Weekdays at 4pm Eastern. Zoom link here.
- The Teaching Music History Conference will be hosted by Music Scholarship at a Distance June 8-19. Daily presentations will run from 4:00-5:15pm EDT.
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- You do not need a Zoom account to participate as a viewer, but you will need to download and install the Zoom application.
- Non-presenters will be default muted during the colloquia – voice and chat Q&A are moderated by the hosts and presenter.
CALENDAR
Past
| 3/17 | Will Robin | “Bang on a Can and New Music America: Competing Festival Visions for Contemporary Music.” | @seatedovation |
| 3/18 | Trevor R Nelson | “‘What D’You Mean Saint George Was A Turk?’: Britishness, Brexit, _Englistan_ | @TrevorRNelson |
| 3/19 | Jane Mathieu | “Armed with Tin Pans and Flags of All Sizes”: Songs of Belonging in the Streets of the Immigrant City, 1912 | @janekmathieu |
| 3/20 | Micaela Baranello | Space Opera: Alienation Effects in Sci-Fi Regietheater | @zerbinettasblog |
| 3/23 | Samuel J. Brannon | “Books of Good Omen Should Be Decked with Such Things as These”: Customizations to Renaissance Music Books as Evidence of Reader Engagement | |
| 3/24 | Martin Ross | Listening to a Gradual Process: Gesture in Steve Reich’s ‘Melodica’ | |
| 3/25 | Joanne Wong | Musical Narrative in BTS’ “The Most Beautiful Moment in Life” | |
| 3/26 | Stewart Duncan | The Role of Choral Music in British Diplomacy, 1934-1939: The British Council and National Identity Abroad | @stewart_duncan |
| 3/27 | Liz Wollman and Trudi Wright | “The Best of All Possible Worlds: Teaching Musicals in a Time of Crisis” | @elizwollman |
| 3/30 | Elena Arredondo Farel | “Sissieretta Jones and Performing the Prima Donna” | |
| 3/31 | Eva Moreda Rodriguez | “From notation to stage to recording in Spanish zarzuela, 1896-1958” | @NotationIsGreat |
| 4/1 | Austin T. Richey | “Re-Sounding Detroit: Afrikan Griots and Sonic Afro-Modernity” | |
| 4/2 | Jake Cohen | “Symphony Hall, the ‘Back Bay Wastes,’ and the Changing Cultural Geography of Fin-de-siècle Boston” | @musicolojake |
| 4/3 | Robin James | ” ‘You Need To Calm Down!’: The political economy of ‘chill’ in contemporary popular music” | @doctaj |
| 4/6 | Gabrielle Cornish | “Perestroika’s Noisy Bodies” | @gcornish91 |
| 4/7 | Gillian Gower | “The Passion of Miley Cyrus: Medievalism as Pop Feminism in ‘Mother’s Daughter’ “ | @medievaliste |
| 4/8 | Anne Levitsky | “‘La rana e-l rossinhols’: Interactions between Human and Animal Voices in Troubadour Song” | @alevitskmusic |
| 4/9 | Andrew Chung | “Music of New World Coloniality Is Music of The Anthropocene” | @prof_ajchung |
| 4/10 | Andy Jarema | “Leveling Up The Symphony Orchestra: Andrew Norman’s Play and Video Game Narrative Structure” | |
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| 4/14 | Ryan Ebright | “Incubation and Integration: The American Music Theater Festival and Anthony Davis’s X” | @ryan_ebright |
| 4/15 | Colloquium Chat: Crisis, Coping, Community | ||
| 4/16 | Kari Lindquist | “Bands of Brew City: The relationship between the brewing industry and local wind bands in 20th century Milwaukee” | @karilindyhop |
| 4/17 | Tanner Cassidy | “Musical Topics and Cultural Trauma in Akira Ifukube’s Score for Gojira (1954)” | |
| 4/20 | Ryan McCormack | “A Song of Roland; or How An Early Modern Biopolitics of the Bell Might Subvert the Modern Biopolitical Power of State and Capital” | |
| 4/21 | Kristin Franseen | “‘Lasset hoch den Meister leben’: The Problem of Salieri in 19th-Century Music Biography” | @musicologygeek |
| 4/22 | Chelsea Burns | “The Racial Limitations of Country-Soul Crossover in Bobby Womack’s BW Goes C&W, 1976″ | @BurnsChelsea1 |
| 4/23 | Eric Hung, Mandi Magnuson-Hung, Jennifer Wilson | “Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Strategies for Public Musicology During the Quarantine: Day 1” | @MusAsianAmerica, @msumeric, @mandialyse, @jchjw |
| 4/24 | Eric Hung, Mandi Magnuson-Hung, Jennifer Wilson | “Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Strategies for Public Musicology During the Quarantine: Day 2” | @MusAsianAmerica, @msumeric, @mandialyse, @jchjw |
| 4/27 | Eva Yang | “Teresa Teng ‘in’ Mainland China: Media, Censorship, and Cultural Identity” | |
| 4/28 | Erica K. Argyropoulos | “‘Exhiled Man’: Bob Dylan’s complicated relationship with American Jewishness” | |
| 4/29 | Colloquium Chat: Service, Support, and the Fall Semester | ||
| 4/30 | Drake Andersen | “A Graph Theoretical Approach to ‘Interactional Complexity’ in the Music of Earle Brown” | |
| 5/1 | Robin James, Christine Capetola, K Goldschmitt, Alex Rodriguez, Alex Reed | Pop Music in 1990: A Roundtable | @doctaj, @christinecapetola, @kgoldschmitt, @arodjazz, @industrialbook |
| 5/4 | Minato Sakamoto | “Piano is Chinese” | |
| 5/5 | Joe Nelson | “‘Noise and fury signifying nothing’: Music, Noise, and the Landscape of Urban Poverty in London from 1650-1850” | |
| 5/6 | Paula Clare Harper | “(Corona)Viral Musicking: Sounding Sanitation and Social Distance from Perotin to Cardi B” | @pch9857 |
| Teaching Music History Conference | |
| 6/8 | Alice V. Clark, “Uncovering a Diverse Early Music” Bryanna Beasley, “Teaching Diversity in Identity and Musical Roles through Late Romantic and Post-Romantic Women Composers” |
| 6/9 | Danielle M. Kuntz, “Behind the Screen: Practical Strategies and Outcomes for Undergraduate Engagement in Music Archives” Danielle Fosler-Lussier, “”Seeing Ourselves in the Past: Music in Higher Education in 1877 and Today” |
| 6/10 | Esther Morgan-Ellis, “A Case Study in Open-Access Education” Lars Christensen, “Teaching Global Music History Across Time and Space” |
| 6/11 | Reba Wissner and Daniel Guberman, Workshop: “UnAssessment in the Music History Classroom” |
| 6/12 | Mary Natvig, “Mental Health and the Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure” Kristy Swift, “Creating Wicked Students”: Protest(ed) Music Assignments and Assessments” |
| 6/15 | Eric Hung and Amy Hartsough, Workshop: “Open Difficult Conversations in the Music History Classroom through Asian American Art Songs” |
| 6/16 | William A. Everett, “Because White Fragility Exists in the Music History Classroom” Margaret E. Walker, “Teaching Globally Entangled Histories of Music” |
| 6/17 | Lacie Eades, “Encountering Western Classical Music with a 1990’s VH1 Twist: Creating a Pop-Up Video Assignment” Colin Roust, “Writing Better about Music: A New Collaboration between a School of Music and a Writing Center” |
| 6/18 | Matt Baumer, Kelly Huff, and Terry Dean, Workshop: “Generating New Empirical Research in Music History Pedagogy” |
| 6/19 | Anthony Bushard and Brian Moore, “Music as Art, Discipline, and Profession: A Case Study for Collaborative Research, Teaching, and Performance” Conference-end wrap-up discussion |
Presenters have been invited to share the text of their papers or slides here.