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  GSIM-CMSC Program 2008

Friday, March 7—CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198


1:00–2:45 p.m. Paper Session
 • Excess, Utopia, and Ennio Morricone's Main Theme for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
   MARNIE BOYD, University of Edinburgh
 • How Long Will It Be Called 'Confusion?' Virtuosity and Status in Karnatic Fusion
   NIKO HIGGINS, Columbia University
 • Extreme Mixing in Led Zeppelin's 'When the Levee Breaks'
   AARON LIU-ROSENBAUM, CUNY Graduate Center

2:45–3:00 p.m. Break

3:00–4:45 p.m. Roundtable
 • Beauty Revealed: Stendhal's Nude Woman and Velluti's Ornamented Singing
   CINDY L. KIM, Eastman School of Music
 • Caroline Carvalho and Mid Nineteenth–Century Coloratura
   SEAN PARR, Columbia University

4:45–5:00 p.m. Break

5:00–6:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Nadine Hubbs

6:00–7:30 p.m. Dinner

7:30–9:00 p.m. Recital of new compositions
• Mixtape, Volume 1: Freestyle by Peter McMurray
• Sincerity, An Act for Players by Joshua Groffman
• Clarkson Peebles IV leads a conversation by Brian Parks
• Boulez Is Alive by Judd Greenstein

Saturday, March 8—Columbia University, 301 Philosophy Hall


11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Paper Session
 • Classicizing a Classic: Chappie Willet's 'Derangement' of Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique
   JOHN WRIGGLE, CUNY Graduate Center
 • In the Face of Industri: Alternative Populisms in Indonesian Musik Kontemporer
   CHRIS J. MILLER, Wesleyan University

12:30–1:40 p.m. Lunch

1:40–2:40 p.m. Paper Session
 • Piano Symbolism: Franz Liszt and the Aesthetic Remnants of Composition
   ELIZABETH WEINFIELD, CUNY Graduate Center
 • Lecherous Old Men, a Mute Soprano, and Porpora in Gaspare Traversi's Music Lesson
   BLAKE HOWE, CUNY Graduate Center

2:40–2:50 p.m. Break

2:50–3:50 p.m. Paper Session
 • 'Cock Rock Disco': Disruptive Re-Presentations of Musical Material in 'Sample-Pop'
   CHRIS TONELLI, UC San Diego
 • Reliving its Past?: Fire, Rock and Rammstein
   JUDY BRADY, University of Wisconsin at Madison

3:50–4:00 p.m. Break

4:00–5:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Philip Auslander

5:00–6:00 p.m. Reception

 
CMSC 2008
when: March 7-8, 2008
where: Friday, CUNY Graduate Center
Saturday, 301 Philosophy Hall,
              Columbia University
theme:POP! Musical Excess and Artifice
contact: POPconference@gmail.com
The organizers of the CMSC would like to thank the following for their support:
Current Musicology
Department of Music
Graduate Student Advisory Council
Columbia University
The Center for Ethnomusicology