Schedule

Winter 1999

Friday January 22, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

"Current Issues in American Music Scholarship: a Panel Discussion"

Participants:

Paul Anderson

Mark Clague

Richard Crawford

Travis Jackson

Amy Stillman

Albin Zak

January 29

Paper Workshop

Mark Clague, "Gendering Musical Space: Chicago's Auditorium Theater, 1889"

Jaime Vazquez, "Bubble Gum, Spice Girls, and Hegemony: the cultural significance of the Spice Girls in the U.S."

February 12

Decade Discussion

The '50s (16, 17, 18, and 19) 

February 26

Paper Workshop

Ryan Snyder,"Slaps and Embraces: Hip Hop Culture's Musical Transformations of Language and History"

Tamar Barzel, "Blues Circuits: Material, Commercial and Social Networks in 1920s Classic Blues"

4:00, March 9 (special Tuesday session)

Editing American Music Panel

Mark Clague, "Edition-ing: Scholarly Editing as an Act of Identity-Construction"

Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, "Describing in Order to Prescribe: Challenges in Editing Hawaiian Songs"

Albin Zak, "Representing Music in the United States: RockMusic and the Limits of Musical Notation"

Richard Crawford, Respondent

March 26

Paper Workshop

Julia Bÿl, "Baby Won't You Listen to Me "

Maria Elena Cepeda, "El Vallenato Colombiano Ac· y All·: Migrations and Representations."

April 9

Paper Workshop

Carla Vecchiola, "TBA"

Albin Zak, "From Reproduction to Composition: Sound Recording and the Invention of Rock and Roll"

Special Events

The AMSG will participate in two sing-alongs, one focusing on early American Shape-Note Hymnody and a second on Tin Pan Alley Songs. The dates and times of these events will be announced in January. Other possible events include bringing guest speakers to campus, but this is dependent on raising money for group activities. If you have any other ideas, please email them to Mark Clague <claguem@umich.edu>.