Music Department Faculty and Students Present at Fall SEM, SMT, and AMS Conferences

This autumn, many UChicago Department of Music faculty and students are presenting at the Society of Ethnomusicology, the Society for Music Theory, and the American Musicological Society Annual Meetings. With topics ranging from "The Bellicose Ordinary: Music, Media, and Violence in Western Mexico" to "Callas Athena: Greekness, Rebetiko, and the Unsentimental," these presentations encompass a diverse range of musical perspectives.

The Society for Ethnomusicology was founded in 1955 to promote the research, study, and performance of music from all historical periods and cultural contexts. With a network of scholars, educators, students, musicians, activists, and curators from diverse humanistic and social science perspectives. In addition to hosting an annual meeting, the society publishes the journal Ethnomusicology as well as four online publications and a podcast, and it provides awards for excellent scholarship in the field.

October 17

• 1:00-1:30 PM ET - Fiona Boyd: Radio in Contemporary Black Musical Production: Robert Glasper’s Black Radio Albums and Beyoncé’s Renaissance Act II

October 18

• 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET - Anna Schultz: 5J: Critical Ethnographies: Ethics, Challenges, and Dilemmas
• 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET - So Yoon Lee: 6D: K-pop Studies Beyond the K: Exploring New Theoretical and Methodological Possibilities Through Ethnography

October 19

• 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM ET - Emily Williams Roberts: 8C: Care Ethics, Participatory Action Research, and New Approaches in the Ethnomusicologies of Deaf Culture and Neurodiversity

October 23

• 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM ET - Chris Batterman Cháirez: The Bellicose Ordinary: Music, Media, and Violence in Western Mexico
• 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM - Jonah Francese: “Spaceship to Turtle Island”: Native Slipstream and Notions of Space/Time through Indigenous Hip Hop Futurism
• 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET - Caroline Collins and Pramantha Tagore: Songs of the Heart: The Fado Revival Project & Portuguese Sonic Heritage in Contemporary Goa

October 24

• 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET - Erol Koymen (Chair): 14B: Comparative Musicology
• 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM ET - David Wilson: Sound, Light, Nation: Technological Spectacle and National Identity in Contemporary Taiwan
• 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM ET - Ronit Ghosh: Of Radios and Studios: Mediatized Aural Pedagogy in Postcolonial Bengal

October 25

• 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET - Paula Clare Harper: 17J: Music and the Internet: A Roundtable on Online Methods, Metaphors, and Disciplinary Mapping
• 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET - Juan Luis Rivera: Sonidos Malcriados: Huelga Songs of the United Farm Workers

The mission of the Society of Music Theory is to promote "the development of and engagement with music theory as a scholarly and pedagogical discipline." Embracing all approaches to and perspectives of music theory, the Society furthers the field of music theory through the publication of three scholarly journals, the promotion of scholarly research through awards and grants, and the convening of an annual meeting for the presentation and exploration of the latest research.

November 8

• 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM ET - Dustin Chau: Ted Dunbar’s System of Tonal Convergence (1975) and the Speculative Tritone Substitution
• 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET - Thomas Christensen: Bodies, Instruments, and Historical Epistemologies
• 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM ET - Jacob Reed (Chair): Theorizing East Asian Pop / K-pop's Western Sound and Korean Musical Agency
• 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM ET - Jennifer Iverson (Chair): Gestural Languages: Phenomena, Sound, and Stage
• 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM ET- Audrey Slote: Democratized Form: Collage and Cohesion in the Music of Bon Iver
• 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM ET - Rina Sugawara: Fantasy and Formenlehre in Imperial Japan
• 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM ET - Steven Rings (Chair): Extending Transformational Analysis – New Approaches, New Visualizations, New Repertoires
• 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM ET - University of Chicago Reception

November 9

• 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM - John Lawrence: Non-Chord Tones from the Vienna Woods: Vernacular Classical Origins of the Melodic-Harmonic Divorce

Founded in 1934, the American Musicological Society serves to advance research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship. Every year, the Society convenes an annual meeting of scholars from around the world for the reading and presentation of nearly 200 papers, as well as study sessions, panel discussions, and performances.

November 14

• 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM CT - Nathan Friedman: “The Jew in You”: Diasporism and Utopia in the Songs of Geoff Berner and Daniel Kahn
• 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM CT - Juan Luis Rivera: Sonidos Malcriados: Huelga Songs of the United Farm Workers
• 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT - Martha Feldman (Chair): (Re)Mediating Metastasio at 300

November 15

• 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CT - Natalie Farrell: In Search of Lost Reverb Time: Orchestra Hall Renovations and the Acoustic Work Environment
• 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM CT - Reed Alexis Williams: Gigging in the Great Migration: How Chicago Musicians Built New Careers on the South Side, 1940-1950
• 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM CT - University of Chicago Reception

November 16

• 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CT - Jennifer Iverson (Chair): Rethinking Gender in Music Pedagogy and Research
• 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CT - Martha Feldman: Callas Athena: Greekness, Rebetiko, and the Unsentimental
• 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CT - David Wilson: Mediated Stages: Theatricality and Emotional Persuasion in Taiwanese Documentary Film
• 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT - Rina Sugawara: A Japanese Imperial Philosophy of Musical Fantasy
• 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT - Dustin Chau: Ted Dunbar’s System of Tonal Convergence (1975) and the Speculative Tritone Substitution

November 17

• 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM CT - Anna Schultz:  Between Spectacle and Event: American Missionaries and Magic Lantern Shows in Western India, 1865–1895