Schedule

NOTE: All times listed are in Eastern Standard Time.

Osmin Reexamined: Turkishness and Formalism in Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Anne Delfín, University of Cincinnati

Grotesque characterizations of the Spanish man: Folkloric aspects in the construction of French Identity in the 17th century

Ana Beatriz Mujica Lafuente, City University of New York

Benjamin Britten’s Musical Characterization of the Madwoman in Curlew River

Stanley Ralph Fink, Florida State University

10:45 - 11:00: Break

“Gulping down Thorazines”: Caricaturization of Mental Illness in the Music of the Ramones

Hannah Holbrook, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Esperanza Spalding: Identity, Alter-Ego, Life Force and Genre/Gender Transcendence

Miranda Sousa, University of Pittsburgh

12:00 - 1:30: Lunch Break

Style and Pedagogy in JS Bach’s Inventions

Michael Delfín, University of Cincinnati

New Characterization for German Monophonic Song

Anna O’Connell, Case Western Reserve University

3:30 - 4:00: Afternoon Break

Keynote I

The 'Sweet Virgin P*ssy' of Tween Twerking: Music as Sexual Violence Against Black Girls on YouTube

Dr. Kyra Gaunt, University at Albany

Moderator: Dr. Susan McClary (CWRU)

Sponsored by the Colloquium Series of the Department of Music

“Hoy al Portal ha venido”: Characterization and signification of Christmas villancicos from 18th-century Santiago

Paul G. Feller, Northwestern University

Salvific Embodiment Through Gesture

Krista Mitchell, Indiana University

Crowdsourcing Character Development in Elliott Carter’s Enchanted Preludes

Karen Brown, University of Pittsburgh

10:45 - 11:00: Break

Redaction Criticism, The Fluid Text, and the Creation of Nathan Detroit in Guys & Dolls

John Edwartowski, University of Michigan

Complicating the “White Savior” Narrative in Hans Zimmer’s Score for The Last Samurai

Sam Nemeth, Case Western Reserve University

12:00 - 1:30: Lunch Break

Marin Marais, Author of the Term Character Piece

Eric Tinkerhess, University of Southern California

A New Venture for a Hero: Kerry Turner’s Concerto for Horn and Orchestra “The Gothic”

Sengthian Kyndra Sisayaket, Michigan State University

3:30 - 4:00: Afternoon Break

Keynote II

The Castrato Phantom: Masculinity and the Sacred Vernacular in Twentieth-Century Rome

Dr. Martha Feldman, University of Chicago

Moderator: Dr. David Rothenberg (CWRU)

Sponsored by the Department of Music and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities