Workshop: Music and the Unique Challenges of Dance Research (AMS Denver 2023)

[Stephen Hudson]

Dear friends and colleagues,

I'm writing to invite you to attend "Music and the Unique Challenges of Dance Research," a workshop organized by the AMS Music and Dance Study Group, which will be held Friday, 10/Nov/2023: 12:30pm - 2:00pm in Plaza Ballroom E at the upcoming conference.

In this workshop, we invite members of AMS and SMT who study (or are interested in studying) dance, movement, and gesture to build interdisciplinary understanding and to share strategies for addressing the unique challenges of music-, dance-, and movement-related research.

We invite you to pick one of the following articles and read it in advance of our discussion, but we will also be ready to review each source's key points for anyone who has not been able to prepare but would still like to participate.

• Reinhard Strohm (2004). "'Les Sauvages,' Music in Utopia, and the Decline of the Courtly Pastoral." Il Saggiatore musicale, Vol. 11, No. 1: pp. 21–50. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43030412
• Meglin, Joellen A. "'Sauvages, Sex Roles, and Semiotics': Representations of Native Americans in the French Ballet, 1736-1837, Part One: The Eighteenth Century." Dance Chronicle, Vol. 23, No. 2: pp. 87–132. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1568072.
• Kozak, Mariusz (2021). "Feeling Meter: Kinesthetic Knowledge and the Case of Recent Progressive Metal." Journal of Music Theory Vol. 65, no. 2: pp. 185–237. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-9143190.
• Wells, Christi Jay (2021). "Jazz Music and its Choreographies of Listening." Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 1–32.

For more details, please click the link below:

https://www.conftool.pro/denver2023-ams-smt/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=810#paperID1034

Feel free to contact me or the other MDSG Co-Chair (Rebecca Schwartz, rasc...@umich.edu) with any questions about the session!

Best,

—Stephen

Stephen S. Hudson | He / Him / His
Assistant Professor of Music Theory
OXY Occidental College
Booth Hall 201
Co-Chair, AMS Music and Dance Study Group
Vice President, AMS Pacific Southwest Chapter