Papers Given at MASG Meetings

April 9, 2005--Sound and Vision Symposium

Mark Clague, "Toward a Theory of Live Music: Philip Glass's Score for Koyaanisqatsi (1982)"

Kevin Gaines, "Memory and the Transnational Dimensions of African American Citizenship"

Beth Genne, "'Dance me a Song': Music and Moving Image in the film musicals of Minnelli, Kelly and Donen"

Charles Gentry, "The Negro Sings of Deserts: Paul Robeson and Black Nomadic Subjectivity"

Carol Hess, "The Spanish Earth: Blitzstein, Thomson, and the Music of Indifference"

Colin Roust, "Georges Auric and the Ideals of Film Music"

Peter Sparling, "Hear the Dance, See the Music: A Personal History of Musical Embodiment"

Carol Vernallis(keynote address), "Music Video Directors, Songs and the Transformation of Cinema"

Alicyn Warren, "Composers, Computers, Concerts, Video"

February 11, 2005

Nathan Platte, "Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Score for The Adventures of Robin Hood"

December 1, 2004

James Wierzbicki, "Book Talk: The Music of Forbidden Planet"

Colin Roust, "Introduction to Audio-Visual Analysis"

October 21, 2004

Kate Brucher, "Levar o Nome da Terra p’ra Fora: Bandas Filarmónicas Performing Place in Portugal and Abroad"

Jesse Johnston, "Melodies of Ethnicity: Czech-American Polka Music and 'Czechness'"

Joshua Tucker, "'Sowing Culture' on Disc: Media, Migrants and Musica Ayacuchana in Comtemporary Lima"

September 17, 2004

Todd Decker, "The NAACP 'Follies' of 1929: A Forgotten Interracial Benefit on Broadway"

Charles Garrett, "Writing 'Chinatown My Chinatown'"

May 7-8, 2004

MASG Residency: Michael Broyles (Pennsylvania State University) and Denise Von Glahn (Florida State University)

"Knowing more than you'd like and never enough: Dilemmas and choices for the scholar-biographer." (Talk on Leo Ornstein Biography Project)

Professional Development talk
"Keeping Your Head Above Water and Making Progress Against the Current While Wearing Lead Shoes"

Discussions of Broyles, Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music (Yale University Press, 2004) and Von Glahn, The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape (Northeastern University Press, 2003)

February 6, 2004

Todd Decker: Delivering Miss Otis's Regrets: Performers and Arrangers Tackle Cole Porter's Tale of an Unlikely Lynching

Nathan Platte: Dream Analysis: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Weaving of Music, Speech, and Visuals
in Warner Brothers' A Midsummer Night's Dream

January 16, 2004

Prof. Mark Clague: Aaron Copland and the Aesthetics of Hollywood

Stephanie Krehbiel: A Few Ways to be a Mennonite: Contemporary Christian Music in a Community of Hymns

November 7, 2003

Prof. Derek Vaillant: Listening to Musical Progressivism: Music at Chicago's Hull House, 1889-1919

John Behling: "I Gotta Be Me": The Performance of Individualtiy and Intimacy in the Music of Sammy Davis, Jr.

October 10, 2003

Guest speaker: Prof. Per F. Broman, Bowling Green State University: "When All Is Said and Done": The ABBA Reception during the 1970s and the Ideology of Pop

September 12, 2003

Prof. Mark Clague: Aaron Copland and the Aesthetics of Hollywood

Tim Freeze: Two Orchestrations of Gershwin's Concerto in F

Stephanie Heriger: "Tis the Gift to be Simple": The Second Hurricane and Copland's First Steps toward American Opera

Colin Roust: The Birds and the Squirrels: Finding David Diamond in Copland's Dickinson Songs

April 18, 2003

Guest speaker: Joseph Horowitz: The Classical Music Crisis and What We Can Do About It

March 26, 2003

Prof. Mark Clague: "What So Proudly We Hail'd": Performing Identity via the Star-Spangled Banner

Beth Levy: The Great Crossing: Nostalgia and Nation Building in Copland's The Red Pony 

April 9, 1999

Carla Vecchiola, "TBA"

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

March 26, 1999

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

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

March 9, 1999

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"

February 26, 1999

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"

January 29, 1999

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."