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Dr Nancy Murphy (Houston) SMA ZOOM Colloquium, 5th May 2022, 6.30pm UK Time Abstract: In 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter music, some artists used malleable metric settings alongside other features of self-expression in performance. This resulted in songs with extremes of self-expressive timing flexibility that cannot be accounted for by using a single conception of meter. […]

7th April 2022, 6.30 pm (UK time) Log in to Zoom. Abstract In this paper I survey the state of the field of popular-music analysis. I begin with an overview of some problems that need to be addressed. The most pressing among these are the global social problems of racial, gender, and class inequity, which […]

The SMA and the editors of Music Analysis were sorry to learn of the passing of Philip Lambert. Through his work on Charles Ives, transformation theory, as well as music theatre and popular music, Lambert has left a profound mark on our discipline. Adding to his important catalogue of books and articles, he recently published […]

Call for Papers:Newcastle Music Analysis Conference (NewMAC 2022)11–13 July 2022, Newcastle University The SMA is pleased to confirm dates for the Newcastle Music Analysis Conference (NewMAC 2022), which will take place on Monday 11 to Wednesday 13 July 2022 at the International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University. The programme committee invites proposals on any aspect […]

Kofi Agawu (The Graduate Center, CUNY) 31st March 2022, Zoom Colloquium, 6.30 UK Time Some version of the claim that music studies are in crisis today has been circulating in the academy recently. The latest issue of Music Theory Spectrum (2021), for example, features articles from a 2019 SMT plenary noting deficits in the ways […]

Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors in Music A Virtual Symposium organized by Nina Eidsheim (UCLA) and Daniel Walden (Durham) with the UCLA PEER Lab & Durham University Music Department Date: April 29-30, 2022 Session Keynotes: – Jessica Bissett Perea, Dena’ina (Native American Studies, UC Davis) – Philip Ewell (Music Theory, Hunter College, CUNY)  – J. Martin Daughtry (Music, NYU) […]

Sebastian Wedler Entering into Anton Webern’s twelve-tone music and its complex reception history is like entering into a combat with the Hydra: cleave off one head of the Webern myth, and two more grow in its place, often swinging at you from opposite directions. Understandings of late Webern range widely, from that of an intrepid […]

3rd – 5th September 2022, University of Liverpool The Institutes of Popular Music of both Rochester and Liverpool, together with the Society for Music Analysis, are pleased to announce their first Summer School dedicated to popular music theory and analysis. Set in the vibrant city of Liverpool, UK, the course will be held on 3rd – […]

City University, 12th -13th November 2021 12th November, TAGS For internaitonal delegates presenting remotely, here is a zoom link:https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/97700936848?pwd=NGVzcTFCRnpFYXU0SnVaNTBZVnd6Zz09Meeting ID: 977 0093 6848Passcode: 276533 All times indicated are GMT. 10:00  Yanina Daniluk (Indiana University, Bloomington): “Foreshadowing and remembering as central ideas in A Survivor from Warsaw” (ROOM AG09) 10.30     Rafael Echevarria (The University of Sydney): “In […]

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