Entextualization and Clara Schumann’s Nineteenth-Century Pianism Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:30-6:00 p.m. Logan Center 801   Please join the Sound and Society Workshop this Wednesday, March 11, as we return to our regular location in Logan Center 801 to welcome Andrew Malilay White (PhD Candidate, Music). Caleb Herrmann will serve as a discussant. Andrew will present on a…

Hired to be Overheard: Resonances of Chindon-ya in Contemporary Japan Monday, March 2, 2020 4:30-6:00 p.m. Logan Center 802   This coming Monday (3/2), Please join the Sound & Society Workshop, in collaboration with the Ethnoise Workshop, in welcoming Marié Abe, Associate Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology at Boston University. Professor Abe will be…

Kurdish Music as Literature: Some Historical Considerations Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2019 4:30-6:00 pm Logan Center 801   Please join the Sound and Society Workshop this Wednesday, February 19, as we return to our regular location and time in welcoming Jon Bullock (PhD Candidate, Music), who will be presenting a chapter he is preparing for publication in The De Gruyter Handbook…

Singing like Germans Black Musicians in the land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:30-6:00 p.m. John Hope Franklin Room (SSD 224)   Please join us next Wednesday, when we join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop in welcoming Kira Thurman, Assistant Professor of History and German at the University of…

Join us this Wednesday, as we host a working group with students from the Music Department Dissertation Proposal Seminar, who will present on initial progress in their research. We will use the time to gather feedback, useful ideas, suggestions, case studies, and sonic objects. The student presenters and their working titles are listed below. We…

Building Interracial Youth Power through P’ungmul Drumming Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Logan Center 802   Please join the Sound and Society Workshop on Wednesday, December 4th, as we welcome Joseph Maurer (PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology), who will be presenting a draft of the seventh chapter of his dissertation, entitled “Building Interracial Youth…

Expressivity in Speech and Music Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:30-6:00 p.m. Logan Center 802   Please join the Sound and Society Workshop on Wednesday, November 20th, as we welcome Rebecca Flore (PhD Candidate, Music History and Theory), who will be presenting an abridged version of a chapter in-progress from her dissertation, entitled “Expressivity in Speech…

  Saving Abstraction Morton Feldman, the de Menils, and the Rothko Chapel Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Logan Center 802   Please join us next Wednesday in welcoming Ryan Dohoney, Associate Professor of Musicology at Northwestern University. Prof. Dohoney will be presenting on his recently published book, Saving Abstraction: Morton Feldman, the…

With the annual professional music conferences for the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory approaching, we will again be hosting dry-run sessions for our colleagues who plan to present. Due to the number of students presenting this year, we will be splitting the dry runs into two sessions. This Wednesday, October 16, we…

  Listening in on Country’s Color Lines A Panel Discussion on Lil Nas X and ‘Old Town Road’   Wednesday, October 9   4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Logan Center 802     After being kicked off the Billboard country charts for not “fitting” the genre, ‘Old Town Road’ by Lil Nas X spent the next…