Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies: Nostalgia and the Television Musical

The Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies conference series aims to bring nostalgia studies more broadly into conversation with music and music studies. As a theoretical framework, nostalgia studies allow us to explore attitudes towards the past underlying both musicology and music composition/performance. It illuminates the ways nostalgia is used by creators and audiences, as well as the ways it affects and influences our perceptions of history, heritage, self and others. Guided by the work of Svetlana Boym and others on nostalgia types (restorative vs reflective, individual vs. collective memory), this conference aims to bring scholars and artists together to deepen our understanding of nostalgia’s powerful presence in music and music-making.

Register for this panel at: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrcu-qrz0pG9cKmPKRWCXXQW9mx9GVQJuF

Panelists:

• Thomas Hanslowe, “Nostalgia and Subversion: The Musical Number in Steven Universe and Over the Garden Wall”
• Raymond Knapp, “Let’s Talk about Rudolph: Undermining Nostalgia in the early Christmas Television Musical”
• Danielle Stein
• Moderator: Holley Replogle-Wong

This program is made possible by the Joyce S. and Robert U. Nelson Fund. Robert Uriel Nelson was a revered musicologist and music professor at UCLA, who, together with his wife, established a generous endowment for the university to make programs like this possible.