Boston University Graduate Music Society

03/24/2015

DID YOU KNOW? Boston University Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology Marié Abe is moderating a panel discussion at 5:15pm today on Arts and Social Engagement as part of the NILE PROJECT! Panelists include: Grisha Coleman (Assistant Professor, ASU), DJ Spooky (Composer, artist & writer), Nathan Phillips (Professor, BU) & Mina Girgis (CEO & President, The Nile Project). CFA Concert Hall, FREE.

http://www.bu.edu/arts/nile-project/

“… the Nile Project [is] a committed, euphoric international coalition.” “… the Nile Project was a superb example of what I call small-world music, of what happens to traditions in the information age.” – Jon Pareles, NYT

02/27/2015

TOMORROW, Feb. 28, 2015!

Please join us for the 8th Annual Boston University Graduate Music Society Conference: “Sound and Bodies in the World.”

10am – 5pm (with lunch break), Musicology & Ethnomusicology Department, 808 Commonwealth Ave, Room 281

We live in a world rich with soundscapes. Whether it is produced by bird calls, machines, the string section of an orchestra, or one’s own voice, sound around us reflect the environment we live in. How we choose to interact with sounds often reveals certain ways of being and knowing in the world. Our bodies are the first receivers of sounds, physically encountering sound waves through a multiplicity of senses. How our brains interpret sound is rooted in bodily and cognitive realities; this is especially true of musical sound, which is been shaped by context, acoustics, language and cultural preconditioning.

This conference seeks to encourage interdisciplinary conversation between musicological scholarship and areas ranging from sociology, the humanities, environmental and sound studies, medicine.

01/02/2015

Please share with friends and colleagues!

Cheers,
Jason McCool

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The 8th Annual Graduate Music Society Conference, February 28, 2014, Boston University

“Sound and Bodies in the World”: CALL FOR PAPERS

We live in a world rich with soundscapes. Whether it is produced by bird calls, machines, the string section of an orchestra, or one’s own voice, sound around us reflect the environment we live in. How we choose to interact with sounds often reveals certain ways of being and knowing in the world. Our bodies are the first receivers of sounds, physically encountering sound waves through a multiplicity of senses. How our brains interpret sound is rooted in bodily and cognitive realities; this is especially true of musical sound, which is been shaped by context, acoustics, language and cultural preconditioning.

This conference seeks to encourage interdisciplinary conversation between musicological scholarship and areas ranging from sociology, the humanities, environmental and sound studies, medicine. . We encourage proposals exploring the relationship between sound environments and bodily realities, including (but not limited to) issues issues of gender, race, sexuality, bodily differences and identities, disability, illness, and wellness.

We welcome abstracts for traditional 20-minute papers, 5-minute “Ignite” sessions, and poster presentations. Ignite sessions--native to technology and social media communities--essentialize research into a five-minute talk accompanied by twenty Powerpoint slides, creating a dynamic, highly focused presentation. For more information on the Ignite format and/or to submit a talk, contact Jason McCool at [email protected].

Abstracts of no more than 250 words are due by January 5, 2015 to John Forrestal, [email protected].

12/09/2014

MUSETHBU Lecturer Trent Leipert gives a lecture on Wednesday night!

11/25/2014

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Please pass along this CFP to anyone who might be interested!

Cheers,
Jason McCool

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The 8th Annual Graduate Music Society Conference, February 28, 2014, Boston University

“Sound and Bodies in the World”: CALL FOR PAPERS

We live in a world rich with soundscapes. Whether it is produced by bird calls, machines, the string section of an orchestra, or one’s own voice, sound around us reflect the environment we live in. How we choose to interact with sounds often reveals certain ways of being and knowing in the world. Our bodies are the first receivers of sounds, physically encountering sound waves through a multiplicity of senses. How our brains interpret sound is rooted in bodily and cognitive realities; this is especially true of musical sound, which is been shaped by context, acoustics, language and cultural preconditioning.

This conference seeks to encourage interdisciplinary conversation between musicological scholarship and areas ranging from sociology, the humanities, environmental and sound studies, medicine. . We encourage proposals exploring the relationship between sound environments and bodily realities, including (but not limited to) issues issues of gender, race, sexuality, bodily differences and identities, disability, illness, and wellness.

We welcome abstracts for traditional 20-minute papers, 5-minute “Ignite” sessions, and poster presentations. Ignite sessions--native to technology and social media communities--essentialize research into a five-minute talk accompanied by twenty Powerpoint slides, creating a dynamic, highly focused presentation. For more information on the Ignite format and/or to submit a talk, contact Jason McCool at [email protected].

Abstracts of no more than 250 words are due by January 5, 2015 to John Forrestal, [email protected].

11/08/2014

"Welcome to all students, alums, and party crashers!" –Department Head Victor Coelho

02/07/2014

Tomorrow!!!!

01/27/2014

Don't miss a great program!!!

As America’s best-selling novel prior to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), George Lippard’s Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall (1844-5) held immense appeal because it utilized the familiar tropes of the British Gothic novel to offer incisive commentary on a range of controversial social issues in anteb...

11/18/2013

CFP reminder: http://sites.bu.edu/musicsoc/2013/11/06/call-for-papers-7th-annual-conference/

The Graduate Music Society of the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University would like to invite submissions for its 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference. This interdisciplinary conference will showcase the lens that ‘Gothic’ affords the humanities to view both themselves a...

11/18/2013

Announcing our Keynote Speaker for the GMS 7th Annual Conference: Renée Bergland, Professor of English, Simmons

http://sites.bu.edu/musicsoc/2013/11/18/keynote-speaker-7th-annual-conference/

11/07/2013

New post!

Several of our members will be participating in the upcoming national meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Ethnomusicology.

11/07/2013

CALL FOR PAPERS!!!
"Tracing the Goth/ic: Viewing Culture through Barbarism”
The Graduate Music Society of the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University would like to invite submissions for its 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference. This interdisciplinary conference will showcase the lens that ‘Gothic’ affords the humanities to view both themselves and each other. From the beautiful to the ridiculous, Gothic has meant many things over the past millennium. The aesthetic lens of the Gothic in 1853 was characterized by John Ruskin as Savageness, Changefulness, Naturalism, Grotesqueness, Rigidity, and Redundance. How, a century and a half later, do we use a ‘Gothic’ lens to view the world, past and present? We encourage papers from across discipline to explore the Gothic, with topics that could include (but not limited to) specific references to a Gothic aesthetic or topics more broadly connected to ideas of barbarity, such as otherness, deviance, exoticism, or colonialism. The format of the paper sessions will be in a seminar style, thus we ask that papers be pre-circulated two weeks in advance of the conference. Presenters will have a chance to briefly summarize their work with most of the session time devoted to discussion of the papers. The conference will take place February 8 at Boston University, with pre-conference activities the evening before. Abstracts of 250 words are due by Dec. 6 to Jeannette Jones, [email protected]. Notifications of acceptances will be sent by Dec. 30