AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

Wellesley College's address is 106 Central Street (do not enter from Rte. 16) **updated 2/22 to reflect error in street name below** PARKING Turn left off Rte 135 (West Entrance) onto College Road. Turn right to get to Visitor Parking. You may park in any available space, except for those reserved for handicapped and disabled patrons. TO GET TO PENDLETON WEST from the parking lot: 1. Follow the path out of Visitor Parking.  2. Once you see the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center, continue to the left along the sidewalk on the right side of College Road. 3. You will pass the Physical Plant on the right, and next on you will see the brick wall of the Museum on the right. 4.  Cross the road and the path will fork; take the upper path on the right. 5.  The first building you come to near the top of the hill is Pendleton West on the left.  Enter; Pendleton West 101 will be immediately on the left. CAMPUS MAP COMMUTER RAIL INFO from Boston South Stat...

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...

The Winter 2019 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, February 23, 2019 at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers and for roundtable sessions or workshops (pedagogical, performative, and/or scholarly). All abstracts are subject to anonymous review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged and welcome. Abstracts should be submitted by  Tuesday, January 15, 2019  via email to Karen Cook:  kacook -at-  hartford.edu . Please refer to the AMS abstract guidelines: “Proposals should represent the presentation as fully as possible. A successful proposal typically articulates the main aspects of the argument or research findings clearly, positions the author’s contribution with respect to previous scholarship, and suggests the paper’s significance for the mu...

AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting Saturday, February 19, 2011 Wellesley College Erinn Knyt, "Ferruccio Busoni and the Absolute in Music: Nature, Form, and Idée" “Absolute music! What the lawgivers mean by this is perhaps remotest of all from the absolute in music.” With these enigmatic words, Ferruccio Busoni opened his second aphoristic essay in The Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music. Although he could be called an advocate of absolute music because of his frequent description of music as “absolute” and his discussion of music as consisting of pure tones found in the vibrating universe, Busoni nevertheless developed idiosyncratic theories about the term, its usage, and its ideal manifestation in Tonkunst that remain largely unexamined in scholarly literature. True, Carl Dahlhaus noted Busoni’s use of the concept to refer to music unconstrained by traditional forms, but this is merely one aspect of Busoni’s views, which also allowed for and included the visual and explicit ...