Music Department Represented at Academic Conferences in Fall 2005

The following CU faculty and graduate students presented papers at the 2005 national conferences for the American Musicological Society (Washington DC, 27–30 October), the Society for Ethnomusicology (Atlanta, 16–20 November), and the Society for Music Theory (Boston/Cambridge, 10–13 November): • Susan Boynton (AMS): "Andrés Marcos Burriel and Liturgical Science as Cultural Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Spain" • Katherine Dacey-Tsuei (AMS): "Social Darwinism in American Musical Thought: Alice Fletcher's Ohama Indian Music Reconsidered" • Joseph Dubiel and Marion Guck (SMT): "The Commuting Life" • Andrew Eisenberg (SEM): "Playing with Culture: Swahili Identity and the Semiotics of Musical Style in Mombasa" • Aaron Fox (SEM): "Toward a Political Poetics of Popular Music" • Melissa Gonzalez (SEM): "Latin and the Ideological Construction of Music Genre" • Adriana Helbig (SEM): "Activism and Ethnomusicology: Theory in Action" • Karen Henson (AMS): "Massenet, Sibyl Sanderson, and the Fin de Siècle Diva" • Elizabeth Keenan (SEM): "Ladies, Womyn and Grrls: Policing the Borders of Gender and Generation at Women's Rock Music Festivals" • Toby King (SEM): "Planting American Roots: Strategies of Representation in the Bluegrass Documentary" • George Lewis (AMS): AMS Presidential Forum: "Histories and Historiographies" with Ruth Solie and Richard Taruskin • Amanda Minks (SEM): "Interculturality and Performativity in Song Games among Miskitu Children on Corn Island" • Lauren Ninoshvili (SEM): "Crossroads of Feeling: Speech, Sentiment and Solidarity in the Georgian Supra in New York City" • Ana María Ochoa (SEM): "Geneologies of Aurality, Cultural Politics and Disciplinary Histories in Latin America" • Ryan Skinner (SEM): "Celebratory Spaces between Homeland and Host: Memory, Work, and Play in New York's Malian Community" • Anna Stirr (SEM): "Interpreting Blue Lake: Music Videos and Meaning in the Tibetan Diaspora" • Joshua Walden (AMS): "Lip-Sync in 'Lipstick': 1950s Popular Songs Re/presented in a Television Series by Dennis Potter" • Christopher Washburne (SEM): "Latin Jazz, Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop Jazz, and Caribbean Jazz: The Politics of Locating in Inter-cultural Music"