Journal Articles

Gubner J. 2022. “Domingo en Plaza Almagro (Sunday in Plaza Almagro). Journal for Audiovisual Ethnomusicology 1(1). URL: Javem.org

Allison TA, Gubner J, Oh A, Harrison KL, Pham K, Barnes DE, Johnson JK, Covinsky KE, Smith AK. 2021. “Meaningful Activities and Sources of Meaning for Community-Dwelling People Living with Dementia.” Journal of the Medical Directors Association S1525-8610(21)00735-0.

Gubner J, Streightiff S. 2021. “Creative Encounters in Awe Walking.” Arts Cabinet, Encounters Editorial.

Gubner, J, Smith, AK, Allison, TA. 2020. “Transforming Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Dementia through Music and Filmmaking.”  Journal of  the American Geriatrics Society 68(5): 1083-1089.

Gubner J. 2018. "The Music and Memory Project: Understanding Music and Dementia through Applied Ethnomusicology and Experiential Filmmaking." Yearbook for Traditional Music 50: 15-40.

Gubner J. 2018. “More than Fishnets & Fedoras: Filming Social Aesthetics in the Tango Scenes of Buenos Aires & The Making of A Common Place (2010).” Sound Ethnographies 1(1): 171-186. URL: http://www.soundethnographies.it  

Book Chapters

Forthcoming. Gubner J. “Love Songs that Protest: Sentipensante Music Making as Postneoliberal Activism in the Neighborhood Tango Festivals of Buenos Aires.” In Festival Activism, edited by David McDonald, Andrew Graver Snyder, and Jeremy Reed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Forthcoming. Gubner J. “Rethinking Ethnomusicological Fieldwork through the Lens of Aging - An Essay of Fragmented Tango Memories.” In Life’s Coda: Traditional Music and Dance in Later Life, edited by Jon Kay. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Gubner J. 2022. “A Week From Now, Will I Remember? Maybe…Maybe Not:”  Navigating Ethics in the Production of Student-Made Films about Music and Dementia.” Routledge Companion to Ethics in Ethnomusicology, ed. Beverley  Diamond and Jonathan P. J. Stock. London, Routledge. 

Gubner J. 2016. “‘Yo Soy un Fenómeno, Pero Sin Ustedes No Soy Nada’: Intimidad pública y sentimentalismo tanguero a través de la vida y canto de Osvaldo Peredo." In Tango: Ventanas del   Presente II, edited by Mercedes Liska and Soledad Venegas, 163-193. Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural de la Cooperación. 

Book & Film Reviews

Gubner J. 2021. Review of Benjamin J. Harbert, American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies in Ciné-Ethnomusicology. (Middletown:Wesleyan University Press). Ethnomusicology 65(3): 617–619.

Allison, TA, Gubner J. 2020. Review of Michael Rossato-Bennett Alive    Inside (film, 79 min). Ethnomusicology 64(2): 343-347. 

Gubner J. 2019. Film Review Music Man Murray. Richard Parks. 2011. In Ethnomusicology 63(2) 353-354.

Gubner J. 2017. Book Review of The Militant Song Movement in Latin America: Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. Edited by Pablo Vila. 2014. Lexington Books. In Journal of Folklore Research Reviews.

Dissertation

Gubner J. 2014. “Tango, Not-For-Export: Participatory Music- Making, Musical Activism, and Visual Ethnomusicology in the Neighborhood Tango Scenes of Buenos Aires.” Ph.D Dissertation, University of California Los Angeles.

Selected Invited Talks

2020. “Music as Wellness, Social Engagement and Selfhood in Healthcare and Beyond” Arts in Medicine Fellowship for Students and Professionals in Arts and Health, Lagos, Nigeria

2019. “Changing the Dementia Conversation through Arts & Music.” Indiana University Bloomington “Music Changes the World” course taught by Daniel Reed.

2019. “Storytelling, Creativity & Feel-Thinking: A Salon on Empathy” University of California, San Francisco

2019. “Seeing Aging Through an Ethnomusicological Lens: Digital Storytelling as Public Activism in Dementia Research.” Indiana University Bloomington “Film as Ethnography” course taught by Rebecca Dirksen.

2018. "The Music and Memory Project at Indiana University Bloomington: Using iPods to Promote Healthy Aging, Intergenerational Community Engagement, and Public Dementia Education." Earlham College, Richmond, IN

2018. "iPods on Memory Lane: Teaching Creative Aging and Intergenerational Community Engagement through the Music & Memory Project." Women in Music Festival, Mount Saint Mary's University, Los Angeles, CA [March 2018]

2017. "Doing and Teaching Multimodal Ethnomusicology through Film." Digital Pedagogy Workshop, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

2017. "Experiential Filmmaking as a Mode of Activist Ethnomusicology." International Seminar for audiovisual Ethnomusicology, University of Turin, Italy

2016. "From Tango Bars to iPods on Memory Lane: Doing Multimodal and Experiential Ethnomusicology through Film." IU Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Recent Conference Papers

Gubner J, Bosse J, Fiol S, and Allison T. 2022. Roundtable: Interprofessional Music & Health Collaborations: Four Case Studies on Aging and Dementia. Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana

2021 “Serenatas for Brain Health: Building and Documenting Culturally Diverse Strategies for  Intergenerational Community Engagement and Creative Aging Education.” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Atlanta Georgia. 

2021 “Serenatas for Tucson: A House-Calls Serenade Program for Latino Older Adults.” Poster Presentation. Alzheimer Association International Conference (Online). 

2021 ““Just Me and What I Do”: Meaningful Activities Among Dementia Caregiving Dyads in the Home.” Co-authored presentation by Kevin Pham, Smith AK, Johnson J, Harrison K, Gubner J, and Allison, TA. American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting. Online. 

2020 “Meaningful Activities Among Vulnerable Older Adults Living with Dementia.” Co-authored presentation by Theresa Allison, Jennie Gubner, Alexander K Smith. Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting. Online

2020 “La Edad del Amor: Filming Creative Aging Through Romantic Songs in  Spanish-Speaking Tucson, Arizona.” Global Brain Health Institute Virtual  Convening 2020.

2020 “Stuck in the Middle with You: Music in times of COVID.” Virtual International Conference for Arts in Health 2020 (VICAH).

2020 “The role of music in daily life in dementia caregiving relationships. Co-authored Presidential Session Poster by Allison, Theresa, Gubner J, Smith AK, Barnes DE, Covinsky KE, Yaffe K, Johnson JK. American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting.

2020 “The role of music in daily life in dementia caregiving relationships.” Co-authored Poster by Allison, TA, Gubner J, Smith AK, Barnes DE, Covinsky KE, Yaffe K, Johnson JK. Bay Area Clinical Research Symposium.

2020 “The Role of Music in Daily Life in Dementia Caregiving Relationships.” Co-authored Presidential Session Poster with Theresa Allison (first author). American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California

2019 “Reflecting on arts-based ethnography.” Workshop at EthnoFest 10th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival. Athens, Greece. 

2019. “Bridging Ethnomusicology, Disability Studies and the Health Sciences in Research on Dementia.” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Bloomington, Indiana.

2019. “Transforming Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Dementia through Collaborative Filmmaking: Intergenerational Films about Music and Memory®.” American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon.

2019. “Multiple Modes of Representation Involving Music in Dementia Caregiving Relationships.” Co-authored paper with Theresa Allison. International Association for Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden. 

2018. "Doing, Discussing, and Teaching Audiovisual Ethnomusicology Today: A Roundtable Discussion." ICTM Audiovisual Ethnomusicology Study Group Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal [May 2018]

2018. "Desde la Teoría hacia la Práctica: Desafíos y Problemas de la Etnomusicología Audiovisual Actual." ICTM Latin America and Caribbean Study Group Meeting, Salto, Uruguay [May 2018]

2017. “Unlocking Memories, Rethinking Advocacy: Sensory Filmmaking in the Study   of Music and Dementia.” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado. Chair. 

2017. “Building Sound Communities: Musical Engagement as Cultural Activism.” Imagining America: Arts and Scholars in Public Life, National Conference, Davis, California. 

2017. "Teaching about Music and Alzheimer's through Applied Ethnomusicology and Digital Humanities.” International Council for Traditional Music Conference,  Limerick, Ireland.

2017. “Tango, Not-For-Export.” 53 minute documentary selected for film library at the 15th RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and London)  Film Festival. Bristol, England.

2017. “Roundtable: Ethnomusicology and Public Humanities.” Symposium on Ethnomusicology and the Humanities, Indiana University Bloomington. 

2016. “Teaching Sensory Ethnography: Between Research and Creative Practice.”  Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education’s 15th Transatlantic Forum, Chicago, Illinois.

2016 “More than Fishnets and Fedoras: Sensory Filmmaking and the Empowerment of Local Social Aesthetics in the Tango Scenes of Buenos Aires.” International Council for Traditional Music 1st Study Group on Audiovisual Ethnomusicology. Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

2015. “‘I’m a Phenomenon, but without you all, I’m Nothing’: Strategies of Audience Building in the Tango Underground.”  Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.