Music students and faculty attend musicology and thoery conference as well as the JASNA AGM
Music students attended two separate conferences during Block 3. On November 3-4, the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) organized their Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center, which students were able to attend as part of Professor Lidia Chang’s class “Music and Gender in Jane Austen’s England.” Part of this class involved learning the traditional dances of that era. Students were able to test their choreographical skills during this conference’s Regency Ball while adorning traditional garments (pictured above).
On November 10-11 the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society (AMS) and Society for Music Theory (SMT) took place jointly in Denver. This conference featured four days of research presentations, round-table discussions, and lecture-recitals that professors Liliana Carrizo, Lidia Chang, and Ryan Bañagale attended with twenty-two CC undergraduates. These students included six upper-level music majors/minors, and sixteen first-year students from Professor Carrizo’s First Year Experience writing course titled “Musical Embodiment and Ethnography.”
The AMS conference is an important space for the professional development of our music faculty. Professor Chang chaired a session called “Lessons from Avian Organology” and Professor Bañagale chaired a session called “Copyright, Reparations, and the Marketplace.” Additionally, Professor Bañagale and senior music major, Forrest Tucker got to celebrate the publication of the most recent volume of the Journal for the American Musicological Society for which they serve as Digital and Media Editor and Assistant Digital and Media Editor, respectively (pictured lower left). Ryan Bañagale recalls, “When I was an undergraduate, a mentor brought me to the AMS conference in Atlanta. Witnessing what professors do when they aren’t teaching was an eye-opening experience.”
CC Alumni were also present, including Yan Gao ’16 who is currently completing her dissertation at Stonybrook University, as well as Brandon O’Donoghue ’12 who happened to be performing with his jazz combo in the central lounge of the hotel the last night of the conference.
