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Drew Nobile uploaded the file: Nobile Blues Progressions Handout to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agov shrt handout on blues progressions
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Megan Lavengood replied to the topic PMIG Meeting Reminder in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoI’ve just made a Google form for submitting new sources for the bibliography—click here to submit an entry [CORRECTED LINK]
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Megan Lavengood deposited What Makes It Sound ’80s? in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoPopular music of the 1980s is remembered today as having a “sound” that is somehow unified and generalizable. The ’80s sound is tied to the electric piano preset of the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. Not only was this preset (E. PIANO 1) astonishingly prevalent—heard in up to 61% of #1 hits on the pop, country, and R&B Billboard charts in 1986—bu…[Read more]
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Ben Geyer replied to the topic SMT 2019 Meeting in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoGarrett,
This is a great idea, and I like the game plan. Thanks for organizing this!
Sincerely,
Ben Geyer
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Alyssa Barna replied to the topic PMIG Meeting Reminder in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoHi Noriko,
You can absolutely edit the document yourself—the middle “edit” tab (between “Read” and “History” tabs) on the Bibliography Doc will allow you to type into the document. If your citations fit underneath the categories that already exist, you can just add them in and try to include some of the tags listed (or create and list new o…[Read more]
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Noriko Manabe replied to the topic PMIG Meeting Reminder in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoHi, I have updates I’d like to make to the bibliography, but I can’t make it to SMT this year—it conflicts with SEM, where I’m a board member. Is it possible for me to edit the document, or should I email someone my suggestions?
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Alyssa Barna started the topic PMIG Meeting Reminder in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleauges,
Our Popular Music Interest Group meeting will take place at SMT 2019 in Columbus, OH, on Saturday 11/9 from 12:30 to 1:30 in Taft C.
We will be reviewing and revising the bylaws at this meeting, so please take a moment to review them in advance. The proposed edits and draft of the bylaws can be found here, with several helpful…[Read more]
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Garrett Michaelsen started the topic SMT 2019 Meeting in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear jazz interest group,
I’d like to officially announce the main topic of our meeting in Columbus this year and ask if you have any questions that we might consider as we plan. As I mentioned in an email to the old listserv earlier in the year, Dan Shanahan has graciously agreed to give us a workshop on corpus and computational methods of jazz…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood replied to the topic Award Nominations Open for 2019 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoNominations are now closed. Winners will be announced at the SMT meeting in Columbus.
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Mark Butler started the topic CFP: IASPM-US 2020 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis is the call for papers for the 2020 meeting of IASPM-US in Ann Arbor (see also attached). The submission deadline is October 1. As stated in the call, “IASPM-US is a multidisciplinary organization, and invites proposals from and across all fields of scholarly inquiry.”
All best,
Mark Butler
Northwestern University
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Marc Edward Hannaford deposited One Line, Many Views: Perspectives on Music Theory, Composition, and Improvisation through the Work of Muhal Richard Abrams in the group
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis dissertation examines aspects of the creative practice of Muhal Richard Abrams, composer, improviser, pianist, and cofounder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Abrams’s work intersects with various facets of creative music. I focus on free improvisation, both as a stand-alone performance and in conjunction w…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood replied to the topic Award Nominations Open for 2019 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoHi again everyone! The nomination window has been extended. Nominations will be accepted through September 15. Please submit your favorite articles for consideration.
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Megan Lavengood replied to the topic Award Nominations Open for 2019 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoHello everyone! This is a reminder that nominations are due September 1. Please nominate all scholarship that inspired you this year.
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William O'Hara deposited Music Theory and the Epistemology of the Internet; or, Analyzing Music Under the New Thinkpiece Regime in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe proliferation of online news and general interest websites (such as FiveThirtyEight, Slate, Vox, and others) over the past decade has centered around a particular genre of short-form expository writing, sometimes referred to as the “thinkpiece,” “explainer,” or “blessay” (blog + essay). These essays analyze and comment upon current events,…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood started the topic Award Nominations Open for 2019 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 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 pu…[Read more]
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Clay Downham started the topic Steve Larson Award 2019 — Call for Nominations in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe SMT-Jazz Interest Group is currently soliciting nominations for the
2019 Steve Larson Award for Jazz Scholarship. This award acknowledges
outstanding contributions to the field of jazz theory and analysis.
Eligibility extends to books, chapters from books, articles, delivered
conference papers, dissertations, or theses that have been publ…[Read more] -
David Mosher deposited Implicit Learning As A Means Of Tonal Jazz Pitch-Listening Skills Acquisition in the group
Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIn this dissertation, I present a method for developing tonal jazz pitch-listening skills (PLS) which is rooted in scientific experimental findings from the fields of music cognition and perception. Converging experimental evidence supports the notion that humans develop listening skills through implicit learning via immersive, statistically rich…[Read more]
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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 agoThanks to both of you for getting this important conversation started. It would certainly be worthwhile to explicitly discuss what our purpose is at the next meeting, and update both our mission statement and purpose statement, and I’ll add that to the agenda along with these suggestions.
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