[AMS-announce] CONF: AMS New York State / St. Lawrence Chapter, U. of Western Ontario, London, Apr 14-15 2007

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American Musicological Society
New York State/St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting April 14-15, 2007
University of Western Ontario

Saturday April 14th:

8:30-9:30   Registration and Coffee

9:30-10:30       Session 1: Theater in the Time of Mozart. Chair, Rick
Semmens

Monika Susan Fazekas (University of Western Ontario): "Masons and Illuminati
and Jacobins, oh my!: Revolutionary Allegory and The Magic Flute"

Myron Gray (University of Western Ontario): "A Mode for Moral and Myth:
Angiolini's Le festin de Pierre and the Apotheosis of Ballet as Nonverbal
Drama"

10:30-11:00  Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 2: Repertories Re-Evaluated. Chair, Bob Toft

Kirsten Schultz (University of Toronto): "'Her Bright Smile Haunts Me
Still': Gender, Power Relations, and Morale in Confederate Minstrel Show
Songs"

Graham Freeman (University of Toronto):  "Percy Grainger's Folksong
Arrangements"

Sarah Carleton Latta (University of Toronto): "Heraldry in the Trecento
Madrigal: A Reassessment of Bartolino da Padova's Imperial sedendo"

12:30-2:00 Lunch Break


2:00-2:30    Lecture/Demonstration

(Jay Hodgson, University of Western Ontario)

2:30-4:00      Session 3: Nostalgia and Identity. Chair, Kathryn Fenton

Charlène St.-Aubin (University of Toronto), "Patriotic Nostalgia or the
Purpose of French Popular Music in Francis Poulenc's Oeuvre"

Lara Housez (Eastman School of Music): "'Putting It Together': From Seurat
to Babbitt in Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George"

Durrell Bowman (University of Guelph): "What Makes Some Popular Music
Canadian? or, Is Neil Young Canadian?"

4:00-4:15    Break

4:15-5:15  Chapter Meeting Keynote Address

David Brackett (McGill University): "Genre and Identity in Popular Music"

5:15-6:15       Chapter Business Meeting (North Meeting Room,
Windermere        Manor)

6:30-8:00 Banquet (North Meeting Room, Windermere Manor))

Sunday, April 15th:

8:45-9:30     Registration and Coffee

9:30-11:00       Session 4: Genre and Influence. Chair: Emily Abrams-Ansari

Andrew Deruchie (McGill University): "Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck and
the 'Heroic' Symphony in Late Nineteenth-Century France"

Martin Nedbal (Eastman School of Music): "'How about Some Borsch with
Cherries?': Musorgsky's The Marriage and the Wagnerian Leitmotif"

Heather Peters (York University), "Tradition and Modernism in the Bosnian
sevdalinka"

11:00-11:30   Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 Session 5: Rebellion and Renewal in Popular Music. Chair: Norma
Coates

Theodore Cateforis (Syracuse University): "From Neurasthenia to New Wave:
Nervousness and Identity"

Karen Fournier (University of Michigan): "Rewriting History: 'Cut-and-Paste'
and Musical Meaning in Early Punk Rock"


Announcement of Graduate Student Paper Prize winner to follow the final
paper
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