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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic 2023 Denver Session Materials in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoIf you missed our fantastic session in Denver, or would like a refresher, Cora Palfy and Jennifer Snodgrass have graciously agreed to share their presentation materials with us. Both can be found on our HC page under the “Files” section.
Thank you Cora and Jennifer!
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Matthew Ferrandino uploaded the file: Snodgrass – Sitting in Studio Sessions: BAckwards Design in Commercial Music Theory to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoPPT of presentation given at SMT PMIG 2023 in Denver.
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Matthew Ferrandino uploaded the file: Palfy – Curricular Structure and Backwards Design to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoPDF of presentation given at SMT PMIG 2023 in Denver.
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic IASPM-US 2024 CFP: November 20 Deadline in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoProposals for the 2024 IASPM-US conference, at Drexel University in Philidelphia, are due November 20th. You can find more details here.
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Voting CLOSED: Bylaws Amendments in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoHere is the poll for our bylaw revisions:
You can review our current bylaws here:
Please complete the poll by Sunday, November 19th @ 5:00pm EST.
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William Ayers started the topic Final Reminder: SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Meeting in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoHello all!
This serves as the final reminder that our upcoming Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group meeting is scheduled for 12:30 PM on Friday, November 10, in the “Silver” meeting room. We will be hosting an exciting session on electronic and synthesized sound. Jennifer Iverson will give a featured talk on the topic of her current book pro…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino replied to the topic PMIG Bylaws: Revisions and Updates in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAmendments have been added as comments to the above Google Doc. We’ll go through these briefly during our Friday session in Denver. We will post a voting form for each of the seven suggested amendments following our PMIG session, which will be open until Friday November 17th.
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Jonathan Basile deposited The Epic of Genesis: Catherine Malabou and the gêne of Epigenetics in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article examines the conflicting representations of plasticity and epigenetics in the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou and evolutionary theorists Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Eva Jablonka. Malabou effaces the unsettled debates within the life sciences in order to speak of a new biological ‘paradigm’ and to attribute values of novelty or…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited “Introduction” from Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoSurround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been creating stereo and surround-sound effects for nearly a century, since the advent of talking pictures, and argues that their endurance owes primarily to…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Denver: Informal Post-Session Discussion Space in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoFollowing our formal PMIG session we will have an opportunity for an informal breakout discussion in Governer’s Square 10 regarding pop “theory” papers and conference options. Brad Osborn and Alyssa Barna will speak briefly about this at the end of our session, so this is a time and place to continue that conversation. We have the space on Friday…[Read more]
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John Peterson posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoWe are conducting research into the demographic statistics of scholars who author articles published in varied music theory periodicals, which will be reported to the music academic community to help the field better understand its publication representation.
If you published one or more articles in one or more of the following journals between…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Officer Nominations 2024 Open! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoWe are seeking nominations for the following officer positions for SMT’s Popular Music Interest Group. Self nominations are encouraged! Please email all nominations to pmigwebmaster@gmail.com. Nominations will close at 5:00 pm EST on Nov. 26, 2023.
CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting re…[Read more]
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William Ayers started the topic Soliciting Co-Chair Nominations for Post-1945 Music Analysis IG in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoHi all!
I’m very much looking forward to seeing all of you in Denver for our meeting! As previously announced, our planned session (Considering Electronic and Synthesized Sound) will include presentations by Kate Mancey, Noah Kahrs, and Jennifer Iverson. I hope you are all as excited as I am about these presentations, which will take place on…[Read more]
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William Ayers started the topic Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Meeting in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
We are excited to invite all of you to our upcoming Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group meeting at the SMT Annual Meeting in Denver this November! The meeting is scheduled for 12:30 PM on Friday, November 10. For this year’s meetup, we will be hosting a planned session: Considering Electronic and Synthesized Sound.
We are t…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Abandoning Tragedy in James Ijames Fat Ham in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe story of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is adapted and revised by James Ijames in his play Fat Ham, which ran from 12 May to 31 July 2022 at The Public Theater, coproduced by the National Black Theatre. Ijames’s play, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama, plays with and departs from the plot of Hamlet to explore Black manhood, the fam…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Denver PMIG Session in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoWe are excited to have two amazingly wonderful scholars and pedagogues share their insights on popular music pedagogy at our session in Denver. Jennifer Snodgrass and Cora Palfy will offer their perspectives on backwards design in music theory curriculum. A schedule for our session and details on their presentations are below.
SMT PMIG, Friday…[Read more]
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Alvina deposited Reflections of a Non-Binary Asian American in LIS in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoChapter: Reflections of a Non-Binary Asian American in LIS. Book description (Litwin Books & Library Juice Press): In the library profession, and in the world as a whole, the experiences of trans and gender diverse people often go unnoticed, hidden, and ignored. But we are here. Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries is entirely written and…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Community Workers – Colin and Dorothy Clark in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper contributes to the history of small communities in Australia by examining the life and times of a local pharmacist and his wife in a small country town, the business they ran and their contribution to the local community. Colin and Dorothy Clark were local identities and made a significant contribution to the Camden community. Colin as…[Read more]
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Ellie Bennett deposited Beards as a Marker of Status during the Neo-Assyrian Period in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoBeards were part of a visual matrix of expressing masculinity during the NeoAssyrian period (ca. 934–612 BCE). But masculinity does not exist in isolation and interacts with other aspects of identity. I will examine the beard as an indicator of masculine status during the Neo-Assyrian period. This will be done through investigating the visual a…[Read more]
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