Alison Maggart will receive her PhD in historical musicology from the University of Southern California in summer 2017. Her dissertation reconsiders the aesthetics and reception of Milton Babbitt by exploring allusion and quotation in several works from the late 1980s. She has been recognized by USC’s Graduate School as a Provost Fellow and Bing Arnold Endowed Fellow in the Humanities. In 2016 she was also the recipient of the Ingolf Dahl Award, conferred upon the best graduate student paper presented at the joint Pacific Southwest and Northern California chapters of the American Musicological Society. In addition to serial aesthetics, Alison is interested in hermeneutics, intertextuality, theory and historiography in musicology, and music and identity in the United States’ South.
Contact : amaggart@gmail.com
Séance - Opposing Opposites in America: Babbitt and Reich 2.A.1 : Rethinking Milton Babbitt’s “Serious Music” as Play
