"Bach Transmogrified" topic of campus lecture March 8

Sara Gulgas, assistant professor of Music at the University of Arizona, presents “Bach Transmogrified: The Cultural Accreditation of Baroque Rock” 4 p.m. Friday, March 8, in Bliss Hall, Room 3136, on the campus of Youngstown State University.

The lecture sponsored by YSU’s Dana School of Music is free and open to the public. 

Sara Gulgas’ research interests include popular music studies, film and media studies, memory studies and the sociology of music. She is currently expanding upon her dissertation for publication as a scholarly monograph. Looking Forward to the Past: Baroque Rock and the Politics of Memory focuses on the historical and social context of baroque rock in the 1960s, specifically its relation to hipness, memory politics and postmodernism. Her work has been published in IASPM-US Music Scenes, Resonance Interdisciplinary Music Journal, Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music: Essays on Rhetoric, Social Consciousness, and Contemporary Culture, and Heavy Metal at the Movies.

Parking for the lecture is available in the Wick Avenue deck for a nominal fee.