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 »
This weekend, February 12-14, 2021, IU Musicology Prof. Jill Rogers and graduate students Jacqueline Fortier and Jessica Bachman will see the fruits of weeks and months of labor come to life as “Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” gets underway. This first-of-its-kind conference will explore many facets of the long and complex relationship between sound… Read more »
Congratulations to Prof. Phil Ford, whose 2008 article, “Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica,” is being featured in a virtual issue of Representations, a journal, which “seeks to transform and enrich the understanding of cultures.” This special issue, titled “Weird Scholarship: From Curious to Rare,” is part of a larger promotional effort, and the essays… Read more »
At the 2020 annual business meeting of the American Musicological Society, it was announced that the AMS Teaching Award for 2020 was awarded to The Norton Guide to Teaching Music History, edited by IU Musicology Ph.D. graduate and friend of the department, C. Matthew Balensuela. Dr. Balensuela is currently Professor of Music at DePauw University… Read more »
Elinor Ostrom, late Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington, became a 2009 Nobel laureate for her work in the economic sciences – the first woman to receive this award. To honor her work and legacy, the Ostrom Commons and a new statue of Ostrom will be dedicated on Thursday, November 12, 2020,… Read more »
We are pleased to share that Prof. Sergio Ospina Romero has been awarded the 2020 Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize for his recent article “Ghosts in the Machine and Other Tales around a ‘Marvelous Invention’: Player Pianos in Latin America in the Early Twentieth Century.” The prize was established by the Society for Ethnomusicology to recognize… Read more »
In June of this year, IU announced the creation of a new Racial Justice Research Fund designed to provide start-up funding for race-related research, workshops, and to engage members of the university community. As of September 21, the fund was supporting 31 projects and continues to accept proposals on a rolling basis. Ayana Smith, associate… Read more »
We are so very pleased to share that recent IU Jacobs School of Music alumna, Dr. Elizabeth Grace Elmi, was awarded the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the International Musicological Society (IMS). In her dissertation, titled “Singing Lyric among Local Aristocratic Networks in the Aragonese-Ruled Kingdom of Naples: Aesthetic and Political Meaning in the Written… Read more »
We are looking forward to the return of the American Handel Festival and Conference to Bloomington in March 11-14, 2021, this time for a virtual gathering. This event is co-hosted by Indiana University and the American Handel Society. The society seeks to foster study of the life, works, and times of George Frideric Handel, and to… Read more »
IU Musicology PhD student, Stewart Duncan, recently received an Honorable Mention for the North American British Music Studies Association’s Nicholas Temperley Student Paper Prize. His paper, titled “The Role of Choral Music in British Diplomacy, 1934-1939: The British Council and National Identity Abroad” was presented online during the 2020 North American British Music Studies Conference,… Read more »