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NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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Kristen Turner publishes “The Operatic Kaleidoscope: Voice, Race, and the Ragtime Popular Stage”
About the Book Opera and popular entertainment intersected at the turn of the twentieth century just as Americans debated the terms of citizenship. Kristen M. Turner disentangles the histories of race, class, gender, culture, and musical style to explain opera’s place in the mass culture of the ragtime era. Turner examines performances ranging from Florenz […]
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President’s Forum: SAM beyond National Borders: In Conversation with International Members–October 2 at 3pm
Featuring Marianne Betz (Professor of Musicology, Hochschule für Musik und Theater), Sally Bick (Professor of Musicology, University of Windsor), Laura Risk (Associate Professor of Music and Culture, University of Toronto Scarborough), and Ana Uribe Law (PhD Candidate, Musicology, Florida State University). You can register here.
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SAM Round Up (October 2026)
Check out the latest SAM Roundup here.
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SAM Bulletin (Fall 2026)
The Fall 2026 SAM Bulletin has arrived! In this issue, you will learn about beer choirs, Whistling Hens, Deane Root’s, well, “roots,” and what is happening across the Society!