Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Gannon University
Erie, PA

Program

10:00–12:00 AM Session 1

  • Jacob Hunkins (Gettysburg College): “You Can’t Raise a Caine Back Up When he’s in Defeat:” Civil War Memory in “The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down” and the Vietnam War”
  • Allie Mohn (Denison University): “Defining Tradition: Appalachian Folk and Bluegrass Music as Constructions of a Commercial Folk Revival”
  • Marcelo Rebuffi (Case Western Reserve University): “Waters on Fire: Post-War Trauma, Disability, and Multi-Narrative Strategies in Prog Rock”
  • Grigorios Mathioudakis (University of California, Irvine & Los Angeles), “Keeper of the Seven Keys: Fantastical Themes of Ironic Ambivalence at the Birth of Power Metal”

12:00 Lunch

1:00–3:00 PM Session 2

  • Philip Bixby (Yale University), “Backward Masking and Eerie Intentionality in 1980s Anti-Rock Discourse”
  • Mark Ferraguto (Pennsylvania State University), “Mozart and/as A.I.
  • Emily Laurance (Oberlin Conservatory): A Band of Their Own: Harpists in Women’s Orchestras and All-Girl Bands, 1870–1955″
  • Laura Farré Rozada (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire), “Conceptual Simplification: Changing the Paradigm of How Post-Tonal Piano Music is Analysed, Learned and Memorised”

3:15 PM Chapter Business Meeting