Midwest Graduate Music Consortium
Eighteenth Annual Conference April 11 and 12, 2014 University of WisconsinMadison
Keynote address by Tamara Levitz
The Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (MGMC) is a joint venture organized by graduate students from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of WisconsinMadison. MGMC encourages the presentation of original research and the composition of new music by graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
The MGMC 2014 Annual Meeting is generously supported by the University of WisconsinMadison School of Music and the Anonymous Fund
Additional Thanks to: UWMadison Department of Anthropology Mills Music Library Susan C. Cook, UWMadison School of Music Director Gary Barnes, UWMadison School of Music Business Manager Tom Caw, Mills Music Library Public Services Librarian Bruce Bengston, Luther Memorial Church Director of Music The School of Music Colloquium Committee UWMadison Graduate Academic Music Student Association (GAMSA)
MGMC 2014 Program Committee Kelly Hiser, UWMadison Isidora Miranda, UWMadison Jeffrey van den Scott, Northwestern University Jesse Revenig, Northwestern University Laura Shearing, University of Chicago Chaz Lee, University of Chicago
MGMC 2014 Organizers at UWMadison Chelsie Propst Deanna Clement Duncan Schultz Ellen Hebden Hyunjin Yeo Jonathan Posthuma Lauren Ogden Samuel Garbi
MGMC 2014 Schedule All paper sessions take place in Room 126 in the UWMadison Memorial Library 728 State Street, Madison
—— Friday April 11 —— 11:30
Registration
12:30
Opening Remarks
12:45 2:15
Session 1: Materiality, Sensation, and the Body Chaired by Kelly Hiser, UWMadison Bénigne de Bacilly, Physiognomy, and the Art of Singing Well Michael Bane, Case Western Reserve University Home Cooking: A SynestheticBased Examination of the Conveyance of Rasa Within the Context of Musical Performance Emily Elizabeth Brown, University of Chicago Mrs. Cooper Attends an American Musicale Caitlin Schmid, Harvard University
2:15 2:30
Break
2:30 3:30
Session 2: Notation and Performance Chaired by Jeffrey van den Scott, Northwestern University The “Contemporary Aquarium” of Notations (1969): Rhetorical and Performative Displacement in Music for Cage Kirsten L. Speyer Carithers, Northwestern University “My own small flame”: John’s De musica as More than Theoretical Synthesis Joshua Klopfenstein, UWMadison
4:00 6:00
Keynote | 2650 Humanities Building Riot at the Rite: Racial Exclusion and the Foundations of Musical Modernism Tamara Levitz, University of California, Los Angeles
6:00 7:00
Keynote Reception | Outside 2650 Humanities Building
7:30 9:00
MGMC Dinner | University Club Dinner is provided for all participants
—— Saturday April 12 —— 8:30 9:00
Coffee | 126 Memorial Library
9:00 10:00
Session 3: Romantic and Romanticized Figures Chaired by Laura Shearing, University of Chicago I Nimbaara: The Romanticization of the Griot and its Effects in Contemporary Gambia Brendan Loula, UWMadison Antihero worship: The emergence of the “Byronic Hero” archetype in the nineteenth century Cora S. Palfy, Northwestern University
10:00 10:10
Break
10:10 11:10
Session 4: Playing with Genre Chaired by Isidora Miranda, UWMadison Koreanizing Reggae in Cosmopolitan Seoul Hyunjin Yeo, UWMadison Burning Away All Structure: Headbanging, Groove, and Perception in the Music of Meshuggah Stephen Hudson, Northwestern University
11:30 12:30
Lunch | 126 Memorial Library Lunch is provided for all participants
1:00 2:00
New Music Concert | Luther Memorial Church 1021 University Ave, Madison Clocks in Motion and Black Marigold Kristina Warren, Benjamin O'Brien, Kenn McSperitt, Matthew R. Durrant
2:00 2:20
Performing New Music | Luther Memorial Church A PostConcert Conversation with Black Marigold and Clocks in Motion
2:40 3:40
Session 5: Identity and Representation Chaired by Jesse Revenig, Northwestern University Identity, Integrity and the Italian Composers of Mussolini’s Italy: Ottorino Respighi and Ildebrando Pizzetti Alessia Macaluso, York University Mahler’s Veil: Todtenmarsch, Topoi, and the Jewish Question Rosa Abrahams, Northwestern University
3:40 3:50
Break
3:50 4:50
Session 6: Signifying the Past Chaired by Chaz Lee, University of Chicago Un paysage choisi: Fêtes galantes in Fin de siècle French Music Allison Bloom, UWMadison The Past as a Topical Field in PostWWII Polystylism Bruno Alcalde, Northwestern University
4:50 4:55
Concluding Remarks
