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Last Friday, SMR members were at the Yost Ice Arena to watch Michigan play Wisconsin in Big Ten hockey. The Maize and Blue prevailed and delivered a 5-3 defeat to their opponents, and good winter-sports times were had by all....

Earlier this week, SMR members gathered for SMR’s Winter General Assembly. A wide range of exciting initiatives were discussed, including the Michigan Music Research Conference (see here), which we’re hosting in March, a variety of social events, and various professional-development...

Earlier this week, SMR members participated in a workshop organized by MMF (Michigan Music Forum) to share abstracts in anticipation of call-for-proposal deadlines for upcoming conferences. Participants read and provided feedback for one another’s abstracts. Hopefully 2018 will be another...

The MMF (Michigan Music Forum) team hosted an abstract workshop on December 1. In the workshop, four candidates (Steve, James, Anne, and Ho Chak) talked through their abstract-writing process by presenting their drafts and then the abstract in its eventually...

On December 5, Kathryn Cox (Historical Musicology) successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “‘What Happened to the Post-War Dream?’: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Affect in British Rock of the 1960s and 1970s” (abstract below). Congratulations, Kathryn!