October 25, 2024: “A Protest, a Punishment, and a Pop Song: Hearing the Soundtracks of Polarization in 2020.” Presented at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak).
October 24, 2024: “Black, Right, Left, White: Eminem, Masculine Virtues, and the Limits of Political Crossover.” Presented at the Budds Center for American Music Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak).
October 2, 2024, 5:30pm: “Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ as Campaign Anthem.” Presented at the Department of Continuing and Professional Education, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak).
September 24, 2024. “Black, Right, Left, White: Eminem, Masculine Virtues, and the Limits of Political Crossover.” Presented at Johns Hopkins University/Peabody Institute, Baltimore, MD (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak).
September 20, 2024: “Hearing the Presidential Race.” Presented at Queens University of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak).
September 18, 2024, 12pm: “Gender and the 2024 Election: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” featuring Dr. Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Dr. Jennifer Graham, Dr. Kerry Neville, Dr. Jan Hoffman, and Dr. Joanna Schwartz. Russell Library, Room 241, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA.
September 17, 2024, 6pm: “All Hail for Music on the Trail: A program featuring music from U.S. Presidential Campaigns, 1840-1964.” A Constitution Week Concert and Lecture, featuring Dr. Billy Coleman, Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, Youngmi Kim, Camilla Packroff, Chris Hendley, Bradley Sowell, Craig Callender, Jennifer Flory, and the Max Noah Singers. Georgia’s Old Governor’s Mansion, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA. Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/GCMusicDepartment
April 26, 2024: New Books Network, Interview with Dr. Miranda Melcher, Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak).
March 27, 2024, 1pm: Panel: Hearing Music on the 2024 Campaign Trail, Research Day, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Austin Butts, Riley Greer, Victoriyah Friend, and Claire Kosobud, A&S Auditorium, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA.
February 21, 2024, 6pm: Book Talk, featuring Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Author of Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency, Georgia’s Old Governor’s Mansion, Milledgeville, GA.
January 31, 2024, 6pm: “Sounding White in the Age of Trump,” Legends of Honors Lecture Series, Virtual (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak), John E Sallstrom Honors College at Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA.
September 18, 2023, 6pm: Tunes from the Trail: A program featuring music from U.S. Presidential Campaigns, 1840-1964. A Constitution Week Concert and Lecture, feat.
Anna Ogletree, soprano, Savannah Greene, soprano, Hallie Thompson, alto, Tyler Harris, tenor, Ben McPherson, tenor, Liam Mueller, baritone, Dr. Craig Callender, guitar, Dr. Lev Ryabinin, piano, Max Noah Singers, dir. Dr. Jennifer Flory, Victoriyah Friend, Riley Greer, Claire Kosobud, lecturers, Dr. Dana Gorzelany-Mostak & Riley Greer, producers. Magnolia Ballroom, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA.
March 29, 2023, 1pm: Hearing Music on the 19th-Century Campaign Trail, Georgia College & State University Research Day, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, supervisor, Trax VIP Team, Victoriyah Friend, Riley Greer, and Caroline Cole; Dr. Jennifer Flory, director, Max Noah Singers, Macy Beddow, Ethan Chase, Kylie Dallas, Abigail Dugger, Aidan Fortenberry, Savannah Greene, Riley Greer, Jack Grimes, Richard Guyton, Tyler Harris, Joey Johnson, Michael Marcinko, Ben McPherson, Liam Mueller, Anna Ogletree, Preston Raburn, Addie Resh, Allison Ryder, Hallie Thompson, Emmaline Wellborn, A&S Auditorium, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA.
October 17, 2022, 2pm: Trax on the Trail: A Vertically Integrated Project, Mentored Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (MURACE) Symposium, Peabody Auditorium, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Riley Greer, and Victoriyah Friend, with Caroline Cole, moderator).
September 19, 2022: Tuning into Politics: A Program Featuring Music from US Presidential Campaigns and the Suffrage Movement, 1840-1964, A Constitution Week Concert, feat. Riley Greer, soprano, Anna Ogletree, soprano, Tyler Harris, tenor, Aidan Fortenberry, baritone, Craig Callender, guitar, Lev Ryabinin, piano, Taylor Doyle, violin, Sara Carr, violin, and the Max Noah Singers, dir. Jennifer Flory, with special guest, Dr. Victoria Gordon, Coverdell Visiting Scholar and Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, director. Magnolia Ballroom, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA.
April 28-29, 2022: Music on the Campaign Trail, New England Political Science Association Conference, Bretton Woods, NH (Naomi Graber and Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
September 20, 2021: Tunes from the Trail: A Program Featuring Music from US Presidential Campaigns, 1840-1964, A Constitution Week Concert, feat. Sophia Clark, soprano, Erin Lamb, soprano, Tyler Harris, tenor, Dr. Craig Callender, guitar, Dr. Lev Ryabinin, piano, Max Noah Singers, dir. Dr. Jennifer Flory, and Dr. Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, lecturer. Magnolia Ballroom, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA.
June 9, 2021: “Kamala Harris Rap Genius?” Society for American Music Conference, Virtual (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
November 3, 2020: “Trail Tunes: From Tippecanoe to Trump and Biden Too.” Presentation for Georgia College Alumni Weekend, Live stream (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Sarah Griffin, and Haley Strassburger)
October 22, 2020: “Music on the Campaign Trail.” Lecture and Q&A with The Great American Songbook Foundation (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
September 17, 2020, 6pm: “Delightful Tunes from U.S. Presidential Campaigns, 1840-1964, featuring a live performance of campaign songs, Live streamed, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA.
March 2020: “Trax on the Trail: Researching Music on the U.S. Presidential Campaign Trail,” Georgia College Undergraduate Research Conference (Sarah Griffin and Haley Strassburger)
February 28, 2020, 4pm: “Kamala Harris Rap Genius?” Case Western Reserve University Colloquium, Cleveland, OH (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
January 24, 2020: “Tracking the Electoral Soundscape: Trax on the Trail in the Classroom.” Georgia Music Educators Conference, Athens, GA (Haley Strassburger and Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
September 16, 2019, 5pm: Constitution Week Concert, featuring live performances of campaign songs, Georgia College, Magnolia Ballroom, Milledgeville, GA
September 17, 2018, 5pm: Constitution Week Concert, featuring live performances of campaign songs, Georgia College, Magnolia Ballroom, Milledgeville, GA
May 1, 2018, 4:30pm: Teacher Workshop at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, Little Rock, AR
April 6, 2018: “Songs in the Key of President C: A Short History of Music on the Campaign Trail” (part of the Society for American Music’s Digital Lectures in American Music Series)
November 11, 2017, 8pm: 2016: Panel: “Electoral Echoes and Musical Reverberations,” featuring Justin Patch (chair), Emily T. Abrams Ansari, James Deaville, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, and Travis Gosa, American Musicological Society Conference, Rochester, NY
September 18, 2017, 12:30pm: Constitution Day Festival, featuring live performances of campaign songs, Georgia College Front Campus, Milledgeville, GA
July 10, 2017, 6pm: “A Short History of the Campaign Song (from Tippecanoe to Trump and Clinton Too)” Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Lecturer, with Sarah Kitts, soprano and Douglas Bassett, guitar, Linger Longer Series, Reynolds Plantation, Reynolds, GA (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
June 9-11, 2017: “Campaign Music 101 in the Music History Classroom.” Teaching Music History Conference, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak and Sarah Kitts (Georgia College), Naomi Graber, Mary Helen Hoque, Hanna Lisa Stefansson, and Cameron Steuart (University of Georgia), Kassie Kelly (Trinity University), Boston, MA
April 25, 2017, 5pm: “To Campaign Song While Female,” Hugh Hodgson School of Music Colloquium Series, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
April 7, 2017, 9:45am: “Teaching the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Through Music and Sound.” Presentation at the University System of Georgia Teaching and Learning Conference: Best Practices for Promoting Engaged Student Learning with Dana Gorzelany-Mostak and Sarah Kitts (Georgia College) Naomi Graber, Mary Helen Hoque, Hanna Lisa Stefansson, and Cameron Steuart (University of Georgia) Kassie Kelly (Trinity University), Athens, GA
March 30, 2017, 12:00pm: “State of Play: Musical Anomalies and Oddities on the 2016 Presidential Campaign Trail,” Knox College, Jay Rehearsal Hall, CFA, Galesburg, IL (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
March 23, 2017, 12:15pm: Post-election Musings from Trax on the Trail, Society for American Music Conference, Montreal, QC with Dana Gorzelany-Mostak (Georgia College), Sally Bick (University of Windsor), Naomi Graber (University of Georgia), Eric Hung (Westminster Choir College of Rider University)
March 8, 2017: “Hearing Girls, Girls, Girls on the 2016 Campaign Trail,” Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
February 25, 2017: Panel: “Making Sense of 2016: Perspectives on Music and the Presidential Campaigns” with Justin Patch (Vassar College), James Deaville (Carleton College), Travis L. Gosa (Cornell University), and Dana Gorzelany-Mostak (Georgia College), International Association for the Study of Popular Music Conference, Cleveland, OH
January 20, 2017: Trax contributors join Musicology Now to live blog the inaugural festivities
December 15, 2016: Trax on the Trail Podcast, Pt. 6 “The Empire Strikes Trax,” featuring Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Sam Campbell, Sarah Kitts, and Cannon McClain WRGC 88.3FM
November 3-6, 2016: Presentation of “Trail Trax: A Campaign Music Database” at the American Musicological Society Conference, Vancouver, BC (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Cannon McClain, Sarah Kitts, and Mark Misinco)
October 27, 2016, 7pm: “State of Play: Musical Anomalies and Oddities on the 2016 Presidential Campaign Trail,” Owen Arts Center 2130 (O’Donnell Hall) at Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
October 20, 2016, 6pm: “A Short History of the Campaign Song (from Tippecanoe to Trump and Clinton Too)” with Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, lecturer, Sarah Kitts, soprano and Douglas Bassett, guitar, The Old Governor’s Mansion, (presentation is in conjunction with the Election of 1860 exhibition, which is on loan from the Smithsonian Institute) Milledgeville, GA
October 17, 2016, 12pm: “Musical Anomalies on the 2016 Presidential Campaign Trail,” sponsored by the American Democracy Project and the Georgia College Honors Program, Ina Dillard Russell Library at Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA
October 13, 2016, 6-8pm: “What is Trax on the Trail?” Georgia College Alumni Meeting, The Back Burner, Macon, GA (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
September 23, 2016: Trax on the Trail Podcast, Pt. 5 “The Soundtrack of Political Populism,” featuring Justin Patch, Matthew Jordan, James Deaville, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, and Cannon McClain WRGC 88.3FM
September 16, 2016, 12pm: Constitution Day Festival at Georgia College (Front Campus), featuring live performances of campaign songs!
July 7, 2016: Trax on the Trail Podcast, Pt. 4 “The Candidates Take On Broadway,” featuring Naomi Graber, Elissa Harbert, James Deaville, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, and Sarah Kitts WRGC 88.3FM
June 9, 2016, 8pm: Trax on the Trail Podcast, Pt. 3 “Parodying the Presidency,” featuring Christianna Barnard, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, and Sarah Kitts WRGC 88.3FM
May 9, 2016: “Talk Bernie to Me”: Political (and Sexual) Authority in an Unofficial Bernie Sanders Campaign Song” for Bernie Sanders Week on In media res (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
April 26, 2016, 8pm: Trax on the Trail Podcast, Pt. 2 “The Candidate Takes the Mic,” featuring Brian Barone, James Deaville, Cannon McClain, and Dana Gorzelany-Mostak WRGC 88.3FM
April 24, 2016, 3pm: “‘Pop Goes the Weasel’: The Art of Musical Attack Ads.” Milledgeville Music Club, Milledgeville, GA (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
April 7, 2016, 2pm: Appearance on PopPolitics with Ted Johnson, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Channel 124 POTUS Politics (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
March 31, 2016, 5:00pm: “‘I think, therefore I sound’: (De)constructing the 2016 Presidential Soundscape.” Sponsored by the Center for Georgia Studies, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA, Arts & Sciences Auditorium (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
March 22, 2016, 11:15am: “Whose American Tune Is It Anyways?: Patriotic Pop and the Formation of Presidential Identity.” Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, Taylor Hall (Dana Gorzelany-Mostak)
March 1, 2016, 8pm: Trax on the Trail Podcast, Pt. 1 “Super Tuesday Edition,” featuring Dana Gorzelany-Mostak and James Deaville WRGC 88.3FM