We had a great time at this year’s AMS/SMT meeting! Milwaukee was a bit chilly, but we drank lots of coffee, cozied up with thrilling new books, and listened to some fantastic presentations!
Weren’t able to make it, or just feeling nostalgic? Take a tour through the eyes of OUP music, and check out some memorable highlights from this year’s joint meeting:
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Check out the OUP booth all ready for AMS/SMT!
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Smile, and say, 'OXFORD!' Nalini Ghuman poses with her book, 'Resonances of the Raj'!
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Not one, but TWO! Todd Decker posing with both of his books at AMS/SMT, 'Who Should Sing, Ol' Man River?' and 'Show Boat'
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Annegret Fauser, winner of this year's Music in American Culture Award of the American Musicological Society, is happy to see her book, 'Sounds of War' at the OUP Booth!
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Mark Evan Bonds holding up his book, 'Absolute Music'
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I spy a swap! Annegret Fauser and Mark Evan Bonds showcasing eachother's books at the OUP booth
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Mark J. Butler Posing with his book, "Playing with Something that Runs"
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Look what I found! Mark J. Butler posing with his former student's book, 'Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era' by Roger Mathew Grant
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Spotted OUP author Roger Mathew Grant and his new book, "Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era" hanging out at the OUP booth!
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'Anxiety Muted' contributor, Meghan Schrader, strikes a pose!
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Fantastic view from the Skywalk from the Milwaukee Hilton to the Milwaukee Convention Center!
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You know you're in Milwaukee when ... POLKA!
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Teardown adventures after doors close. Goodbye for now!
You can find out more information about the AMS/SMT 2014 conference by visiting their website. We already can’t wait for next year!
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Two years ago, in Appleton, WI, I had what will always remain one of the happiest few days in my writing life. I'd been invited to the Appleton Book Festival, and I had nine official events in two-and-half days—teaching memoir in libraries, talking about the future with high school students, standing on big stages in middle school auditoriums to address entire student bodies, taking over a lovely green-rugged library, working one-on-one with rising poets, talking to the darling editors of school newspapers, consulting with a boy who wanted me to write his personal story. Everywhere I went I was received with such open-hearted goodness, and one morning, in the elevator, I met Ted Kooser, that laureate poet, and told him how I had read his poems to my mother during her final days. I loved Appleton with a passion. I walked her river in the few hours when I wasn't teaching and ate alone at night in a restaurant that soon felt like my own. These were, in so many ways, perfect days.
Yesterday, my friend
Serena Agusto-Cox wrote to tell me that an Appleton librarian named Tasha (of Waking Brain Cells) had read
Small Damages and had
very kind things to say. (Serena sends word of kind reviews from time to time, and because of her, I get to thank the reviewers.) Tasha's beautiful words are deeply moving; they epitomize the graciousness of her city.
Late last night, meanwhile, I received an email from Tamara Smith, who had
interviewed me so graciously about the role of landscape in my work (and mind) a few weeks ago. Tamara's
BookBrowse review of Small Damages had gone live, and she was writing to let me know. The review is breathtaking—and it, too, says as much about the person behind the review as it does about the story I tried to tell. Perhaps even more.
A morning hug, to you all.
Thanks for the hugs...they make my day. I'm glad to be of help.
Oh Beth...thank you for your words... I am with Serena...they make my day. xxoo
Thank you so much for your appreciation of Appleton and my review.