AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

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...

Please note: Bios & Abstracts will be added as they become available. The meeting will take place in the Earle Recital Hall (Sage Hall , First Floor) at Smith College. Maps/Directions/Parking info are found under the Upcoming Meetings tab . ------------ 9:30-10:00 a.m.       Refreshments and Registration 10:00 a.m.           Welcome Morning Session: The Dynamic Canon   10:05 a.m.    
 "Surface and Depth": Beneath the Reception of Rudolph Reti's Thematic Process, A Mid-Century Interdisciplinary Theory of Music Eric Elder (Brandeis University) The place of Rudolph Reti’s 1951 book, The Thematic Process in Music , has been greatly understated in considerations of the history and development of current streams of musical thought. While frequently included in such outlines, the work’s long reception history, stretching from Vincent Persichetti (1951) and Alvin Bauman (1952) to Peter Ki...

PLEASE NOTE: This program has been revised with new times to reflect a last-minute change (9/30/15) AMS-NE Fall Chapter Meeting October 3, 2015 Amherst College Arms Music Center, Room 3 Free Weekend Parking Available in lots 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration (Chapter Dues $10: exact change appreciated) Morning Session 10:15   Welcome   10:20  Arnold Dolmetsch against Antiquarianism: The Development and Endurance of Period Instrument Revival Ideologies Maia Perez (Boston University)   Arnold Dolmetsch cut a fascinating figure in the eyes of his contemporaries: the eccentric but devoted leader of one of the first major early music revivals of the 20th century, essential to its success, and the primary force behind its dissemination. But as the century continued, his amateurism and his unshaken belief in the musical authority of a semi-mystical “performer’s insight” prevented most musicologists (and even his own studen...

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 ...