Friday, June 2, 2023 9 am – 5 pm
Berklee College of Music
Stan Getz Library
150 Massachusetts Avenue
9:00 am – 9:45 am: Coffee
9:45 am – 10:00 am: Welcoming Remarks
- Pablo Vargas, Dean, Library and Learning Resources, Berklee College of Music
10:00 am – 11:00 am: With Variations for Piano-Forte: Music Reflecting Current Events in Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1809–1816
- Andrea Cawelti, Harvard University
Rudolph Ackermann’s The Repository of Arts is likely already familiar to Regency era fans for the fashion plates if nothing else. Functioning as something we might call a lifestyle journal today, its full title was The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics—with a change in 1816 to The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, &c.—and it covered all these areas and more. This presentation is partly an introduction to the people responsible for The Repository, through the lens of some less well-known content that will be illuminated: its music reviews from 1809–1816. Throughout the twenty-year run of The Repository of Arts, from 1809 to 1829, its monthly music reviews analyzed scores for domestic music-making; while the focus here is on 1809–1816 rather than on the entire run, these earlier issues illustrate some intriguing connections between domestic music and events on the world stage, allowing for some conclusions about emotional affinities on the part of domestic performers. These reviews cover the ending years of the Napoleonic Wars, and far from dull, as some musicologists accuse it of being, the music reviewed in The Repository was created and marketed for specific reasons. Often inspired by the remarkable events of the time, this music provided its home performers with an important, personal connection to Britain’s place in world events.
11:00 am – 11:15 am: Break
11:15 am – 12:15 pm: Business
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm: Lunch
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm: Two 20-minute presentations (round 1):
The Merger of the Boston Conservatory and Berklee: A Tale of Two Libraries
- Jennifer Hunt (Berklee College of Music)
In 2016, the merger of The Boston Conservatory and Berklee became official. Learn about the two libraries prior to the merger and what has happened in between and since then. Jennifer will discuss various staffing shifts and additions, reorganizations, collections work, spaces, technology, and expanding services geared to support the staff as well as the Berklee community as a whole.
Japanese Scores at Wesleyan: Exploring The Rich History of Japanese Music in North American Institutions
- Garrett Groesbeck (Wesleyan University)
In the late 1960s Yamaguchi Gorō, designated living national treasure of Japan, was invited as a visiting artist to Wesleyan University. During his time at the institution he recorded a solo piece of music for the shakuhachi, an end-blown bamboo flute, that was eventually included on NASA’s Voyager Golden Record. In the intervening decades, a number of prominent Japanese artists have taught at the university, bringing with them a collection of sheet music that is rare in the United States. Although most of the Japanese music courses established in North American higher education in the 20th century eventually went defunct, in recent years Columbia University has begun their for-credit gagaku/hōgaku program, marking a new era of interest in Japanese pre-modern genres. Garrett explores the history of Japanese music in North American higher education through the lens of the cataloging project in which I am currently engaged through Wesleyan University’s Olin Library and World Music Archive. As the number of performers of Japanese instruments such as the plucked three-string shamisen, thirteen-string koto, and particularly the shakuhachi continue to grow in the United States, we hope to make these materials more accessible to a variety of people.
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm: Break
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm: Two 20-minute presentations (round 2)
The Music in The Music of Black Americans
- Christina Linklater (Harvard University)
- Sandi-Jo Malmon (Harvard University)
- Kerry Masteller (Harvard University)
The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University recently launched The Music in The Music of Black Americans, a digital appendix to The Music of Black Americans, the landmark book by Dr. Eileen Southern. Dr. Southern was the first Black woman to receive a tenured professorship in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1974, three years after the first edition of The Music of Black Americans was published; the book itself is a monumental work that develops an extensive musical and cultural history of Black Americans, spanning from before the trans-Atlantic slave trade and continuing through to the mid twentieth century.
The Music in The Music of Black Americans, available at https://musicinmoba.harvardmusiclib.share.library.harvard.edu/, offers the first organized, openly accessible inventory of the musical examples in the first edition of The Music of Black Americans. It provides full-text open access to the complete scores of almost all of these examples, from sources in the collections of Harvard Library and nine other institutions. An open-access project, the appendix furthers Harvard Library’s commitment to champion access and share knowledge with users around the world — The Music of Black Americans was exceedingly popular and was most recently reprinted in 2022. The site bridges the gap between musical works as they appear in the book, and as they could appear in the hands or on the screen of a composer, conductor, or musicologist today.
Kerry Masteller, Sandi-Jo Malmon and Christina Linklater will present the site, relate their experiences locating the scores and building a delivery system for them, and share useful insights for those contemplating their own digital humanities initiatives.
A Framework for an Updated EDIJ Statement
- Patrick Quinn (New England Conservatory), EDIJ Officer
- Jenée Force (Berklee College of Music), EDIJ committee member
- Yamil Suárez (Berklee College of Music), EDIJ committee member
- Jennifer Hadley (Wesleyan University), EDIJ committee member
Patrick Quinn and members of the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Justice Committee will present their work on an updated EDIJ statement, and use this time to solicit ideas and feedback from the membership.
3:30 pm – 4:15 pm: Library Tour
4:15 pm – end: Concert/Reception
Presenter Biographies
Andrea Cawelti is the Ward Music Cataloger at Houghton Library, Harvard University. A graduate of Oberlin (Greenwood Conservatory Prize) and The Juilliard School, she began her career as an operatic mezzo-soprano. The recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including winning the Met Competition, she has sung with the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Opera, and the Columbus Symphony, among others. Prior to Houghton, she worked at the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University, the Chicago Symphony Archives, and the New York Public Library Music Division. She completed her MSLIS at Drexel University in 2010.
Jenée Force is the Associate Director, Archives and Special Collections at Berklee, overseeing services for and collections from both Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Jenée also oversees Berklee’s institutional repository, REMIX, as well as the Berklee Oral History Project. In her previous roles at Berklee, Jenée was Manager of Metadata Services, and Catalog Librarian. Jenée is a graduate of the State University of New York at Geneseo (B.A. in Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, ‘02) and the State University of New York, University at Buffalo (M.L.S., ‘06, M.A. in Musicology, ‘07). Jenée joined NEMLA’s EDIJ Committee in July 2023, and has previously served on NEMLA’s Program Committee.
Garrett Groesbeck is an ethnomusicologist, koto player, and PhD student at Wesleyan University. He received his MM in composition and theory from Nagoya College of Music as a Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT) scholar. From 2017 to 2019 he worked at the organization Japan Folk Festival, arranging Japanese performing arts-related events worldwide. His writing can be found in Japan Forum and Asian Music, and he has been profiled in Hōgaku Journal. He is currently assistant editor at SEM Student News.
Jennifer Hadley is a library assistant at Wesleyan University’s Music Library/World Music Archives and is also serving a temporary position as the library’s DEIJ Program Coordinator. She holds a BA and MA in world music from Wesleyan and an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is NEMLA’s newsletter editor and a member of the EDIJ Committee. She is also active with the Oberlin DEI and Antiracism Committee, serves on her local library’s Board of Trustees, and has recently joined MLA’s IDEA Committee.
Jennifer A. Hunt was appointed the Associate Dean for the Berklee Library in 2022. Previously she served as the Library Director for the Albert Alphin Library at The Boston Conservatory since 2002 and was appointed the Director of Collection Strategy for Berklee Libraries in 2019. Among other things, she is responsible for overall leadership, administration, and coordination of the department’s public-facing services and spaces, as well as technical services. She received her B.M. in flute performance, M.A. in musicology and M.L.S. in library science from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Jennifer has served as the Chair of the New England Music Library Association, Coordinator of the Boston Area Music Libraries, and as a member of the Career Services Committee and Résumé Review Service of the Music Library Association. Her research interests include French flute repertoire, 20th century wind ensemble literature, the U.S. Civil War, and the Lincoln assassination. Currently Jennifer is a member of the flute section of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony.
Christina Linklater works in public and technical services at Harvard Library’s Loeb Music Library and Houghton Library. She was a co-director of the Eileen Southern Initiative, a multi-year classroom-library collaboration celebrating the first Black woman professor to receive tenure at Harvard. In her role as director of the United States office of RISM (International Inventory of Musical Sources), she coordinates RISM cataloguing for the U.S. Her next RISM project, The Power of Indigenous Song, launches on June 5th.
Sandi-Jo Malmon is the Librarian for Collection Development at the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University. As a member of the Music Librarian’s Group of the IVY Plus Libraries Confederation, she continues to participate in collaborative collection development and contributes to the Composers Web Archive (CCWA). She is co-chair of the MLA electronic scores working group.
Sandi-Jo currently serves on the editorial board of the MLA Basic Manual Series (2016-) and for IAML, as a book review editor for Fontes Artis Musicae. She currently serves as the past chair of NEMLA.
She recently co-authored the article, “Surveying Composers Part II: Perspectives on Composer and Library Engagement for the Future,” with Elizabeth Berndt. It may be found in Fontes Artis Musicae, volume 70, Number 1, January-March 2023.
With advanced degrees in performance, Sandi-Jo keeps a busy concert calendar as cellist of the Aryaloka String Quartet.
Kerry Carwile Masteller is the Reference and Digital Program Librarian at Harvard’s Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library. She works in research services, manages the Music Library’s print digitization program, social media platforms, and digital humanities projects, and is one of the Music Library’s main contacts for copyright-related questions. Much of her day-to-day work involves thinking about ways to make the library’s collections more open and accessible to people around the world.
Patrick Quinn is the Research and Instruction Librarian at New England Conservatory’s Blumenthal Family Library. Patrick holds degrees from Simmons University (MLIS ’22), Columbus State University (MM ’16), and the University of New Hampshire (BA ’14). Recently, he has presented at national Music Library Association conferences on providing music library instruction for ESOL students and advocating for expanded popular musicology support for underserved populations, using his personal research in disco and its connections to the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities to inform his experience. Patrick has co authored a chapter with his colleague Marci Cohen in an upcoming book, Belonging in Music Libraries: Bringing DEIA to Music Information Literacy, with expected publication by the end of 2023. Patrick has served NEMLA as the EDIJ officer since his appointment in fall of 2020, with election confirmation in spring of 2021. Patrick is also an active drag queen, performing throughout the Greater Boston area.
Yamil Suárez is the Associate Director of Library Systems & Web Development at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. His job focuses on the configuration, development, and management of the Berklee Library’s information systems, and on maintaining access to library content for off-campus patrons. Yamil is a graduate of Berklee College of Music (B.M. in Music Education ’98) and Boston University (M.S. in Computer Science ’04). Originally from Puerto Rico, he is fluent in English and Spanish and likes to volunteer with “get out the vote” (GOTV) campaigns to assist people in exercising their right to vote. Yamil joined the inaugural NEMLA EDIJ committee in the fall of 2021.