AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

Here is the Program for the Spring Chapter Meeting. Please note that elections will be held during the business meeting. Nominations will be taken from the floor for President Program Chair AMS Chapter Representative AMS Student Representative We will also be voting on the chapter bylaws.  Any chapter member in good standing (dues paid for the year) may vote at the meeting. The draft is posted at the chapter Google group and the open comment period ends tomorrow, 4/25: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ams-newengland PROGRAM AMS-NE Spring Chapter Meeting Saturday, May 3, 2014 Ryan Concert Hall Smith Center for the Arts at Providence College 9:45-10:15 a.m. Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15 a.m. Welcome 10:20 a.m. Tristan und Isolde and Francesca da Rimini : An Intertextual Reading    Ji Yeon Lee (CUNY Graduate Center) 11:00 a.m. Plorer, Gemir, Crier : Musical Mourning and the Composer Jane Daphne Hatter (McGill Universit...

 The Spring 2014 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, 3 May 2014 at Providence College. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 30-minute papers and for roundtable sessions. Abstracts should be submitted by Monday, 31 March 2014 via email to jsholes@bu.edu or by mail to Jacquelyn Sholes, AMS-NE Program Chair, Department of Musicology & Ethnomusicology, School of Music, College of Fine Arts, B oston University, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. 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 language that is accessible to scholars with a variety of specia...

AMS-NE Chapter Meeting Saturday, April 30, 2011 Providence College Molly McGlone, "Experimental Urban Musical Spaces: a case study of the Electric Circus in the late 1960s" Exploring the little-known history of the Electric Circus, a New York music and dance space in the late 1960s, this paper reveals the inherent contradictions in one social, economic, and musical environment as a case study for understanding the historic cultural geography of a Lower East Side music community.  The Electric Circus space was unique as a commercial endeavor that both restricted its clients to participating in an already formulated social structure—one involving hippies, yippies, children, composers and “beautiful people”—that at the same time gave them license to come into the “think tank” to take charge of their own social order.  Bringing together university-trained composers such as Morton Subotnick and multiracial rock groups such as The Chamber Brothers, the Electric Circus managem...