tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75639724430800814072024-03-13T13:15:47.884-07:00Musicology / MattersPMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-12175269489672106102010-08-31T11:46:00.000-07:002010-08-31T12:40:58.660-07:00Sounds of Things To ComeIn an upcoming issue of The Annual Review of Anthropology there is an article co-authored by some well-known music scholars arguing for sound in anthropology. Just last month, a deadline arrived for a special issue of The American Quarterly on sound and culture. This November, the Sound Studies interest group of the AMS will have its very first evening panel session (sadly pitted against the KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-56611081834528007642010-08-29T13:22:00.000-07:002010-08-30T16:19:53.103-07:00Switching Productivity GearsFall semester is literally just around the corner, and like many of my colleagues, I'm gradually pulling myself out of my summer work mode. This year marks the first time in my professional life when summer translated into 3 very distinct activities: travel, research, and writing. (Research-related travel meant that I spent 4 weeks in Brazil and I also saw more music than I normally am able to doKGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-85876002942294387242010-05-04T05:22:00.000-07:002010-05-04T07:40:42.337-07:00Musicology and The Two-Body ProblemIn approximately 6 weeks I will be living as a bachelorette for the first time in over 4 years.* As a young academic, my impending solitary life is inevitable. At some point, most of us face the prospect of entering a long-distance relationship. For many of us, our marital / relationship status directly determines what types of jobs we are willing to do, or what our job negotiations will look KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-70387523391377325912010-02-03T10:54:00.000-08:002010-02-03T11:29:34.843-08:00Syllabus: Music, Media, and the Representation of DifferenceIt's that time of year again. Here is the syllabus for "Music, Media and the Representation of Difference," a seminar I am leading this semester. We had our first meeting today, and it looks like I have a very bright group of students. I'm quite pleased. (I should have posted this earlier, but my schedule really ran away with me. Normally I post syllabi before they are finalized.)A note on media KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-62060126253194688382010-01-14T17:47:00.001-08:002010-01-14T18:00:10.902-08:00Expanding the Musicology Ph.D.Here's a topic for discussion, my fellow blogging or blog-reading musicologists:What are some ways in which a Ph.D. program in musicology could be adjusted so that a student could potentially find a career outside of academia?Never fear, I ask not for myself (at least not yet; give me a few more years!) but because over at Tenured Radical, the illustrious Prof. Potter pointed out that her own PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-80607165611130913742010-01-06T07:39:00.001-08:002010-01-06T08:16:33.800-08:00Fieldwork and Archival Research in the Age of TerrorOne of the toughest hurdles we must surmount as young academics is the extended trip. Ethnomusicologists generally spend between 6 months to 2 years in some place outside of their comfort zone, ranging from foreign countries to a field site on the other end of the city. Musicologists may do this as well, or they might spend months on end in an archive. As many Americanists know, international KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-85168191260285132932009-12-16T03:33:00.001-08:002009-12-16T04:40:27.950-08:00Escaping Disaster in Higher EdMusicology and ethnomusicology blogs rarely discuss money matters. However, over the last month or so, as many of my former colleagues and students have been protesting the disastrous state of affairs at the University of California system, the silence has been deafening. At a recent meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology which happened at the height of protests UC-wide, I only heard of one KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-55660029188849492132009-11-05T07:43:00.000-08:002009-11-05T07:43:00.206-08:00Lectures on your own stuffFor the last few week I've been officially teaching repertoire that rubs right up against the music I research. While my prep time for lectures has diminished to a minimum, I find teaching my own area to be the most unexpected challenge of my course. And I'm not alone. Just last week, I met with a few other ethno/musicologists working in a visiting assistant professor capacity for other liberal KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-25630585649481443762009-10-27T10:35:00.000-07:002009-10-27T10:53:43.349-07:00Let's Have Fun!I am having a really wonderful and surprising experience with this book I'm reading. I’m starting to work on my chapter on the Berlioz Requiem, and I needed to learn about church music in the Nineteenth century. This book is called "Church Music in the Nineteenth Century," by Arthur Hutchings. Considering its title at least 50% promising, I brought it home, or rather, I had my husband bring it MMRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15153354751263597162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-6476681852870191322009-10-26T14:20:00.000-07:002009-10-26T15:27:25.256-07:00Everyone Loves Tico-TicoOne of my favorite recent memes on Google Reader (especially Bruitus at Immanent Discursivity) is the flood of interesting videos of various people performing the Brazilian choro classic "Tico-Tico no Fubá" by Zequinha de Abreu. To get an idea of what I am talking about, here is the world's most famous Brazilian parrot, Joe (Zé) Carioca, teaching Donald Duck about samba through a demonstration ofKGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-63294970358533366582009-10-20T20:53:00.000-07:002009-10-20T20:57:47.421-07:00MJ CFPIt's nice to see that the slow wheels of academic musicology are finally swinging into motion:POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETYCALL FOR PAPERSSpecial Issue:Michael Jackson: Musical SubjectivitiesEdited by Susan Fast and Stan HawkinsSubmissions are invited for a special edition of Popular Music and Society that examines constructions of subjectivity in Michael Jackson's music, with a focus on gender, PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-58931350248661235012009-10-09T04:52:00.000-07:002009-10-09T05:16:37.835-07:00Google Keeps Changing the Music Reception History GameFor two chapters of my dissertation (remember that?), I attempted to tackle that music history beast known as reception history. I spent weeks on end in libraries browsing through old issues of Vogue, Downbeat, New Yorker, and Billboard among other periodicals. And as I refined my ideas about samba in the 1940s and bossa nova in the 1960s, I sometimes had to revisit these collections causing KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-68435083506020356932009-09-09T12:26:00.000-07:002009-09-09T14:47:46.259-07:00Pop Music Professing and ConsumptionJust a few hours ago I finished my very first lecture at my very first post PhD job. And it was exciting, let me tell you. I have the rare privilege of teaching the very stuff that matters most to my research. It's great! In the past few weeks I've been culling together my materials for this class and a few things occurred to me about the nature of teaching pop music classes, especially those KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-62423152962232958022009-09-01T09:52:00.000-07:002009-09-02T16:20:03.851-07:00Attempting a Thematic HistoryAs Phil Sr. says, happy academic new year! Since both he and my co-blogger Kariann are talking syllabi, I thought I would pitch in as well, especially since I could use some advice.One of my classes this semester is a three-fold challenge: 1. It is a one semester history of western music. That's a lot of history.2. It is required for music majors, and in fact is the only history requirement--we PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-57763618290381639022009-08-21T12:49:00.000-07:002009-08-21T13:28:19.626-07:00Syllabus - Music and the Global MetropolisThis fall semester, I will be teaching a course at Colby College entitled "Music and the Global Metropolis." I thought it might be fun and productive to post the syllabus minus audio examples here on Musicology / Matters and on my other blog, Rebellion on Two-Wheels, for commentary and public use. So please, do with it as you like within the limits of reason!Music 197 A: Music and the Global KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-36286835410261434192009-07-02T11:07:00.000-07:002009-08-12T20:37:41.787-07:00A Michael Jackson BibliographyI'm by no means an expert on Michael Jackson, but I thought I might take a stab at assembling a short bibliography of Michael Jackson studies. As with the blog compendium (blogiography?), suggestions are enthusiastically welcomed. Obviously there is a ton of writing on Jackson by journalists and fans. In my own work on pop music, I find such writings invaluable. But since they are easy enough to PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-37329379926571081512009-06-30T09:12:00.000-07:002009-06-30T09:20:56.210-07:00Rage in His FeetCross-posted from 2'23"--it's worth checking out the smart commenters there.-One thing I've noticed about reactions to Michael Jackson's death, at least among children of the 1980s such as myself, has been the desire to recount one's initial introduction to his music. It's kind of like the opposite of the baby-boomer obsession with recounting where you were when JFK was shot. For them, the death PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-77665466558342646022009-06-29T12:41:00.000-07:002009-06-29T13:53:15.204-07:00I Want You Back: A Musiceulogical Inquiry(expanded from a post I wrote on the AMS list-serv)While I have ended up working on Romantic music, I nonetheless grew up in a pop cultural world that was very much shaped by Michael Jackson. "Thriller" was the first album I ever owned (an Easter present!), and, like many millions of people, some of my earliest memories of being excited about and inspired by music and performance are tied to MMRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15153354751263597162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-35240618334653595902009-06-29T08:14:00.000-07:002009-08-12T20:31:47.344-07:00A Michael Jackson Blog CompendiumAn incomplete list of academic-y blogging about Michael Jackson. I'll be updating this continuously; if you know of good posts put 'em in the comments.Matthew Guerrieri at Soho the Dog.Karen Tongson at Oh! IndustryJason King at Passed the CurveRyan Banagale at Amusicology.Steven Shaviro at The Pinocchio Theory.Texas Tech Music Theory DepartmentUncle Dave LewisRichard Kim at The NotionClaire PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-77993992182444082832009-06-28T20:44:00.000-07:002009-06-29T08:48:32.491-07:00The Musicological Michael JacksonYour loyal hosts here at Musicology Matters would like to propose a sort of blog colloquium. The subject is Michael Jackson. The importance of Jackson, to those of us who care about music in the late twentieth century, is difficult to overstate. Few other figures have been at the center of so many fundamental changes in our relationship with popular music.So although a surge of actual PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-55945433993379497302009-04-21T15:36:00.000-07:002009-04-21T16:16:00.522-07:00How To Be a Musicology AdjunctOkay, here's a useful topic to blog about here: How to be an Adjunct. Adjuncting, or becoming "contingent labor" as it sometimes delicately put, is not a very fun life. The pay is not much, rough commutes are often involved, and the work is sometimes dispiriting. But in these Tough Economic Times, and in an era of shrinking tenure-track prospects, adjunct work can help fill the gaps. Or if you PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-56328305953053013222009-04-13T17:43:00.000-07:002009-04-13T18:07:10.009-07:00Moribund blog?This blog ain't seen much action lately, so I'll try to revive with a question for any readers it has left.So you all know about Pandora, right? The whole Music Genome Project? I find it moderately fascinating. I love putting in an artist and seeing who the "similar artists" are. I also adore the bizarrely opinionated artist descriptions: "Definitely the most talented and arguably the CelloShotshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17085687629481961463noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-9006222002122052092009-01-19T14:11:00.000-08:002009-01-19T14:13:21.091-08:00Stepping AwayCross-posted on Rebellion on Two WheelsThere is a ton to blog about. I'm completely serious, and I have a lot to say. But there's also this nagging thing called my dissertation that has to get done very soon. And while I have been almost done for quite some time, I'd like to finally be done done. So forgive my absence in the blogosphere, but I have to step away for awhile. I'll return once I haveKGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-22259994786930895692008-11-02T12:22:00.000-08:002008-11-02T12:37:54.706-08:00On Writing BingesIt is conference season, and with it comes understandable professional pressures. As you may or may not know, I presented a part of my second chapter from my dissertation at SEM last weekend. In just a few days, I will be getting on a plane for Nashville to attend AMS. Normally conference season is my most unproductive. Whatever work I do is generally focused on older projects, and I direct the KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-40569901581819947612008-10-31T20:41:00.000-07:002008-10-31T20:45:20.342-07:00New DoctorCongrats to fellow blogger and friend PMG, the world's newest PhD in Musicology!KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0