Music & Erotics
University of Pittsburgh
22-23 February 2019
Friday, 22 February 2019
(Frick Fine Arts Auditorium)
1:00 - 1:15 — Welcome, Opening Remarks
1:15 - 2:45 — Historicizing/Glocalizing Music and Erotics —
Chair: Andrew Weintraub
Is This Too Gay? Reflections on “Being Musical,” Heteronormativity and Why I Just Can’t Think Straight
Jerry Pergolesi
“You feel me?/ We see you.”: Performance and the Erotics of Recognition in a San Francisco Bay Area Queer Open Mic
Ryan Lambe
“The Only Real Magic”: Historicizing Music’s Erotic Powers
Zachary Loeffler
3:00 - 4:00 — Trauma, Violence, and Erotics — Chair: Sarah Politz
The Dangers of Sex Work: Researching Musical Erotics in Sumatra.
Jennifer Fraser
On Trauma, Collective Memory, and Black Futurity: Notes on the Intimate Sonic Politics of Joséphine Baker in the Third Reich
Kira Dralle
4:00 - 6:00 — Dinner on your own
6:00 - 8:00 —Keynote: When and Where are Erotics?
Deborah Wong
Respondent: Olivia Bloechl
8:00 — Drinks/Social hour
Saturday, 23 February 2019
Humanities Center (602 Cathedral of Learning)
8:00 - 8:45 — Coffee/light breakfast
8:45 - 9:45 — Womens’ Eroticisms — Chair: Meghan Hynson
“A Woman Who Has Never Been Satisfied”: Women of Color and Gendered Hierarchies in Hamilton: An American Musical
Hannah Young
“Singing Lesbian Eroticism in 1930s France: Suzy Solidor, Camp, and the Construction of Persona”
Christopher Moore
10:00 - 11:30 — Tactility — Chair: Adriana Helbig
Sensing the Sonic Body in Transgender Corporeality and Combat Sports
Ray Ace and Donnie Scally
Touching, Rubbing, Stroking: Rehabilitation of the Snare Drum Through Queer Erotics
Bill Solomon
Punishment and Sadomasochism in a Medieval Saint’s Office: The Persistent Case of Katherine of Alexandria
James Blasina
11:30 - 1:00 — Lunch on your own
1:00 - 3:00 — Queer/Erotic Hermeneutics — Chair: Dan Wang
“Un Ami si Fidelle”: Homoerotic Devotion and Jesuit Spirituality in Marc-Antoine
Charpentier’s petits motets
Joshua Druckenmiller
Passion and Worship: Possessive Eroticism in Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The House of Life
Andrew Shaw
“Au Fond d’un Placard”: Allusion, Narrative, and Queer Experience in Poulenc’s Ier Nocturne
Campbell Shiflett
The jouissance of repression-eroticization in Chinese Kunqu Opera: A Lacanian reading of Peony Pavilion
Howard Huang
3:15 - 4:15 — Case Studies in Latin America— Chair: Juan Velasquez Ospina
Empathy and Othering: Style, Movement, Nation, and the Erotic Subject in Cuban Salsa
Elizabeth Batiuk
Eroticizing Indigenous Femininity as a Strategy for Dis/locating Space and Time in Early Twentieth-Century Colombian Musical Indigenismo
Daniel Castro Pantoja
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
5:00 - 6:30 — Concert & Roundtable — Chair: Eric Moe
Anna Elder, soprano
House of Incest
Singer Joy
His Mind & What He Heard in Central Park in the Late 90s
Anthony Green
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Steven Whiteley
Speed Dating
Michele Cheng