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NorCal chapter Meeting April 20, 2024 in Reno!

Dear AMS members,

The NorCal Chapter invites you to attend its annual meeting on Saturday, April 20 with additional social activities taking place on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at the University of Nevada, Reno (part of the NorCal chapter). All events will be hosted in-person but will be also be accessible remotely.

Abstract submissions are due on March 10, 2024. Please send your proposals to the NorCal chapter president, Pierpaolo Polzonetti (ppolzonetti -at- ucdavis.edu). The proposal should include a title and a 250-word abstract. Papers proposals submitted for the AMS national meeting can be also submitted without changes for this chapter meeting. We will consider paper in all branches and genres of musicology, ethnomusicology, and theory.

At this conference we will confer the Northern California Prize in Musicology for the best graduate student paper. All graduate students presenting are eligible, as long as they bring four physical copies of their paper for the committee members by the day of the conference registration (Saturday, April 20), before sessions start.

You will find the complete conference program, travel and lodging information, and instructions for joining virtually at the conference webpage: https://norcal.ams-net.org/

Conference registration itself is free, but we ask that presenters and in-person attendees join the chapter or renew their memberships via the general AMS membership
We look forward to seeing you in Reno!

Sincerely,
AMS-NorCal chapter officers:

Pierpaolo Polzonetti, President
Edmund Mendelssohn, treasurer
Susan Bay and Daniel (Danny) Koplitz: graduate students representatives
Louis Niebur, conference organizer

 

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2023 Spring Meeting Program

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.

 

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AMS NorCal Chapter Meeting 2023 – Call for Papers

Dear AMS members,

The NorCal Chapter invites you to attend its annual meeting on Saturday, April 22 and Sunday, April 23, 2023 at the University of California, Davis. All events will be hosted in-person in the Graduate Center (Walker Hall), and also virtually via Zoom.

Abstract submissions are due on March 31, 2023. Please send your proposals to the NorCal chapter president, Pierpaolo Polzonetti (ppolzonetti@ucdavis.edu). The proposal should include a title and a 250-word abstract.

At this conference we will confer the Ingolf Dahl Memorial Award in Musicology for the best graduate student paper. All graduate students presenting are eligible, as long as they bring four physical copies of their paper for the committee members by the day of the conference registration (Saturday, April 22), before sessions start.

You will find the complete conference program, travel and lodging information, and instructions for joining virtually at the conference webpage:  https://norcal.ams-net.org/

Conference registration itself 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.

We look forward to seeing you in Davis!

Sincerely,

AMS-NorCal chapter officers:

Pierpaolo Polzonetti, president
Edmund Mendelssohn, treasurer
Susan Bay and Leanny Muñoz: graduate students representatives
Pierpaolo Polzonetti and Leanny Muñoz: conference organizers