Not Without a Grievance: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the Suffrage Movement, and the Reception of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

01 October 2024 Abstract In an 1882 article in the American suffrage newspaper, The Woman’s Journal, Thomas Wentworth Higginson expressed outrage that the Mendelssohn family had discouraged Fanny Hensel from composing and that her music had been published under Felix...

Seduction and Subversion: The Feminist Strategies of Siouxsie and the Banshees

13 December 2017 Academics and creative artists frequently recognize the same tensions, desires, and conflicts that exist in society. They both often sense that which is lacking or out of balance in the social fabric, and express the same criticisms of prevalent...

Seizing the Menotti Moment: Opera meets McLuhan meets Millennials

14 November 2016 Abstract This co-authored paper examines how theories about the effects of technology on society, developed by communications theorist Marshall McLuhan in the mid-twentieth century, are represented in Gian Carlo Menotti’s double bill, The Telephone and...

Space, Time, and Memory: Examining the Disconnect between Looking at Contemporary Art and Listening to Contemporary Music

20 September 2020 Abstract This article considers the paradox of why lay people can appreciate modern visual art yet regard contemporary music as noise. Why do art lovers look at Picasso’s Guernica (1937), for instance, and proclaim it a masterpiece and yet when they...

Contour and Melodic Structure in Two Homophonic Instrumental Works by Anton Webern

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What Would Beethoven Google? Primary Sources in the Twenty-First Century Classroom

11 April 2016 Abstract Scholars rely on primary sources as the foundation of credible research. Sometimes, however, the incorporation of primary sources as fodder for learning in the undergraduate music classroom is overlooked, and instructors miss the opportunity...

[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Blurred Genres: Reflections on The Ethnomusicology of Jazz Today

26 August 2014 Abstract The study of jazz has been part of ethnomusicology since the 1940s, contributing meaningfully to the discipline's core theories and methodologies. In turn, ethnomusicological studies have profoundly colored jazz scholarship at large. This...

Academic Citizenship and Schools of Music in Twenty-First-Century “Engaged” Universities Dedicated to the Public Good

01 October 2009 Beginning especially during the last two decades of the twentieth century, a new vision and movement for liberal learning in higher education—that of the “engaged” institution dedicated to “engaged” learning and to the public good—emerged in the United...

Lessons Learned

31 October 2010 In the last issue of the Newsletter, CMS President Cynthia Taggart outlined efforts underway to make the organization of the Society more transparent. One of the four primary areas of activity in this reorganization is career development, and one of...