Programme

Thursday (26 May)

17:00 – 18:00

Registration / Come-Together

18:00 – 18:30

Coffee Break

18:30 – 20:00

(Digitale) Künstler*Innen-Persönlichkeiten auf TikTok (Round Table)

Friday (27 May)

09:00 – 10:00

Warm-Up

10:00 – 10:30

 „Welcome to Lesbian TikTok. We’re All Friends Here.“ Inclusion and Exclusion Through Community and Identity Building – A Study of Current Musical Trends of the LGBTQIA* Community on TikTok (Mona Torinek)

10:30 – 11:00

Rap al caudillo: A Gen Z’s Queer Subversion of Spanish National Imagery (Pau Aguilera Martínez) – online

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 –  12:00

Always Embedded, Embodied and Everyday – Reflections on Ethnographic Work on TikTok (Juan Bermúdez)

12:00 –  12:30

Observing Musical Communities Dedicated to Improvisation on TikTok Using Web Scraping (Marc Chemillier, Yohann Rabearivelo & Rémi Jaylet)

12:30 –  13:00

Exploring the Semiotics of Sound on TikTok (Avery Wright)

13:00 –  15:00

Lunch

15:00 – 15:30

The Sea Shanties Revival on TikTok (Kendra Steputtat) – online

15:30 – 16:00

Love Nwantiti – Researching Musicking Practices in TikTok’s Afrobeats  (Tom Simmert)

16:00 – 16:30

Afrobeats Music Practices on TikTok (Jeduah Bakar Abdul-Rashid)

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee Break

17:00 – 17:30

Música contemporánea para una sociedad post-digital: Las redes sociales como expansión del espacio escénico (Belenish Moreno-Gil) – online

17:30 – 18:00

Lip-Sync: Rizofonía de la voz en TikTok (Ricardo González) – online

18:00 – 18:30

Coffee Break

18:30

Come-Together / Dinner 

Saturday (28 May)

09:00 – 10:00

Warm-Up

10:00 – 10:30

#tiktokactivism: Musik als Medium für politischen Content auf TikTok (Tessa Balser-Schuhmann & Nicole Gómez Quiroga)

10:30 – 11:00

Performing Politics on TikTok: Activism Without Activists (Emma Schrott)

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00

Old Clichés or a Transforming Community? Early Music Interpreters on TikTok: Identity and Communication Strategies (David Merlin)

12:00 – 12:30

“Fly Me to the Moon”: Performing Jazz on TikTok (Benjamin Burkhart)

12:30 – 13:00

Bodies, Theatre and Football: TikToks Produced in Uruguay, 2021 – 2022s (Marita Fornaro) – online

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch

15:00 – 15:30

Please Duet This: Collaborative Music Making in Lockdown on TikTok (Bondy Kaye) – online 

15:30 – 16:00

„It is your character!“ – Storytelling Through and With the Usage of Audio on Cosplay-TikTok (Ylva Hintersteiner)

16:00 – 16:30

Similarities and Divergences Between Music Production and TikTok in the Memes Era (Mattia Zanotti)

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee Break

17:00 – 17:30

A Surprise Hit of Middle and Old Age Groups: On the Viral TikTok Divine Song “Shepherd of Cocoto Sea” (Weiyang Li) – online

17:30 – 18:00

Pandemic Dancing and the Grandmas of TikTok (Ariel Lutnesky) – online

18:00 – 19:30

Coffee Break

19:30

What if the First Qin Emperor Enjoys Cannibal Video on TikTok? – A Comedy from QikQok Dynasty (Heidelberg Scholar Theater Team) [performance]

Sunday (29 May)

09:00 – 09:30

Warm-Up

09:30 – 10:00

Patrones culturales musicales que siguen los artistas virales en TikTok (Carmen Haro Aragú) – online

10:00 – 10:30

Ethnographic Investigation on Virtual Music Participation Through TikTok in Post-COVID Era: Piano Activities in China as An Example (Chen Jing) – online

10:30 – 11:00

Dialogue, Identity Building and Music Marketing in TikTok: Rosalia’s Motomami Study (Cristina Pérez-Ordóñez, Andrea Castro-Martínez & José Luis Torres-Martín) – online

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00

Musical Sketches – der Weg zum Erfolg? (Julia Neuwirth)

12:00 – 12:30

„Musikmarketing im digitalen Forschungsfeld TikTok“: Ethnomusikologische Perspektiven auf TikTok als Marketinginstrument für Independent Artists (Anna Dornstätter)

12:30 – 13:00

Der Einfluss von TikTok auf das Musikentdecken, die Musiknutzung und den Musikgeschmack Jugendlicher (Tobias Marx, Julia Hupp & Hannah Michalowicz) – online

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch

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