Racing Ahead: Race-ing Queer Music Scholarship
Author: Law, Hedy Publication details: Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 22 (2018): 1-2. Weblink: http://muse.jhu.edu
The Memory of the Body: Folk Song as a Key for Releasing Cultural Memory
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: In From Folklore to World Music: On Memory, edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková, 145-50. Náměšt nad Oslavou: Municipal Cultural Center, 2018. Weblink: folkoveprazdniny.cz Description: Offered as a companion to a Dálava performance that occurred at the 2018 iteration of the Folk Holidays Festival, this essay posits the body as a receptacle of […]
Human-technology interfaces with the tactile metronome
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144, no. 3 (2018): 1891-1891. Weblink: https://asa.scitation.org Abstract: The story of the metronome is the story of humankind coming to terms with evolving conceptions of time and coordination as mediated through technologies of the modern age. What began as a tool for […]
Modeling rhythmic complexity in a corpus of polyrhythm examples from Europe and America, 1900-1950
Author: Poudrier, Ève & Shanahan, D. Presentation details: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 10th Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music Conference (Parncutt, R. & Sattmann, S., Eds.), Montreal (QC), Canada, 23-28 July 2018, pp. 355-360 Weblink: https://static.uni-graz.at Abstract: Rhythmic complexity, as represented by […]
Opera and Monuments: Verdi’s Ernani in Vienna and the Construction of Dynastic Memory
Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: “Opera and Monuments: Verdi’s Ernani in Vienna and the Construction of Dynastic Memory.” Cambridge Opera Journal 29, no. 2 (2017): 215-39. Weblink: https://www.cambridge.org Abstract: This article examines the first production and early reception of Verdi’s Ernani in Vienna in relation to cultural processes supporting strategies of imperial representation promoted by […]
Lines in Harmony: Types of Cooperation in Four Recent Chinese Compositions
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at 2018 Perspectives on Chinese Contemporary Music Conference at Harvard Center Shanghai, Shanghai, 29 May, 2018. Weblink: https://shanghaicenter.harvard.edu
Comparing Musical Cycles Across the World
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at the Eastman Theory Colloquium at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, 30 March 2018. Weblink: https://www.esm.rochester.edu Abstract: Growing interest in world-music analysis has highlighted the challenges, long recognized by ethnomusicologists, of comparing music from different cultures on the basis of their divergent indigenous conceptions. Yet, […]
Comparing Musical Cycles Across the World
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference in Tucson, Arizona, 24 March 2018. Weblink: https://music.arizona.edu Abstract: Growing interest in world-music analysis has highlighted the challenges, long recognized by ethnomusicologists, of comparing music from different cultures on the basis of their divergent indigenous conceptions. Yet, in today’s free-for-all sonic […]
Ballads: A History of Emotions in Popular Culture
Author: Metzer, David Publication details: Presented at South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, 17 March 2018. Weblink: https://schedule.sxsw.com Abstract: Ballads tell us much about how feelings are understood and experienced in popular culture at particular moments. In my book The Ballad in American Popular Music: From Elvis to Beyoncé, a larger historical development emerges: […]
The African Imagination in Music. By Kofi Agawu
Author: Roeder, John Article: Music Theory Spectrum 40, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 154–159. Weblink: https://academic.oup.com Abstract: The author aims not only to scrutinize the continent’s rich musical practices, but also to confound entrenched prejudices and to promote a deeper appreciation of its musicians’ creativity and expression. While he takes measure of African imagination partly in […]