Join us next week for our final workshop, Marcy Pierson with respondent George Adams! The pre-circulated reading is available on the downloads page with the password erasure.We’ll be partying at this last workshop of the year, with a spread catered by Chipotle to accompany our tasty conversation!
Here are the meeting details:
Logan Terrace Seminar Room (801)
Wednesday, June 4
4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Marcy writes:
The Voice under Erasure in Darmstadt and beyond
Modernist composers since 1950 or so have evinced a marked disease with melody and thus, I argue, with the voice. The composers in my dissertation exploit the expressive power of the singing voice, but also find it imperative to intervene, to obstruct. I am particularly concerned with those who express ambivalence toward, rather than an outright rejection of, melody and singing: composers who invoke them, but also put them under erasure by distorting them in various ways. This chapter will introduce this project by delineating its scope, elucidating its theoretical foundations, and outlining its methodology.
See you there!
Cheers,
Ana and Chelsea