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Christine Boone started the topic Popular Music Interest Group Award Winners 2020 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThe SMT Popular Music Interest Group has two awards to recognize recent research in pop music. The Outstanding Publication Award was established in 2012, and exists to acknowledge the best article, essay, or book involving the theory and/or analysis of popular music by a senior scholar. Since 2013, the PMIG also grants the Adam Krims Award to a j…[Read more]
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Keith Salley started the topic Contour Segments in Pop? in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHi everyone, hope you’re doing well.
I realize it may be too busy right now to expect replies, but I’ll try:
Does anyone know of any good examples from pop for teaching contour segments (csegs)? I’m teaching a kind of generalized hybridized ‘music after 1900’ course that combines pop, jazz, and Western art music (Wam). Wanted to try this topic,…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic Annual Meeting Details in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPlease tune in for the PMIG meeting during this year’s virtual AMS/SMT, and log back on for a virtual coffee break where we can socialize as a group!
Saturday, November 14
11:00 am-12:00 pm (CST)- Panel Discussion: “The Music of ‘Monstrous Men’: Negotiating Popular Music and the Musicians Who Make It”
- Panelists: Maya Gibson, Tanya Honerman,…
- Panel Discussion: “The Music of ‘Monstrous Men’: Negotiating Popular Music and the Musicians Who Make It”
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Yan Brailowsky deposited « La tête qui bondit » ou la décollation de Marie Stuart in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoMary Stuart’s Bouncing Head
Execution scenes reveal the links between the spectacular and the punitive (Michel Foucault), but they are difficult to stage, even more so when the topic is the decapitation of Mary Stuart, whose execution divided Catholics and Protestants, forcing playwrights to adopt several mediation strategies. Taking plays by J…[Read more] -
Megan Lavengood deposited Bespoke Music Theory: A Modular Core Curriculum Designed for Audio Engineers, Classical Violinists, and Everyone in Between in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoTraditional music theory curricula are increasingly scrutinized. Students regularly misunderstand the scope of epistemology and scope of theory, find theory intimidating and difficult, and fail to see its relevance to their career goals. In this essay, I outline a modular music theory curriculum, which works to address these negative perceptions…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood deposited Bespoke Music Theory: A Modular Core Curriculum Designed for Audio Engineers, Classical Violinists, and Everyone in Between in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoTraditional music theory curricula are increasingly scrutinized. Students regularly misunderstand the scope of epistemology and scope of theory, find theory intimidating and difficult, and fail to see its relevance to their career goals. In this essay, I outline a modular music theory curriculum, which works to address these negative perceptions…[Read more]
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Kim Loeffert started the topic Survey on pedagogical use of music by composers from marginalized groups… in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoYou are invited to participate in an online survey on the pedagogical use of music by composers from marginalized groups and/or from outside the western canon in music theory. Your participation in this survey is completely voluntary, and you may opt out of any question in the survey. The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.…[Read more]
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Claire Arthur started the topic Survey about techniques and approaches to pop music analysis in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA graduate student of mine has been working on building a website for assisting pop music analysis. We have created a survey intended to garner some feedback about how different pop music scholars approach analysis so that we can gain some insights as to what would be valuable to the greatest number of individuals. The survey should take 5-15…[Read more]
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Claire Arthur started the topic Survey about techniques and approaches to pop music analysis in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA graduate student of mine has been working on building a website for assisting pop music analysis. We have created a survey intended to garner some feedback about how different pop music scholars approach analysis so that we can gain some insights as to what would be valuable to the greatest number of individuals. The survey should take 5-15…[Read more]
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RONALD VINCE deposited Jean de la Taille, Saul in his Madness (Saül le furieux) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoJean de la Taille’s “Saül le furieux” (1562) has been described as “the most dramatic play produced by the French Renaissance,” and the author’s preface to the play in the printed edition of 1572, “De l’Art de la Tragedie,” as “certainly the best theoretical essay on the theatre written in France before the classical period.” These estimates by…[Read more]
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Mariusz Kozak deposited Review of Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking by Arnie Cox (2016) in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago.
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Kendra Leonard deposited Using Your “Research Pantry” in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoWhat’s in your research “pantry”? What topics, materials, and data are already on
your shelves or in your files, just waiting to become papers, presentations, or articles? The pandemic may have stopped many of us from some of our usual research, library, and archival work, but there is still a lot we can do using materials and information we have…[Read more] -
Claire Arthur started the topic Prototype of web-based tool for pop music analysis – feedback requested! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoA graduate student of mine has been working on building a website for assisting pop music analysis. We have created a survey intended to garner some feedback about how different pop music scholars approach analysis so that we can gain some insights as to what would be valuable to the greatest number of individuals. The survey should take 5-15…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic PMIG Awards – Nominations due TOMORROW! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoNominations DUE TOMORROW 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 publica…[Read more]
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Christine Boone started the topic PMIG Awards – Nominations due TOMORROW! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoNominations DUE TOMORROW 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 publica…[Read more]
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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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Keith Salley replied to the topic Whole-tone and Octatonic in pop and rock in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group via email on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThanks, Walt!
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