The Fall meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society took place virtually during the last weekend of September. Meeting over Zoom came with some benefits, including a significantly larger number of attendees. Planning, managing, and hosting the conference brought together colleagues from across many Midwest institutions.
Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from Iowa attended and contributed in various roles. Anabel Maler served on the program committee. Cody Norling shared a research presentation titled “Creating a ‘Haven for Culture’: Fortnightly Clubwomen and Advocacy for Opera in Interwar Chicago.” As chapter president, Nathan Platte helped emcee the conference and joined the keynote panel, “Musicology and Antiracism,” where he shared reflections alongside Naomi André (University of Michigan), Johann Buis (Wheaton College), and Maya Gibson (University of Missouri). The panelists’ remarks were recorded and may be viewed here.
The AMS Midwest chapter will gather again in spring 2021 in a first-ever joint meeting with MIDSEM, the Midwestern chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology. That meeting, also held virtually, will be hosted by the University of Iowa.
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