Conference Agenda

Session Overview
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
 
Date: Thursday, 09/Nov/2023
4:00pm
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5:30pm
British Imaginings of the Other
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: Arman Schwartz
 

“Look Not in My Eyes”: Musical Readings of A. E. Housman’s Strategies of Concealment in A Shropshire Lad

Alison Elizabeth Gilbert



Music Aesthetics and the Urban Imaginary in Late-Victorian London

Katherine Fry



Projecting Britishness to the Soviet Union: Music Coverage in Britain’s Russian-Language Journal Angliia

Thornton Miller

8:00pm
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10:00pm
AMS Ecomusicology Study Group Lightning Talks and Business Meeting
Heidi Lee Jensen
Alfred University
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
 

Heidi Lee Jensen


 
Date: Friday, 10/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
Fairy tales and music between “Asia” and “Germany”
Amanda Hsieh
Durham University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: Anicia Timberlake
 

Chair(s): Anicia Timberlake

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Wagner, Fairy Tales, and the Staging of _Hänsel und Gretel_ in Japan, 1913

Amanda Hsieh

 

Modern Magic and Demystified Difference: Musical Fairy Tales in Weimar Republic Germany

John Gabriel

 

Making a Modern Fairy Tale: Music and Narrative in _Ponyo_ (2008)

Brooke McCorkle Okazaki

10:45am
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12:15pm
Mobility, Media, and Money in Early Modern Popular Music
Erica Pauline Levenson
SUNY Potsdam,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden
 

Chair(s): Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Servants and the Circulation of Opera Airs in Seventeenth-Century France

John Romey

 

Fashionable Farces: The Economics of French Musical Theater in Early Eighteenth-Century London

Erica Levenson

 

Bubble Ballads, Moving Media: Music and Financial Crisis, circa 1720

Morton Wan

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Society for Seventeenth Century Music Business Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
2:15pm
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3:45pm
Historicizing Celebrity
Shaena Weitz
University of Bristol,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: Clair Rowden
 

Chair(s): Clair Rowden

Discussant(s): Robert van Krieken

Presenter(s): Shaena Weitz, Emmanuela Wroth, Sarah Hibberd, Annegret Fauser

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Music, Technology, and Communication
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: James Gabrillo, University of Texas at Austin
 

Medium, Message, Performance: Technological Inadequacy in Igor Levit’s “House Concerts"

Edgardo Raul Salinas



Raising a Proper American Citizen: The Politics of Childhood in the Music of American Cartoons of the 1950s

Ala Krivov



Timbre Dematerialized: Illusory Instruments in "Arrival" and "The Lighthouse"

Cole D. Swanson

8:00pm
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10:00pm
Student Engagement: Texts and Tools
Esther Marie Morgan-Ellis
University of North Georgia,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
 

Chair(s): Sarah Waltz

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Music History Texts in the Modern College Classroom

J. Peter Burkholder, Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Sara Haefeli, Esther M. Morgan-Ellis, Kristy Swift

 

Tools for Active Learning

Janice Dickensheets, Hayoung Heidi Lee


 
Date: Saturday, 11/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
Medieval Polyphony
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: John Thomas Brobeck, University of Arizona
 

Asses and Ales: Locating Ethnicity through Parody in Thirteenth-Century Balaam Motets

Eleanor Price



Machaut’s Rests in Scribal Hands

Emily Korzeniewski



Repetition in the Insular Polyphonic Alleluya and the Integrity of Plainchant

Karen Desmond

10:45am
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12:45pm
European Music and Caribbean Slavery in the Eighteenth Century
Maria Ryan
Florida State University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: Naomi Andre, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 

Chair(s): Naomi André

Presenter(s): Julia Doe, Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden, Aimee González, Mary Caton Lingold, Henry Stoll

2:15pm
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3:45pm
Fields, Gardens, and Labyrinths
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: Emily Loeffler
 

Escaping from “dust and noise” to the “verdant abodes of feather’d minstrels”: The Politics of Sound in London’s Eighteenth-Century Pleasure Gardens

Ashley Greathouse



From the Tiber to the Thames: Thomas Watson’s Italian Madrigalls Englished and the Naturalization of Marenzio’s Musical Arcadia

Joseph Olivier Gauvreau



Gardens, Modulations and Sacred Architecture in Marin Marais’s “Le Labyrinthe”

Eric William Tinkerhess

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Late 16th–Early 17th-Century Polyphony
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: Melinda Latour
 

Ad sacrum convivium: The Mediating Role of Confraternal Music in the German Counter-Reformation

Alexander John Fisher



Motet persona: Vicente Lusitano, polyphonist of color, and his quest for legitimacy

Bernardo Illari



Motets and Mandates: Austrian Habsburg Responses to the Ottoman Empire during the Long War (1593–1606)

D. Linda Pearse

9:30pm
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11:30pm
CUNY Party
Location: Governor's Sq. 16

 
Date: Sunday, 12/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
Music and World War II
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: Heather de Savage, Central Connecticut State University
 

"The Answer to the Enemy's Siren": GI Jill and Government Sponsored Intimacy in World War II Radio

Katie Beisel Hollenbach



Thriving in a WWII Margaritaville: Musical Ecology, Leonard Bernstein, and Key West in 1941

Zane Larson

10:45am
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12:15pm
On the Totalitarian Stage
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
Chair: Gabrielle Cornish
 

Bartók, Communist Propaganda, and the Ban on Musical Works under Rákosi

Zachary Milliman



In 'The Land of Smiles:' Ideology, theatricality and responsibility on the totalitarian stage

Gabriela Cruz



Late Operetta and Early Fascism: Politics of Light Music in Italy, 1920–30

Marco Ladd