Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Gannon University
Erie, PA

Program:

8:30 AM Registration and Refreshments

9:00 AM Opening Remarks by Chapter President, Mark Durrand, followed by welcome by Gannon University School of Communication and the Arts Co-Director, MC Gensheimer

Session 1

  • Jim Davis (SUNY Fredonia), “Maryland, My Maryland” and the Reconstruction of Civil War Songs
  • Christopher Lynch (Center for American Music, University of Pittsburgh), Acknowledging the Contributions of Indentured Servants to Stephen Foster’s Career
  • Codee Spinner (University of Pittsburgh), Spiritualist Hymnals and Parlor Songs for the Dead

Session 2 

  • Jacquelyn Sholes (University of Rochester), Cross-Relationships in the D-Minor Orchestral Works of the Brahms-Schumann Circle
  • Anna Knapp (University of Pittsburgh), “The Mountains Are Calling”: Sublimity and Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie

12:30 PM Lunch Break

Session 3

  • Avery Brzobohaty (West Virginia University), Agency, Authenticity, and Parody in Palestinian Hip Hop
  • Larissa A. Irizarry (University of Pittsburgh), The Undoing of the Technological in Dirty Computer
  • Miranda Sousa (University of Pittsburgh), Pabllo Vittar, Drag Queen: Performing Subversion of Desire in Brazilian Dance Music

4:30 – Business Meeting