PSC-AMS Spring 2026 Meeting: May 2 in San Luis Obispo Event Notice NEW

All are welcome to attend the Spring 2026 meeting of the Pacific-Southwest chapter of the AMS, on May 2 at Cal Poly SLO.

Please RSVP at the link below before Thursday, April 29 to order lunch:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDEXKGFWhJS-OnscxJniwPZDaJWS7rmrlkpAUfMOFU3Ii5AA/viewform?usp=header

Our program will include:

·      “Copyright at a Crossroads: Music, Technological Advancement, and the Structural Limitations of U.S. Law”
Emmie Head (University of California, Los Angeles)

·      “‘Post Modern Pimp Ho’?: RuPaul Catalyzing and Prototyping Bitch Tracks as Class Mobility”
Donovan Alcones (San Diego State University)

·      “The Blend of Music, Visual Art, and Portraiture in Anna Clyne’s Color Field (2020)”
Alyse Murray (California State University, Long Beach)

·      “‘The Space In My Mouth’: Voicing Queer/Trans Liminalities in Angélica Negrón’s The Island We Made (2021)”
Morgan Bates (University of California, Los Angeles)

·      “Monoculture and Myth: Simon Steen-Andersen’s TRIO and the Role of The Institution in New Music”
Brandon Lincoln Woo Snyder (University of California, Irvine)

·      “Clara Schumann’s Pianistic Bouquets: Sartorial Self-Fashioning and the Gendered Contradictions of Organicist Technique”
Theodora Serbanescu-Martin (Cornell University)

·      “Musical-Rhetorical Figures of Violence, Pain, and Healing in the Opera Sémélé and the Character Pieces for Viola da Gamba by Marin Marais”
Eric Tinkerhess (University of Southern California)

·      “Sound on Trial: Trauma, Perception, and Listening to Epistemic Instability in Anatomy of a Fall”
Isabelle Krieger (University of California, Los Angeles)

·      “Stokowski Ritzes Philadelphia: Disciplining Audiences at the Beginning of the Depression”
Derek Katz (University of California, Santa Barbara)

·      “The Silent Jewish Underscoring of Abridged English-Language Opera: Samuel Chotzinoff, David Sarnoff, and the NBC-TV Opera Theatre”
Daniela Smolov Levy (Occidental College and the University of California, Los Angeles)

·      “Who is Scored to Save the World? Topics, Tropes, and Musical Representations of Superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2018–2024)”
Janet Bourne (University of California, Santa Barbara)