Music and Connection: MGSA Graduate Conference

Friday, April 4th

• 2-3PM, Harkness Chapel Classroom
  Friday Afternoon Session: Growing Communities: Music and Queer Experience
  • EDM’s Queer Beginnings: Frankie Knuckles and The Warehouse in the late 1970s and 1980s, Courtney Nichols, Case Western Reserve University
  • Let’s Do the Time Warp Again (and Again): Music and Community in "The Rocky Horror Show", Samuel Payne, Texas A&M University
• 4-5PM, Harkness Chapel Classroom
  Friday Afternoon Keynote: Music and Connection: A Keynote Conversation with Dr. Susan McClary
  • Dr. Susan McClary and Dr. Daniel Goldmark, Case Western Reserve University

Saturday, April 5th

• 10:00-11:30AM, Clark Hall, rm 206
  Saturday Morning Session: Sounding Community: Music, Space, and Place
  • Enclosure, Exposure: Women’s Pain and the Voyeur at Work, Suzanna Feldkamp, Case Western Reserve University
  • Hope in “The Hanging Tree”, Avery Faust, University of Pittsburgh
  • Materializing Ma: The Embodiment of Space-Time in November Steps (1967), Ina McCormack, Case Western Reserve University
• 2:30-3:30PM, Clark Hall, rm 206
  Saturday Afternoon Session: Entangled Encounters: Participation & Reception in Performance
  • The Pathétique Symphony in Shanghai: From the Perspective of Chinese Audience and Chinese Commentators, Siqi Tong, Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University
  • The Jam Session as Intercultural Encounter in the Global Musician Workshop, Shirley Mak, Brown University