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	Remembering Bob Judd: A Celebration	0	K. VanDerMeer	Celebrating the Life of Robert F. Judd (12 February 1956-24 August 2019) Friday, November 1, 2019 9:00-10:30 PM Grand Ballroom B Westin Waterfront Hotel Our beloved Executive Director Robert F. Judd, who had served the American Musicological Society since 1996, died on Saturday, August 24, 2019. Bob was the heart and soul of the AMS, a man of wisdom and compassion, infinite patience, and grace. At this year’s Annual Meeting, the AMS membership will celebrate and remember Bob’s presence among us. We will honor him by continuing to be the community he worked so hard to build over the past twenty-three years. As part of the celebration, the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, of which Bob was a member, will lead the singing of the hymn "For All the Saints" and will welcome any to join them in a volunteer-no-rehearsal choir to sing this hymn. A desert reception will follow. by K. VanDerMeer Saturday, October 12, 2019
	Music, Sound, & Trauma Study Group Informal Interest Session, 5-6pm Friday	1	J. Rogers	A quick update: we’ll be meeting from 5 to 6pm tonight (Friday) in the large seating area by the hotel lobby bar. Feel free to email me at rogersjc@indiana.edu with any questions. by J. Rogers Friday, November 1, 2019
	Charging Cable for HP Notebook needed	0	J. Diet	Dear colleagues, I just arrived at the AMS-conference in Boston and will give a talk today in the session at 4pm. Unfortunately, I forgot my charging cable at home. Does anybody of you have an HP Notebook (Elitebook) and could borrow me the charging cable for one or two hours today? That would help me a lot because I would like to present my paper with my own laptop. My email address is: jdiet@acm.org and my phone number for text or WhatsApp-messages is: 0049-173-5402761. Thanks for your help and best wishes, Jürgen Diet by J. Diet Thursday, October 31, 2019
	Reception for Prospective Graduate Students	1	D. Baron	To whom it may concern,I registered the University of Toronto for the Reception for Prospective Graduate Students some time ago (before Oct 18th) - but have received no confirmation or information. Is everything in order?Best,Ken McLeod by K. McLeod Tuesday, October 29, 2019
	RILM-RIPM Reception - Open To All	0	T. Frühauf	For the first time in AMS history, RILM and RIPM will jointly host a reception for all conference attendees. Come celebrate our long-standing collaboration in providing comprehensive indexing of scholarly music publications to musicologists. Together, by creating complementary research tools, RILM and RIPM offer access to more than 250 years of writing about music, from 1760 to the present. Come and party with us on 1 November 2019 at 5pm in Douglass. Everyone is welcome. by T. Frühauf Monday, October 28, 2019
	CCRI's Job Materials Workshop, Saturday 9 am	0	K. VanDerMeer	The Committee on Career Related Issues invites you to a panel and mentoring workshop on Job Materials. The workshop will take place at 9 am on Saturday, November 2 in Grand Ballroom E. Our speakers include Christina Baade (McMater University), Michael Beckerman (New York University), Mark Katz (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Thomas Riis (University of Colorado) and Imani Mosley (Wichita State University). Topics for discussion include making the most of your materials, application materials for academic and non-academic jobs, presenting your teaching as well as research, and having an online presence while on the job market. Christina Baade Topic: how to frame activities that don’t fit neatly into “research” and “teaching” on a CV, such as volunteering with community organizations, contract work, or other jobbing sorts of work. Bio: Christina Baade is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University, where she is also affiliated with the program in Gender Studies and Feminist Research. She also serves as Vice President of the Society for American Music. Her publications include her award-winning book, Victory Through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II (Oxford, 2012) and the co-edited collection, Music and the Broadcast Experience (Oxford, 2016). She also has two co-edited collections forthcoming in 2020: Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States, with Indiana University Press, and Finding Art, Activism, and Community with Beyoncé in Troubled Times, with the Music/Culture series at Wesleyan University Press. Current projects also include Bigger than the Beatles? Vera Lynn’s Postwar Career and the Problems of Popular Music History. Michael Beckerman Topic: When one is applying for jobs along with dozens or even hundreds of other applicants, what things can be done to allow one's application to stand out? Bio: Michael Beckerman is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music and Collegiate Professor at New York University. He has written on Czech topics, film music, Mozart, orientalism, music of the Roma, and most recently, composition in the camps and the question of the relationship between form and musical meaning. He is author of six books including New Worlds of Dvořák, Martinů’s Mysterious Accident, and Janáček as Theorist. Beckerman has been a regular contributor to The New York Times, has appeared on many episodes of Live From Lincoln Center and has lectured throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. As a public musicologist he has given numerous pre-concert talks, and has organized international conferences and music festivals. Beckerman has been the recipient of many prizes and honors, including two ASCAP Deems Taylor awards; an honorary doctorate from Palacký University in the Czech Republic; the Janáček and Dvořák medals and other awards from the Czech government; a Distinguished Alumni award from Hofstra University; and a Golden Dozen teaching award from NYU. He was recently made an honorary member of the Czech Musicological Society. He has taught at Columbia University, Washington University, the University of Chicago, the University of California, Santa Barbara, Central European University, Charles University in Prague, and New York University where, from 2004-13 he served as department Chair. From 2011-15 he served as Distinguished Professor of History at Lancaster University in England and he was the Leonard Bernstein Scholar in Residence of The New York Philharmonic from 2016-18. Mark Katz Topic: the importance of communicating the nature and significance of your scholarly work and your teaching interests and expertise in language that is accessible, jargon-free, and that addresses the practical needs of the department (or non-academic position). Bio: Mark Katz is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Founding Director of the hip hop cultural diplomacy program, Next Level. His books include Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music (2004, rev. 2010), Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ (2012), and Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World (2019). He is co-editor of Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History (2012) and former editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music. In 2015 Mark was recognized by the Hip-Hop Education Center in its inaugural awards ceremony, and in 2016 he was awarded the Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association for his contributions to musicology. He is a former member of the AMS Board of Directors and is currently chair of the Society’s Program Committee. Thomas Riis Topic: stressing the need for Effective Face-to-face Communication in the interview process, a cautionary tale about what social media can & (really) cannot do for you, and pitfalls to avoid. Bio: Tom Riis is the Joseph Negler Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder. His latest book, Rethinking American Music, from the University of Illinois Press, is an edition of essays covering topics from the 18th to the 21st centuries by 15 leading American music specialists. He is currently writing a book on the European career of the great singer & human-rights activist Paul Robeson. Imani Mosley Topic: the upsides on creating a public presence when on the job market: for years we were often told to be careful about what we say online as it might harm our job prospects but now in 2019, it seems that having a public online presence is not only helpful but integral when on the market. I’ll be talking about things that I think are important to do, what not to do, & what my experience has been being a public figure and how that led to my current job. Bio: Dr. Imani Danielle Mosley received her PhD from Duke University in 2019 where her work examined the reception of Benjamin Britten’s postwar operas. Her current research addresses digital sonic mapping, acoustics, and ritual in the English churches and cathedrals central to Britten’s sacred music. In addition to her work on Britten, she also specializes in contemporary opera, reception history, and masculinities studies. Her contribution to the digital humanities focuses on sonic mapping, data analysis, and digital and computational musicology. by K. VanDerMeer Monday, October 28, 2019
	EARLY MUSIC DRINKS	2	K. VanDerMeer	Thursday night. by J. Rosenholtz-Witt Sunday, October 27, 2019
	Jazz Studies Drinks	0	D. Mueller	Join us for an informal jazz studies hang! All are welcome. Saturday, 11/2, 2019 7:30 to 9:30pm Birch Bar at the Westin Boston Waterfront by D. Mueller Wednesday, October 23, 2019
	Global East Asian Music Research study group panel	0	G. Lee	Global East Asian Musicology (Grand Ballroom), Sat, 8-10 pm Thomas Irvine (University of Southampton), Kunio Hara (University of South Carolina), Co-chairs Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang (University of Sheffield), Respondent Zhuqing Lester Hu (University of California, Berkeley), Lars Christensen (University of Minnesota), and Makoto Harris Takao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Hidden Cosmopolitanisms” Serena Yang (University of California, Davis), “The Japanese Reception of Cage in the 1950s and ’60s” Bess Xintong Liu (University of Pennsylvania), “‘The Timpani Beats just Hit on My Heart!’ Music, Friendship, and Diplomacy in the 1973 Philadelphia Orchestra’s China Tour” Hon-Lun Helan Yang (Hong Kong Baptist University), “Asian Popular Music’s Global Network: ‘The Fragrance of the Durians’” We also have a business meeting on Fri evening at 7-8 pm in the Executive Boardroom. Join our mailing list! https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/globalasianmusic by G. Lee Tuesday, October 22, 2019
	Society for Eighteenth-Century Music General Meeting and Study Session	0	K. VanDerMeer	Society for Eighteenth-Century Music General Meeting and Study Session: “Digital Eighteenth-Century Music and Sound Studies” The Society for Eighteenth-Century Music will hold its annual general meeting on Friday, November 1, 2019, from 6:00 to 7:30pm in the Harbor Ballroom II at the Westin Waterfront Hotel. The meeting will include a study session on “Digital Eighteenth-Century Music and Sound Studies” with guest speakers: Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden, “Digital Pedagogy and Methods” Sarah Eyerly, “Sound Maps and Soundscape Reconstruction” Estelle Joubert, “Graph Databases and Network Visualization” by K. VanDerMeer Monday, October 21, 2019
	Haydn Society of North America Pre-Conference	0	K. VanDerMeer	Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, October 30-31st Please join us for a pre-conference sponsored by the Haydn Society of North America in cooperation with C.P.E. Bach: The Complete Works. Titled “New Perspectives on Haydn & C.P.E. Bach,” our conference features a keynote address by David Schulenberg and four panels, examining two of the late eighteenth century’s most interesting (misunderstood?) composers. For more information, including a link for early-bird registration by Oct 21st, please visit our website: https://www.haydnsocietyna.org/boston-2019. by K. VanDerMeer Sunday, October 20, 2019
	Global Music History Study Group	1	D. Baron	Hello All, Sorry if I am missing it but have the readings been made available? Thanks, Edgardo by E. Salinas Friday, October 18, 2019
	BTHVN on Tour	0	K. VanDerMeer	BTHVN on Tour comes to Boston, on display for one week only in New England Conservatory's Burnes Hall. The traveling exhibition was developed by leading logistics company DHL and Beethoven's birthplace museum, Beethoven-Haus Bonn. Displays include artifacts that have never before been displayed outside of the Beethoven-Haus museum. Among the rare exhibit items are an ear trumpet used by the composer and an original print from Andy Warhol’s 1987 Beethoven Series. Multimedia displays—including an animated depiction of Beethoven’s hand writing the manuscript of his famous Diabelli Variations—will bring visitors closer to the composer and his creative processes. Visitors will also have the unique opportunity to take home a personalized wax seal of their own, just as Beethoven famously had on his violin. Open Daily: Sunday, 27th Oct 1pm to 7pm Monday, 28th Oct to Friday, 1st Nov - 2pm to 11:30pm Saturday, 2nd Nov 10am to 10:30pm Location: New England Conservatory, Burnes Hall 290 Huntington Ave, Boston Link to event page: https://inmotion.dhl/en/beethoven/ Admission: Free – no tickets required by K. VanDerMeer Friday, October 18, 2019
	Music and Disability Study Group Evening Panel	0	M. Accinno	The AMS Music and Disability Study Group’s Evening Panel Session, entitled “Musicology and Universal Design: Claiming the Consonant, the Dissonant, and the Resonant,” will be held on Thursday October 31 from 8:00-10:00 p.m. in Grand Ballroom A. American Sign Language interpretation will be provided for the duration of the panel and question & answer period, courtesy of Harvard University. The panel will begin with an interactive performance by the Cambridge Common Voices, under the creative leadership of conductor Andrew Clarke. The ensemble is a community chorus and creative partnership between Harvard College and the Threshold Program at Lesley University, a transition program for young adults with diverse learning challenges. Rooting its work in Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Cambridge Common Voices reimagines concepts of choral music through the lens of disability, creating new pathways that challenge established norms of musical value, expertise, taste, and social hierarchies by affirming the creative agency of each singer, and democratizing the creative process. The second half of the panel will feature three paper presentations. Abby Anderton (CUNY, Baruch College) will discuss how the principles of UD can be used in tandem with those of Open Educational Resources (OER) to create a more inclusive, equitable music history curriculum. Floris Schuiling (Utrecht University) and Pedro Garcia López de la Osa (UC Riverside) separately investigate the design and use of music notation for visually impaired musicians in the Netherlands and Spain, respectively. Both presentations reveal the extent to which standardization of blind musical notation has been fueled by nationalism at the expense of accessibility. For further details, please consult our website: https://musicdisabilitystudies.wordpress.com. by M. Accinno Thursday, October 17, 2019
	Book Proposal Meetings Available at AMS	0	K. VanDerMeer	During the AMS meeting in Boston, Alison Mero, the Managing Editor of Clemson University Press, will be available to discuss potential book proposals for Clemson UP’s new list of music titles. Please email Alison Mero at amero -at- clemson.edu to schedule a meeting. by K. VanDerMeer Thursday, October 17, 2019
	AMS Ecocriticism Study Group	0	J. Cohen	The Ecocriticism Study Group will be co-sponsoring a daytime special session with the Ludomusicology Study Group devoted to the sound and music of environmental crisis in video games. Titled "Catastrophe and Play," it will take place Friday November 1 from 12:30-2:00pm in Grand Ballroom B. Our unique session consists of two sets of paired papers, with each set featuring one presenter from Ludomusicology and one from Ecomusicology examining a common theme or the same game. The broad question that this approach explores is: how might ecomusicological approaches inform ludomusicological work (which often implicitly discusses the conveyance of environmental spaces through sound), and how might an ecomusicologist use a ludic approach to participation and interactivity to expand their consideration of a work’s significance and meaning? Our session will conclude with a response by Kate Galloway followed by a lively discussion. We will also be hosting a short business meeting on Saturday, November 2, from 12:30-1:30 in room Commonwealth B, where we invite all conference attendees interested in sound studies, ecomusicology, and issue of environmentalism to join as we plan for the next year. Feel free to bring your own brown bag lunch. by J. Cohen Tuesday, October 15, 2019
	Childhood and Youth Evening Session	0	S. Tomlinson	As part of an effort to found an AMS study group on Childhood and Youth Studies, please join us for an evening session "Valuing Musical Childhoods: Methods and Multiplicities" on Thursday, October 31 at 8:00 PM. This event at the Boston conference will feature papers by scholars in musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, and childhood studies. We also will also discuss new directions in the field and plans for our study group in the following Q&A. We hope to see you there! Chair: Susan Boynton. Panelists: Tyler Bickford, Ryan Bunch, Roe-Min Kok, Anicia Timberlake, Sarah Tomlinson, and Jacqueline Warwick by S. Tomlinson Monday, October 14, 2019
	FLORENCE PRICE lecture-recital on FRI., NOV. 1 (New England Conservatory)	0	J. Cooper	Acclaimed pianist Lara Downes and musicologist John Michael Cooper (Southwestern University) will present a collaborative lecture-recital devoted to unpublished works of Florence B. Price (1887-1953) in Pierce Hall at the New England Conservatory (Price's alma mater) at 4 p.m. on Friday, November 1. The program is titled "Nevertheless, She Persisted: The Homecoming of Florence B. Price." Reception to follow. by J. Cooper Sunday, October 13, 2019
	Special Session: Essentialism, Identity Politics, and Music Scholarship	1	C. Zecher	The session will be moderated by Mark Katz. by J. Tsou Sunday, October 13, 2019
	Boston Early Music Festival discounted tickets	0	D. Baron	The Boston Early Music Festival is proud to offer attendees of AMS Boston 2019 a 20% discount on tickets for Vox Luminis performing "The Bach Dynasty" on Saturday, November 2 at 8pm in Harvard Square, Cambridge. Fresh off another Gramophone Award, this ensemble is in demand across the world for their illuminating performances of music of the Bach family. Join director Lionel Meunier for a Pre-Concert Talk at 7pm. To receive your discount, use the discount code AMS20 when you order online. Not valid with any other offer. https://bemf.org/concert-season/boston-concerts/vox-luminis-ams/ by D. Baron Sunday, October 13, 2019