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AMS Ecocriticism Study Group Nashville, 7 November 2008

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Page 1: AMS Ecocriticism Study Group Nashville, 7 November 2008

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