April 10, 2021 Meeting

Spring Virtual Meeting 
Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society
April 10, 2021
Time Zone: Central 

Program
8:50 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.Welcome
Kevin Salfen (University of the Incarnate Word), Chapter President
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Panel 1: Identity and Cultural Encounter
Moderator: Kevin Salfen (University of the Incarnate Word)
Jon Churchill (Duke University), “‘The Symphony of the Front’: Cross-Cultural Rupture in Ralph
Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony
Kimberly Beck Hieb (West Texas A & M University), “The Church Militant in Sacred Music from Late
Seventeenth-Century Salzburg”
Carl Leafstedt (Trinity University) and Elisa Barrera (Trinity University), “Beyond ‘La Bamba’:
Mexicanidad and Border Identity in San Antonio’s WPA Orquesta Típica, 1936-43”
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.Poster Session / Break
Alexa Frederick (Texas Tech University), “The Haitian Revolution’s effect on the Music of Vodoun”
James MacKay (Loyola University New Orleans), “Haydn’s Compositional Gradus ad Parnassum: Fuxian Counterpoint in his Symphonic Finales”
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Society and Labor
Moderator: Sarah Lucas (Texas A & M University—Kingsville)
Anna Wodny (University of North Texas), “‘Let the Spectacle Astound You’: Experiencing Bals Publics in Eighteenth-Century Paris”
Brian Anderson (University of North Texas), “Examining Music Binder’s Volumes in Nineteenth-Century America: A Quantitative Approach”
Michael Dekovich (University of Oregon), “Stratifying Stratocasters: Electric Guitar Production and the Global Division of Labor”
12:30 p.m. –1:00 p.mLunch
1:00 – 1:30 p.m.Business meeting (feel free to continue lunch)
1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.mBreak
1:45 p.m – 3:15 p.m.Style and Experiment
Moderator: Andrew Chung (University of North Texas)
Stacey Jocoy (Texas Tech University), “‘News out of East India’ (1624) to The Island Princess (1699):
Musicality of the Other”
Hewitt-Oberdoerffer Award 2020 Winner: Sa-Ra Park (Texas State University), “Domenico Scarlatti’s Musical Style: His Keyboard Sonata, K. 288”
Rachel Gain (University of North Texas), “An Eighteenth-Century Microtonal ‘Experiment’: Issues of Theory and Temperament in Air à la Grecque”
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.mBreak
3:30 p.m –5:00 p.m.Character and Characterization
Moderator: Michele Aichele (University of the Incarnate Word / Texas Lutheran University / Texas
A & M University—San Antonio / Morningside College)
Eduardo Garcia (University of New Mexico), “‘Ahora estamos más unidos’: Claiming Resilience in the El Paso Mass Shooting Corrido
Jacques Dupuis (Framingham State University), “‘Germany’s Greatest Actress’ in Concert: Sophie Schröder’s Unsung Music”
Megan Sarno (University of Texas—Arlington), “‘But Maybe I am Wrong’: Ambivalence in Mademoiselle, A Portrait of Nadia Boulanger”

Program Committee

Many thanks to the members of the program committee:

  • Michele Aichele (University of the Incarnate Word / Texas Lutheran University / Texas A & M University—San Antonio / Morningside College)
  • Micaela K. Baranello (University of Arkansas)
  • Sarah Lucas (Texas A & M University–Kingsville)

Logistics

The meeting will be held on Zoom. The meeting is free and open to all members and friends of the chapter. 

Registration link:

https://uiw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qfuCrrT4iGN0jdr3xFgLdnRcSPqRkvYb5
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Questions? Contact the chapter’s secretary-treasurer, Virginia E. Whealton (virginia.e.whealton@ttu.edu).