Century "), analysis of sketches and manuscripts ("The Compositional Genesis of the Scherzo of Mahler's Second Symphony "), and music history ("Chopin and Meyerbeer's Robert le diable' "). But there were also subjects that would have seemed alien a decade ago. The society's meeting included these papers: "Carlos Chavez and the USA: The Construction of a Strategic Otherness, ""Voice Over/Voice Under, or, The Not-So-Silent Star of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, ""Women Take the Bow: Gendered Cello Music in the 19th Century, "and "Strictly Ballroom? The Use of Rumba, Bolero, and Cha Cha Cha in Rock n' Roll to 1963. "Now, alongside traditional analysis, a commentary about Beethoven or Elgar or Verdi might be about "phallocentric archetypes, "the interests of the bourgeoisie, the "emotionally and intellectually underdeveloped "musical images of non-Europeans, the "normatively
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