Spring 2023 Conference of the
Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society
with a special event
Ozarks Today: A Local Tie-In of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2023 as part of Many Musics of America
Saturday April 29, 2023
University of Arkansas – Fayetteville
Local Arrangements Chair
Dr. Micaela Baranello, Assistant Professor, Musicology
Special Event Coordinator
Dr. Christa Bentley, Assistant Professor, Musicology
A printable (pdf) program is now available. The print program includes travel information, suggested hotels and inns, and dining options near both meeting locations.
Meeting Location
JB Hunt Center for Academic Excellence, Room 147
Event Location
The David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History
A Greater Campus Map is available here.
| Program | |
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| 8:30-9:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:00 | Romantic Influences Session moderator: Megan Sarno, University of Texas at Arlington |
| James MacKay (Loyola University), “Finding Schumann’s Ghost” in person | |
| Matthew Wood, (Louisiana State University), “Perpetual Purgatory: Lamennais’s Influence on the Philosophy and Music of Franz Liszt” online | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Poster / Snacks |
| Ian Aipperspach (Ouachita Baptist University), “Louis Vierne’s Messe Solennelle as an Example of the French Romantic Symphony” in person | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Words and Music Session moderator: Kevin Salfen, University of the Incarnate Word |
| Jessica Stearns (Texas A & M), “Beyond Music of Changes: Christian Wolff’s Use of the I Ching as Compositional Process” in person |
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| Megan Sarno (The University of Texas at Arlington),“Music Essays against and as Criticism: Camille Mauclair’s La Religion de la musique” in person |
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| Kathryn Caton (University of Houston), “Between Rhetoric and Reality: Participation in Invisible Cities and Hopskotch” online |
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| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00-1:30 | Business Meeting |
| 1:30-3:00 | Entertainments Session moderator: Jessica Stearns, Texas A & M – Commerce |
| Nico Schüler (Texas State University), “Sam Lucas, The Hyers Sisters, and Early African-American Musical Theatre” online |
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| Jessica Vansteenburg (University of Arkansas),“The Cimbalom Goes to Hollywood: Miklos Rózsa’s Scoring of the Sinister Exotic in ‘The Power’” in person |
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| Kyle Hutcheson (Texas State University), “A Japanese Wave: Examining Japanese Popular Music in the West and Its Influence on Western Popular Music” online | |
| 3:15-4:15 | Libraries and Manuscripts Session moderator: Virginia Whealton, Texas Tech University |
| Stephen Husarik (University of Arkansas – Fort Smith), “Digitally Unpacking Musical Treasures from Archduke Rudolph’s Musikalien Register" in person |
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| Andrea Klassen (The University of Texas at Austin), The Context and Performance of Anomalous Neumes in the Musical Manuscripts of Hildegard of Bingen” online | |
| 4:15-4:45 | Closing Reception |
| 5:30 | Ozarks Today: A Local Tie-In of the Smithsonian Folklike Festival 2023, part of the Many Musics of America program of the American Musicological Society (Juke Joint at the Pryor Center) |
Acknowledgements
The Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society would also like to acknowledge the efforts of the following organizations for making our event possible:
Local Hosts and Sponsors
University of Arkansas – Fayetteville
The Spring 2023 Program Committee
Dr. Michele Aichele, Texas A&M University
Dr. Micaela Baranello, University of Arkansas – Fayetteville
Dr. Hannah Durham, University of the Incarnate Word
The Spring 2023 Program Moderators
Dr. Kevin Salfen, University of the Incarnate Word
Dr. Megan Sarno, University of Texas at Arlington
Dr. Jessica Stearns, Texas A & M – Commerce
Dr. Virginia Whealton, Texas Tech University
The Spring 2023 Local Arrangements Committee
Dr. Micaela Baranello, University of Arkansas – Fayetteville
Dr. Christa Bentley, University of Arkansas – Fayetteville
The AMS-SW Webmaster
J. Drew Stephen