The Austin B. Caswell award was established in 1998 in honor of Prof. Caswell, a devoted teacher and member of the musicology faculty at Indiana University from 1966 until his retirement in 1996. The Caswell Award recognizes the two best undergraduate music history projects (such as research papers, podcasts, and lecture-recitals) submitted at the Jacobs… Read more »
Entries by Sarah J. Slover
Prof. Halina Goldberg Wins 2021 H. Colin Slim Award at AMS
Congratulations to IU Professor of Musicology Halina Goldberg, who has just won the 2021 H. Colin Slim Award from the American Musicological Society. Her award-winning article, titled “Chopin’s Album Leaves and the Aesthetics of Musical Album Inscription,” was published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. Each year, the H. Colin… Read more »
AMS 2021: IU Musicology Events and Presentations
(Current Indiana University faculty, students, and alumni.) PLEASE NOTE: All times are CST Thursday, November 11 12:00 pm Devon R. Nelson, “Preserving Authenticity and Exposing Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain” | Forgery and Deception 1:00 pm Nicolette van den Bogerd, “The Composer as Intellectual: Biblical Interpretation and Jewish Martyrdom in Alexandre Tansman’s Isaïe le prophète”… Read more »
Author, Poet, and Concept Artist Esther Dischereit Coming to IU
Join us for an evocative performance featuring poet Esther Dischereit and Jacobs School dancers and instrumentalists who will improvise to poetry. The poet and performers will tackle issues of anti-Semitism and alienation and will welcome discussion and questions. “Jews, Memory, and Inclusion” A Jacobs Community Conversation Guest & Student Performance Sunday, November 7, 2021 4:00–5:30… Read more »
IU Musicology Graduate Student Recovers Lost Episode of Weird Studies
Congratulations to PhD student Meredith Michael for her work on episode 99 of the Weird Studies podcast. This episode, which was released on May 26th of this year, is a never before seen “lost episode” that was recorded back in 2019. Meredith took it upon herself to take the existing conversation footage (almost three hours… Read more »
CFP: 2021 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
The Austin B. Caswell award was established in 1998 in honor of Prof. Caswell, a devoted teacher and member of the musicology faculty at Indiana University from 1966 until his retirement in 1996. The Caswell Award recognizes the two best undergraduate music history projects (such as research papers, podcasts, and lecture-recitals) submitted at the Jacobs… Read more »
New book on Charles Ives released by Distinguished Professor Emeritus J. Peter Burkholder
Award-winning music historian and IU Musicology Distinguished Professor Emeritus J. Peter Burkholder has spent a lifetime exploring the life and work of Charles Ives. Although he retired in 2019, Burkholder remains an active researcher and has just released a new book, titled Listening to Charles Ives: Variations on His America (Rowman & Littlefield). Burkholder is… Read more »
IU Graduate Music Theory & Musicology Students Present 27th Annual Symposium on Research
Over the next two Saturdays — February 20 and 27, 2021 — the IU Graduate Theory and Musicology Associations will host (virtually) the Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The event is free and open to the public. Dr. Imani Mosley (University of Florida College of the Arts) will deliver the keynote on February… Read more »
Prof. Zanovello featured on Italian National Radio
Prof. Giovanni Zanovello’s research was recently featured in the Radiotelevisione italiana‘s Radio 3, the cultural channel of Italian public radio. It appeared in episode 8 of the series “Renaissance Music in Ten Objects,” with Gaia Varon and Vincenzo Borghetti. The project–inspired by Neil MacGregor’s fortunate A History of the World in 100 Objects (broadcast on… Read more »
“LISTENING TO LATIN AMERICA: Jazz Entanglements in the Caribbean”
On January 20, 2021, Naxos Musicology International published an opinion article by Sergio Ospina Romero. The article, titled “LISTENING TO LATIN AMERICA: Jazz Entanglements in the Caribbean,” addresses the problematic language that is often used to define musical practices and individual artists that exist in non-US cultures. Naxos Musicology International, a new online platform for… Read more »