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Category: conferences
SMT 2017
Featuring summaries of talks on Indian classical music, mentorship and diversity, and popular music.
IASPM 2017
IASPM 2017, Kassel, Germany. A brief summary of papers I attended.
AMS/SMT 2016: The One with the Sound Bleed
Mansplaining in Erlkönig, To Pimp a Butterfly, AMS After Dark, and more. Quick summaries of each of the papers I went to (warning: mostly early music and pop) and a Twitter roundup.
GSIM 2016: Music and Radicalism, Radicalism in Music
The 19th Annual Graduate Students in Music conference, for which I was a co-chair with Tom Johnson, was held this past weekend (April 22–23). The conference is entirely organized by graduate students within the department of music at the Graduate Center, CUNY. The theme was “Music and Radicalism, Radicalism in Music”, and our keynote speaker was Jonathan Pieslak of City College of New York.
MTSNYS 2016 reflections
Another energizing and inspiring conference is past: Music Theory Society of New York State’s annual meeting. This year it was held at Mannes’s new campus–beautiful space. And a lot of really wonderful papers! I actually found the conference short, I think because I only saw two full sessions, and the other was a “lightning round”… Continue reading MTSNYS 2016 reflections