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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