AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

 For the full program with linked abstracts and bios, please click here . Full abstracts and bios here.  Registration info is at the bottom of this post. AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER Spring 2021 Meeting Virtual Meeting hosted by University of Massachusetts Amherst SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2020 Program (all times listed below are EDT)   10:15-10:30AM            Welcoming Remarks  (ZOOM)   10:30AM-12:00PM       Morning Session (ZOOM)  “Reassessing Eichheim’s Oriental Music: Some Preliminary Remarks” Richard Mueller (Willington, Connecticut) “Monteverdi and Striggio’s  Orfeo : Modern Music, for a Pre-modern Play” Joel Schwindt (Boston Conservatory at Berklee) “‘The soul of man is a limpid wave’: Liszt, Lamartine, and  Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude ” Andrew Haringer (Saint Anselm College)  12:00PM-1:15PM         Lunc...

FULL PROGRAM here (bios and abstracts as available) Register for free here and you will receive a confirmation email containing information to join the February 13th meeting via Zoom. American Musicological Society - New England Chapter  Winter Meeting Saturday, February 13, 2021 Virtual Meeting hosted by Tufts University   Program (all times listed below are EST)   10:00-10:15AM Welcoming Remarks 10:15-11:45AM Morning Session  (chair: Melinda Latour, Tufts University) “ Claudio Santoro,  Música Viva , and the Emergence of German Modernism in Brazilian Music ” Pablo Marquine (University of Florida)   “Score-Based Site-Specificity in the Music of John Cage” Michael Boyd (Chatham University)   “ Mind to Music: Composing the Torino Mass from Memory ” Lukas Perry (Eastman School of Music)   11:45AM-1:45PM Lunch Break 1:45-2:00PM Chapter Business Meeting 2:00-3:30PM Afternoon Session  (chair: Jessica Fulkerson, Brandeis University) ...

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...

AMS-NE Fall Chapter Meeting
 September 29, 2018 
Eastern Connecticut State University
--Fine Arts Instructional Building Abstracts and Bios are posted as they become available. Directions/Parking/Food Info now available HERE . 8:45-9:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session
 9:15 Welcome 9:20 The Duty of the Musicians: Resistance Tactics and Lived Practices of le Front national des musiciens (1940-1944) - Julie VanGyzen (University of Pittsburgh) Following the invasion and subsequent occupation of France by Nazi Germany, musicians Elsa Barraine, Louis Durey, and Roger Désormière formed the resistance organization le Front national des musiciens (FNM). The main goals of the FNM was to promote the music of French composers, protect young French musicians from deportation, and to distribute an underground newspaper titled Musiciens d’Aujourd’hui . While the intent of Musiciens d’Aujourd’hui was to arm readers with a variety of resistant tactics, it primarily urges...