Year-End Summary
Click here for a summary of our individual and collective accomplishments for this academic year.
High Intensity (ethno)musicology
The Boston University Music Society (BUMS), a graduate student association for academic research in the fields of Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Music Theory, held a mini-paper session on Wedneday, April 29, 2009. Graduate students presented 10-minute papers on their current research, with a 5-minute Q&A session. The papers presented were:
- Anaar Desai-Stephens, “The Journey of the Violin to North India”
- Lauren Hastings, “Rahim Alhaj: Arabic Music in a Global Context”
- Luke Berryman, “Two Questions”
- Basil Considine, “A Music Book for Lowinsky: a Reexamination of London RCM 1070, the so called Anne Boleyn Choirbook”
- Andrew Shryock, “Hip-Hop Messiahs”
- Paula Bishop, “Some Observations on Duets in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Musical Theater”
graduate student conference update
Our graduate student conference held March 28 was quite successful. The abstracts from the program are available here. Read a review of our conference here.
