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Beth Harpaz started the topic Racism and Music Theory: A Professor Speaks Out in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoProfessor Philip Ewell (City University of New York Graduate Center, Hunter College) spoke last fall at an SMT meeting about racism in the field of music theory and also recently published an article in SMT’s online journal on the topic. The Graduate Center this week published a piece about his talk, his paper, and the controversy surrounding it,…[Read more]
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John Michael McCluskey deposited “This Is Ghetto Row”: Musical Segregation in American College Football in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA historical overview of college football’s participants exemplifies the diversification of mainstream American culture from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. The same cannot be said for the sport’s audience, which remains largely white American. Gerald Gems maintains that football culture reinforces the construction of American…[Read more]
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John Michael McCluskey deposited “This Is Ghetto Row”: Musical Segregation in American College Football in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA historical overview of college football’s participants exemplifies the diversification of mainstream American culture from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. The same cannot be said for the sport’s audience, which remains largely white American. Gerald Gems maintains that football culture reinforces the construction of American…[Read more]
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John Covach deposited “The Performer’s Experience: Positional Listening and Positional Analysis,” in G. Borio, G. Gioriani, A. Cecchi, and M. Lutzu, eds. Investigating Music Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections (Routledge, 2020), 56-68. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter presents an approach to musical listening and analysis that privileges the individual perspectives of performers in a rock ensemble. Using passages from Yes’s “And You And I,” this study examines how each musician hears the texture in different ways while each of these “positions” differs from the Ideal Listening Position, which is…[Read more]
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John Covach deposited “Popular Music in the Theory Classroom,” in The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, edited by Leigh VanHandel (Routledge, 2020), pp. 331-339. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter considers the role of popular music in the undergraduate music theory curriculum, proposing three models for integrating pop into theory teaching.
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John Covach deposited “Jimmy Miller, the Rolling Stones, and Beggars Banquet,” in “They Call My Name Disturbance”: Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Revolution, edited by Russell Reising (Routledge, 2020), pp. 19-25. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis paper surveys the career of Jimmy Miller and explores his role as producer for the Rolling Stones, with particular emphasis on Beggars Banquet.
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Benjamin Levy started the topic Grant: Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoHello all! Many of you may have gotten this email about the Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music through the SMT list, but I thought it was worth reposting here, since it deals explicitly with archival research in music, and it might be a wonderful opportunity for someone in the group! Here is the link, but please…[Read more]
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Marc Edward Hannaford replied to the topic Hit the Road, Jack in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoI respect your point of view, Ben, but I want to restate my point that confronting these problems is best done by participating and using one’s privilege and power, rather than ceding it.
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Keith Salley replied to the topic Hit the Road, Jack in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoHi Ben,
I’m not quitting the Society for the same reason I’m not quitting society as a whole. This issue of systemic racism is reflected in both societies—it may seem more acute at the SMT level because of the tendency of academics to dress their entrenchments in polished prose and attractive/clever rhetoric, and it may sting more because many o…[Read more]
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Marc Edward Hannaford replied to the topic Hit the Road, Jack in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoFor me—and this point of view stems from asking mentors who are BIPOC in our field—is that we can help the field by participating in it more than we can through absence. I respect the act of leaving as an act of protest, but at the same time it means that many others particularly contingent, junior, and BIPOC scholars, are left to do the wor…[Read more]
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Mitchell Ohriner replied to the topic Hit the Road, Jack in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoHi Ben,
Around 700 people have signed this letter. In signing, they don’t indicate whether they’re members of SMT or not, but I recognize loads and loads of names as SMT members. Could you explain why concurring with the statement leads you to quit organization?
I for one am waiting to see what the SMT does next, especially at a time when…[Read more]
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Pablo Suárez deposited Música, humor y crítica social en el performance Buena Risa Social Club (León de Los Aldama, 2018) de Alejandro García Villalón “Virulo” in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoBuena Risa Social Club es un performance humorístico-musical del cantautor cubano-mexicano Alejandro García Villalón “Virulo”, quién lo presentó en el Café Antropía (León de Los Aldama, Guanajuato, México) el 30 de noviembre de 2018. Al tener en cuenta los pocos estudios realizados sobre sus composiciones performativas, para la presente com…[Read more]
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Pablo Suárez deposited Momentos sociológicos en el performance musical “El humor en estos tiempos da cólera” (ca. 1986) de Alejandro García Villalón “Virulo” in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago“El humor en estos tiempos da cólera” (ca. 1986) es uno de los performances que escribió, musicalizó y dirigió el cantautor Alejandro García Villalón Virulo para el Conjunto Nacional de Espectáculos de Cuba. De éste se conserva una adaptación televisiva del Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión, que no ha sido abordada en investigacion…[Read more]
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Pablo Suárez deposited Panorama de la música popular cubana en los Premios Lucas 2016 in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoEn la actualidad se manifiesta una pluralidad discursiva en la música cubana, donde la diversificación de sus soportes de difusión juega un papel fundamental para que determinados músicos sean tenidos como populares. Bajo esa tesitura, los Premios Lucas brindan una variedad de fuentes primarias incomparables, poco abordadas como objetos de est…[Read more]
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Pablo Suárez deposited Algunas consideraciones analíticas sobre el performance musical in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoCon el presente trabajo se busca allanar la zanja que existe entre los abordajes tradicionales del discurso musical y los estudios de performance. Para la realización de investigaciones artísticas sobre performances musicales se debe tener en cuenta dicha expresión como subjetividad cambiante a lo largo de su devenir histórico, construido en las…[Read more]
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Pablo Suárez deposited El Génesis Según Virulo (2001) de Alejandro García Villalón como performance humorístico de intertextualidad literaria-musical in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLa pluralidad discursiva manifiesta en la música cubana se ha encontrado enmarcada en una realidad estético-musical cambiante, causada por una postmodernidad social cada vez más abierta a la globalización de las expresiones culturales de los pueblos. Es dentro de esta dinámica creativa que se encontraron inmersos los performances musicales del…[Read more]
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Shayna Silverstein deposited The Punk Arab: Demystifying Omar Souleyman’s Techno-Dabke in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoEssay analyzing Syrian wedding singer Omar Souleyman’s popularity in rave, techno, and other popular Western music markets.
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Christine Boone started the topic PMIG 2020 Publication Awards – Nominations Sought! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoNominations are officially open for the Pop Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award—click on these links to nominate. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively impacted you. Self-nominations are especially encouraged! Note that to be eligible for an award, the publi…[Read more]
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Shayna Silverstein deposited Transforming Space: The Production of Contemporary Syrian Art Music in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIn the first decade of the twenty-first century, a young generation of Syrian experimental composers conceived a space for musiqa mu‘asira, or contemporary art music. Informed by debates on critical aesthetics, modernity, and subjectivity in the Arab world and beyond, these composers drew on particular compositional devices and techniques to m…[Read more]
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Keith Salley replied to the topic octatonic, whole-tone, and jazz minor flux in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThanks, Dustin. This looks good.
And sure, I’d love any V.J. Iyer transcriptions!
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