The Columbia Music Scholarship Conference is the Department of Music's annual, graduate-student-run conference. The theme of our 2017 conference, held on Saturday March 4, was "Music: Order and Disorder." The conference was co-chaired by Eamonn Bell, Paula Harper and Ralph Whyte. The keynote address was presented by Professor Eric Drott (UT Austin).
The complete program of events is available below:
SCHEDULE
9:00–9:45 a.m.
Breakfast
9:45–10:00 a.m.
Welcoming remarks
10:00–11:30 a.m.
Session 1 - Structuring Musical Knowledge (Chair: Carmel Raz)
- Tom Johnson (The Graduate Center, CUNY) - "#genre"
- Matteo Magarotto (University of Cincinnati) - "The Transition from Divine to Temporal Order in Eighteenth-Century Music"
- Hicham Chami (University of Florida) - "A Tale of Two Protectorates: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics"
11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Coffee break
12:00–1:30 p.m.
Session 2 - Ordering Communities and Identities (Chair: Prof. Alessandra Ciucci)
- Emily Clark (Columbia University) - "Islamophobia, Noise, and Colonial Order in the Contemporary Netherlands"
- Ben Dumbauld (The Graduate Center, CUNY) - "Singing for the Impossible Society: Mass Spectacle and the Failure to Maintain Hegemonic Order in Socialist Romania"
- Samantha Cooper (New York University) - "Receiving the Singing Jews: Jewish Response to Richard Strauss' Salome at the Metropolitan Opera House (1907-1934)"
1:30–2:30 p.m.
Lunch
2:30–4:00 p.m.
Session 3 - Disciplining Performance and Improvisation (Chair: Prof. Mariusz Kozak)
- Clay Downham (University of Colorado Boulder) “Collective Improvisational Schemata in Lennie Tristano's Musical Community"
- Alana Murphy (The Graduate Center, CUNY) - "Square Dance: Ballet Accompaniment, Kinesthetically-Imposed Phrase Structure, and Recomposition as Creative Improvisational Practice"
- Andrew Chung (Yale University) - "Music, Sovereign Speech-Acts, and Sex-Trafficked Bodies: Music-Semiotic Acts of Sexual Violence"
4:15–5:15 p.m.
Keynote address
"Sorting Music Out"
Prof. Eric Drott
Associate Professor of Theory
Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin
5:15–7:00 p.m.
Closing remarks and reception