AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER
SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
SOUTHWEST CHAPTER
Spring Meeting, 9-10 April 1999
The Colorado College, Colorado Springs
REVISED PROGRAM
Friday, 9 April
12:00-1:00 Registration–in Worner Student Center (SW corner Cascade and Cache la Poudre), lobby outside of the WES Room (downstairs at the north end of the building)
1:00-2:30 Opening remarks by Michael D. Grace, Music Department Chair, Colorado College
(this and all paper sessions will be held in the WES Room)
Session 1 (1:00–2:30)
Music in the Americas I
Victoria Lindsay Levine (Colorado College), chair
1:00—Ramon Bannister (University of Arizona), “The Music of the Inti- Illimani Commodified”
1:30—Brenda Romero (University of Colorado, Boulder), “The New Mexican Indita Song Genre as Cultural Paradigm”
2:00—Oscar Macchioni (University of Arizona), “Musical Portrayals of Male Roles in the Argentinean Tango: Juan José Castro”
2:30-3:00 Break
Session 2 (3:00–4:30)
Music before and during WWII
Michael D. Grace (Colorado College), chair
3:00—Reed Wangerud (United States Air Force Academy), “Adolf Hitler’s Unwitting Accomplice: Richard Wagner’s Influence During the Third Reich”
3:30—Ann B. Reagan (United States Air Force Academy), “Music and Propaganda in Nazi Germany”
4:00—Thomas L. Riis (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Music in the Movies: Rodgers and Hart in 1939”
4:30-5:00 Break
Saturday, 10 April
8:00-9:00 Additional registration; light food and beverages
Session 3 (9:00-10:30)
Music in the Americas II
Thomas l. Riis (University of Colorado, Boulder), chair
9:00—Sharon S. Graf (Michigan State University/University of Colorado, Boulder), “Moments of Meaning: The Old Becomes New in Fiddling at the National Old Time Fiddler’s Contest”
9:30—Karen M. Bryan (Arizona State University), “Mary Cardwell Dawson and the National Negro Opera Company”
10:00—Mark D. Porcaro (Brigham Young University), “Where Have All the Folk Songs Gone?”: Transformation of Anglo-American Ballads in the Folk Music Revival”
10:30-11:00 Break
Session 4 (11:00–12:00)
18th-Century Topics
Richard J. Agee (Colorado College), chair
11:00—Shawn Marie Keener (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Narrative, Symmetry, and Cadential Function in the Finale to Part II of Haydn’s Creation”
11:30—Harrison Powley (Brigham Young University), “Francesco Barsanti’s Concerti grossi op. 3: Some Unusual Concertini”
12:00-1:00 Luncheon in Gaylord Hall (upstairs, SE corner of Worner Student Center)
1:00-1:30 Business meetings of the SEM, AMS (locations T.B.A.)
Session 5 (1:30-3:00)
Music East and West
John T. Brobeck (University of Arizona), chair
1:30—Hidemi Matsushita (Minnesota State University at Akita, Japan/ American Piano Schools, Lakewood), “The Pride of Akita Prefecture: The Life and Music of Tamezô Narita (1893-1945)”
2:00—Brian Harker (Brigham Young University), “The Masses, the Mass, and the Ph.D.: Milton Babbitt Encounters Academia”
2:30–Stephen F. Duncan (Eastern New Mexico University), “East and West in the Music of Sangeeta Abhinay Academy”
3:00-3:30 Break
Session 6 (3:30-4:30)
Pacific and Asian Topics
Stephen F. Duncan (Eastern New Mexico University), chair
3:30–Larry Shumway (Brigham Young University), “Musical Performance in Tonga as Political Statement”
4:00–Kazue Konishi (Arizona State University), “Monde Drum and Dance in Urban Japan: A Vehicle for Self-Expression and Social Cohesion”
8:00 The Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra, guest conductor Joann Falletta, at the Pikes Peak Center, 190 S. Cascade