IPCoM 2025 – Participants

2025 IPCoM's participants

Clicking the link under each participants' presentation opens the submitted poster.

Texas State University Presenters

Category: Bachelor Students

Teron Smalls: A Descent into Darkness: The Black Experience in America Explored through the Album “Unreal, Unearth” by Hozier (2023)

Evan Flores: African American Impact on Heavy Metal and Its Audience Divide

Ian Vonderharr: Using Folk Music to Facilitate Second Language Learning: A Pilot Study

Jesse Flynn: From Code to Culture: How Algorithms Shape Representation of African American Music

Cayle Kelley: Jhené Aiko’s Music for the Mind: The Technological Spread of Healing

Jennifer Leal: How Artists’ Deaths Influence Drug Usage

Category: Master's Students – Term Papers

Hayoung Lee: Nurturing the Fifth Finger: Pedagogical Strategies for Young Pianists

Kelly Kai Li Yong: Ragtime Reimagined: William Bolcom’s “The Garden of Eden” (1969) and the Art of Musical Synthesis

Category: Master’s Studenrs – Based on a Master’s Thesis

Cristian Ivan Moreno: “Sincerity is Scary”: A Metamodern Approach to Popular Music in the 21st Century

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Presenters

Category: Bachelor Students

Adrian Leppla: Arnold Schönberg and Wassily Kandinsky. Different Arts, but Shared Ideas

Lena Stojšič: Fanny Hensel's Sunday Matinees – An Act of Emancipation? A Historical Recontextualization

Lucas Mathäser: The Missa Papae Marcelli in Carl von Winterfeld‘s Palestrina Biography (1832)

Category: Master’s Students – Term Papers

Jonas Oelze: Making songs in the GDR

Michael Schubert: Johannes Brahms’ Double Concerto Op. 102 Through the Lense of His Piano Trios

Category: Master’s Students – Based on a Master’s Thesis

Leonie Krempien: Staging Anxieties, Staging the Nation. A Cultural History of English Dramatick Opera, c. 1660–1710

Sophia Renz: Algorithmic Rhythms from Juggling Patterns to Sound Sequences