Conference Agenda

Chicago Music Scenes: Histories, People, and Institutions engages individuals from academic and professional fields in discussion about the Chicago music scene. The symposium will take place at Holtschneider Performance Center at DePaul University in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, to coincide with the annual AMS meeting in downtown Chicago and with DePaul’s Chicago Quarter programming for first year undergraduate students. The symposium is sponsored by the Popular Music Study Group of AMS. The symposium will be open to the public, including DePaul students, faculty, and staff, community members, and AMS conference attendees, and we have committed to streaming the symposium to allow remote attendance. The themes of the plenary sessions, Chicago Music Histories, Space and Place, Media and Listening, and Public Programming, purposefully transcend genre, yet offer an opportunity to engage with significant historical trajectories, institutions, issues, people, and communities that shape the music scene. Our goal is to create conversations around key issues that individuals and institutions face in Chicago’s music scenes. The outcome of this event will be a co-edited volume, with Andrew Mall and Michael Allemana, Chicago’s Music Scenes.

Closed meeting.

Closed meeting.

Stop by the AMS exhibit booth to meet with members of the AMS Board of Directors.

The AMS Affiliates Fair will feature AMS Chapters and Study Groups. The fair is an opportunity for attendees to meet with representatives of these groups to learn more about their activities and ways to get involved.

Click here to reserve a table for your group or affiliate to participate in the Affiliates Fair!

The 2017 film Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World advanced arguments for Native American presence in multiple genres of American music and for previously underacknowledged Native influences on those genres.  Now, seven years later—and  in the wake of increased Native visibility in music, literature, art, and screen culture—how might we reevaluate arguments for Indigenous presence, agency, and influence?  Can we historicize such arguments over a longer span of time?  Might we develop new critical perspectives on what the Anishinaabe theorist Gerald Vizenor has called survivance, that canny mix of survival, resistance, courage, and ironic wit that characterizes so much Native American cultural production?

Closed meeting.

Closed meeting.

Closed meeting.

Stop by the AMS exhibit booth to meet with members of the AMS Board of Directors.

Looking to decompress? Join Steve Swayne and Kunio Hara at the AMS Knitting Circle!

BYOY. If you need to buy knitting supplies, there are a few options nearby: Chicago Fabric Yarn and Button Sales and Yarnify are both walking distance from the Palmer House. 

By invitation only.

Join authors Ben Barson, Andrew Jarad Eisenberg, and Shayna Silverstein to celebrate the publication of their new books:

Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Barson)

Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast (Eisenberg)

Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria (Silverstein)

The Prospective Graduate Student Fair is a meet-and-greet event. The fair is an opportunity for Prospective Graduate Students to meet with representatives of multiple departments of music to learn more about their graduate programs, resources, and the opportunities on offer. 

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Reception for former, current, and future members of the department

Join us to congratulate the authors and celebrate new and forthcoming books in these University of Chicago Press series.

Social reception sponsored by the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Mozart Society of America, American Handel Society, and Haydn Society of North America

Pitt Alumni and Friends Reception

Harvard Alumni and Affiliates Reception

Reception for University of North Texas students, alumni, and prospective students.

Russian colonization has had a lasting impact on the historiography of Ukrainian music,
resulting in historical misattributions and omissions, and an overall inaccurate portrayal of
Ukrainian music. This workshop initiates the process of rectifying the current situation by
providing musicologists and music librarians with strategies to identify and correct inaccuracies
in English-language scholarship, reference resources, and library catalogs—all interconnected
information sources. Participants will explore specific strategies, such as creating and amending
reference entries to ensure proper attribution of musical works, detailed bibliographic references
for Ukrainian composers and performers, and accurate romanization of Ukrainian names.

Additionally, the workshop emphasizes collaboration with key institutions. Engaging with
librarians and professionals from the Library of Congress (LOC) and the Name Authority
Cooperative (NACO) will help participants understand the processes for reclassifying and
renaming authority and bibliographic records, ensuring accurate representation in library
catalogs and archives. The workshop also advocates for additions and revisions of terms for
controlled vocabularies by incorporating Ukrainian-specific music genres and forms, increasing
visibility and accurate representation of Ukrainian music in libraries. The development of
inclusive and detailed Grove Music Online entries will be encouraged, focusing on
comprehensive information such as the place of birth, activity, and death of musicians, rather
than solely on nationality or ethnicity. For composers known by their Russian names, variant
spellings using Ukrainian romanization and Cyrillic script will be included to avoid confusion for
Ukrainian-speaking users. By implementing these strategies, musicologists will be empowered
to contribute to a just and accurate portrayal of Ukrainian music, rectifying historical biases and
enriching the global understanding of this cultural heritage.

Stop by the AMS exhibit booth to meet with members of the AMS Board of Directors.

Business Meeting of the AMS Pedagogy Study Group.

Need a break? Need some dog cuddles? Stop by and say hi to our doggy therapists! 

By invitation only.

Business meeting of the AMS Council.

This is a closed meeting for current Council members only.

CCM cordially invites alumni, current students, faculty, prospective students, friends and all conference goers to our annual AMS reception. Please join us on Saturday, November 16th from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.

Stanford University Department of Music Reception.

Yale Alumni Reception (9:30-10:30 PM) open to current Yale faculty & students and Yale alumni. Yale Party (10:30-11:30 PM) open to all.