Graduate students from Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Music will present original research at the upcoming Society for American Music Annual Conference, to be held in March 2026. Their presentations span a wide range of topics in American music studies, highlighting the department’s strength in musicology, cultural history, and interdisciplinary scholarship.
Courtney Nichols will present “The ‘Faint Shadow’: Exploring Queer Women’s Lived Experiences in the Womyn’s Music Movement.”
Ellen Sauer Tanyeri will present “The Thing with Feathers: Women, Music, and Ornithology in Charles Kinkel’s Forest Echoes (1879).”
Dane-Michael Harrison will present “‘It was just another very uneventful, ordinary morning in Old New York . . .’: Vernon Duke as flâneur in interwar American popular song.”
The Society for American Music is dedicated to the study, teaching, creation, and dissemination of all musics in the Americas. As a scholarly, collegial, and inclusive organization, we serve a wide and diverse array of academics, librarians, composers, performers, and members of the general public.