Musicology Student Accomplishments
(Archive)

2008-2009

Nikos Pappas wins Mellon Fellowship
Nikos Pappas, former winner of a 2007-2008 Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Year Fellowship from the American Musicological Society, has now been awarded the 2008-2009 Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. He also received the 2007 Reese Fellowship for Research in American Bibliography from the American Antiquarian Society, the 2008 Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music from the Music Library Association, and a 2008 Reese Fellowship from the Bibliographical Society of America.

Yawen Ludden delivers papers and lectures
In October, Yawen Ludden presented two papers at international conferences: she read "Cross-Cultural Conflict and Reconciliation in the Opera Nixon in China" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, held at Wesleyan University, and "Rewriting History through Model Opera: Constructing Ritual in an Avant-garde Style" at the 13th International Conference of CHIME (European Foundation For Chinese Music Research) at Bard College. This past summer she lectured on Chinese Model Opera at the Shanghai Normal University.

Laura Pita publishes edition and delivers lecture
Laura Pita has been invited to lecture on Caribbean music at Truman State University in November, and recently published (in collaboration with Juan Francisco Sans) an edition of the piano music of Teresa Carreño: Teresa Carreño: Obras para Piano (Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Fondo Editorial de Humanidades y Educación, 2008). She has also been invited to write four new articles for New Grove, including one on Carreño.

Kevin Kehrberg wins grants, publishes, and reads papers
Kevin Kerhberg, recipient of the 2008-2009 Rey M. Longyear Dissertation Year Fellowship, has also been awarded the 2008 Endowed Doctoral Fellowship Award of the University of Kentucky Association of Emeriti Faculty and the 2008 James S. Brown Award for Research on Appalachia. He published "Researching Southern Gospel Music in Kentucky and Tennessee" in the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of Performance! The Newsletter of the Society of American Archivists’ Performing Arts Roundtable, and his article on Albert E. Brumley (1905-1977) appeared in The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture (Little Rock, 2008). Kevin will present "‘I’ll Fly Away’: The Peculiar History of an American Gospel Standard," at the 35th Annual Conference of the Society for American Music, Denver, CO (March, 2009) and "From Hartford to Honky-Tonks to the ‘Hood: Albert E. Brumley and the Birth of a American Gospel Standard," at the Christian Scholars Conference, David Lipscomb University, Nashville (June, 2009).

Jennifer Matthews receives grant
Jennifer Matthews has been awarded a grant by the Byrne Foundation of the University of Notre Dame (where she is Music and Performing Arts Librarian) to conduct research for her dissertation on the songs of Randy Newman.

Ann Niren publishes encyclopedia article
Anne Niren’s article on Marian McPartland will be included in the new Dictionary of Composers and Musicians of the Twentieth Century, scheduled to be released in November by Salem Press.

Marshal Pinto to read paper in Arizona

Marshal Pinto’s paper "Recycling God's Songs: Modernization and adaptation of sacred music in nineteenth-century Brazil," has been accepted for the Second International Symposium on Latin American Choral Music: "Exploring Exchange: Church and Theatre, Iberia and the Americas, Past and Present" to be held January 2009 at the University of Arizona.

Paige Lush publishes article, to read paper at SAM
Paige Clark Lush's article "The All American Other: Native American Music and Musicians on the Circuit Chautauqua," has just been published in Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture 7, no. 2 (2008). Her paper “Between Them and Savagery: Native American Music and Musicians on the Chautauqua Circuits, 1904-1932” has been accepted for the annual meeting of the Society for American Music, Denver, CO, March 2009.

2007-2008

Nikos Pappas wins AMS 50 Dissertation Year Fellowship
Nikos Pappas, currently holder of the 2007-2008 Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Year Fellowship from the American Musicological Society, has just been announced as the winner of the 2008-2009 Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. He also received the 2007 Reese Fellowship for Research in American Bibliography from the American Antiquarian Society, the 2008 Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music from the Music Library Association, and a 2008 Reese Fellowship from the Bibliographical Society of America.

Heidy Ximenes presents paper at A.M.S. Annual Meeting in Quebec City
Heidy Ximenes presented a paper at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Quebec City, Nov. 1-4, 2007, entitled “Carnival, Religion, and Afoxes: Musical Mixture in the Carnival of Salvador.”

Four students present at S.A.M. in San Antonio
Four students presented their research at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music, San Antonio, TX, Feb. 27-March 2, 2008:

Heidy Ximenes read a paper entitled “Blocos Afros: Musical and Cultural Adaptation in the Modern Carnival of Salvador”

Laura Pita read a paper entitled “Teresa Carreño and the Piano Music of Edward MacDowell: New Discoveries in the Carreño Collection in Caracas, Venezuela”

Kevin Kehrberg participated in a poster session with a project entitled “’Turn Your Radio On’: Reual Thomas and the Birth of Renfro Valley’s Sacred Soundscape”

Alicia Massie-Legg participated in a poster session with a project entitled “Stephen Foster, Doughface and Copperhead”

Four students present papers at international conferences
Three students presented papers at international conferences in 2007:

Angela Hammond presented a paper at the joint conference of the Royal Music Association and the Center for the History and Analysis of Recorded Sound, Royal Holloway University, London, England, September 2007: “Musicology and Malevolence: Documenting the Musics of White Supremacy.”

Ann Niren presented a paper at the First international Conference on Music and Minimalism at the University of Wales in Bangor, August 31-September 2, 2007, entitled “An Examination of Minimalist Tendencies in Two Early Works by Terry Riley.”

Yawen Ludden presented a paper at the 12th annual conference of CHIME (European Foundation for Chinese Music Research), October 2007: “Western Learning for Practical Use: Yu Huiyong and Beijing Opera Reform during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).”

Nikos Pappas presented a paper at the 39th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, in Vienna, Austria, July 2007, entitled “‘This is one of the most crooked tunes I ever did hear.  But once you understand it, then it’s alright to play’: Crookedness in Oldtime American Fiddle Tune Repertories.”

Yawen Ludden presents lecture in Shanghai
Yawen Ludden presented a lecture as part of the international guest lecture series at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, June 2007: “The Combination of Traditional Operatic Elements and Modern Compositional Technique, Using the American Opera Nixon in China as an Example.”

Angela Hammond wins Longyear Dissertation Year Fellowship
Angela Hammond was named by the Division of Musicology as the recipient of the 2007-2008 Rey M. Longyear Dissertation Year Fellowship.

Four students presented papers at the 2007 A.M.S. South-Central Chapter Meeting
Four students presented papers at the “Mega-Regional” Chapter Conference of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for Music Theory, Athens, GA (March 2007):

Nikos Pappas read a paper entitled “Exorcising the Specter of George Pullen Jackson’s Upland South: Southern Identity and Its Antebellum Understandings of Region and Place.” This paper received the Rey Longyear Award for Best Student Paper

Kevin Kehrberg read a paper entitled “Taste in Transition: The Musical Entertainer and English Popular Song in the Late 1730s”

Reed David read a paper entitled “Jazz Influence in Two Concertos of Aaron Copland;” he will also present this at an upcoming University of Kansas Musicology Symposium.