Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society
Saturday, October 15, 2016
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Program Fall Meeting
8:30 AM Registration and Refreshments
9:00 AM Opening Remarks by Chapter President, Christopher Wilkinson
Session 1: Gender Studies in Popular Music and Jazz
Chair: Michael Boyd (Chatham University)
- Brian F. Wright (Fairmont State University), “Writing the History of Motown: The James Jamerson / Carol Kaye Controversy”
- Andrea Marie Keil (Columbus, OH), “Finding the Erotic in the History of Women-in-Jazz: Audre Lorde’s ‘Uses of the Erotic’ and the Writings of Sherrie Tucker”
- Steven Moon (University of Pittsburgh), “Building a Home for Ourselves”: Hip Hop, Queer Expression, and Our Place in Musicology”
Session 2: Music and Environment
Chair: Michael Baumgartner (Cleveland State University)
- Emilie Coakley (University of Pittsburgh), “For Whom the Bells Toll: Nostalgia, Memory, and Change in a City Soundscape”
12:00 PM Lunch Break
2:00 PM Business Meeting
Session 3: Music and Media
Chair: Michael Baumgartner (Cleveland State University)
- Rebecca Fulop (Oberlin, OH), “A ‘most authentic American folk music’: Nostalgia and Colonialism in the Soundtrack of The Man in the High Castle“
Session 4: Opera in Paris and Naples in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Chair: Christopher Wilkinson (West Virginia University)
- Devin Burke (University of Louisville), “Musical Idolatry: The Monuments of Louis XIV and the Living Statues of the Opéra”
- John Romey (Case Western Reserve University), “Parody Chaconnes as a Subversive Discourse at the Comédie-Italienne”
- Jonathan Shold (University of Pittsburgh), “Lenten Opera and Theater Fasts in Naples, 1818–1830”