Conference Agenda
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Location: Water Tower Parlor 6th floor, Palmer House Hilton Hotel |
| Date: Thursday, 14/Nov/2024 | |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Celebrating Twenty Years of Battlestar Galactica Megan Francisco , Location: Water Tower Parlor Chair: Eftychia Papanikolaou Presentations of the Symposium So Say We All: Common Music-Making as an Absent Signifier of Religious and Political Pluralism in Battlestar Galactica Music and Technologies of Memory in Battlestar Galactica "Life Has a Melody": Musical Predestination in Battlestar Galactica |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
The Aural Animated Imaginary Location: Water Tower Parlor Chair: Megan Francisco Musical Myths of Gender: Rapunzel as a Postfeminist Princess in Tangled (2010) The Aural Imaginary Worlds of Anime Fans: Listening to Voices as an Affective Encounter Dixieland at Disneyland: Performing "New Orleans Jazz" |
| Date: Friday, 15/Nov/2024 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Performing Remix from Broadside to Broadway Richard Will University of Virginia, Location: Water Tower Parlor Chair: Jessica Gabriel Peritz, Yale University Presentations of the Symposium Singing Fake News Performers Critiquing Opera “Now More Than Ever”: Black Womanhood and the Politics of Revival in Oklahoma! (2019) |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Racial Politics on Broadway: Explorations of Race in Musical Theater Location: Water Tower Parlor Chair: Mark Burford, Reed College The Good, the Bad, and the Body: Moral Imperatives in Hairspray The Witch’s Rap and the Racial Politics of Into the Woods Oz and The Urban Imagination: Musical Adaptations of L. Frank Baum’s Novel and Changing Conceptions of the American City |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Mozart Society of America Study Session & Business Meeting Location: Water Tower Parlor |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Disruptive Vocal Techniques in 19th Century Opera Location: Water Tower Parlor Chair: Lily Tamara Kass Lethal Timbres and Exploding Tenors: Reconstructing a Change in Operatic Vocal Technique, 1830–1848 The Operatic Sounds of Prosthetics: Performing Disability in Rigoletto The prehistory of Sprechgesang as theoretical opposition to bel canto in the nineteenth century |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Alt Rock to Alt Right: The “Alternative Revolution” and its Ironic Aftermath S. Alexander Reed Ithaca College, Location: Water Tower Parlor Chair: S. Alexander Reed, Ithaca College Presentations of the Symposium “Play Free Bird!” Communal Sarcasm and Alternative Rock in the 1990s Protest Song as Empty Vessel: The Leftist Anthems of the Alt Right “No, You Can’t Take That Away from Me!”: Wounded Entitlement, 1990s Alt Rock, and Financialized Media Industries Then and Now |
| Date: Saturday, 16/Nov/2024 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Artifacts of French Music-Making Location: Water Tower Parlor Chair: Peter Asimov, University of Cambridge "Incunables du son": Contextualizing Guy Ferrant’s Sound Recording Collection Adam de la Bassée’s Ludus Anticlaudianum and Music-Making in Late-Medieval Lille Partimento as Socio-Musical Hieroglyph in Early Nineteenth-Century France |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Dis-eased Musical Bodies Bettina Gisela Varwig University of Cambridge, Location: Water Tower Parlor Chair: Remi Chiu, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PEABODY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Presentations of the Symposium Bodies in Pain: Dis-eased Musicking in J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion Fearful Bodies – Fearful Sounds? Musically Navigating the Dis-ease of Plague Bent Bodies: Dis-ease in Heinrich Biber’s Scordatura and Joni Mitchell’s Alternate Tunings |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Music and Embodiment in Screen Media Daniel Bishop Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Location: Water Tower Parlor Presentations of the Symposium “Close to You”: Bootleg Aesthetics, Grain, & the Erotics of Empathy in Todd Haynes’s <i>Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story </i>(1987) “They were real”: Authenticity and Liveness in 1930s Hollywood Tap Dance Numbers |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Sounding the Russian and Soviet Frontier: Perspectives from Manchuria, Bulgaria, and Armenia Ryan Gourley , Location: Water Tower Parlor Chair: Gabrielle Cornish, University of Wisconsin–Madison Presentations of the Symposium The Bulgarian Question in Music: Balkan Internationalism at the End of Empire War as Musical Entertainment: Sounding the Siege of Port Arthur on Early Gramophone Recordings Staging Geopolitics: Opera and Historical Revisionism in Soviet Armenia |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Voicing Coloniality Location: Water Tower Parlor Chair: Yili Zhou Contact Listening: Using and Refusing Hymnody in Early Native America Choirs as [a Tool of] Colonialism: Diagnostic Embodiment, Affect, and the Elision of Physical and Cultural in Choralism Algeria and Memories of Resistance in Tomasi’s Le Silence de la mer |
| 9:30pm - 11:30pm |
Cornell Reception Location: Water Tower Parlor |
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