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…

Please join us next Wednesday for Sound and Society’s final workshop of the 2018-2019 academic year, where we will welcome William Robin, Professor of Musicology at the University of Maryland’s School of Music. His talk is titled: ” “There’s Money in New Music”: Bang on a Can and the Post-Górecki Record Industry in the 1990s” Wednesday,…

Please join the Sound and Society workshop next Wednesday, May 8, as we welcome Marion Guck (Professor of Music Theory at University of Michigan), who will give a talk titled: “Musical Intersubjectivity: Vitality Affect and Evocative Object”  Wednesday, May 8, 2019 4:30-6:00pm Logan 028 (* please note room change)   Professor Guck writes of this presentation, “To…

Please join the Sound and Society workshop next Wednesday, May 1 as we welcome Peter Schubert (Professor of Music Theory at McGill University), who will give a talk entitled: “What is Contrapuntal Thinking?”  Wednesday, May 1, 2019 4:30-6:00pm Logan 801 As Professor Schubert writes, “In North American universities, there is a widening gap between counterpoint teaching and…

 A special joint presentation concludes Sound and Society’s Winter schedule on February 20th: “The Rules of Music-Sociological Method” An interactive presentation on Whitney Johnson’s book manuscript, Learning to Listen: Knowledge of Value in Auditory Culture   Whitney Johnson (UChicago PhD in Sociology) and Patrick Fitzgibbon (PhD Candidate in Music) Wednesday, February 20th 4:30-6:00pm Logan Center, Room…

This Wednesday, February 6th, please join Sound and Society in welcoming for our third session of the quarter:  Marina Resende Santos (she/her), Sasha Tycko (they/them), and Maya Nguen (she/her) who will present their sound installation and work in progress, “Soundscapes of Hyde Park“ Wednesday, February 6th 4:30-6:00 PM Logan Center, Room 801 Marina, Sasha, and…