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Asynchronous Online Papers
Thursday 20th June
| 8:30 | Registration and Welcome “To all that come to this happy place, welcome…” | |
| 9:00 | Panel 1: “All Aboard the PeopleMover” Music, Sound and Immersion Chair: Carissa Baker | |
| Matt Lawson | The Magic Stops with the Music: The Impact of Music and Silence on Guest Immersion at Disneyland Paris | |
| Anna Marinela Lopez | Dream a Fantasmic Dream: Immersion, World Building, and Nostalgia in Disneyland’s Fantasmic! | |
| Kincaid Rabb | Where Did That Sound Come From?: Diegesis and the Themed Experience | |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:45 | Panel 2: “Wondrous Journeys” Staging Music and Sound Chair: Gregory Camp | |
| Clair Nguyen | Respelling Magic: Interactive Wands and Parkgoer-driven Soundscapes at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter | |
| Alex Bádue | Ecosystem Business and Stage Musicals at Walt Disney World | |
| Len Testa | Buddy Baker Archives | |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Panel 3: “Listen to the Land” Spaces and Landscapes Chair: Anna Marinela Lopez | |
| Carissa Baker | Defining Paradigms in the Evolving Musical Landscape of Theme Parks | |
| Olivia Zorab | The Lost Kingdom – From Maps & Muddy Puddles to Mega-Music Scores | |
| Scott A. Lukas | Sonic Landscapes: Navigating Theme Park Soundscapes through Eurorack Performance and Sonic Discourse | |
| 15:30 | Break | |
| 15:45 | Keynote address: Ron Fish Sponsored by the Royal Musical Association and the UCF Themed Experience Program. | |
| 17:15 | Announcements | |
| 17:30–19:00 | Dinner | |
Friday 21st June
| 9:00 | Panel 4: “Uncovering the PhilharMagic” Analytical Approaches Chair: Julianne Grasso | |
| James Bohn | Theme and Variations as Figurative and Literal Travel: Music in “it’s a small world” | |
| Amy Hatch | Death, Purgatory, and Warnings: The Use of ♭2 in Disney’s Haunted Mansion, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, and Splash Mountain | |
| Gregory Camp | Inside the Scores: Towards a Poetics of Theme Park Music | |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:45 | Panel 5: “America on Parade” Staging History Chair: Thomas B. Yee | |
| Reba A. Wissner | Hearing History: Music in the Freedomland Amusement Park, 1960–1964 | |
| Andrew Moenning | Constructing the “Golden Dream”: Music and American History at Walt Disney World | |
| Andy Fry | Dixieland at Disneyland: Performing “New Orleans Jazz” | |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Panel 6: “It’s a Small World” Transnational Perspectives Chair: Alex Bádue | |
| Thomas B. Yee | “Minnie, We Love You!”: the Rehabilitation of Cultural Aroma in the Stage Shows of Tōkyō Disneyland and DisneySea | |
| Thomas L. Wilson | Another Arabian Night: Alan Menken’s Sindbad at Tokyo DisneySea | |
| Maria Schreurs | ‘It’s a Small World After All’: Mapping the Similarities and Differences Between Music in De Efteling and the Disney-Parks | |
| 15:30 | Break | |
| 15:45 | Panel 7: “The Great Movie Ride” Between Screen and Space Chair: Tim Summers | |
| Dan White | Wizarding World Music: Sounds, Scores and Serenades | |
| Jessica Getman | Sounds of Sith: Sonic Signifiers of Danger in Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge | |
| Lauren Crosby | Cantina Band Covers: Genre Evolution in Adaptations of “Mad About Me” | |
| 17:15–17:30 | “There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow”: Concluding Discussion and Next Steps | |
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