The Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group is a discursive space for scholars of music after 1945, with an emphasis on the modernist, experimental, and avant-garde. Through its annual meetings and online communications, the group aims to strengthen, support, and develop its members’ ideas and sense of community. It also seeks to bring attention to and foster scholarship on post-1945 music both within the Society for Music Theory and in music scholarship at large.

Workshop at SMT 2021

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    • 1 June 2021 at 9:21 pm EDT #45829

      Antares Boyle
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      Laura and I are delighted to announce that Robert Hasegawa has agreed to lead a workshop for our group at our meeting this November. The description is below, and we look forward to some preliminary conversations happening in this space before then!

      Best wishes,

      Tara

      Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group

      Workshop at SMT 2021: Diversity and Inclusion in the Pedagogy of Contemporary Music Analysis

      Robert Hasegawa

      This workshop and discussion will examine issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion in teaching the analysis of contemporary music, framed as part of a broader reexamination of the Eurocentric canons and narratives characteristic of the discipline of music theory as a whole. While many histories of music composed after 1945 have focused almost exclusively on white, male composers from Europe and North America, this period in fact offers numerous opportunities for the inclusion of composers from more varied demographics; arguably, the field of music composition is more diverse today than ever before.

      In this workshop, we will consider the possible impacts of an increasingly diverse repertoire on the ways that we teach the theory and analysis of contemporary music at the undergraduate and graduate level. How might we define a more inclusive pedagogical canon of post-1945 music? What concepts, tools, and techniques are most essential to equip students for the analysis of music being created today?

      This workshop will pick up on issues addressed in March at the Eastman School of Music Graduate Forum on Diversity in Post-Tonal Pedagogy (organized by Zachary Bernstein with Michael Buchler, Robert Hasegawa, and Judith Lochhead), archived on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8QKBOFVfSQ.

      Materials for discussion will be posted in advance of the November 2021 workshop.

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