Meeting Site

Union University 1050 Union University Drive Jackson, Tennessee  38305

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Download a printable campus map (.pdf).  Campus locations to note:

• All papers will be presented in Jennings Hall (Building 8), Room 123 (Hartley Recital Hall).
  
• The Business Lunch and Meeting will take place in the Carl Grant Events Center (Building 5).
• The concert by the Orchid Ensemble will be presented in the George M. Savage Memorial Chapel, inside Penick Academic Complex (Building 1).
  

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Travel Information

Union University is located in Jackson, Tennessee, a city of about 92,000, situated 80 miles east of Memphis and 120 miles west of Nashville along Interstate 40.

Driving Directions

The GPS coordinates for Jennings Hall are:  N 35° 40.625', W 88° 51.803'.

The major airports nearby are Memphis International Airport (MEM) and Nashville International Airport (BNA).

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Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved at the

SigNature Boutique Hotel 1935 Emporium Drive Jackson, TN  38305 731-660-0077 signatureboutiquehotels@gmail.com

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Group rate:  $65/night.  Valid from March 1-3.  The meeting will begin on the morning of Friday, March 2 and conclude around noon on Saturday, March 3.

Please call (731-660-0077) to make your reservation and mention "American Musicological Society" to get the group rate.

Amenities include free wi-fi and continental breakfast.

Other good hotel options in Jackson that are close to Union University include the DoubleTree, Jameson Inn, Comfort Suites, LaQuinta Inn & Suites, and Baymont Inn & Suites.

Union University's Center for Continuing Studies is adjacent to the hotel, but this is not the meeting site.  The meeting will be held on Union University's main campus (see above).

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Luncheon and Business Meeting

A catered luncheon will be served around noon on Friday.  Any conference attendee is welcome to partake for a fee of $12, to be paid with the registration fee by February 28 (luncheon is not available to walk-up registrants).

The annual Business Meeting will immediately follow the luncheon.  Any chapter member is welcome and encouraged to attend.  The Business Meeting consists of information sharing and discussion of matters of concern for the chapter.

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Keynote Address

The keynote address for this year's meeting will be given by David Huron.  Huron is a pre-eminent scholar in the field of music cognition, serving as Professor of Music at The Ohio State University and heading the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory there.  Prof. Huron's long list of publications includes his latest book Sweet Anticipation:  Music and the Psychology of Expectation (Cambridge:  MIT Press, 2006) as well as "Tone and Voice:  A Derivation of the Rules of Voice-leading from Perceptual Principles," Music Perception 19/1 (2001), which won the Society for Music Theory's Outstanding Publication Award.  David Huron has gained an international reputation as an engaging speaker with stimulating ideas.  He recently presented "Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music That Makes Them Weep?" at the Library of Congress and was subsequently interviewed for the LOC's Music and the Brain podcast series.  Though accomplished in the fields of music cognition and music theory, Huron traces his academic roots back to the discipline of musicology, and, as a lifetime member of the American Musicological Society, advocates collaboration and common understanding among the various musical sub-disciplines.  His keynote address will be entitled "That Complex Whole:  A Vision for Musicology."  The abstract is as follows:

Music reflects a multitude of different influences including acoustical, biological, perceptual, cognitive, historical, social, cultural, economic, technological, formal, and other factors.  This lecture describes a dozen research studies that provide contrasting perspectives on music and music-making.  Altogether, the studies highlight the great wealth of musical insights to be gained through careful observation.  The examples suggest that there is no one "right" level or perspective when interpreting or explaining music.  Several lessons regarding music scholarship are drawn from the research, and advice is offered for the future conduct of music scholarship.

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Concert

The Orchid Ensemble will present a concert for us on Friday evening.  This trio features the erhu, the zheng, and percussion; it performs music across a spectrum of traditional and contemporary styles.  With ties to Taiwan, Canada, and the United States, the performers bring together multiple cultural perspectives in their music.