MHTE Activity at National Conferences

Our faculty, students, and alumni presented 13 papers and chaired several sessions at these national conferences: American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, and Society for Music Theory.  Click read more for more information!

American Musicological Society Annual Meeting in Boston, MA:

  • Dr. Margaret Notley chaired a session on Nineteenth-Century Critical Agendas.
  • Dr. Andrew Chung presented his paper “Beyond Flat Ontologies: Rethinking the Vibrational Politics of Solidarity in the Anthropocene” and chaired a session on Sonic Violence
  • Dr. Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden participated in a session on Political Revolutions and Their Musical Outcomes.
  • Dr. Brian Wright presented his paper “Play Guitar with the Ventures!: How Amateurs Reshaped Rock ‘n’ Roll.”

The Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting hosted by Indiana University:

  • Stacey Key chaired a session on Sounding the Sacred: Spiritual Performance as Cultural Continuity. 
  • Salvador Hernandez presented his paper "'All that is Needful is to Awaken the Forest': De-structuring Sacred Sound and Reframing Notions of Temporal Stability"
  • Stacey Key presented her paper “Song of the Banshee: The Mna Caointe, Keening, and Controversy”
  • Yang Chen presented his paper "Music of the Puyuma: Music of the Ancestors and for the Descendants"
  • Miguel Espinel presented his paper “Becoming Aztec through an Imagined Ancestral Spirituality”
  • Myles McLean presented his paper "Queering the Batá: Yoruba Cosmology and Gender-Exclusionary Drumming Practices within Santería"
  • Yuxin Mei presented her paper "A Musical Reaction to the East: A Case Study of Female Pipa Musicians in the United States"

Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting in Columbus, OH:

  • Dr. Justin Lavacek presented his paper “Hidden Coloration: Mensural Dissonance in Machaut”
  • Bryan Stevens presented his paper “Theorizing Sonata from the Margins: Manuel Blasco de Nebra’s Seis Sonatas (1780) in Context”
  • Dr. Andrew Chung chaired a session on Voices.
  • Dr. Ellen Bakulina presented her paper “Disguised Cadences in Rachmaninoff’s Songs”
  • Dr. Jason Patterson (PhD 2019) presented his paper “Multidimensional Harmony in Schubert’s ‘Der Doppelgänger’: A Complex of Memory and Identity”
  • Dr. Jay Smith (PhD 2018) presented his paper “Hemiolas in Non-Isochronous Meters”
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