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This weekend, SMR members gathered to socialize and kick off an academic school year like no other at County Farm Park for our annual SMR Welcome BBQ—our first in-person event since February 2020! Socially distanced introductions were made, burritos and...

On July 20, via Zoom, Lisa Decenteceo defended her dissertation, “From Being to Becoming: Protests, Festivals, and Musical Mediation of Igorot Indigeneity,” before her committee and virtually gathered colleagues and friends. Congratulations on this step, Lisa, and good luck in...

This June, two of our own SMR members presented at the thirty-second annual conference of Music Theory Midwest. On Thursday, June 10th, Anna Rose Nelson presented a paper entitled “‘Non multa, sed multum’: On the Category of Webern’s ‘Miniature’”, followed...

Congratulations to John Edwartowski, who successfully defended his thesis “Guys & Dolls as a Fluid Text” on June 23rd, 2021 in the Cady Room of SMTD’s Stearns building. Good luck to you on your next steps, John! Please see below...

This June, the Society for American Music held their 47th annual conference virtually. Two of our SMR members, Kai West and Cody Jones, presented papers at the conference and were kind enough to answer some questions about the event. See...