Music of the Americas Study Group

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4/29/04

MASG is proud to announce a residency with Michael Broyles and Denise Von Glahn, to be held May 7 and 8. Prof. Broyles has recently published Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music (Yale University Press, 2004), while Prof. Von Glahn published The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape (Northeastern University Press, 2003). They are also currently collaborating on a biography of Leo Ornstein, as well as a critical edition of Ornstein's Piano Quintette (to be published by MUSA). For more details about the events of the residency, please see the Schedule page.


12/16/03

Congratulations to Josh Duchan, who will be giving a paper at the Columbia University Graduate Student Conference in Music, January 30-31, 2004.

Congratulations also to everyone whose proposals were accepted for the Annual Conference of the Society for American Music, March 10-14, 2003: Prof. Paul Anderson, Prof. Naomi André, Prof. Mark Clague, Todd Decker, Tim Freeze, Prof. Charles Garrett, Prof. Carol Hess (of Bowling Green State University), Prof. Nadine Hubbs, Prof. Travis Jackson (now of University of Chicago), Nathan Platte, Colin Roust, and Prof. Albin Zak.


11/26/03

MASG has just been accepted as a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop! This means that the Rackham Graduate School will be financially supporting the group, allowing us to be able to afford to host guest speakers! More info to come on that note...


9/4/03

We have confirmed our first guest speaker! Prof. Per F. Broman, from Bowling Green State University, will be coming to campus on October 10 for a paper presentation and discussion. The paper is entitled: "'When All Is Said and Done': The ABBA Reception during the 1970s and the Ideology of Pop" and an abstract can be found here.


8/20/03

Congratulations to Prof. Mark Clague, Tim Freeze, Steph Heriger, and Colin Roust, who have all had papers accepted for the AMS-Midwest meeting in September. The four papers will be presented in Chicago at National-Louis University on Saturday, September 20. They will also be given at an MASG meeting on Friday, September 12. Abstracts for the papers can be found here.

Congratulations also to several MASG members on the following appointments:

Mark Clague, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Travis Jackson, Associate Professor, University of Chicago

Beth Levy, Assistant Professor, University of California-Davis

Eric Saylor, Assistant Professor, Drake University

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