American Musicological Association (AMS) - Faculty of Music involvement
From November 14-17, the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society was held in Chicago, Illinois. The Faculty of Music’s participants were many.
Paper Presentations included “A Reformer’s Dilemma: Colette of Corbie and St. Clare’s Rule of Life” by Martha Culshaw, “Negotiating the Image of a Modern Woman: Chinese and Jewish Sing-Song Girls in Shanghai’s Jazz Cabarets” by Matthew Shih, “Virtuosic (Dis)continuities: Ravel Translating Liszt” by Caleb Labbe Phelan, “Reassessing Haydn’s Orfeo in the Theater” by Prof. Caryl Clark (Music History and Culture) and Dorian Bandy from McGill University, and “Opera and ‘Opera’ in Iran: Battleground of Ideology and Gender” by Dr. Michelle Assay.
Prof. Sherry Lee (Musicology) chaired the Panel “Bordering Modernisms”; Dr. Ely Lyonblum chaired the panel “Student-led Approaches to Teaching Equity in Music Studies” featuring Sinem Arslan and Adrian Berry. Rena Roussin co-chaired the AMS Music and Disability Business Meeting, Organized by the Music and Disability Study Group; co-chaired the Accommodation and Accessibility in the Music Classroom session; and participated alongside Olivia Shortt in the panel “Towards Indigenous-Led Art Music: Bridging Scholarship, Performance, and Activism.”
Dr. Michelle Assay participated in the Sounding a Center Away from the Coast: Global Music History Study Group Lightning Talks, sharing “When Puppets Sing in Tehran: Reconfiguring Iran’s National Opera.” Emily McCallum co-chaired the AMS Ecomusicology Study Group Business Meeting and Special Lecture by Luis Chavez.
Congratulations, all!
