April 25: Barbara Dietlinger and Rebecca Flore, Dissertation Proposals

In Sound and Society’s third meeting of the spring quarter, we welcome a double-feature, Barbara Dietlinger (third-year, music history and theory) and Rebecca Flore (third year, music history and theory), who will share some of the research from their upcoming dissertation proposals: “Music and Commemoration in Early Modern North Europe–Visual and Sonic Intersections of Remembrance”…

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April 11: Emily Dolan, “Mendacious Technologies”

In Sound and Society’s second meeting of the spring quarter, we welcome Emily Dolan, the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Music at Harvard Universit, who will share a short version of her chapter, entitled: “Mendacious Technologies” Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 Logan 028 4:30 – 6:00 PM This is a short version of the second chapter…

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October 18 and 25, 2017: AMS/SMT Dry Runs

It’s that time once again when our constituents prepare to deliver papers at the annual professional music conferences for the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory. Because there are such a large number of students presenting this year, we have decided to spread the dry runs into two sessions. This Wednesday, October 18, we…

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October 4, 2017: Steven Rings

The Sound and Society Workshop Presents: Steven Rings University of Chicago Sounding “Hard Rain” Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Logan 802 4:45 – 6:15 PM This chapter draft from my book-in-progress on Bob Dylan explores multiple versions of the song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” As this is (currently) chapter one, it also lays out some…

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Introducing the Sound and Society Workshop

The Sound and Society workshop is a new interdisciplinary hub for those concerned with sound across music, art, rhetoric, history, science and technology, sociology, and more. This workshop acknowledges that the production, distribution, and consumption of sound is uniquely intertwined with the social lives of people. Sound can be a vehicle for pleasure (like an orchestra performing…

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