Virtual Spring Conference 2021
March 26-27, 2021
Conference Registration link:
Registration is open to anyone (do not need to be affiliated with a university) and is free of charge. The conference will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams, and so you will need to provide an email address in the registration link in order to have access to the conference. Please click on the "Register Here!" button below to register for the conference.
Schedule
Friday, March 26th 2021
All events held virtually via Microsoft Teams
Panel
10:00-11:30 AM CST
The Music that People Use to Sleep: Universal and Subgroup Characteristics | Rebecca Jane Scarratt
Frisson, Emotion, and Synthetic Gestalts: The Emotional Implications of Expressive Meaning in Debussy’s Cello Sonata | Issa Aji
Neo-Riemannian Harmony and the Twentieth-Century Hymn Topic | Elena Specht
Lunch Break
11:30 AM-1:30 PM CST
Feel free to participate in the Teams Chat channel!
Panel
1:30-3:00 PM CST
Beach out of Reach: Amy Beach’s Search for Stylistic Individualism | Megan Lyons
“I Won’t Shut Up”: Critical Reception and Fiona Apple’s Identity in Fetch the Bolt Cutters | Kelly Cole
Piranhas, Volcanoes, and Turtle Shells: Coherence and Congruence in Mario Kart 8’s Enigmatic Sound World | James Heazlewood-Dale
Keynote Lecture
3:30 PM CST
going into language: i used to love to dream | A.D. Carson
Schedule
Saturday, March 27th 2021
All events held virtually via Microsoft Teams
Panel
10:00-11:30 AM CST
Love Songs and Love Spells: Micropolitical Negotiations in Three Recordings of “I Put A Spell On You” | Hannah Waterman
Syncretism in Vietnamese Art Music | James Alexander
The Use of Choreography and Body Movements by Latin American Choirs in Canada: Video Performance Analysis | Esteban Mendoza
Lunch Break
11:30 AM-1:30 PM CST
Feel free to participate in the Teams Chat channel!
Panel
1:30-3:00 PM CST
Thematic Interplay in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 10 | Nadine Silverman
The Black American Sound: Examining the Influence of 1930’s Chicago on Classical Music At Large | Lydia Bangura
“Yes, the Sky’s gone up”: Esperanza Spalding’s Afrofuturistic Critique of the Black Patriarchy in her song, “Elevate or Operate” | Alejandro Cueto
Workshop
3:30 PM CST
A Craft Workshop on Rap & Storytellingly Invention | A.D. Carson
Call for Papers
Abstract submission deadline: December 31st at 11:59 p.m. CDT
Date of Notification: January 31st, 2021
Conference Date: (virtual) March 26–27, 2021
Keynote Speaker: Dr. A.D. Carson
Midwest Music Research Collective (MMRC) is pleased to announce our 3rd annual conference via video conferencing software on March 26–27, 2021 held conjunctly with Musicians for an Anti-Racist College (KUMARC). A keynote address will be given by Dr. A.D. Carson from University of Virginia (https://aydeethegreat.com/ ).
MMRC would like to extend an invitation to graduate students from any discipline whose research deals with music to submit proposals for paper presentations.
MMRC and KUMARC want to uplift topics from the margins of music. This can take the form of researchers that are often marginalized within their field, research on topics that are outside of the canon, or both.
For more information (and updates) please visit the MMRC website and Facebook page:
https://mmrc64.wixsite.com/mmrc
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Midwest-Music-Research-Collective-186939495198066/about/
Abstract Submission Details:
Applicants should send a 200-350 word abstract to the program committee chair, TJ Laws-Nicola, via .doc or .pdf attachment to tjln@ku.edu . We will also accept abstracts in the body of the email if you do not possess the technology to create a document in the aforementioned file types. All submissions will be anonymized prior to selection for the conference.
Submissions will be accepted until December 31st, 11:59 PM CDT. All applicants will be notified of the program committee’s decision via email by the end of January.
You should send your submission via the email address you wish to use for conference communications; please make sure that you sign your submission (the attachment or the email itself) with your full name as you would like to be addressed and display your preferred pronouns.