Fall Conference 2018
The University of Kansas
Friday and Saturday, September 21-22
All events will take place in the Hall Center for the Humanities, unless otherwise noted.
Friday, September 21
12:00-1:00 PM Registration
1:00-1:15 PM Welcome
Brent Ferguson, President, MMRC
Robert Walzel, Dean, University of Kansas School of Music
1:15-2:45 PM Session 1: Acoustical Story Telling
Chair: Ingrid Stölzel, University of Kansas
Portrayals of Female Exoticism in the Early Broadway Years: The Music and Performance Styles of Comedy Songs in the Follies of 1907
Mary Beth Sheehy, University of Kansas
Dramatic Frames and Textural Space in Britten’s Curlew River
Stanley Fink, Florida State University
Problematizing Tonic: The Spiritual and Voice-Leading in Queen’s “Somebody to Love”
Sammy Gardner, University of North Texas
2:45-3:00 PM Break
3:00-5:00 PM Session 2: Systematizing Sounds
Chair: Scott Murphy, University of Kansas
Chabanon, Rameau, and the “Nerveux systême”: Listening (to) Bodies in Early Modern France
Stephen M. Kovaciny, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chopin’s Introvert Paradox: Topical Ambiguity, Liminal Liveness, and a Haunted Recording
Sean Gower, University of Cincinnati
On the Turing Test and the Entailments of Style: Jazz Robots, Metapragmatics, and Improvisation
Brian Miller, Yale University
5:00-7:00 PM Dinner
(on your own- we have a group reservation for 40 so feel free to join us)
Lawrence Beer Company
826 Pennsylvania St, Lawrence, KS 66044
7:30-9:30 PM Concert and Presentation
Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall, 3rd Floor (northwest corner)
Bryan “Kip” Haaheim, University of Kansas
Saturday, September 22
8:00-8:30 AM Registration
8:30-10:30 AM Session 3: Identity Building Through Music and Place
Chair: Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas
Beats and Brotherhood: The DIY Hip-Hop Recording Studio as Black Public Sphere
Jasmine Henry, Rutgers University
Carnatic Music Transplanted to America: Innovations of Youth in “Sustaining Sampradaya”
Rachel Schuck, Frost School of Music- University of Miami
Philmont Campfires and Presentational Participation
Ellyn Washburne, University of Kentucky
Confessions from the Killing Jar: “Coming-out” as Reclamation and Selfcare
Laura Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh
10:30-10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM-12:15 PM Workshop
Turning Your Conference Presentation into an Article
Dr. Hannah Lewis, University of Texas at Austin
12:15-1:30 PM Lunch
(On your own)
1:30-2:30 PM Keynote Address
Capturing Liveness: Music in Early French Sound Cinema
Dr. Hannah Lewis, University of Texas at Austin
2:30-2:45 PM Break
2:45-4:15 PM Session 4: Twentieth-Century Reception Histories
Chair: Paul Laird, University of Kansas
The Tragic Phase of Irony: Tracing the Interaction of Pastoral and Military Topics in Vaughan-Williams’ Pastoral Symphony
Paul Garza, University of Houston
Spanish Opera at the Crossroads: Conrado del Campo’s El final de don Álvaro (1910)
David Ferreiro, Complutense University of Madrid
Lost in Translation: Introducing Bossa Nova to American Listeners
Rami Stucky, University of Virginia
4:15 PM Conference adjourned: Thanks for your participation!
Keynote Biography
Hannah Lewis is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her
research focuses on music for film and visual media, early twentieth-century French music,
American experimental music, and musical theater. She received her PhD in Historical Musicology
from Harvard University in 2014, and she taught at Tufts University before joining the faculty at
UT. Her book, French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema, was published earlier this month as part of Oxford University Press's Music and Media series. Her work has also appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Society for American Music, Musical Quarterly, the Journal of Musicological Research and The Cambridge Companion to Film Music, and she has presented at national and regional meetings of the American Musicological Society, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Music and the Moving Image, and the Society for American Music (where she received the Mark Tucker Award in 2014). She is currently co-editing a volume with James Buhler titled Voicing the Cinema, and is beginning work on a new project, which examines the screen adaptations of Rodgers and Hammerstein's stage musicals.
Parking
Friday: if you would like to park on campus on Friday, please register with KU Parking and Transit using the link provided in a separate email. If you have not received the link, email mmrc@ku.edu to request a copy. Once you click the link, you must provide some information about your vehicle. If you are renting a car, you may still follow the link and fill out a form on the day of the conference. If you do not plan on parking on Friday, please do not fill out a form.
Saturday: parking is free in most lots on Saturday. Park in the blue, red, or yellow lots near the Hall center. Signs at the entrance of each lot will indicate their color and the normal parking hours.
Food
Throughout the conference, we will provide water, coffee, and small snacks. However, meals will be on your own. Below you may find a small list of suggested restaurants in downtown Lawrence on Massachusetts Street.
(for a more complete listing, please see https://unmistakablylawrence.com/explore/eat/)
Baan Thai
The Burger Stand at the Casbah
The Mad Greek Restaurant
Merchant’s Pub & Plate (Vegetarian/Vegan)
Free State Brewing Co.
Limestone Pizza Kitchen and Bar
McLain’s Market
The Roost
Sponsors and Gratitude
The MMRC would like to thank eXplore Lawrence and the following departments at the University of Kansas for their support:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Department of American Studies
Department of Film and Media Studies Department of Psychology
Department of Theatre and Dance Jewish Studies
Office of Research
School of Music
Thank you also to those who helped the MMRC during its genesis, including the Music Theory and Musicology faculty. Thank you to Dr. Colin Roust for his support and advice. Finally, we extend special thanks to our student organization faculty adviser, Dr. Scott Murphy.
Midwest Music Research Collective Officers
Brent Ferguson, President
Matthew Ferrandino, Vice President
Leslee Wood, Treasurer
TJ Laws-Nicola, Local Accommodations
Dustin Chau, Digital Relations
Justin Sextro, Program Committee Chair