Read the program for the “Popular Music, Popular Movement(s)” MGSA Conference (October 5-6, 2018).
View the program for Beyond Genre: Jazz as Popular Music (April 20-21, 2018).
“Popular Song in Film: Thirty Years of Gorbman’s Unheard Melodies,” October 6-7, 2017
Speakers included:
- Caryl Flinn- How Todd Haynes Took the Camp out of The Carpenters
- Anahid Kassabian- From Awkward to Insecure: Rap in a web series and its HBO offspring
- Kevin Donnelly- The Rolling Stones Code and Performance (1970)
- Jim Buhler- Nondiegetic Music and Stylized Sound- James Buhler
- Jeff Smith- Pop Music, Processing Fluency, and Pleasure: Film Songs as Both Hype and Memento
- Kathryn Kalinak- Popular Music at Edison: The Roots of Musical Accompaniment to Film
- Richard Dyer- Is It Their Song? The Use of Popular Song for Melodramatic Climax
- Elsie Walker- Hearing the melodies–from The Searchers to Shine
- David Neumeyer- The Ballad of Sergei and Stella: Music in and from The Uninvited (1944)
- Robynn Stilwell- Little Matched Girl: Belle’s voice, authenticity, and genuineness in Disney’s live-action Beauty & the Beast
- Jennifer Fleeger- The Voice Lesson: Learning to Sing on Screen
- Jim Deaville- Unheard Melodies: The Trailer
- Neil Lerner- Unheard Metaphors are Sweeter: Towards a Disablist Film Music Theory
- Julie Hubbert- Auteur Music and Labor
- Daniel Goldmark- Pixar’s Memories
- Martin Marks- I’ll Sing You in My Dreams: David Lynch’s American Songbook
Gimme Shelter: Popular Music and Protection, February 23-25, 2017
The CPMS hosted the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US-Branch’s annual conference at Case Western Reserve University. See information about the conference including the program.
“Popular Music and Communities,” Graduate Student Conference, October 2-3, 2015
Friday, October 2, 2015
Speakers included:
- Natalie Oshukany (City University of New York), “‘Americanizing’ the Criminal Song: Willi Tokarev and Russian-Jewish Immigrant Identity in 1980s New York City”
- Bryan Wright, (University of Pittsburgh), “The Ragtime Piano Revival Community in America”
- Nicole Winger (University of Western Ontario), “Reinterpreting Harry Belafonte: A Narrative of Resistance, Activism and Crossover Success”
- Sean Peterson (University of Oregon), “‘Hip-Hop Without a DJ’: Authenticating The Roots in an Era of Sample-Based Hegemony”
- Catherine Hall (Florida State University), “‘Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock!’: Music and Heroism in the Harry Potter Fandom”
- Sarah Suhadolnik (University of Michigan), “Watch, Tweet, Listen, Repeat: Channel Surfing to the Top of the Charts”
- Keynote lecture by Norma Coates (University of Western Ontario), “Fantasies and Humpty-Dumpties: Teen Girls, the Monkees, and The Monkees”
Saturday October 3, 2015
Speakers included:
- Danielle Maggio (University of Pittsburgh), “‘Soul Power’: Black Popular Music as a Mobilizing Force For Radical Activism in Chicago, 1967-1973”
- C. Megan MacDonald, (Florida State University), “White as Snow: Performances of Whiteness in Depression-Era Southern Gospel Communities”
- Marco Accattatis (Rutgers University), “Work Hard, Play Hard: Normalizing Neoliberal Ideology in Popular Music”
- Trevor Nelson (Michigan State University), “Bottoms Up: Parody, Camp, and Homonormative Critique in the Music of Willam Belli”
- John Hausmann (College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati), “The Deadhead Community, Parodies, and the Marginalization of the Counterculture”
- Christa Anne Bentley (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Self-Expression and Communal Belonging in Singer-Songwriter Performance from the 1970s”
- Ryland Bennett (Tufts University), “The Cult of ‘Keytar Bear:’ Performing Utopia for Boston’s Masses”
- Keynote lecture by Mark Katz (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “‘We Need You to Get this Right’: Musical Communities and the Responsibilities of the Scholar”
“Drumming,” April 26, 2014
Speakers included:
- Robert Walser (CWRU), “A Typology of Drum Fills”
- Mandy Smith (CWRU), “The Rhythm is Gonna Get You: The Primitive vs. the Virtuosic in Rock Drumming”
- Mark Ferber (City College of New York), “Perspectives of Pedagogy of the Drumset”
- Steven Baur (Dalhousie University), “Toward a Cultural History of the Backbeat”
- Gareth Dylan Smith (Institue of Contemporary Music Performance), “Embodied Experience, Autoethnograph and Rock”
“Queer Popular Music,” November 16, 2013
Speakers included:
- Mitchell Morris (Amherst College)
- Judith Periano (Cornell University)
- Stephan Pennington (Tufts University)
- Susan McClary (CWRU)
“’Sing Me That Song Again’: The History and Impact of Tin Pan Alley,” April 12-13, 2013
Speakers included:
- Richard Crawford (University of Michigan), “Scenes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess”
- Walter Frisch (Columbia University), “If Ever a Wiz There Was: Harold Arlen and American Popular Song”
- Keir Keightley (University of Western Ontario), “From Hogan’s Alley to Tin Pan Alley”
- Jeffrey Magee (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne), “From Flatbush to the Sea: The Cozy Cottage Trope on Tin Pan Alley and Broadway, 1910s-70s”
- Gillian Rodger (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “When Singing was Acting: Song and Character in Variety Theater”
- Rose Rosengard Subotnik (Brown University), “My Father’s Musical Time-Capsule: American Songs, Sheet Music, and the Dream that Got Away”