The department is proud of the numerous faculty and graduate students who participated in this fall’s annual meetings of the American Musicological Society (AMS), the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and the Society for Music Theory (STM). SEM met in Ottawa in mid-October, and AMS and SMT met together in Denver in mid-November.
Many music department faculty and graduate students attended and contributed to these important in-person meetings to share research and discuss pedagogy. Professor Naomi André (AMS), Associate Professor Andrea Bohlman (SEM), Professor David Garcia (SEM), and Professor Jocelyn Neal (SMT) chaired sessions at the meetings.
The department hosted receptions at both events to reconnect with friends and alumni. The meetings presented wonderful opportunities to connect with alumni making a huge impact in the field and to continue to build networks across generations of Carolina students and faculty. Alumna Suzanne Cusick, Ph.D. 1975, gave the plenary lecture for AMS, “Dreaming Reparative Musicologies in a Paranoid Time,” and alumna Kristin Turner, Ph.D. 2015, was awarded the AMS Teaching Award along with her co-author Horace J. Maxile, Jr., for Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teachers Guide (Routledge, 2022).
Music department faculty also perform some of the essential behind-the-scenes labor, throughout the year, that keeps these meetings and societies running smoothly. Of particular note, Associate Professor Michael Figueroa served on the AMS program committee this year and Professor Naomi André is serving on the AMS Board.
Congratulations to all who presented works and participated in panel discussions:
Teaching Assistant Professor Suzi Analogue “Keynote: Soundscapes of Learning: Rhythm Rhymes & Revolution in Education” (AMS)
Associate Professor Andrea Bohlman Panel: “Community and Social Support in Academic Life” (SEM)
Professor Naomi André “Opera’s New Realism: Engaging Harm, Care, and Repair” (AMS)
Melissa Camp “Listening to Arab Modernity: Commercial Recordings from the 1932 Cairo Congress” (AMS)
Professor Emerita Annegret Fauser Panel: “Historicizing Celebrity” (AMS)
Kira Gaillard “The Enemy Without: Blitzstein’s Reuben Reuben, Silence, and Biopolitics” (AMS)
ken tianyuan Ge “Ungrading Jazz: Listening and Writing as Decolonial Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Jazz History Survey” (AMS)
Professor Mark Katz Panel: “Taking on Administrative Roles in Academia: Preparation, Challenges, Rewards” (AMS)
Stella Li “‘Listen Remember and Recreate’: Jazz 101 in Occupied Japan” (AMS)
Kari Lindquist “Wind Bands in Cold War Diplomacy and The University of Michigan Symphony Band’s 1961 Tour” (AMS)
Destiny Meadows “Aerobic Sound, Neoliberal Bodies: Fashioning the ‘New American Person’ in the US Cultural Imaginary” (AMS)
Kendall Winter “Hegemonic Refashioning: The 1888 Song Leaflet of the American Woman Suffrage Association” (AMS)
