Joseph Straus has argued that musicology and theory often focus
on so-called “normal” listeners. As a disabled woman who has
multiple sclerosis, I aim to subvert these ableist erasures. As
such, I offer an autoethnography of what I call my neuroqueer
experience of music: I am sexually attracted to (long-dead)
composers such as Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Dvořák.
An educator with 14 years of experience, Afro-Cuban female
author Eva Silot Bravo is an interdisciplinary and
independent scholar, former diplomat and international negotiator
in the United Nations, representing Cuba and developing
countries. The focus of her presentation is her recently
published non-fiction academic book: Cuban
Fusion: The Transnational Cuban Alternative Music
Scene, on Cuban music and transnationalism.
