YGMS 2016 Program
Location: All events in Room 106, Stoeckel Hall (469 College Street) unless otherwise specified
Abstracts available here (You may also click on session titles below)
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Friday, 4 March 2016
13:30–14:15 Registration (Stoeckel 107)
14:15 - 14:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
14:30-15:30 Session 1: Gendered Work (Chair: Kamala Schelling)
- Kira Dralle (University of California, Santa Cruz): “Songs of Micro(revolution)”
- Lucie Vágnerová (Columbia University): “Black Box White Box: Electronics Assembly and the Factory Museum”
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:45 Session 2: Americana (Chair: Nicholas Curry)
- Brian Barone (Boston University): “The American Song-Poem: A Study in Musical Marginalia”
- Emilie Coakley (University of Pittsburgh): “The Bay Psalm Book as a Transnational Artifact of American National Identity”
16:45-17:15 Break
17:15-18:45 Keynote Lecture: Ana María Ochoa (Columbia University) - “Forms of life, forms of death, sound, music, silence.”
18:45-19:30 Reception (Stoeckel 107)
Saturday, 5 March 2016
9:00-9:30 Breakfast (Stoeckel 107)
9:30-11:00 Session 3: New York (Chair: Angharad Davis)
- Julian Saporiti (Brown University): “Drawing Sonic Circles In The Square: Musical Overlap and Space Negotiation in New York City’s Washington Square Park”
- William Robin (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “Indie Classical and Its Limits: The Contested Politics of Naming an American New-Music Scene, 2007–2013”
- Emily Clark (Columbia University): “The Towa-Towa in Queens: A Caribbean Bird Community in Diaspora”
11:00-11:15 Break
11:30-12:30 Session 4: Hypermodernities (Chair: Brian Miller)
- Paula Harper (Columbia University): “Watching Cell Phones, Listening to Video: Bus Uncle Goes Viral”
- Nicholas Curry and Brianne Dolce (Yale University): “Style, voice, persona, and gender in two versions of Taylor Swift’s 1989”
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Workshop: Brian Kane (Yale University) - “Drawing the Line: Sound Studies, Auditory Culture, and Musicophobia.”
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:30 Session 5: Bounded Identities (Chair: Marissa Glynias)
- Eugenia Siegel Conte (Wesleyan University): “Kama’aina Choirs: Embodied voices performing multiple identities in Hawai’i”
- Jamie Corbett (Brown University): “Musical Boundaries and Ethnic Distinctions in Portuguese-Speaking New England”
- Hallie Blejewski (Wesleyan University): “The Development of the G-Pan: Engineering a National Instrument”
17:30-17:45 Closing Remarks