Fall 2020 Conference

American Musicological Society, Southwest Chapter held jointly with the Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association

All events are online only, Thursday-Saturday, September 24-26, 2020

Thursday, 24 September 2020
2:00Opening Welcome
Bruce Evans (Baylor University) and Kevin M. Salfen (University of the Incarnate Word)
2:15Workshop: Using Your “Research Pantry”
Presenter: Kendra Preston Leonard (Silent Film Sound and Music Archive)
Moderator: Blaine Brubaker (University of North Texas)
3:15Hangout (same Zoom meeting as previous session)
4:00Workshop: From 3D to 2D: Managing the UNT Music Library Remotely
Presenters: Blaine Brubaker, Kristin Wolski, Susannah Cleveland, Janelle West, and Sabino Fernandez (University of North Texas)
5:00 Social Hour
Friday, 25 September 2020
1:00TMLA Focus Group meeting
2:00Lightning Talks: Issues of Diversity 
Moderator: Stacey Jocoy (Texas Tech University)

Stagnancy in Orchestral Programming
Presenter: Claire A. Miller (Texas Tech University)

Zoltán Kodály’s Dances of Galánta: Musical Nationalism or Exoticism?
Presenter: Courtney Nichols (Texas Tech University)
2:30Hangout (same Zoom meeting as previous session)
3:00Analyzing Nineteenth-Century Music
Moderator: Virginia E. Whealton (Texas Tech University) 

Studying the Performance and Perception of Expressive Timing / Rubato: A Computer-Assisted Approach
Presenter: Nico Schüler (Texas State University)

Musical Abjection
Presenter: Nathaniel Harrell (Oklahoma City University)
4:00Break
5:00Keynote: “Amplifying Underrepresented Voices in Collections, Research and Curriculum”
Presenter: Madelyn Washington (University of Houston)
Moderator: Kendra Preston Leonard (Silent Film Sound and Music Archive)
6:00Social Hour
Saturday, 26 September 2020
9:00TMLA Business Meeting
10:00Popular Music and Culture 
Moderator: Rahni Kennedy (Southern Methodist University)

The Past Sure Is Tense: Revisiting Rock History Narratives with the John Gilliland Pop Chronicles Interviews
Presenter: Maristella Feustle (University of North Texas)

From Hashtags to Zoom Lags: Social Media Outreach at the UNT Music Library
Presenters: Kristin Wolski and Dr. Adam La Spata (University of North Texas)
11:00Hangout (same Zoom meeting as previous session)
11:30Roundtable: It Slices, It Dices, It Juliennes: The Versatile Toolkit of Combined Musicological and Librarian Skills 

Presenters: Donna Arnold (University of North Texas), Maristella Feustle (University of North Texas), Stacey Jocoy (Texas Tech University), Virginia Whealton (Texas Tech University) 
Moderator: Pamela Pagels (Southern Methodist University)
12:30Lunch/AMS-SW Business Meeting
1:30The Natural and the Unnatural 
Moderator: Micaela K. Baranello (University of Arkansas)

Beyond Mimesis: A Framework for Analyzing the Natural World in Kaija Saariaho’s Music
Presenter: Morgan M. Rich (Texas A&M University)

Corporeal Witchery and Criticism of the Contemporary Culture in Harry Partch’s Postdramatic Dance-Satire The Bewitched
Presenter: Navid Bargrizan (Texas A&M University)
2:30Hangout (same Zoom meeting as previous session)
3:00New Understandings
Moderator: Michael Cooper (Southwestern University) 

An Alternative Analytical Approach to the Finale of the Wind Symphony Culloden by Julie Giroux
Presenter: Sa Ra Park (Texas State University)

Symphonic Double Consciousness: An Analysis of Symphonies by Florence Price and William Grant-Still
Presenter: Rafael Powell II (Texas Tech University)
4:00Joint Meeting Reflection