Blog

Our Dissertation Writing Group met on Wednesday, February 22 to discuss Ho Chak Law’s dissertation chapter, “The Craze of Liang Shanbo: Glamorizing, Deconstructing, and Territorializing Huangmei diao in The Love of Eterne.”

Thursday, 2/16: Judith Lochhead will be giving a talk as part of the Carrigan Lecture Series in Music Theory on “Chaotic Mappings: Analyzing Recent Music” 5pm, Watkins Lecture Hall.

University of Michigan students and alumni spent a fruitful four days at the Society for Ethnomusicology annual conference this past week in Washington, D.C. In addition to presenting their research, the department also co-hosted a reception and enjoyed a free...

Several SMR members flew across the continent to Vancouver for the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory on November 3-6, 2016. They enjoyed a wide and rich variety of paper presentations, Special...

I am contributing a chapter to the upcoming book Coming of Age: Teaching and Learning Popular Music in America, edited by Carlos Xavier Rodriguez and published by Maize Books. My chapter investigates the locations songwriters Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits...