The Jewish Studies and Music Study Group is hosting a virtual event featuring the winners of our 2023 publication awards. This meeting will feature the authors themselves, and give the authors, the members of our group, and all who are interested an opportunity to read and discuss these award-winning texts.
The session will begin with brief presentations of the texts by the authors, followed by a Q&A and open discussion of each text (45 for each, 90 minutes in total).
To receive PDFs of the texts in advance, please register through the link below. All are welcome to attend and present questions to the authors. Registration is open to all!
June 20, 2024
11am-12:30pm ET
Zoom link:
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/98038865121
Register here to receive the PDFs:
https://forms.gle/DffTPPovhcd44UPTA
Texts
Lynette Bowring, Rebecca Cypess and Liza Malamut (editors)
Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022.
[Registrants will receive an excerpt of the book]
Samantha Madison Cooper
“‘I’d Rather [Sound] Blue’: Listening to Agency, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Vocal Recordings of Fanny Brice and Barbra Streisand,” Journal of the Society for American Music 16, no. 1 (February 2022), 24–46.
Author biographies
Rebecca Cypess
Musicologist and historical keyboardist Rebecca Cypess is the incoming Dean of Undergraduate Liberal Arts and Sciences at Yeshiva University, having served previously as Professor of Music and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Her publications include Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy (2016), Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment (2022), and over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She is co-editor of five essay collections, including Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy (2022), co-edited with Lynette Bowring and Liza Malamut, and Historical Performance and New Music: Aesthetics and Practices (2023), co-edited with Estelí Gomez and Rachael Lansang.
Lynette Bowring
Lynette Bowring is Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Music History at the Yale School of Music, a position that she has held since Fall 2019. She received her PhD from Rutgers University, and also holds a masters in musicology from the University of Manchester (2011) and an undergraduate degree in violin performance from the Royal Northern College of Music in the UK. Some of her doctoral research was published in Early Music as “Notation as a Transformative Technology: Orality, Literacy and Early Modern Instrumentalists.” Lynette co-edited Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives with Rebecca Cypess and Liza Malamut and is awaiting publication later this year of an edition of seven motets by Marianna Martines. She recently started working on a monograph about instrumental music in baroque Italy.
Liza Malamut
Liza Malamut is Artistic Director of The Newberry Consort, an organization that presents accessible and historically informed concerts in Chicago and beyond, and a founding member of Incantare, an ensemble of violins and sackbuts formed to highlight music of lesser-known and marginalized composers and their contemporaries. She appears as a period trombonist with ensembles throughout North America, and her playing can be heard on the Musica Omnia, Naxos, and Hyperion labels, among others. She was a coeditor and contributor for the book Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives with Rebecca Cypess and Lynette Bowring (Indiana University Press). She received degrees in trombone performance from Eastman School of Music and Boston University, and she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Historical Performance from Boston University. Liza currently teaches historical trombone at Indiana University.
Samantha Madison Cooper
Dr. Samantha M. Cooper is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is working on her first monograph, American Jews and the Making of the New York Opera Industry, 1880-1940 (under contract with Oxford University Press), which is supported by the Association for Jewish Studies’ Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award. Samantha served as the Ariel and Joshua Weiner Family Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (2023-2024), and as a Harry Starr Postdoctoral Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies (2022-2023). She received her Ph.D. in Historical Musicology at New York University (2022). Her articles have appeared in The Opera Quarterly, American Jewish History, and the Journal of the Society for American Music. Samantha’s scholarship has received the Society for American Music’s Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award (2024), and the American Musicological Society’s Jewish Studies and Music Study Group Award (2023). She is the producer and host of The Sounding Jewish podcast, and the Co-Executive Director of the Jewish Music Forum, A Project of the American Society for Jewish Music.