Nichols, Sauer Tanyeri, and Harrison to Present Research at Society for American Music Conference

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Graduate students from APP’s Department of Music will present original research at the upcoming , to be held in March 2026. Their presentations span a wide range of topics in American music studies, highlighting the department’s strength in musicology, cultural history, and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Courtney Nichols will present “The ‘Faint Shadow’: Exploring Queer Women’s Lived Experiences in the Womyn’s Music Movement.”

Ellen Sauer Tanyeri will present “The Thing with Feathers: Women, Music, and Ornithology in Charles Kinkel’s Forest Echoes (1879).” 

Dane-Michael Harrison will present “‘It was just another very uneventful, ordinary morning in Old New York . . .’: Vernon Duke as flâneur in interwar American popular song.” 


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