Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

Saturday, April 13, 2019

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Program:

8:30 AM Registration and Refreshments

9:00 AM Opening Remarks by Chapter President, Michael Baumgartner, followed by welcome by Case Western Reserve Music Department Chair, David Rothenberg

Session 1

  • Kirsten Carithers (The Ohio State University), “Women’s Work”?: New-Music Coordinators and Administrative Labor
  • Taylor McClaskie (Case Western Reserve University), Feminizing Nature and Naturalizing Women: Gender, Nature, and Destruction in John Adams’s Doctor Atomic
  • Kelli Minelli (Case Western Reserve University), “Your job is to hold their attention”: Control and Containment in The Man Who Knew Too Much

Session 2 

  • Dana DeVlieger (University of Minnesota), Cross-Racial Vocal Mimicry and the Right of Publicity
  • Jingyi Zhang (Harvard University), Fred Ho’s The Warrior Sisters (1998): A Performance of “Transformative Interracialism”

12:30 PM Lunch Break

Session 3

  • Jacques Dupuis (Brandeis University), Robert Schumann’s Critical Unverständlichkeit and the Nineteenth Century Symphony
  • Brian Wright (Fairmont State University), Success Beyond Stardom: “Amateur” Rock ‘n’ Roll Bands in Small-Town West Virginia
  • Peter Graff (Cleveland State University), Themes, Backgrounds, and Bridges: A New Musical Language for Radio Drama

4:30 – Business Meeting and Award Ceremony for West Virginia Press Prize for Best Student Paper