Sam Reenan
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Popular 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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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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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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Marc Edward Hannaford deposited One Line, Many Views: Perspectives on Music Theory, Composition, and Improvisation through the Work of Muhal Richard Abrams on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
This 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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Marc Edward Hannaford's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
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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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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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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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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 agoGood points here. The “purpose” was basically copy-pasted from our “mission statement” on the SMT website. We could make something pedagogy-oriented a fourth element in the article. Perhaps: “(4) to model and advocate for popular repertoire in music theory pedagogy”?
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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 agoThank you for your thoughts, Mitch!
1a—I’m fine with putting that in this draft. I don’t see any reason why people would oppose it being more inclusive. I think we should discuss that (along with the 3-year terms) at the meeting explicitly, though.
1b—I left them out just in case we want to add another award someday, so we don’t have to ame…[Read more] -
Megan Lavengood started the topic proposed bylaws in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoHello! At our next meeting, I would like to vote in some bylaws. While bylaws are not at present common in the SMT Interest Groups, I think it may be the right time for our group, for a few reasons:
- I am proposing a change to term length and the number of officers.
- Our group regularly gives awards, and the process for administration of the…
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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 agooh, and another reason—6. the Interest Group Task Force has been interested in encouraging IGs to implement bylaws.
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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 agoHello! At our next meeting, I would like to vote in some bylaws. While bylaws are not at present common in the SMT Interest Groups, I think it may be the right time for our group, for a few reasons:
1. I am proposing a change to term length and the number of officers.
2. Our group regularly gives awards, and the process for administration of the…[Read more] -
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Megan Lavengood started the topic Rock instruments exhibit at the Met Museum in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoStarting in April, the Met Museum in NYC will feature an exhibition on rock instruments, titled “Play It Loud.” More information below. h/t Lynne Rogers.
For the first time, a major museum exhibition will examine the instruments of rock and roll. One of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century, rock and roll’s seismic i…
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Marc Edward Hannaford's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
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Megan Lavengood started the topic CFP for Theory & Practice issue on multimedia in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 7 years agoIf you work on pop music and film or video games, I encourage you to respond to the call for papers below!
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Theory and Practice invites submissions for Vol. 44, to be published in early 2020. Submissions in any subfield of music theory are welcome, although topics relating to cross-medial interactions are especially encouraged. Please…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood started the topic nominate things for the SMT publication awards! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 7 years agoYou should have received Danuta Mirka’s email (if you are subscribed to SMT-announce) calling for nominations of publications for the various SMT publication awards. I urge everyone to especially consider any pop music publications for nominations. A quick glance through past awards shows very little from our subdiscipline, so let’s work to change…[Read more]
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