Events
Upcoming Events
Past Events
Black Women’s Music Matters: Situating Race and Gender in 21st Century Higher Education
Guest Lecture
Howard Fishman is an author, musician, composer, theatre-maker, and culture writer, based in Brooklyn, New York.
Guest Lecture
Gautier, of Tulane University presents a lecture on the Sonic Extractivism & Digital Rights in Indigenous Production in Latin America
Screening & Talkback
a captivating film that explores the intense rivalry between conga groups in Santiago de Cuba
American Music Legend
José María de León Hernández is a five-time Grammy award winner and recipient of the 2023 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts.
Event Archive
2015-2019
Graduate Music Conference
Music and Culture of the Americas
Conference | April 27, 2019
12 paper presentations by graduate students from the across the U.S. and beyond. Keynote presentation by Ellie M. Hisama (Columbia University): Lost Voices, Found Histories: On Silences and Soundings.
Susan Schmidt-Horning (St. John’s University)
Garage Girls: Rock, Technology, and Girlhood in the Global ’60s
Guest Lecture | April 18, 2019
Dr. Kimberly Hannon-Teal (University of Arkansas)
Hearing Collaboration: Individual and Collective Voices of the Duke Ellington Orchestra
Guest Lecture | April 4, 2019
Mack Hagood (Miami University)
Beats, Bose, and the Politics of Listening
Guest Lecture | March 28, 2019
Matt Sonzala
Guest Lecture | March 11, 2019
Hip hop promoter, booking agent, radio personality, Matt Sonzala, discussing his work in the Austin and Houston hip hop scenes, including his time working with SXSW.
Dr. Nichole Rustin-Paschal
Why Aren’t We All Jazz Feminists Now?
Guest Lecture | March 5, 2019
Dr. Amy Herzog
Dark Times: Fabulation, Synchrony, and the Musical Moment in Media
Guest Lecture | February 22, 2019
Jaqueline Avila
Sumbro’s Urban Soundtrack: Music, Silence, and Nostalgia in Alonso Ruizpalacios’s 2014 Film, Güeros
Guest Lecture | February 8, 2019
Composer In Residence
Jennifer Higdon
September 30–October 3, 2018
Dr. Morgan Luker
Argentinian and Tango Musical Culture
Guest Lecture | October 1-2, 2018
Morgan Luker is Associate Professor of Music at Reed College. He is the author of The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and the founding director of Tango for Musicians at Reed College (www.reed.edu/tango). His current research examines the materiality and management of historic sound recordings as objects of knowledge in and about Argentina.
Dr. Josh Sheppard
Media Archival Studies: The Sound Archive as a Temporal Strategy of Discursive Emergence
Guest Lecture | October 1, 2018
Dr. Shepperd is an Assistant Professor at Catholic University and directs the #RPTF as Sound History Fellow of the Library of Congress’s National Recording Preservation Board. In 2018/2019 he is a Humanities and Information Fellow at Pennsylvania State University. His book project examines the institutional origins of public media in advocacy work conducted by the media reform movement during the New Deal, and Josh is under contract to co-update the “official” History of Public Media for Current and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Flow Conference 2018
A Critical Discussion of Television and New Media
Conference | September 27-29, 2018
Presented in partnership with Moody College of Communication and flowjournal.org
Dr. Mark Durrand
Experiencing Musical Vitality in Film
Guest Lecture | March 27, 2018
Composer Kristofer Maddigan
Guest Lecture | March 17, 2018
Dr. Raymond Knapp
Falsettos in the Shadow of Fiddler on the Roof: Reconsidering Jewish Identity on Broadway in the New Millennium
Guest lecture | December 12, 2017
Dr. Hanna Hurwitz
Self Determination Theory for Performance Outcomes
Lecture-Recital | December 11, 2017
The program featured composition premieres of works for solo violin by Center for American Music graduate teaching assistant Alan Retamozo.
Dr. Elizabeth Craft (University of Utah)
Headfirst Into A Political Abyss: The Politics and Political Reception of Hamilton
Guest Lecture | October 10, 2017
Film Screening and Discussion
Cuba’s Grupo de Experimentación Sonora
October 3, 2017
Film Screening and Discussion
So Near…So Far
October 5, 2017
Screening of the documentary film on the life of Pablo Menéndez, “So Near…So Far” by award-winning Cuban director Lourdes Prieto and L.A. Chicano filmmaker David Sandoval. Facilitated by Robin Moore, Professor in the Butler School of Music.
Pablo Melendez and Mezcala
Concert | October 6, 2017
The Center for American Music is proud to present world-renowned Cuban ensemble.
Host
North American Conference on Video Game Music
Conference | January 14–15, 2017
Voicing the Soundtrack
Conference | April 15–16, 2016
A conference on music, sound and the moving image featuring world-renowned experts on the soundtrack. The events will take place at the Thompson Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Annegret Fauser (University of North Carolina)
Sounding the Tricolore: France and the United States During World War II
Guest Lecture | February 5, 2016
Will Gibbons (Texas Christian University)
A Clockwork Homage: Musical Allusion and Kubrick’s Legacy in Video Games
Guest Lecture | October 16, 2015