Spring Meeting of the NorCal Chapter of the American Musicological Society Reno, April 20, with additional recreational events on April 21
Location:
The University of Nevada, Reno, Rooms 152-153, Church Fine Arts Building, 1664 Virginia St., Reno, NV 89557
(On the east side of Virginia St, across the street from College Dr)
Free parking all day in Brian Whalen Parking Garage (the building right after Church Fine Arts on Virginia St.)
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Registration and Light Breakfast (Coffee/Tea and Bagels/Donuts)
[program subject to minor adjustments and changes]
10:30 – 12:00pm Session I – Politics and Identity in Popular Culture
Session chair: Louis Niebur (University of Nevada, Reno)
- Mariana Da Silva Gabriel (University of California, Davis) “More Than Words: A Study of Chico Buarque & Gil Gilberto’s “Cálice” and ‘Covert’ Musical Protest
- Joshua Strickland (University of Nevada, Reno), “It’s My Life”: Music, Baseball, and Identity”
- Ryan Nason (University of California, Davis), “Imperialist Nostalgia in Disneyland’s Indiana Jones Adventure”
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch Break
1:00 – 1:10pm Business Meeting: ratification of the Bylaws, call for election of the new NorCal President.
1:10-2:00
Bridging the Gap between Musicologies:
Presentation of new books and Q&A with the authors:
Edmund Mendelsohn, White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism (Stanford University Press, 2023)
Ruthie Meadows, Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023)
2:00 – 3:30pm Session II – Transmission and Context in Motet and Opera
Session chair: Julianne Lindberg (University of Nevada, Reno)
- Saagar Asnani (University of California, Berkeley), “The Curious Case of “mi doint”: Tracing Transmission Through Textual Variants of an Occitan-French Hybrid Motet”
- Anushka Kulkarni (University of California, Davis), “Histories of Empire, Imaginings of India, and Mythologies of Alexander in Handel Opera Seria”
- Ali Nia Moghaddam(University of California, Davis),, “Albert Lortzing’s Regina: Factory Workers On The Opera Stage”
3:30 – 3:45pm Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:15pm Session III – American Keyboard Stories
Session chair: Ruthie Meadows (University of Nevada, Reno)
- Monica Francesca Ambalal (University of California, Santa Cruz), “The Advancement and Sustainability of the Piano Accordion in Northern California and the West Coast”
- Paul Johnson (Independent scholar), “”Piano rolls: Unveiling the missing history of ragtime, blues and jazz piano performance”