My piece “A Haiku Year” has been published by Panoplyzine, Issue 7 (Summer 2017).
Nostalgia and Cultural Memory in Scoring for The General (1927)
I’ll be presenting a paper on “Nostalgia and Cultural Memory in Scoring for [Buster Keaton’s] The General (1927)” at the AMS-Midwest meeting, 23-24 September 2017 at Roosevelt University.
I’ll be talking about race, post-war depictions of the American South in popular entertainment, the use of Southern-signifying music, and more of current relevance. This is a portion of the essay I’m working on for the 2018 Society for American Music seminar on Music and American Cultural Memory.
Works in Progress
an update:
“Alice Smythe Jay, ‘Tipperary,’ and ‘Yakima’: An Early Case of Forensic Musicology” (article)
“Music for the Kingdom of Shadows: Cinema Accompaniment in the Age of Spiritualism” (long-form article)
“Projection, Erasure, and Recovery: Women in Silent Film Music” (monograph)
“Nostalgia and Cultural Memory in Scoring for The General (1927)” (Society for American music 2018 seminar paper)
Fontainebleau Chansons (lyrics)
Sans Merci (working title; opera libretto about Lili and Nadia Boulanger for composer Jessica Rudman)