Dear Post-1945 community,

For those of you that missed the announcement at our recent SMT, please join me in congratulating the winners of our 2021 publication award, Sumanth Gopinath and Drake Andersen! Please see below for the full announcement from the award committee. Drake’s article is freely available in MTO, and Sumanth has kindly shared a…[Read more]

Dear IG members,

I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at tomorrow’s meeting!

Here is a direct link to SMT’s page with Zoom and Slack links for our session: https://guide.societymusictheory.org/sessions/nov4/early/post-1945-music-analysis-ig

Please note, if you access the meeting through the SMT schedule, you have to click on the name of…[Read more]

Here is the link to the ballot to elect new co-chairs: https://forms.gle/5jbNeGySpcF9LcKU7

Please vote by October 31, so that the results can be announced at our SMT meeting.

Noah Kahrs has agreed to continue serving in the role of webmaster for one additional year, after which we will have an election for a new two-year webmaster term. Thank…[Read more]

Dear IG members, please see our CFP below. I hope you will consider contributing a proposal!

Call for Proposals: Reframing Post-Tonal Pedagogy for the Twenty-First Century

The Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group invites proposals for ten-minute lightning talks for a proposed special session during the 2022 meeting of the Society for Music…[Read more]

Laura and I are looking for two additional people to serve on the committee which will organize a special session proposal on Post-Tonal Pedagogy. If accepted to SMT 2022, the special session will be sponsored by our interest group. The duties of the committee/timeline will be as follows:

(1) Write the CFP (in the next few weeks)

(2) Evaluate…[Read more]

Dear group members,

In the survey following our 2020 meeting, a majority of respondents indicated interest in the IG organizing a special session proposal for SMT 2022. To do this, we would need to choose a topic, determine the program committee, and send out the CFP in late summer or early fall 2021. The program committee would then s…[Read more]

Laura and I are delighted to announce that Robert Hasegawa has agreed to lead a workshop for our group at our meeting this November. The description is below, and we look forward to some preliminary conversations happening in this space before then!

Best wishes,

Tara

Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group

Workshop at SMT 2021: Diversity and…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

Please don’t forget to vote to ratify our new bylaws and also fill out the post-meeting survey! The deadline is Monday, Dec. 14, and we would really like to see high participation!

Best,

Tara (and Laura)

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your input on the bylaws. Here is a link to the final draft. The only non-cosmetic change made since the third draft is that “20th and 21st music” has been replaced with “music after 1945,” as Timothy Johnson suggested.

Please follow this link to vote on the bylaws and take the post-meeting survey. The deadline to…[Read more]

Hi everyone, thanks to those who commented on the last draft of the bylaws. I’ve uploaded a third draft. Based on the discussion, I only changed a few details related to defining quorum. (There wasn’t enough discussion to yield a clear consensus, so I went with 10 people or 5% of the membership, whichever is larger, with membership defined as the…[Read more]

The Post-1945 Music Analysis IG will be hosting a table at the Coffee Break social session tomorrow (Sunday Nov. 15) from 3:00–4:50pm, immediately following the SMT business meeting. Come say hi! To join the event, go to the session page in Pathable and click on the Remo event link. This link will take you to the Remo platform, where you will be…[Read more]

Hello everyone, thanks for all the great discussion at the business meeting! I’ve uploaded a revised version of our by-laws draft for your comments. You can also comment directly on the document here. In particular, please take a look at the two highlighted statements, which were the subject of some discussion at our meeting.

Please stay tuned…[Read more]