of a spate of recent articles about the involvement…

Michael W. Hudson University of Kentucky John Okley Egger Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Title: Musical and Social Influences on Participation in a LGBA Community Ensemble Abstract: The subject of community music involvement has been an area of research interest…

Christopher Cayari University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: Finding Voice, Musical Theater, and LGBTQ Repertoire: A Performative Autoethnography Abstract: Autoethnography has afforded researchers ways to explore their own narratives and find voice through the methodic exploration of their own lives and stories.…

Sarah Bartolome Northwestern University Title: Transitioning while Transitioning: Exploring the Perspectives of a Transgender Music Educator on Pre-Service Training and Entering the Field Abstract: This single case study design employed narrative strategies to tell the story of Melanie, a transgender…

Bridget Sweet University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Louis Bergonzi University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Adolescent Voice Change: Enriching the Conversation with Transgender and Musical Perspectives from the Documentary Riot Acts Most adolescent music students undergo a voice change in middle and high…