ALL TIMES LISTED ARE EASTERN STANDARD

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Session 1: Explorations in Gender Studies

 

10:00-10:30

 

Gendered Legacies of the Viola da Terra: Postcolonial Cultural Politics of Azorean Folclórico

 

Abigail Lindo, University of Florida

 

10:30-11:00

 

Jack, I Swear": Intersections of Masculinity and Sexuality in Charles Wuorinen's Brokeback Mountain

 

Alexander Shannon, Indiana University

 

11:00-11:15

 

BREAK 

 

Session 2: Trauma as Musical Narrative

 

11:15-11:45

 

A Body Reborn: Glyndebourne’s Reconsideration of Benjamin Britten’s Rape of Lucretia

 

Leonard Walker, University of Florida

 

11:45-12:15

 

Traumatic Specters of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Reinterpreting The Ghosts of Versailles

 

Yan Gao, Stony Brook University

 

 

12:15-12:45

 

Relation, positionality and Indigeneity

 

Chieh Huang, University of California Irvine

 

12:45-1:30 

 

LUNCH 

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Keynote Speaker

 

1:30-2:30 

 

Dr. Dana Plank

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Session 3: Music as Metaphor

 

2:30-3:00

 

The Voice of the Humpback Whale: Music, Language, or Sound?

 

Marie Comuzzo, Brandeis University

 

 

3:00-3:30

 

“Somos la resistencia, no?”: Palimpsest and metaphor in Money Heist and “Bella Ciao”  

 

Tori Vilches, Indiana University

 

3:30-3:45

 

BREAK 

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Session 4: Form, Texture, and Structure

 

3:45-4:15

 

Maximizing Form in Minimalism:  Psychological Form as Narrative in Philip Glass’s Etude No. 6

 

Hunter Hoyle, Northwestern University

 

4:15-4:45

 

Robert Schumann: In medias res openings and delayed structural downbeats

 

Juan Saenz, McGill University

 

4:45-5:15

 

Grouping Against the Groove: Metrical Dissonance in Hiromi’s “Voice”

 

Sam Falotico, Hunter College, CUNY

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