AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

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...

Chapter Meeting Program available HERE Address/Location   Although the official address for Eastern Connecticut State University is 83 Windham St, Willimantic, CT 06226, the two primary entrances to campus are on High Street (Please see the campus map: http://www.easternct.edu/map/files/2018/07/CampusMapwRoads2018.pdf ). The main entrance next to Admissions (Building #25 on the map) has a large sign with the school’s name and leads directly to the iconic clock tower; the other and best entrance for conference attendees is Charter Oak Rd next to public safety on one side (#50 on the map) and the Child and Family Development Resource Center on the other (#49 on the map). Be sure to include the name of the school in your GPS app.   The conference will take place in the Fine Arts Instructional Building , the building with the glass front on High Street (#32).  Parking Please park in one of two lots; consult this parking map for more information: http://...

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...

Woodstock 50: Stardust and the Devil’s Bargain Submission deadline: October 15 April 5-7, 2019 berklee.edu/woodstock50 Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) In August of 1969, a dairy farm in the state of New York hosted a pivotal moment in the history of pop music. Taking place only two years after the "Summer of Love” and one year after the tumultuous events of 1968, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair put an exclamation point on the transformational decade of the 1960s. Joni Mitchell did not attend Woodstock, but her song of the same name captures an opposition inherent to the turbulent and divisive era. “We are stardust...caught in the devil’s bargain,” Mitchell sings, “...and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” The committee hopes that these evocative lyrics inspire a similarly wide-ranging set of proposals. Berklee's Liberal Arts Department is pleased to announce a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. We are soliciting proposals on a...

The Fall 2018 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, September 29, 2018 at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, CT. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 30-minute papers and for roundtable sessions or workshops (pedagogical, performative, and/or scholarly). All abstracts are subject to blind review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged and welcome. Abstracts should be submitted by Wednesday, August 15, 2018 via email to kacook@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 musicological community, in ...

Elections for the Chapter will be held on Saturday, April 21st at the Business Meeting. Voting will be conducted by paper ballot. The slate of nominees is as follows: President Jacquelyn Sholes (re-election) Program Chair Karen Cook (The Hartt School/University of Hartford) Student Representatives (vote for 1) Miklós Veszprémi (Yale University) Cat Slowik (Yale University) Eric Elder (Brandeis University) Offices are described in Article V of the Chapter Bylaws . The program for Saturday's meeting is here .

AMS-NE Spring Chapter Meeting Saturday, April 21st, 2018 University of Massachusetts at Amherst Room N610, Life Science Laboratories Building (LSL) Amherst, MA **Will be updated with bios and abstracts as they become available.** 9:15 - 9:45 a.m.  Refreshments and Registration Morning Session: French identity, Identifying as French 9:45 a.m.                Welcome 
 10:00 a.m. "American Perspectives on the Fauré Centennial, 1945: The Writings of Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, and Irving Fine” Heather DeSavage (University of Connecticut) Heather de Savage holds a Ph.D. in music history and theory from the University of Connecticut. Her primary research considers Gabriel Fauré’s American reception, with a focus on activities in Boston; she has presented portions of this research, and her work on biblical exegesis in the late motets of Heinrich Schütz, at numerous conferences. Publications include items for...