Music of the Americas Study Group

Schedule

2nd Annual MASG Residency

Mark Katz (Peabody Conservatory)

All events in the American Culture Conference Room (3512 Haven Hall)

Friday, May 6:

9:30am Coffee

10:00 Discussion of Mark Katz's Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music (University of California Press, 2004)

11:30-1:30 LUNCH with students

1:30-5:00 Individual Appointments

Saturday, May 7:

9:30am Coffee

10:00 "Digital Music and Questions of Authenticity, Identity, and Community" (Mark Katz)

Noon-2:00 LUNCH with faculty members

2:00 "The Rondo of Despair and Other Delights of Academic Life" (Mark Katz)

5:30 BBQ at Professor Mark Clague's Home

Please contact MASG coordinator Colin Roust to set up an individual appointment or to join the lunch plans.


Fall 2004

4:00, Friday, September 17

Osterman Common Room

Institute for the Humanities (in the west basement of Rackham)

 

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

Charles Garrett: Writing "Chinatown My Chinatown": An open forum on writing for an academic journal


Wednesday, September 29

"What Every Musician Must Know about Copyright?"

A panel discussion organized by the American Music Institute. More information will be posted soon.


Prep Session for the Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology

4:00, Thursday, October 21

American Culture Conference Room (3512 Haven Hall)

 

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 Contemporary Lima


9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday, October 23

MUSIC IN MOTORTOWN

This bus tour will be led by Professors Mark Clague and Charles Garrett, School of Music Musicology department, and points of interest along the route will be described/amplified by Professor Reynolds Farley, Social Science, author of *Detroit Divided*.

For more information follow this link or contact Profs. Clague or Garrett.


4:00, Friday, November 19

Osterman Common Room

Institute for the Humanities (in the west basement of Rackham)

 

"What Publishers Want: Preparing to Publish with an Academic Press"

with Phil Pochoda (Director, University of Michigan Press) and Christopher Hebert (Music Editor, University of Michigan Press)


4:00, Wednesday, December 1

Osterman Common Room

Institute for the Humanities (in the west basement of Rackham)

 

James Wierzbicki: book talk

Colin Roust: Introduction to Audio-Visual Analysis, in preparation for a discussion of Michel Chion's Audio-Vision at the January meeting


"Sound and Image" Theme Semester, Winter 2005

7:00, Wednesday, January 5

Britton Recital Hall

School of Music

"Exploring Disney's Fantasia"

A discussion of Walt Disney's Fantasia and Fantasia 2000, led by Prof. Mark Clague


5:00, Friday, January 14

Osterman Common Room

Institute for the Humanities (in the west basement of Rackham)

Discussion of Michel Chion's Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen


Screening and Discussion of Sound/Music in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

5:00, Friday, February 11

American Culture Conference Room (3512 Haven Hall)

Nathan Platte, "An Introduction to Korngold's Score for The Adventures of Robin Hood"


Saturday, April 9


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