Full program is available here as a pdf
Abstracts and bios available here (note: bios will be added as they become available)
The meeting will be held in the Loft (939 Boylston Street). Please enter directly through the doors at 939 Boylston. Take the stairs (or elevator) up to the second floor and follow signs for “the Loft”. [updated 10/15]
REGISTRATION AND WELCOME (9:45–10:30)
SESSION 1 (10:30–11:30): Musical Messages for Social Change
Christopher Hodges (Boston University) – “Sacred Harp and Political Activism: The Hidden Ingredient
Behind New England Singings”
Luciana Arroyo – “En el País de Nomeacuerdo: Resistance, Memory, and Education in the Music of
María Elena Walsh”
SESSION 2 (11:30–12:30): Points of Influence in the Concert Hall
Elizabeth Garozzo (Tufts University) – “Systems of Musical Semiotics: French/American Cultural
Disconnect in Francis Poulenc’s Piano Concerto in C Sharp Minor”
Joanna Chang (Fairfield University) – “Brahmsian Echoes in Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony”
LUNCH (12:30–2:00)
SESSION 3 (2:00–3:00): Cultural Representations in Performance
Zijie Xing (Tufts University) – “Subversive Rites: The Concerted Shamanism of Tan Dun’s The Map
(2002)”
Janie Cole (University of Connecticut) – “Music and Ritual in the Early Modern Kingdom of Kongo:
Indigenous and Afro-European Spiritualities and Performance”
SESSION 4 (3:00–4:00): Meaningful Creative Expressions
Taylor Ackley (Brandeis University) – “Where Can Grass Grow?: Virtuosity, Inequality, and Opportunity
in Northeastern Bluegrass”
James Heazelwood-Dale (Brandeis University) – “Video Game ‘Licks’: A Nintendian Approach to Jazz
Theory, Analysis, and Soloing in Pedagogical Spaces”
RECEPTION (4:00)
Following the reception, we hope you will join us for a tour of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives
(located at Symphony Hall). Please use this link to RSVP. For those who would also like to attend a
concert at Symphony Hall, the program that evening under the direction of Xian Zhang will include
Landscape Impression (Chen Yi), Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 (Robert Schumann, Jonathan Biss,
piano), and Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat Major, K. 543 (W. A. Mozart). Students are eligible to receive
10% off the regular ticket price. The concert is scheduled to begin at 8:00pm.