"Music and Memory"
9th Annual
Conference--The University of Texas at Austin-- Saturday, March 7, 2009
GAMMA-UT, the Graduate Association of
Music and Musicians at UT, announces its ninth annual conference, “Music and
Memory," to be held on Saturday March 7, 2009 at The University of Texas
at Austin
(Doty Fine Arts Building DFA 2.204). Graduate
students from the areas of music theory, composition, musicology, and
ethnomusicology will meet to share their research. Composers will present
their works at a concert on Saturday night in Bates Recital Hall.
Registration begins at 8:30am, and the first session will start at 9:30 am in
the Doty Fine Arts Building (DFA) 2.204.
This year’s keynote speaker
is Aaron Fox. Dr. Fox is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at Columbia University, where he is also chair of
the Department of Music. His publications include the 2004 book Real Country: Music and Language in
Working-Class Culture (Duke University Press) as well as articles on
country music, music/language relationships, and working-class culture. Dr.
Fox is currently working on a musical heritage repatriation project of field
recordings with the Iñupiat community of Barrow, Alaska.
DOTY FINE ARTS BUILDING 2.204
8:30 –
9:30 Registration
& Breakfast
9:30 – 11:00 Session 1: “Nostalgia as a Frame”
Moderator:
Kim Schafer
Paradise Remembered:
Nostalgia
in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony
Ryan Kangas, University
of Texas
“Nuevo-Tango”: Nostalgia and the Music of
the Gotan Project
Emily
McManus, University
of Minnesota
“C is for Cultural Memory”: A Walk Down Sesame Street
Elizabeth
Clendinning, Florida State
University
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15
– 12:15 Session 2:
“Hearing Memory, Experiencing Music”
Moderator:
Sean Johnston
A Proposed Four-Step Model of Cognition
Incorporating Gestalt Principles and Schenker’s Ex Post Facto Hearing
William
Helmcke, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst
My Blood Runs Cold, My Memory Has Just
Been Sold:
Popular Music in Advertising
Bobby
Simmons, University
of Southern California
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch: Provided in
Doty Fine
Arts Building
Catered
by Jimmy John’s
1:30 – 3:00 Keynote Address
Moderator:
Kim Kattari
Bringing the Songs Back Home:
Repatriation as Re-animation
Dr.
Aaron Fox, Columbia
University
3:00 – 3:15 Break
3:15 –
4:45 Session
3: “(Re)Constructing the Present:
Music
and Media in Contemporary
Latin
America and West Africa”
Moderator: Mark Lomanno
(Re)constructing the Present
Through Amazonian Peruvian Pop Music
Kathryn
Metz, University
of Texas,
Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum
Shifting Spaces, Imagined Realities: The
(Re)Production
and (Re)Performance of Dagara Gender Ideology
Sidra Lawrence, University of Texas
Seeing Politics, Media, and Musical
Memory
in Brazil through Rebel Years
Leo Cardoso, University
of Texas
8 PM, RECITAL STUDIO
Fire from Suite of the Elements Stephen
Bachicha
Joanna Martin,
flute; Mark Arritola, clarinet; Eric Peterson,
percussion;
Zack Wilson, piano;
Kevin Mendoza, violin; Julia Cory, violoncello;
Hermes Camacho,
conductor
Electrum Carolyn O’Brien
Kevin Mendoza,
violin; Julia Cory, violoncello; Tim Rogers, piano;
Zack Stanton,
conductor
Capriccio Jason Cress
Amy Harris, violin
fireworks and the end of things Brian Baxter
Daniel Gee, violin;
Travis Jeffords, violoncello; Franklin Gross, piano
--
intermission --
Three Anniversaries Carl Christian Bettendorf
Motto
Anniversary
Anniversary
2 (for Hans-Jürgen von Bose)
Anniversary
3 (for Tristan Murail)
Sarunas
Jankauskas, clarinet; Caleb Polashek,
violin
Dave Campbell,
violoncello; Katelyn Horn, piano
Catherine Sinon Bushman, conductor (Anniversary 3)
Piano Trio: Dust, Cracks, Shards, and
Stains Natalie Draper
Szee-won
Lee, viola; Travis Jeffords, violoncello
Katelyn
Horn, piano
Zhi Chiayu
Hsu
I. Andante, misterioso
II. Allegro, parlando
con leggerezza
III.
Adagio, pensieroso
Amy Harris, violin;
Chu-Han Huang, piano
Piano Trio Zackery
Wilson
III.
Allegro con brio
Min Kim Park,
violin; Elizabeth Lee, violoncello
Zack Wilson, piano
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