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Newsletter Contents: Vol. I, No. 1 (January 1991) This inaugural issue explains the study group’s overall aims and specific projects. Vol. I, No. 2 (April 1991) Includes “Methodology, Terminology, Professionalism” by Paul Attinello, reviews of “Sex and the Music Scholars” by Joshua Kosman and “Inside the Ivory Closet: The Challenges Facing Lesbian & Gay Studies” by Jeffrey…

Graduate Student Forum for New Research Presenters William Cheng, “Toward an Acoustemology of the Closet: Online Gamespaces and Prosthetic Technologies of Queer Expression” & Lauron Kehrer, “Navigating Feminism and Capitalism: Lesbian Community Building and Goldenrod Music”

Trans/gendering the voice Julia Serano in conversation with Stephan Pennington

Graduate Student Forum for New Research Presenters Sarah Hankins, “Size and Shape are Appropriate, and Subject to Change”: Queer Arousal and the State of Musicology’s Search for Meaning Jarek Paul Ervin, From “You Better Work” to “Born this Way:” Popular Music and the Gay Visibility

How to Sound Gay David Halperin in conversation with Ryan Dohoney

New Work in LGBTQ Scholarship Presenters Bradley Fulgate, “Voices Fit for Queens:  Gender, Identity, Voice, and the Drag Queen” Sam Baltimore, “Ashman’s Aladdin Archive: Queer Orientalism in the Disney Renaissance” Marcus Desmond Harmon, “Teaching Womyn’s Music, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Alix Dobkin”.

A Serious Effort Not to Think Straight Suzanne G. Cusick in conversation with Emily Wilbourne

Race-ing Queer Music Scholarship Symposium Race-ing Queer Music Scholarship was a symposium held in conjunction with the 2016 AMS/SMT Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. The symposium featured keynote presentations by Deborah R. Vargas and Alisha Lola Jones. There was also a concert featuring Teiya Kasahara (voice) and Rachel Iwaasa (piano). The original program and schedule can…