AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

Hosted by Brandeis University If you plan to participate in this virtual meeting, please register (for free) in advance at this link: https://brandeis.wufoo.com/forms/m1vzze2b1xkz2we/   After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the  Chapter meeting on February 5, 2022 (including the Zoom link for the meeting).  Program (all times listed below are EDT)  PDF with program and abstracts here Abstracts and bios available here 10:45-11:00AM Welcoming Remarks  11:00AM-12:30PM Morning Session (chaired by Chloe Danitz, Brandeis University)    “Navigating a Changing Music Business: Giulio Briccialdi and the Musicians’ Response to  Shifting Demands”  Samantha Tripp (Tufts University)  “Digital Amati: Structure and Interpretation of Classical Stringed Instruments” Harry Mairson (Brandeis University)  “‘Just to Be and Dance ’: Jerome Robbins, J.S. Bach, and Late Style”  Erinn Knyt (Univer...

The Winter 2020-2021 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, February 13, 2021. It will be hosted virtually by the Music Department at Tufts University; details and Zoom link will follow with the program announcement in mid-January. 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 blind review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and students are all encouraged and welcome. Abstracts should be submitted by Thursday, December 31, 2020 , to Mark DeVoto: mdevoto -at- granite dot tufts dot edu. Please refer to the AMS 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 scholarshi...

AMS-NE@ New England Conservatory: https://necmusic.edu/directions The meeting will take place in NEC’s Pierce Hall (241 St. Botolph St., first floor). Please note: Parking nearby is not easy. There are hard-to-find on-street meters  There are also nearby garages: Gainsborough Garage and the Westland Ave. Garage. Please refer to the website above for details. Garage parking will run about $33/day. There are two nearby T stations: Green Line (Symphony) and Orange Line (Mass Ave.). Both are quite convenient to the meeting site. Entrance to the St. Botolph St. building is now through the new Student Life and Performance Center (SLPC). The SLPC is also on St. Botolph St., but is closer to Gainsborough than Mass. Ave. (see map). You will need an ID to sign in at the security desk. Finding Pierce Hall: Once signed in at security in the SLPC, take the staircase by the entrance up one flight. Cross the landing diagonally to the right and take the white hallway past Burnes Hall (th...

AMS-NE Fall Chapter Meeting February 22, 2020 New England Conservatory -- Pierce Hall ( Directions and Parking ) 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15 Welcome 10:20 Josquin’s Nymphes des bois and Lament Literature – Jeannette Di Bernardo Jones (College of the Holy Cross) Josquin’s Nymphes des bois is among the earliest polyphonic laments for musicians and joins poetic laments written honoring Jean de Okeghem after his death in February 1497. Musicologists have debated three problems surrounding this piece: its dating, its polytextuality, and its appearance in all-black notation in its sources. I address these issues by placing Josquin’s lament in a conversation with the existing poetic laments for Okeghem, namely Guillaume Crétin’s Déploration and Jean Molinet’s pair of poems, one of which is the French text Nymphes des bois in Josquin’s setting. I argue that Nymphes des bois , both Molinet’s poem and Josquin’s lament, is part of a larger ...

The Winter 2020 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on  Saturday, February 22, 2020 at New England Conservatory in Boston, 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 blind review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged and welcome. Abstracts should be submitted by  Wednesday, January 15, 2020  via email to 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 m...

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...