University of Washington Music History Department

Our final event of spring quarter is our end-of-year potluck, which will be this Friday, May 31, at 1:30pm in the fishbowl.

Please stop by to celebrate the end of an exciting year! 🎉

Our next meeting will be on Friday, May 17, at 1:30pm in the fishbowl and online.

We will be discussing the colloquy, "Theorizing Global Music History," convened by Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang and Olivia Bloechl, which appeared in the December 2023 issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society. (You can find a copy of the colloquy on the journal website, linked below.)

Please join us!

Colloquy: Theorizing Global Music History If we open our introduction to this colloquy with a question, namely how and to what ends we might theorize global music history, it is because critical questioning seems to be at the heart of the contributions gathered here. We invited six authors to reflect on a key historical concept, process, or...

Our next meeting is this Friday, May 3, at 1:30pm in the fishbowl and online.

Professor Stephen Rumph will be giving a talk entitled "Wagner and Fauré's Requiem."

Please join us!

A reminder that our upcoming meeting has been rescheduled to next Friday (Apr. 26), at 1:30pm in the Fishbowl (Music Building 101) and online.

UW Assistant Professor of Music History Frederick Reece will be presenting his paper "On the Uncanny Authenticities of Rosemary Brown's Musical Spirit Mediumship."

Please join us!

Please join us at 1:30pm on Fri. Mar. 1 (tomorrow) in the Fishbowl (MUS 101) and Online for a double-bill of talks previewing papers for the upcoming AMS Pacific Northwest Chapter Meeting:

First, UW Assistant Teaching Professor in Music History Mark Rodgers will give his talk, "The Last Days of Local 117."

Then, UW MA in Music History student Will Horton will give his talk, "Internet Communities, Shoegaze, and Discovery."

We hope to see you there.

Our next meeting will be today (Feb. 16), at 1:30pm in the Fishbowl (Music Building 101) and online.

UW Assistant Professor of Music History Anne Searcy will be presenting her paper "Philip Glass, Lucinda Childs, and the Mainstreaming of Minimalism in Dance" in preparation for the Society for American Music conference in March.

Please join us!

Our next meeting is this Friday, January 19, at 1:30pm in the Fishbowl (Music Building 101) and online.

Our guest speaker is Maya Smith, who is Associate Professor of French and Italian Studies and the Associate Dean for Equity, Justice, and Inclusion at the UW College of Arts and Sciences.

Her talk is entitled “Sorry about the Words, Y’all”: Reading Affect and Authenticity in Nina Simone’s “Ne Me Quitte Pas.”

We look forward to seeing you there.

Our next meeting is this Friday, November 3, at 1:30pm in the Fishbowl (Music Building 101) and online.

UW DMA student Rose Martin will be previewing her AMS paper, entitled "Language, Ethics, and Death: '...And Points North' by Stuart Saunders Smith."

We look forward to seeing you there!

Our next meeting will be this Friday, October 20, at 1:30pm in the Fishbowl (Music Building 101) and on Zoom.

Our speaker will be UW PhD candidate in Music History Michael Bennett, who will be giving a preview of his AMS talk, "S*x Crimes and 1990s Politics in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Parade."

We look forward to seeing you there!

The year's second THEME talk is coming up this Friday. Please join us at 4:30pm in the Fishbowl for a talk by UW's very own Christopher Roberts!

Join us this Friday, Oct. 13 for the next installment of our THEME lecture series, this time featuring Christopher Roberts, chair of our Music Education Program, presenting “Global Music Cultures in K-12 Settings: Contemporary Considerations.” Talk starts at 4:30 pm in the School of Music Fishbowl. Join us!

https://music.washington.edu/events/2023-10-13/theme-lecture-christopher-roberts-university-washington

Looking forward to the start of THEME this Friday. Please join us at 4:30pm in the Fishbowl for a talk by Jennifer Iverson of the University of Chicago!

Our 2023 THEME lecture series kicks off this Friday with a talk by Jennifer Iverson of the University of Chicago, “Porous Instruments: Synthesizers and the Circulation of Cultural Value.” Talk is at 4:30 pm in the School of Music Fishbowl and admission is free! More here:
https://music.washington.edu/events/2023-10-06/theme-lecture-jennifer-iverson-university-chicago

Welcome to the new academic year!

Our first music history meeting of the year is this Friday (Oct. 6), at 1:30pm in the Fishbowl (Music Building Room 101) and on Zoom.

Our topic will be "Attending Academic Talks and Conferences." We'll go over strategies of how to listen, how to ask questions, and how to navigate conference programs and different styles of presentation.

We hope to see you there!

Join us at 7pm this evening in Brechemin Auditorium for a talk by one of our own: Peter Nicolas will be giving a presentation titled "Harmonizing Music and Law."

In this lecture, Nicolas identifies the various ways in which an understanding of music theory and music history can contribute to well-reasoned intellectual property law policies and a sound resolution of intellectual property disputes involving music.

https://music.washington.edu/events/2023-05-24/capstone-lecture-peter-nicolas-harmonizing-music-law

Capstone Lecture: Peter Nicolas, Harmonizing Music & Law | School of Music | University of Washington Degree Recitals, Student Activities and Performances, Talks. 2023-05-24.

Join us for our final Music History Meeting of the academic year this Wednesday, May 24, at 4:30pm in the fishbowl (music building room 101).

This week we will be having an end-of-year celebration / potluck to celebrate our community before we depart for the summer. 🥳

Join us for our next Music History Meeting this Wednesday, May 10, at 4:30pm in the fishbowl (music building room 101) and online.

Mark Rodgers will be giving a talk titled “Origin Stories and Common Ground: Before and After ’Tonality.'"

We look forward to seeing you there.

Join us for our next Music History Meeting this Wednesday, April 26, at 4:30pm, in the fishbowl and online.

This week Frederick Reece and Katie Hollenbach will be discussing the academic book publishing process 📕 📖 📚

Pleaes join us!

Join us for our next Music History Meeting this Wednesday, April 12, at 4:30pm, in the fishbowl and online.

This week, we will be discussing the 2020 Journal of American Musicology Colloquy on the Middlebrow.

Here's a link to the colloquy:
https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/article/73/2/327/110759/Colloquy-Musicology-and-the-Middlebrow

We look forward to seeing you!

Our first meeting of winter quarter will be this afternoon (Mar. 29) at 4:30pm in the fishbowl and online. UW Music History alum Doug Fullington will be discussing the process of editing the score for Giselle for Bärenreiter. Please join us!

Our next meeting is tomorrow, March 8, at 4:30pm in the fishbowl and online. Katie Hollenbach will be speaking about her new research on WWII popular music radio programs sponsored by the Armed Forces Radio Service.

The title of her talk is "GI Jill and Fandom on the Front Line."

We look forward to seeing you there!

We're excited that emeritus music librarian Judy Tsou is speaking about her career at our music history meeting today, Feb 22, at 4:30pm, in the Fishbowl.