Childhood and Youth Studies Brown Bag Lunch: 11/2 at 12:45 PM
Calling all interested participants in the budding American Musicological Society (AMS) study group on Childhood and Youth Studies! Please join us for our first conference event, a brown bag lunch at the AMS conference in San Antonio, TX. The lunch will take place on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 12:45 to 1:45 pm. It will be an informal brown bag (aka bring your own) lunch to gather together interested members, collaboratively discuss our goals and mission for the study group, and plan events for future conferences.
Ryan Bunch, PhD student in Childhood Studies at Rutgers, and Sarah Tomlinson, PhD candidate in Musicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are co-founding the group with the guidance Roe-Min Kok, Professor of Musicology at McGill. We envision the Childhood and Youth Studies study group as a forum for scholars interested in music and childhood, broadly conceived. Gender, race, sexuality, and disability have received increasing attention in recent decades, but children and youth have been largely overlooked in musicology. We hope that this study group will bring attention to the ways in which children and youth have played a central role in music history and institutions, shaping while being shaped by them. Because music for, by, and about children and youth has been marginalized in various canons, we believe that centering their agency as music makers, students, performers, and audiences will further our understanding of the cultural meaning of music. The brown bag lunch will strengthen our application to become an official AMS study group. We plan to submit this application in January 2020.
We hope that you will join us at lunch on November 2! Please feel free to share this announcement widely. Whether or not you are able to attend the lunch, you can also write to Ryan Bunch (ryan.bunch@rutgers.edu) or Sarah Tomlinson (setomlin@live.unc.edu) if you would like to be added to our directory and stay updated on our activities.
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