NYSSL AMS Chapter Meeting 2021, April 15-16
AMS NYSSL 2021 Chapter Meeting
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/kBX6nX4uVxiPzCmi8
Full-time faculty - US$20
Grad students, part-time faculty, independent scholars, and others - US$10
Schedule:
Thursday, April 15
9 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 am Music and Propaganda
Chair: Christina Baade, McMaster University
Cheers to the End, or How the BBC Handled Empire Day Broadcasting After World War II
Trevor R. Nelson, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Listening to German-Japanese Relations through Felix Weingartner’s Die
Dorfschule (1919)
Amanda Hsieh, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mozart in the Axis: The Italian Delegation at the “Mozart Week of the German Reich” (1941)
Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis, Universite de Montreal
Gabrielle Prud’homme, Universite de Montreal/University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
10:30 am Recovering Female Professionals
Chair: Derek Strykowski, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
“A Notorious Lady”: Nannette Streicher-Stein and Piano Making in Vienna
Hester Bell Jordan, McGill University
November 26, 1842: The Schröders, Live at the Gewandhaus
Jacques Dupuis, Framingham State University
Who was the Chickasaw that sang at the Coronation of George and Queen Elizabeth in London?: Europe's Fascination with Tessie Mobley and American Indigeneity.
Cristian Damir Martinez Vega, University of Oklahoma
11:45 am Tracing Sources
Chair: John Kapusta, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Searching for Divinity in Jazz: Observations on Sofia Gubaidulina’s Concerto for Two Orchestras, Jazz and Symphony (1976)
Lana Forman, York University
Erskine Caldwell’s Tragic Ground: The Text Behind Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land
Monica A. Hershberger, SUNY Geneseo
Lightning Talk—DACT Fragment Campaign
Anna de Bakker, DACT
Lightning Talk—Visualizing Nineteenth-Century Music Supply Chains
Derek Strykowski, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
12:45 pm Lunch Break
2:00 pm Sound and Site
Chair: Sara Haefeli, Ithaca College
An Alliance of Sound and Bronze: Instrumentalizing Noise and the Other in Albert of Aachen’s History of the Journey to Jerusalem
Eleanor Price, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Re-Hearing the Garden in Schoenberg's Erwartung
Sadie Menicanin, University of Toronto
Studying Source Material of Music for Wilderness Lake: Preliminary Ideas about Textual Authority in Site-Specific Works
Sarah Teetsel, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
3:15 pm Sonic Identity
Chair: Darren Mueller, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Sounding Spanish: Manuel de Falla's La vida breve and the Failure of Representation
Anthony LaLena, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Tin Pan Alley's Lace Curtains: Irish Diaspora and Italian Opera in the Music of Chauncey Olcott
Sarah Gerk, Binghamton University
Listening in Lycra: Jazzercise Records and the Race of the Slender Body
Emmalouise St. Amand, Eastman School of Music, University of
Rochester
4:45 pm Keynote Address: "Vera Lynn in Nashville (1977): White Working-Class Femininity and Transatlantic Affinities"
Christina Baade, McMaster University
6:00 pm Virtual Social Hour
Friday, April 16
9:15 am Voice, Vocality, and Performances of Self
Chair: Seth Coluzzi, Colgate University
“Wayfaring Stranger” and Dolly’s Parton’s Compositional Voice: A Visit to Dolly’s Songwriting Workshop
Lydia Hamessley, Hamilton College
That’s the Way I Am, Heaven Help Me: The Role of Pronunciation in Billy Bragg’s Recordings
Mary Blake Rose, Western University
Lightning Talk—Pseudo-Musicology and Musicological Fictions
Kristin M. Franseen, Carleton University
10:15 am Music, Religion, and Liturgy
Chair: Kirsten Yri, Wilfrid Laurier University
The Harmonics of the Alia musica
Matthew Nace
Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River: At the Crossroads of Modernism and the Sacred
Hilary Seraph Donaldson, University of Toronto
11:15 am Diversity, Inclusion, and Labor
Chair: Kimberly Francis, University of Guelph
Where Do We Go from Here? Ethical Representation On- and Offstage in Opera
E. Margaret Cormier, McGill University
Anti-Colonization, Art Music, and Theatre’s Messiah/Complex
Nina Penner, Brock University
Lightning Talk—Call Me Maestro: Media and the Representation of Orchestral Conductors
Cheryl Bruce, Queen’s University
Lightning Talk—Democracy and Musical Labor
Amanda Paruta
12:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm NYSSL Business Meeting and Graduate Student Paper Prize Announcement
2:00 pm COVID and Virtuality
Chair: Colleen Renihan, Queen’s University
De-Traumatizing the Pandemic: Music, Media, and the Neoliberal Economy
James Deaville, Carleton University
Digital Symphonies: Visual Innovation and Digital Strategies used by Orchestras to Enhance Audience Engagement During COVID-19 Social Restrictions
Cintia Cristiá, Ryerson University
Lightning Talk—Virtual Reality Applications for Remote Music Collaboration
Mike D’Errico, Albright College
3:15 pm Imagine PhD Workshop
Of special interest to graduate students, but open to all
Chairs: April Morris, University of Western Ontario and Diana Wu, University of Western Ontario
Facilitated by Rob Pearson, Emory University and Imagine PhD
4:45 pm BYOB Virtual Social Hour
