This autumn, many UChicago Department of Music faculty and students are presenting at the Society of Ethnomusicology, the Society for Music Theory, and the American Musicological Society Annual Meetings, among other conferences. With topics ranging from “Musics and Trans-Pacific Relations during the Cold War,” to “Epistemic Injustice and Exclusion in Music Academia,” to “TikTok and the Continual Discovery of Sea Chanteys,” these presentations discuss diverse and varied topics within music.
Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting – October 28-31, 2021, online
The Society for Ethnomusicology was founded in 1955 to promote the research, study, and performance of music from all historical periods and cultural contexts. With a network of scholars, educators, students, musicians, activists, and curators from diverse humanistic and social science perspectives. In addition to hosting an annual meeting, the society publishes the journal Ethnomusicology as well as four online publications and a podcast, and it provides awards for excellent scholarship in the field.
October 28
7:00 AM to 9:00 AM CT — Fiona Boyd: “Liveness without Live Audiences: NPR Music's Negotiation of the COVID-19 Pandemic”
12:45 PM to 2:45 PM CT — Joe Maurer: "Sugar and Tea and Rum and Revival: TikTok and the Continual Discovery of Sea Chanteys"
October 29
7:30 AM to 9:30 AM CT — Ailsa Lipscombe: "Viral Sounds, COVID-19, and the Medicalization of Everyday Spaces"
To learn more about the Society of Ethnomusicology and to register for their annual meeting, please visit their website.
Society for Music Theory 44th Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2021, online
The mission of the Society of Music Theory is to promote "the development of and engagement with music theory as a scholarly and pedagogical discipline." Embracing all approaches to and perspectives of music theory, the Society furthers the field of music theory through the publication of three scholarly journals, the promotion of scholarly research through awards and grants, and the convening of an annual meeting for the presentation and exploration of the latest research.
November 4
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM CT — John Lawrence: “Sullivan’s Slyly Shifting Stresses”
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM CT — Siavash Sabetrohani: “Pergolesi's Stabat Mater: Musical Debates and Nationalist Aspirations in Late-Eighteenth-Century Germany”
11:45 AM to 3:00 PM CT — Jennifer Iverson participates in a roundtable discussion, “Whose Voices? Epistemic Injustice and Exclusion in Music Academia” hosted by the Committee on Accessibility and Disability in which Iverson discusses the social-music program she facilitates at City Elementary. In this discussion, Iverson will encourage her colleagues to develop pedagogies that treat music as a tool for social inclusion rather than a skill-based mechanism of exclusion.
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM CT — Thomas Christensen: “The Expanding History of Theory I”
November 5
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM CT — Dustin Chau: “Revisiting Kane’s Jazz Ontology: Signifyin(g) on Tune Titles”
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM CT — Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska: “Vernacular Idioms and Topics”
November 6
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM CT — Florian Walch: “Experiencing Mozart’s Double Syntax in Three Parts: Chromatic Sequence and Expectation in the Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563, I”
To learn more about the Society for Music Theory and to register for their 44th Annual Meeting, please visit their website.
American Musicological Society Annual Meeting – November 11, 12 & 20, 21, online
Founded in 1934, the American Musicological Society serves to advance research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship. Every year, the Society convenes an annual meeting of scholars from around the world for the reading and presentation of nearly 200 papers, as well as study sessions, panel discussions, and performances.
November 11
12:00 PM to 1:50 PM CST — "Current Work by Eileen Southern Scholars” panel discussion
- Anna Gatdula: "Einstein on the Beach and the Nuclear Event"
- Devon Borowski: "Music Notes, Planter History: Beckford, Burney, and the Orphic Silence of Eighteenth-Century Musicology"
November 12
10:00 AM to 10:50 AM CT — Živilė Arnašiūtė: "Voice-Gender-Body Rules: Constructing "Normalcy" in Early Nineteenth Century Italian Opera”
November 20
10:00 AM to 10:50 AM CT — Michael Allemana: “Uplifting Black Music: The Contributions of Dr. Mildred Bryant-Jones to African American Culture”
10:00 AM to 11:50 AM CT — David Wilson participates in a panel with the Cold War and Music Study Group and the Global East Asian Study Group to discuss his paper titled "Coming in from the Cold: Complicating Global Cold War Narratives through Chinese Revolutionary Ballet"
11:00 AM to 11:50 AM CT — Joseph Maurer: "Sugar and Tea and Rum and Revival: TikTok and the Continual Discovery of Sea Chanteys"
4:00 PM to 4:50 PM CT — Jacob Reed: "From Songs to Poems and Back Again in Early China”
4:00 PM to 4:50 PM CT — Florian Walch: “Digitally Re-Inscribed Brutality: A Media Archeology of Death Metal Drum Replacement and its Ambiguous Reputation"
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM CT — Jennifer Iverson participates in a group discussion: “Mode as a (Post-)Colonial Concept”
To learn more about the American Musicological Society and to register for their Annual Meeting, please visit their website.
International Musicological Society, “Music in the Pacific World” Conference, October 14 — 17, Taipei, Taiwan / online
The mission of the International Musicological Society is to connect every musicologist to the world community of musicology by embracing the study of music in all its diversity and advancing musicological research across the globe in a spirit of cooperation and collaboration.
October 17
7:00 AM to 8:30 AM CT — David Wilson: “Entangled Footwork: Revolutionary China’s Local Performances in the Global Cold War”
To learn more about the International Musicology Society and to register for their “Music in the Pacific World” conference, please visit their website.
2021 International Conference of the College Music Society, January 6—12, 2022, Bogotá and Medellín, Columbia
The College Music Society promotes music teaching and learning, musical creativity and expression, research and dialogue, and diversity and interdisciplinary interaction. A consortium of college, conservatory, university, and independent musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines of music, the Society provides leadership and serves as an agent of change by addressing concerns facing music in higher education.
Joe Maurer: roundtable discussion titled “Negotiating Inclusive Ethnic and Musical Identities in Predominantly White Spaces”
To learn more about the College Music Society and to register for their 2021 International Conference, please visit their website.
Past Conferences:
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, October 11 — 14, online
Joe Maurer: “Interracial Youth Organizing through P’ungmul Drumming in Chicago”
To learn more about the American Studies Association, please visit their website.