Graduate Student Conference in Musicology,
Ethnomusicology, and Music Theory

Saturday, April 12, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Marshall Room, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA

9:00 a.m. Coffee and Snacks

9:30 a.m. Lauren McGuire Jennings, "A Window into the Musical Life of Early Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia"

10:00 a.m. Sheryl Kaskowitz, "While the Storm Clouds Gather: The Early History of 'God Bless America,' 1917-1941"

10:30 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. Alicia Kopfstein-Penk, "Leonard Bernstein, the Young People's Concerts, and the Tumultuous 1960s"

11:30 a.m. Drew Massey, "John Kirkpatrick, the Concord Sonata, and the 'Strange Loop' of Editing and Performing"

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. Adam Kolek, "Noise and Form: Perceptual Structure in a John Zorn Collage"

2:00 p.m. Gary Burdette, "Some Metric and Rhythmic Characteristics of 'Hooks' in Selected Songs of the Dave Matthews Band"

2:30 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. Wayne Marshall, Keynote Speaker, "'New World' Music, New 'World Music,' American Music"

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Saturday, April 26, 2008. Clark University, Worcester, MA