Fall 2022 Meeting
Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society
October 14-15, 2022
UT-Austin/Hybrid

Local Arrangements Chair: Hannah Neuhauser

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 Locations

Friday’s meeting will be held in Jessen Auditorium at the University of Texas at Austin. Jessen Auditorium is located on the ground level of the Homer Rainey Hall (H.R.H.). A Greater Campus Map is available here.

Saturday’s meeting will be held at Cepeda Branch of the Austin Public Library, 651 N Pleasant Valley Rd, Austin TX 78702

Program
Friday October 14	Jessen Hall, UT Austin
2:00	Registration and Sign In
	Registration Zoom Link for Friday, October 14
2:30	Intersecting Opera, moderated by Dr. Luisa Nardini
	Brandon Foskett (The University of Texas at Austin), “Colonial Effects of Opera in Portuguese Brazil: An Overview”
	Peter Mondelli (The University of North Texas), “Bordenave’s Brothel, or, What Use is Émile Zola to the Operetta Historian?”
	Ji Yeon Lee (University of Houston),“Formidably Fearsome Females and the Grotesque in Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland”
4:00	Break
4:15	Reused, Recycled, Revived, moderated by Dr. Liu Peng
	Dmitris Gkoulimaris (The University Texas at Austin),“Genrefication and Ideology: The Making of Smyrneika as Sonic Icons of the ‘Hellenic Orient’”
	Seokyoung Kim (The University of Texas at Austin), “Formidably Fearsome Females and the Grotesque in Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland”
5:15	Poster Session (In-Person)
	Kevin Perez (Texas A & M Kingsville), “Carl Maria von Weber in Munich: March – August 1811)”
	Andrea Klassen (The University of Texas at Austin), “Placeful Symbolism, Imaginary Places, and Future-Facing Nostalgia in the Mountain Goats’ 2002 Album All Hail West Texas”
5:45	Break
6:00	"Cocktail" Social Hour
7:00 p.m.	UT Austin's Mariachi Ensemble
Saturday October 15	Cepeda Branch of the Austin Public Library
10:00	Registration/ Virtual Poster Exhibits
	Registration Zoom Link for Saturday, October 15
	Kat Buckler (Independent Scholar), “Carl Maria von Weber and the Forest Girl: Chromaticism in the Arias of Silvana (1808-1810), Act I”
	Emily Warkentin, (Trinity University) “The Story of the Ziffersystem and the Russian Mennonites: Counting Blessings”
10:30	Power and Identity in the Global South, moderated by Dr. James Gabrillo
	Mercedes Alejandra Payán Ramírez (The University of Texas at Austin), “Philharmonic Female Bands of Oaxaca: Politics, History, and Context of Their Emergence”
	Andrew J. Norman (The University of Texas at Austin), “‘The DJ Booth is Full, and the Dance Floor is Empty’: Black South African DJs and the Promise and Precarity of Cultural Entrepreneurship”
	Janie Cole (University of Cape Town), Music, Jesuits, and Indian Ocean World Encounters in 18th-Century Ethiopia”
12:00	Break for Lunch
1:15	Business Meeting
2:15	Resistance and Rebuke, moderated by Dr. Sonia Seeman
	David Catchpole (Texas State University), “Framing of a Secular Saint: The Temporal and Spatial Geography of Considering Matthew Shepherd”
	Madeline Styskal (The University of Texas at Austin), “The Prospector’s Waltz: Striking a Balance, Hitting a Nerve in Soviet Popular Song”
	Jeongin Lee (The University of Texas at Austin), “Angry Women Singing: Gendered Soundscapes of South Korean Feminist Movements”
	Vicky Mogollón Montagne (University of Texas at Austin), “Sound and (In)Humanity in Venezuelan Espiritismo Marialioncero”
4:30	Pack Up / End of Day

Acknowledgements

Local Hosts and Sponsors
UT Austin, Butler School of Music
Austin Graduate Musicology and Ethnomusicology Society
UT Austin Mariachi Ensemble
Cepeda Branch, Austin Public Library

The Fall 2022 Program Committee
Dr. Michele Aichele, Texas A&M University
Brian Anderson, University of North Texas
Dr. Megan Sarno, University of Texas at Arlington

The Fall 2022 Program Moderators
Dr. James Gabrillo, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Luisa Nardini, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Liu Peng, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Sonia Seeman, University of Texas at Austin

The Fall 2022 Local Arrangements Committee
Dr. Andrew Dell’Antonio, University of Texas at Austin
Andrea Klassen
Anna Lopez
Hannah Neuhauser
Madeline Styskal