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”