AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

LOCATION at Amherst College Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) Robert Frost Library,  2nd floor 61 Quadrangle Amherst, MA 01002  The entrance to the Library is from Quadrangle Drive (south end of the building).  More info regarding parking HERE Details as to specifics (hall/rooms, parking) will be posted as they become available. Bios, photos, and abstracts are posted as available. -------------------- 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15 Welcome 10:20 From Poem to Dance via Music: Departures and Convergences in Jonathan Taylor’s Transfigured Night Nona Monahin (Mount Holyoke College) Richard Dehmel’s 1896 “Verklärte Nacht” (Transfigured Night), a poem centered on a crisis of confidence in a couple’s relationship, inspired composer Arnold Schoenberg’s string sextet of the same title (1899; arranged for string orchestra in 1917 and revised in 1943), which in turn inspired numerous choreographic versions. In this p...

Bios and abstracts are posted as they become available and will be edited for length. Exact location and parking information will be posted soon. Location : Brooks Music Center Concert Hall, second floor (No. 2 opposite St. Joseph Memorial Chapel on this map ). Parking: Visitors may park in the Loyola Lot (closest) or above the Hogan Center (Gate 7) 
 NOTE! At the meeting we will be  holding  elections for Secretary/Treasurer and for one of our two student representative positions . Please send nominations to Jacqueline Sholes at jsholes at ccsu.edu not later than 5 PM on Thursday, 4/25. Self-nominations welcome. Thank you! 
 9:45-10:15       Refreshments and Registration in Brooks 133 (first floor) Morning Session 10:15  Welcome 10:20  Antonio Cesti and Musical Convention: The Uses and Limits of Voice-Leading Schemas in His Operas – Kyle Masson (Princeton University) 10:50  Cantopop and Speech-Melody Co...

AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting
 February 23, 2019 
Pendleton West 101 / Sargent Concert Salon
--Wellesley College ( Parking Info and Campus Map ) 
9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session
 10:15 Welcome 10:20 “Me at Last, Me at Last!”: Black Artists Freeing Themselves From Country Music’s 
“White Avatar” – Joel Schwindt (Boston Conservatory at Berklee) Mainstream country music has long been branded a “white” genre, even though this identity is based on ahistorical constructs that downplay regular borrowings from black musical culture (Malone 2017, Nunn 2010, Manuel 2008). This “white avatar” has even been used to justify the marginalization of black performers’ racial identity, most infamously in the refusal of Charley Pride’s label to include a photo in the singer’s promotional materials during the first two years of his career. This “hegemony of vision” (McCrary 1993), however, has been challenged by two emerging black singers, Kane Brown and Jimmie Alle...