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”

4:45 PM Informal Get-Together