ams ecocriticism study group nashville, 7 november 2008
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AMS Ecocriticism Study GroupNashville, 7 November 2008
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-- Proposal to the AMS Board of Directors to recognize theAMS Ecocriticism Study Group (October 2007)
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Panelists:Daniel Grimley, University of Nottingham
Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Identity (Woodbridge, 2006).
Alexander Rehding, Harvard University and Suzannah Clark, eds., Music Theory and Natural Order from
the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 2001).
“Eco-Musicology,” review article, Journal of the Royal Music Association 127 (2002): 305-20.
Brooks Toliver, University of Akron “Eco-ing in the Canyon: Ferde Grofé’s Grand Canyon Suite and the
Transformation of Wilderness,” JAMS 57/2 (2004): 325-367. Denise Von Glahn, Florida State University, College of Music
The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape (Northeastern University Press, 2003).
Chair: Aaron S. Allen, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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Questions1. What is an “ecocritical musicology”?
2. What methodologies could an ecocritical musicology espouse?
3. What role could ecocriticism have in affecting the discipline as a whole?
4. What role does activism play in scholarship, & how could that impact ecocritical musicology or the discipline itself?
5. Could an ecocritical musicology be socially relevant?
definitional
situational
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Question 1: What is an “ecocritical musicology”?
Daniel GrimleyAlexander RehdingBrooks ToliverDenise Von GlahnDiscussion
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Question 2: What methodologies could an ecocritical musicology espouse?
Daniel GrimleyAlexander RehdingBrooks ToliverDenise Von GlahnDiscussion
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Question 3: What role could ecocriticism have in affecting the discipline as a whole?
Daniel GrimleyAlexander RehdingBrooks ToliverDenise Von GlahnDiscussion
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Question 4: What role does activism play in scholarship, and how could that impact ecocritical musicology or the discipline itself? Daniel GrimleyAlexander RehdingBrooks ToliverDenise Von GlahnDiscussion
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Question 5:Could an ecocritical musicology be socially relevant?
Daniel GrimleyAlexander RehdingBrooks ToliverDenise Von GlahnDiscussion
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ESG BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA I. By-Laws {10 minutes}
1. Edits/Amendments 2. Vote
II. Elections {15 minutes} 1. Nominations
Chair : Aaron Allen Secretary-Treasurer: Robert Fallon Program Committee Chair: none Electronic Communications Chair: none
2. Vote III. Web Site {15 minutes}
1. Demonstration of current draft 2. Solicitation of further ideas
Events (Conferences) Resources (e.g. M.A. in Music and Geography at University of Nottingham)
IV. Other Items? {5 minutes} 1. Greening AMS