2023 Spring Meeting Program
Northern California Chapter of the American Musicological Society
April 22, 2023
University of California, Davis
All events are hosted in-person in the Graduate Center (Walker Hall)
300 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616
Conference registration is free, but we ask that presenters and in-person attendees join the chapter or renew their memberships via the general AMS membership page: https://www.amsmusicology.org/store/ListProducts.aspx.
Chapter dues are $15.
Register Here: https://forms.gle/L1ZmG4xnH99aUK589
| 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Registration and Light Breakfast |
| 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Session I Chair: Jessie Ann Owens |
Beverly Wilcox (California State University, Sacramento), “Preparing to Sing, Preparing to Print: The Miniature Scores of the Grands Motets of Michel-Richard de Lalande”
Laura Randall (Boston University), “A New Approach to Understanding Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre’s Cantates françoises, sur des sujets tirez de l’Ecriture: Social Context & Theological Function”
Allison Jerzak (University of California, Berkeley), “Algorithmic Filtering and the Hidden Logics of Genre” |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Business Meeting and Presentation of Carol Hess’s new book, Aaron Copland in Latin America (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2023) |
| 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Session II Chair: Carol Hess |
Annie Liu, (University of Oregon), “China Nights: Li Xianglan, Hybridity, and Japanese Propaganda Films”
Christopher Pierce (University of Nevada, Reno), “Shifting Boundaries: Exploring Queer & National Identity in the Sanremo Festival”
Tracy Monaghan (University of California, Davis), “The Good, the Bad, and the Body: Moral Imperatives in the Musical Hairspray“ |
| 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Session III Chair: Edmund Mendelssohn |
Yahaira Rodriguez (University of San Diego), “Cross-Cultural Friendship and Musical Exchange in the 1940s Choral Works of Carlos Chávez and Aaron Copland”
Elaine Fitz Gibbon (Harvard University), “Concept, Laboratory, Playground: Ursula Burghardt as Composer-Artist in the 5-Day-Race (1968)”
eyda Çekmeci (University of California, Berkeley), “Sycophant Artistry: Musicians’ Participation in State Politics in Erdoğan’s Turkey” |
| 5:45 PM | “Wine and Pink Floyd: A Psychedelic Wine-Tasting Experience”: Multisensory experience guided by Pierpaolo Polzonetti (gastromusicologist) and Andy Waterhouse (Director, Robert Mondavi Institute of Wine and Food Science).
Sensory Theater of the Mondavi Institute of Wine and Food Science. |
| 7:30 PM | Dinner on your own. |