Friday, November 21 / 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM • Montrose 3 (7th Floor)

Session 113
Aesthetics and Politics

Chair: Tessie Liu, Northwestern University
Discussant: Tessie Liu, Northwestern University

1. Orchestrating Taste: State Power and the Shaping of Western Classical Music Preferences in China • Xi Cheng, Northwestern University.

2. When the Avant-Garde Was Popular: The Mobilization of Art in Nationalizing Regimes in Italy, Spain, and Argentina • Matthew Grumbach, University of California Berkeley.

3. The Prettiest Girl in Chicago: America's First Beauty Pageant, 1865 • Aisha Manus, Independent Historian.

4. Expanding the Sociological Horizon: Music, Meaning, and Matter • John Mirsky, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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