THE FIFTH ANNUAL ECHO CONFERENCE: MAY 13-14, 2011 AT UCLA

This event was made possible by the financial support of the UCLA Graduate Students’ Association, the Campus Programs Committee of the Program Activities Board, and the UCLA Department of Musicology. Special thanks to Barbara Van Nostrand and Michelle Lambarena from the UCLA Humanities Administrative Group for their absolutely invaluable help and support!

All conference sessions will take place in Popper Hall, in the Schoenberg Music Building (directions).

Full panel abstracts and speaker biographies (PDF)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, MAY 13

1:30-2:00 PM
Registration and coffee

2:00 PM
Nervous Breakdowns: Sounds of Decay and Anxiety

“The Sounds of Racial Anxiety in Candyman” – Morgan Woolsley, Women’s Studies, UCLA

“For there will be blood: the ‘imaginary, terrible last judgement’ in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre” – Amy Bauer, Music, UC Irvine

“On Hearing Ghosts: Sound and Image in Decasia” – Kelsey Cowger, Music, Univeristy of Richmond

Moderator: Benjamin Court, UCLA

4:00 PM  
Keynote address:
“Listeners in the Hands of an Intolerable Sound”
Mitchell Morris, UCLA

5:30 PM 
Break

8:00 PM  
UCLA Early Music Ensemble concert: “Oh Dolente Partita”
Powell Library Rotunda

The UCLA Musicology Department invites you to join us for a performance by the Early Music Ensemble, under the direction of Elisabeth Le Guin and Lindsey Strand-Polyak. They will perform a program of madrigals from Guarini's 1590 pastoral drama, Il pastor fido, as set to music by Claudio Monteverdi, along with string ensemble music from the same period.

SATURDAY, MAY 14

8:30-9:00 AM
Registration and coffee

9:00 AM
Musical Meditations on Mortality

“Der Tod, das muß ein Wiener sein - How Wienerlieder Reflect Death in Viennese Culture” – Susanne Scheiblhofer, Musicology, University of Oregon

“Trauma and Recovery in Germaine Tailleferre's Six chansons francaises” – Kiri Heel, Musicology, Stanford University

“‘Still with Every Turn the World Becomes a Sadder Place’: Emmylou Harris’s Duets for One” – Desmond Harmon, Musicology, UCLA

Moderator: Jill Rogers, UCLA

10:30 AM
Break

11:00 AM
Monsters of Rock: The Heavy Metal Panel

“Running with the Devil Revisited: The Semiotics of Extreme Heavy Metal” – Matthew D. Blackmar, Musicology, California State University, Long Beach

“A Little Bit of Blood Goes a Long Way: Why GWAR Mosh Pits Are Friendlier than Others” – Gary Powell, Performance Studies, Texas A&M

“If You Could Hear the Beauty in My Ears: Female-Identified Fans and the Aesthetics of Death Metal in Everyday Life” – Jamie Patterson, Folklore, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Moderator: Zach Wallmark, UCLA

12:30 PM
Break

1:00 PM 
Lunchtime lecture recital:  
“Meltdowns and Mad Scenes: Pathos and Dissolution in the 17th Century Spectacle Sonata”
Lindsey Strand-Polyak, Musicology, UCLA

2:00 PM
Break

2:30 PM
Sound Clashes: Music, Place, and Conflict

“Art as Life in Jamaican Dancehall” – Lena Delgado Del Torres, Sociology, Binghampton University

“Violence, death, and popular music in the Columbian conflict” – Jhoseph David Ceballos, Political Science,  Universidad Distrital, Bogotá, Colombia; and Carlos Gustavo Román, Sound and Music Computing,  Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Sponsored by Universidad de la Salle, Bogotá, Columbia.

Moderator: Natalia Bieletto-Bueno, UCLA

3:30 PM
Break

4:00 PM  
Keynote address:
“Sound Wounds: A History of Music Through Pain”
James Deaville, Music, Carleton University

5:30 PM
Break

6:00 PM  
Dinner