AMS: Musicology in the News

National Humanities Center Names Fellows for 2008-09

Tue, 6 May 2008 13:19:29 -0400

Two recipients are oriented to musicological topics:

Laurent Marc Dubois (History, Duke University), The Banjo: A Cultural History (Duke Endowment Fellowship)

Christian Thorau (Musicology, University of Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt), Guided Listening and the Touristic Gaze-The Emergence of 'Musical Baedekers' (William J. Bouwsma Fellowship)

Philip Gossett receives award for Divas & Scholars

Mon, 5 May 2008 10:12:23 -0400

At the University of Chicago Press’ annual award ceremony on Thursday, April 24, President Zimmer presented the 2008 Gordon J. Laing Prize to Philip Gossett for his 2006 book, Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera. Gossett’s book has been widely lauded for its dazzling account of how opera comes to the stage.

Hofstra establishes endowed chair in Sikh musical traditions

Mon, 5 May 2008 10:10:15 -0400

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY – President Stuart Rabinowitz today announced the creation of an endowed chair in the Department of Religion for the study and teaching of Sikh musical traditions.

Cleveland Johnson Appointed Director of Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:41:21 -0400

Musicologist Cleveland T. Johnson, professor of music and past dean of the DePauw University School of Music, has been appointed director of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program...

Milo Velimirovic, 1922-2008

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:38:28 -0400

Milo Milorad Velimirovic died at the age of 85 on Friday April 18, 2008, in Bridgewater, Virginia. He taught history of music courses with a specialization in Byzantine Musicology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from 1973 until 1993.

Musicology Dept. at Punjab University threatened by Islamic activists

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:06:54 -0400

"The Punjab University's (PU) Department of Musicology in collaboration with the Lahore Arts Council has arranged a musical performance to be held on Monday 4/21... The PU Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) activists denounced the PU administration for holding the event. They said, 'Musical education is against Islam and we will not allow anyone to hold such activities on campus.'"

International Association for Jazz Education declares bankruptcy

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:48:27 -0400

The IAJE Board has voted to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the Federal Bankruptcy Law.

Claremont's Fiske Museum of musical instruments sold

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:39:33 -0400

"The museum had limited visiting hours at its home in the windowless basement of Bridges Auditorium for three decades, and then it closed altogether 16 months ago, partly because of a lack of upkeep funds. Now, almost the entire batch -- harpsichords, pianos, clarinets, banjos and cymbals -- will leave its home in Claremont and be sold for an undisclosed price to a music museum under construction in Arizona."

Victor Coelho on what's wrong with undergraduate education

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:34:59 -0400

Victor Coelho, AMS member and associate provost at Boston University, on at today's "Constructing the New Humanist in Undergraduate Education" conference.

Society for American Music Award Announcements

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:29:43 -0400

SAM has announced its annual awards, several of which went to AMS members:

Irving Lowens Book Award: Anne Danielsen (University of Oslo), Presence and Pleasure: The Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament (Wesleyan University Press)

Irving Lowens Article Award: AMS member Leta E. Miller (University of California Santa Cruz), “Henry Cowell and John Cage: Intersections and Influences, 1933-1941,” Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 59, No. 1

Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award: AMS member Drew Davies,“The Italianized Frontier: Music at Durango Cathedral, Español Culture, and Aesthetics of Devotion in Eighteenth-Century New Spain” (University of Chicago)

Mark Tucker Award for Outstanding Conference Paper: AMS member Loren Kajikawa (UCLA), “Eminem’s ‘My Name Is’: Signifyin(g) Whiteness, Rearticulating Race.”

Lifetime Achievement Award: Bill C. Malone

Honorary Members: Riders In The Sky

Peter Burkholder receives IU Multicultural Understanding Award

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:09:54 -0400

The Indiana University Commission on Multicultural Understanding (COMU) will honor five individuals, including musicologist J. Peter Burkholder.

Malena Kuss launches new book

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:09:21 -0400

Argentine researcher Malena Kuss of the International Musicological Society Board of Directors will launch the second volume of a historic encyclopedia about Latin American and Caribbean music in Havana on April 18...

Musicology colloquia in Havana

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:06:22 -0400

Researcher Evguenia Roubina, Founding Member of the Mexican Academy of Science, Art, Technology and Humanities will give a lecture on Tuesday on new sources of study of orchestral new-Hispanic music...

Taruskin on Stravinsky's Songs

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:17:56 -0400

"General Interest" article in the NY Times 13/4/2008, with ref. to performance of the complete songs at the Morgan Library Thursday 17 April 2008.

Top 50 Classical Music Blogs

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:06:35 -0400

Courtesy of www.classicalconvert.com. This provides a good list of classical music blogs, whether or not you care about the rankings!

Marianne Kielian-Gilbert receives IU Distinguished Scholar Award

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:38:21 -0400

Indiana University Office of Women's Affairs: The Distinguished Scholar Award goes to an outstanding scholar whose work involves efforts to enhance women's lives through research, teaching or service...

Inventoriana: Digital Manuscripts

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:04:47 -0400

An innovative, Web-based tool called Inventoriana is enabling scholars to collaborate on indexing and annotating digital library materials, such as liturgical manuscripts, with exciting results. Harvard medievalists have embraced the software, and it was recently used in a seminar on Ambrosian chant taught by Professor Tom Kelly. It was created by AMS member Drew Massey.

Dr. Jreremiah Wright, Jr.: Musicologist

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:06:00 -0400

"He is a highly educated man fluent in liberation theology, the preaching of the social gospel, psychology, musicology, history, political science, sociology and more."

Thailand's First Music School

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:03:33 -0400

Mahidol University. "The College of Music originated from a master's degree programme in cultural studies with the emphasis on music, which was offered by the university in 1989. Three years later, the programme was expanded, and the degree renamed 'Master of Arts in Music, concentrating on Music Education and Musicology'."

Ruth Solie at the University of Illinois

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:00:08 -0400

Friday April 4, 2008, 4 p.m., Memorial Room, Smith Hall: "How to Read Tropes of Gender: Victorian Manliness."

The hopes and glories of Edward Elgar

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:54:52 -0400

How historians, philosophers, modernists, musicologists - and musicians - have celebrated Elgar's work, by Hugh Wood (review of Byron Adams, ed., Edward Elgar and Hist World, TLS, 3/19/08)

Tristan und Isolde live via satellite Saturday 22 March

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:12:19 -0400

Metropolitan Opera will broadcast Tristan und Isolde live via satellite to 500 theaters in America Saturday 22 March at 12:30 pm.

Deborah Voigt, Isolde; Robert Dean Smith, Tristan. James Levine, conducting.

UT Austin School of Music receives $55-million gift

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:03:28 -0400

Endowment goes from $33 m to $88 m -- increased student fellowships a major goal.

NEH grants and awards announced

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:48:23 -0400

On March 10 the NEH announced the latest grants and awards. They included the following of musicological interest: University of California, Santa Barbara $350,000 Project Director: M. Patricia Fumerton Project Title: Roxburghe Ballad Archive Description: Digitizing images of 1,500 17th-century English ballads held by the British Library, as well as illustrative woodcuts, facsimile transcriptions, contextual essays, and audio files of sung versions of the ballads, and incorporating them into an electronic archive. University of Alaska, Fairbanks $50,000 Project Director: Siri Tuttle We the People Project Title: Minto Songs Description: The collection, digitization, organization, and archival storage, as well as dissemination among the Minto Athabascan community, of recorded performances of Alaskan Athabascan songs. RIPM Consortium Ltd. $35,0000 Project Director: H. Robert Cohen Project Title: Digitizing the Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale Archive of Music Periodicals, 1800 to 1950 Description: The online retrieval of the full texts of more than 500,000 scholarly articles on music from an online database that incorporates 89 journals in 13 languages and covers the period 1800 to 1950. St. Louis: Washington University $73,627 Project Director: Gerald Early We the People Project Title: Teaching Jazz as American Culture NC: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill $208,557 Project Director: Steven Weiss Project Title: Fiddles, Banjos and Mountain Music: Preserving Audio Collections of Southern Traditional Music Description: The transfer to digital format of 2,350 hours of analog audio recordings from seven collections held in the university's Southern Folklife Collection, which documents the history and culture of the region through music and oral history. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Project Director: Annegret Fauser We the People Project Title: Symphonies of War: Music in America during World War II

Getty Research Institute seeks feedback on Bibliography of the History of Art

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:28:58 -0400

The Getty Research Institute is conducting a survey of users and potential users of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). We are interested in the widest possible dissemination of this survey and we thank you in advance for your participation. The survey is online only and you can connect to it at this link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Ix_2beZRVVbkTwZAgXNTPndQ_3d_3d

We invite you to complete the survey by March 27. Your responses are very valuable to us. If you have questions or comments you may contact BHA at bha@getty.edu.

Visit BHA on the Web at

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/bha/

Alex Ross wins National Book Critics Circle Award

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:47:10 -0400

On March 7, New Yorker critic Alex Ross's book The Rest is Noise (2007) received the NBCC award for criticism.

AMS South-Central Chapter Meeting Includes Frank Zappa Talk, Concert

Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:17:24 -0500

The University of Kentucky John Jacob Niles Center for American Music will host the 2008 annual meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) South-Central Chapter March 14-15, on the UK campus. The highlight of the two-day event will be a keynote address by Gail Zappa, wife of the late music legend Frank Zappa, and a free public concert of music by or that inspired Zappa performed by UK students and alumni. Zappa's presentation begins at 7:30 p.m., followed by the concert at 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 14, in the Singletary for the Arts Concert Hall. Both are free and open to the public.

Julia Shinnick on the role of violence in music

Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:20:44 -0500

Julia Shinnick, professor of musicology at the University of Louisville, discussed the role of violence in music Friday in her guest lecture, "Music: Temenos or Instrument of Violence? Medieval Song, Sacrifice, Scapegoating and the 'Mimetic Theory' of Rene Girard"...

Fred Maus presents guest lecture at Johns Hopkins University

Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:18:15 -0500

Wed., March 5, 4:30 p.m. "Music and Trauma," a Peabody Musicology colloquium with Fred Maus, University of Virginia. 308 Conservatory. Peabody

Baylor Hosts Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:45:47 -0500

Baylor University's School of Music is hosting the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, an event designed to explore the connection between music and faith, Friday, Feb. 29 through Saturday, March 1, at Armstrong Browning Library...

Panel discusses political origins of Cold War music

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:45:47 -0500

Postwar Politics and Music Panel at IU ArtsWeek, Jacobs School of Music.

Music Department to Host Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:45:47 -0500

Being home to one of the oldest ethnomusicology programs in the country, it was only fitting that Wesleyan host the 53rd annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Oct. 25-28.

Eastman Studies in Music celebrates Ralph Locke's fiftieth book in the series

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:43:28 -0500

The series has reached fifty volumes under Ralph Locke, series editor.

CSI: Beethoven, with Bill Meredith

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:20:33 -0500

Inspired by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music Director Marin Alsop's own fascination with television's hit series CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) and the overarching Beethoven theme of the 2007/2008 season, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will present a two-night CSI: Beethoven event, Wednesday, February 27 and Thursday, February 28 at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall....

Symposium, Post-War Politics and Musics

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:58:13 -0500

Feb. 27, 3:30 p.m., IU Bloomington. A symposium on the relationship between musical culture and Post-World-War II politics. Participants and topics: 1) Eric Drott (University of Texas, Austin): "Music and May '68 in France"; 2) Bruce Durazzi (Washington University, St. Louis): "Two 'Committed' Cantatas: Luigi Nono and the Idea of Political Composition"; 3) Phil Ford (Indiana University): "Asymmetrical Consciousness: The Hipster Dialectic of Style and Politics"; 4) Peter Schmelz (Washington University, St. Louis): "Alfred Schnittke's Nagasaki and Soviet Cold War Cultural Politics"

Op-ed: Do those who conduct "classical music outreach" really understand whom they're trying to reach?

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:49:08 -0500

Classical music organizations are eagerly doing outreach and education... But they don't ask what the world outside is like. They don't ask about the people they're trying to reach. Who are these people? What culture - what tastes, interests, commitments, longings - do they already have?... (Greg Sandow, 2/22/08)

Anne Walters Robertson, William Kinderman to speak at UNT, Denton TX

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:39:38 -0500

March 3, 4 p.m.: Anne W. Robertson, "The Seven Deadly Sins in Medieval Music." March 12, 4 p.m.: William Kinderman, "Schumann, Beethoven and the Distant Beloved."

Vietnamese instrument collection at U. Mich

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:37:56 -0500

VietNamNet Bridge -- Vietnamese-American researcher Nguyen Thuyet Phong has determined that 15 of the century-old musical instruments possessed by Michigan University's Steams Collection of Musical Instruments were Vietnamese. (2/20/08)

Rae Linda Brown appointed VP of Undergrads, LMU

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:34:17 -0500

Musicologist Rae Linda Brown is appointed Vice President of Undergraduates at Loyola Marymount University (1/31/08)

Musicology department established at the Punjab Institute of Language, Art and Culture

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:30:19 -0500

LAHORE: The Punjab Institute of Language, Art and Culture (PILAAC) is ready with full steam to launch its Musicology Department to revive traditional music... By Ali Usman

Musicology: the scene in Israel

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:28:03 -0500

"With medieval manuscripts forgotten, musicology goes into in drug rehab..." Story about the musicology departments in Israel, Friday, 25 Jan, 2008