Hello members of the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group!

As your new co-chairs, we wanted to send a quick message to tell you about our current projects, and we also wanted to see if you would like to be involved in these activities. We are working on two things that might be of interest to you.

We are putting together the call for…[Read more]

The whole enchilada is out of the oven now: We guest co-editors, Joshua Banks Mailman, Andrew Mead, and Zachary Bernstein, are pleased to announce a publication that celebrates a shining example of artistic creative agency, in the past and present:
  Playing (with) Babbitt in the 21st Century   
a double issue of Contemporary Music Review, 40 (2…[Read more]

Though not focused specifically on analysis, this new article of mine on cross-stylistic adaptation and re-composition of Milton Babbitt’s music might be of interest to members of this group.  Besides my article, there are also new articles by Andrew Mead, Zachary Bernstein, Daphne Leong, Joseph Dubiel and several others. (These are part of an up…[Read more]

Congratulations and welcome to our new PMIG leadership!

Chair: Matt Ferrandino

Secretary Emily Milius

Webmaster: Jacob Cupps

Please click here to vote for new PMIG officers!

Voting will close at 5:00 pm EST on Thursday, Dec. 9.

Greetings, Post-’45ers,

Does anyone know of a font that includes alphanumeric characters (including double-digit numbers) enclosed in geometric shapes for labeling chords a là John Link?

Best regards,

Judd

Dear Post-1945 community,

For those of you that missed the announcement at our recent SMT, please join me in congratulating the winners of our 2021 publication award, Sumanth Gopinath and Drake Andersen! Please see below for the full announcement from the award committee. Drake’s article is freely available in MTO, and Sumanth has kindly shared a…[Read more]

We are seeking nominations for the following officer positions for SMT’s Popular Music Interest Group. Self nominations are encouraged! Please email all nominations to ferr1407@fredonia.edu. Nominations will close at 5:00 pm EST on Dec. 1, 2021.

CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting…[Read more]

The Adam Krims Awards was established in 2013 to give a junior scholar recognition for an outstanding publication. This year’s Adam Krims award goes to Edwin K. C. Li for his article “Cantopop and Speech-Melody Complex,” AND to Anabel Maler & Robert Komaniecki for their article “Rhythmic Techniques in Deaf Hip Hop.” Li investigates native Ca…[Read more]

Dear IG members,

I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at tomorrow’s meeting!

Here is a direct link to SMT’s page with Zoom and Slack links for our session: https://guide.societymusictheory.org/sessions/nov4/early/post-1945-music-analysis-ig

Please note, if you access the meeting through the SMT schedule, you have to click on the name of…[Read more]

Please join us for our PMIG SMT Virtual Reception! We’ll be in Room 1 on Saturday, Nov. 6 from 6:00 – 7:30 pm EST!