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Megan Lavengood commented on the doc Working Draft — Proposed Bylaws in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThank you for your thoughts, Mitch!
1a—I’m fine with putting that in this draft. I don’t see any reason why people would oppose it being more inclusive. I think we should discuss that (along with the 3-year terms) at the meeting explicitly, though.
1b—I left them out just in case we want to add another award someday, so we don’t have to ame…[Read more] -
Trevor deClercq commented on the doc Working Draft — Proposed Bylaws in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWell done, Megan. I think this is great.
I agree with Mitch that the window for awards should be 3 years. Based on when an article is published and when the PMIG meets, the 2-year window might effectively be only a single chance to submit.
My only other suggested change is to add (or change) something in “Article II: Purpose” to more…[Read more]
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Mitchell Ohriner commented on the doc Working Draft — Proposed Bylaws in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoGreat work on this, Megan! Some points for consideration:
1. Awards.
a. The term on SMT awards is 3 years, as opposed to the 2 here. As a subfield, I can easily imagine a banner year producing multiple works we’d want to recognize and the 3 year window would allow for that. Of course, it would also increase the workload of the committee but I…[Read more] -
Megan Lavengood started the topic proposed bylaws in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoHello! At our next meeting, I would like to vote in some bylaws. While bylaws are not at present common in the SMT Interest Groups, I think it may be the right time for our group, for a few reasons:
- I am proposing a change to term length and the number of officers.
- Our group regularly gives awards, and the process for administration of the…
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Megan Lavengood commented on the doc Working Draft — Proposed Bylaws in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agooh, and another reason—6. the Interest Group Task Force has been interested in encouraging IGs to implement bylaws.
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Megan Lavengood commented on the doc Working Draft — Proposed Bylaws in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoHello! At our next meeting, I would like to vote in some bylaws. While bylaws are not at present common in the SMT Interest Groups, I think it may be the right time for our group, for a few reasons:
1. I am proposing a change to term length and the number of officers.
2. Our group regularly gives awards, and the process for administration of the…[Read more] -
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Mitchell Ohriner started the topic JOB: University of Nottingham in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThe University of Nottingham has a recent opening for a part-time (29hr/week) assistant professor of music with a popular music focus. Apply if you’re interested!
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/ARTS134019X1
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Áine Heneghan started the topic CFP: Autographs and Archival Documents IG in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThe Society for Music Theory’s Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group invites proposals for lightning talks (ten minutes) for our next annual meeting in Columbus, OH (November 7-10). We welcome research informed by the study of archival documents, including but not limited to compositional sketches, theoretical texts, performance…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood started the topic Rock instruments exhibit at the Met Museum in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoStarting in April, the Met Museum in NYC will feature an exhibition on rock instruments, titled “Play It Loud.” More information below. h/t Lynne Rogers.
For the first time, a major museum exhibition will examine the instruments of rock and roll. One of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century, rock and roll’s seismic i…
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Alyssa Barna started the topic SMT Publication Award Nominations due April 1 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoHi all,
The nominations for SMT Publication Awards are due April 1st. It would be great to see some scholarship on popular music topics represented this year! See a message from myself and a few colleagues below:
We are reaching out to encourage you to submit nominations by April 1 for this year’s SMT Outstanding Publication Awards. In 2018, t…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood started the topic CFP for Theory & Practice issue on multimedia in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 7 years agoIf you work on pop music and film or video games, I encourage you to respond to the call for papers below!
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Theory and Practice invites submissions for Vol. 44, to be published in early 2020. Submissions in any subfield of music theory are welcome, although topics relating to cross-medial interactions are especially encouraged. Please…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood started the topic nominate things for the SMT publication awards! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 7 years agoYou should have received Danuta Mirka’s email (if you are subscribed to SMT-announce) calling for nominations of publications for the various SMT publication awards. I urge everyone to especially consider any pop music publications for nominations. A quick glance through past awards shows very little from our subdiscipline, so let’s work to change…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood started the topic Meeting Report — SMT 2018 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear PMIG members,
It was a pleasure to see so many of you at SMT! We had a total of 44 members in attendance.
This message brings you important highlights from our meeting. The full debrief is attached.
- VOTE ON LANGUAGE CHANGE FOR AWARDS—Please navigate to https://goo.gl/forms/Gt12aKoctmONtmv22 to vote on a minor language change for the O…
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Áine Heneghan started the topic AADIG mailing list in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoSubscribe here: http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/aadig-societymusictheory.org
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