AMS-New England Chapter Program: Winter 2025
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Zoom, hosted by Wesleyan University
LINK TO REGISTER (You will not have access to the meeting without registering).
For Abstracts, Bios, and presenter contact info, please refer to this document.
Program Draft
| Session 1 – 9:45am – 11:30am |
| 9:45–10:00am – Welcome |
| Queering the Concert Hall: transgressing genre boundaries in “anime music” Garrett Groesbeck (Wesleyan University) |
| So Androgynous: Gender Expression Through Fashion in Minneapolis Punk 1978-1983 Steph Stone, (Boston University) |
| Keeper of the Seven Keys: Fantastical Themes of Ironic Ambivalence at the Birth of Power Metal Grigorios Mathioudakis (University of California, Irvine) |
| Session 2 – 11:35am – 1:05pm |
| “Renewed Discrimination Against Mahler”?: The Political Backstory of the Mahler article in MGG, ca. 1959 Ben Korstvedt, (Clark University) |
| The Lost Face of Music: Saint Bonaventure’s Influence on Olivier Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux Jacob Bender, The Hartt School |
| J.S. Bach in Ghana: History, Performance Practice, Reception, and Influence Erinn Knyt, U Mass Amherst |
| LUNCH 1:05pm – 2:00pm |
| BUSINESS Meeting 2:00pm – 2:30pm Keynote – 2:30pm – 3:30pm “Beyond Prohibition: Exploring Myth, Gender, and Gyil Musicianship in Dagara Society” John Dankwa, Wesleyan University |