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Kathleen McGowan and Maia Perez, two doctoral candidates in Musicology, recently presented at the American Musicological Society’s annual meeting, a major international conference held in Chicago, IL. Both scholars of British music, they shared portions of their dissertation research.
McGowan presented a paper titled “Girton’s Musical War: Music on the Home Front in a Cambridge Women’s College, 1914–1918,” which highlighted the little-known musical activities of students at Girton College, one of Cambridge’s all-women colleges, during the First World War. Perez’s paper, “Instruments as Specimens: How the Photographs of 19th-Century English Instrument Collections Made Organology a Science,” established new connections between the study of musical instruments and their 19th-century cultural and historical context in England.
The American Musicological Society’s annual meeting is musicology’s largest conference in the United States, featuring hundreds of presentations, workshops, forums, and performances. Further information about both papers, including abstracts, can be found in the 2024 Annual Meeting’s online program.