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Conference Agenda

The Online Program of events for the 2024 AMS Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.

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Session Overview

Date: Thursday, 14/Nov/2024
7:30am - 10:30am	AMS Board of Directors' Meeting Location: Cresthill
8:00am - 12:30pm	Tenth New Beethoven Research Conference Location: Marshfield
9:00am - 11:30am	Beyond Contrafacts: Broadening Approaches to Musical Borrowing, Intertextuality, and Re-Creation Location: Clark 5
10:00am - 10:45am	Eileen Southern Scholars Cohort Meet-up Location: Kimball
10:30am - 6:00pm	Exhibit Hall Open Location: Exhibit Hall
10:45am - 12:15pm	Bordering Modernisms Sherry Lee , Location: Crystal Chair: Sherry Lee Chair(s): Daniel M. Grimley, Sherry D. Lee Presenter(s): Ana R. Alonso Minutti, Noriko Manabe, Kevin Karnes, Sherry Lee, Daniel Grimley	Chant among the Franciscans: Songs, Singing, Sequences Location: Adams Chair: Catherine Saucier Chant among the Franciscans: Songs, Singing, Sequences Chair(s): Catherine Saucier Presentations of the Symposium Dance, Dance Revolution Peter Loewen A Reformer’s Dilemma: Colette of Corbie and St. Clare’s Rule of Life Martha Culshaw By Women and For Women: Music and Art for the Franciscans of Villingen Margot Fassler	Constructing Latinidad: Cumbia Music, Identity, and Affect Valeria Isabel Chavez Roncal Northwestern University, Location: Salon 10 Chair: Jacqueline Avila, University of Texas at Austin Chair(s): Jacqueline Avila Presentations of the Symposium La Sonora Dinamita Band and the Latin American Migration to Southern California: A Borgian Analysis of the only band in the US that can play in more than one place at a time Eloy Neira de la Cadena Dancing the Path to Congress: Cumbia Music and Peruvian Political Advertising at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Valeria Isabel Chavez Roncal Cumbia Norteña and the Transnational Figure of the Sirreño Kristian Rodriguez	Global Keyboards Kirsten Paige North Carolina State University, Location: Salon 12 Chair: Sergio Ospina Romero, Indiana University Chair(s): Sergio Ospina Romero Discussant(s): Morton Wan Presentations of the Symposium The Elephant in the Piano: Music, Ecology, Empire Fanny Gribenski Keyboard Botany, 1842-1911: Colonial Science and the Remaking of the Piano in British Myanmar Kirsten Paige Choropoetics: How Keyboard Instruments Disrupt Tonal Space and Shape Cultural Politics Daniel Walden
10:45am - 12:15pm	New American Opera in the Institutional Imagination Ryan Ebright , Location: Price Chair: Gundula Kreuzer, Yale University Chair(s): Gundula Kreuzer Presentations of the Symposium Giving Voice to the Voiceless? OPERA America’s Multicultural Turn In “Opera for a New America” Ryan Ebright Bold Voices, Clear Conventions: The Challenge of Contemporary Opera at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Emily Richmond Pollock Narrating Redemption at the Met: _Fire Shut Up in My Bones_ and the Performance of Blackness Allison Chu	Recent Research on African American Music in the Nineteenth Century Tyler Quentin Diaz CUNY Hunter College, Location: Monroe Chair: Mark Burford, Reed College Chair(s): Mark Burford Presentations of the Symposium Philadelphia as a Black Musical Center from 1800-1850 Tyler Diaz Francis Johnson’s Grand American Tour, 1842–43 Colin Roust The Indifference of Difference: Sonic Representation of Blackness in Classical Music at the 1893 Chicago World Fair Sasha Doster	Student-led Approaches to Teaching Equity in Music Studies Ely Lyonblum University of Toronto, Location: Grant Park Parlor Chair: Ely Lyonblum, University of Toronto Chair(s): Ely Lyonblum Presenter(s): Ely Lyonblum, Sinem Arslan, Adrian Berry
11:00am - 1:00pm	Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Governing Board Meeting Location: Medinah Parlor
12:00pm - 1:30pm	New Attendee Reception Location: Chicago
12:30pm - 2:00pm	AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Orientation Location: Hancock Parlor	AMS Ludomusicology Study Group Business Meeting Richard John Anatone Prince George's Community College, Location: Salon 10 Chair(s): Richard John Anatone, James Heazlewood-Dale	AMS Music and Disability Business Meeting Tekla Babyak Disabled Independent Scholar, Location: Adams Chair(s): Tekla Babyak, James Deaville, Stefan Sunandan Honisch, Rena Roussin, Jeannette DiBernardo Jones	Business meeting of the Committee on the Publication of American Music Dale Edward Chapman Bates College, Location: Cresthill Chair(s): Dale Edward Chapman
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Cold War Music Study Group Business Meeting Gabrielle Cornish University of Wisconsin–Madison, Location: Salon 12 Chair(s): Gabrielle Cornish	Embracing the Position of Chair: Using Administrative Roles to Foster Positive Change Jennifer Saltzstein Indiana University, Location: Wabash Chair(s): Jennifer Saltzstein, Alexander Hardan Presenter(s): William Cheng, Daniel DiCenso, David Garcia, Halina Goldberg	Sounding a Center Away from the Coast: Global Music History Study Group Lightning Talks Hedy Law , Location: Monroe Chair(s): Daniel Castro Pantoja, Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas, Hedy Law Presentations of the Symposium South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene Samantha Ege A Music Historian on the Histories of Chicago and Futurities Gabriel Solis Chongqing China Symphony Orchestra: A Musical Utopia in the Wartime Capital of China Siqi Tong "Chi[na]-town": Molding Chinese-American Musical Identities in the Heartland Bonnie Ko Gold Rush Rhapsody: Why Boomtowns Matter for Music History Siriana Lundgren From Cosmopolitan Crossroads to National Stronghold: Musical Life in Tbilisi between Two Empires Brian Fairley When Puppets Sing in Tehran: Reconfiguring Iran’s National Opera Michelle Assay
1:00pm - 2:00pm	AMS Buddy Meet-up Location: Indiana
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Beyond the Musical Friendship Album: Collective Memory and Transnational Exchange Abigail Fine University of Oregon, Location: Adams Chair: Kevin Karnes, Emory College Chair(s): Kevin Karnes Discussant(s): Halina Goldberg, Henrike Rost Presentations of the Symposium Presentation Album, Madrid, 1838 Christine E. Wisch Binder’s Volumes, Bogotá, 1860-1888 Juan Fernando Velasquez Ospina Monument Album, Salzburg, 1877-1924 Abigail Fine Commonplace/Scrapbook Albums, Chennai, London, and Delhi, 1909-1939 Nalini Ghuman Charity Album, Britain, 1924 Stewart Duncan Visitor’s Books, Riga, 1982-2008 Laura Švītiņa	Celebrating Twenty Years of Battlestar Galactica Megan Francisco , Location: Water Tower Parlor Chair: Eftychia Papanikolaou Chair(s): Eftychia Papanikolaou Presentations of the Symposium So Say We All: Common Music-Making as an Absent Signifier of Religious and Political Pluralism in Battlestar Galactica Isaac Arten Music and Technologies of Memory in Battlestar Galactica S. Andrew Granade "Life Has a Melody": Musical Predestination in Battlestar Galactica Megan Francisco	New Perspectives on Opera Education and Uplift Ideology in the United States, 1880–1940 Lily Tamara Kass , Location: Crystal Chair: Lucy Caplan Chair(s): Lucy Caplan Presentations of the Symposium “Vivid, Graphic, and Dramatic”: Opera Lecture Recitals as Audience Outreach Lily Tamara Kass Overcoming “Yellow Elbows”: Jewish New Yorkers and the Uplifting Potential of Opera Education, 1880-1940 Samantha M. Cooper Homeopathic Opera: Uplift and Education in Vaudeville Kristen M. Turner	Sounding Borders: Orality and Aurality in the U.S.-Mexico/New Spain Border Region,18th-19th Centuries Javier Marín-López Universidad de Jaén, Location: Spire Parlor Chair: Jacqueline Avila, University of Texas at Austin Chair(s): Jacqueline Avila Presentations of the Symposium Sounding Contested Space: Aural Culture in Jesuit Missions in Northwestern New Spain Diana Brenscheidt genannt Jost Music, Memory, and Resistance: Inocencio Martínez and Cultural Hybridity in Rural New Mexico, 1833-1889 Javier Marín-López “‘It continued to delight our ‘barbarian ears’: Music and the Belliphonics of the US Invasion of Mexico, 1846–1848 David F. Garcia
	Jewish Voices Location: Salon 12 Chair: Tina Frühauf, CUNY Graduate Center Negotiating the Image of a Modern Woman: Chinese and Jewish Sing-Song Girls in Shanghai’s Jazz Cabarets Matthew Shih “The Jew in You”: Diasporism and Utopia in the Songs of Geoff Berner and Daniel Kahn Nathan Friedman The Aesthetics of the Musical Salon and Jewish Reform at the Home of Amalie Beer Samuel Teeple	Reassessing Black Musical Pioneers Location: Wabash Chair: Naomi André, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill More Than Business Savvy: The Touring Legacy of Sallie Martin, Gospel Pioneer KAY NORTON “I Owe It To My Race”: Racial Negotiation in the Early Works of Ulysses Kay Andrew Moenning “Were You There?”: Caterina Jarboro Signifies at Thalian Hall Helena Kopchick Spencer	Video Game Songbooks: Matching Music to the Medium Location: Grant Park Parlor Chair: William Cheng, Dartmouth College Sound Card Showdown: Timbre and Genre in 1990s PC Game Music Holly Bergeron-Dumaine "She's My Main": VALORANT (2020) and Ludic Persona Blaire Ziegenhagel Why Jazz Musicians Prefer Nintendo: Ludic Frameworks, Playful Standards, and "The Great Video Game Songbook" James Heazlewood-Dale	Bis repetita placent: C. P. E. Bach, W. A. Mozart, and the Sonata with Varied Reprises Location: State Ballroom
	The Current State of Music Librarianship and Implications for Musicology Jonathan Sauceda University of Rochester, Location: Price Chair: Jonathan Sauceda, University of Rochester Chair(s): Jonathan Sauceda Presentations of the Symposium Digital Scholarship: A Present and Future for Musicology Anna Kijas Music Information Literacy’s Critical Turn Z. Sylvia Yang, Angela Pratesi W(h)ither Music Research Collections? Kirstin Johnson	Virtuosity, Disability, and Media David VanderHamm Johnson County Community College, Location: Salon 10 Chair: David VanderHamm, Johnson County Community College Chair(s): David VanderHamm Discussant(s): Blake Howe Presenter(s): Stefan Sunandan Honisch, Benjamin Oyler, Molly Joyce, Rachel Gain, David VanderHamm
2:15pm - 4:15pm	Music, Civil Rights, and Social Protest Location: Monroe Chair: Eduardo Herrera, Indiana University “Open the Bruise Up”: Identity and Memory in Steve Reich’s Music Diogo Salmeron Carvalho Who are you, Miss Simone?: Voice, Androgyneity, and Identity in the Civil Rights Movement Amanda Paruta Pots, Pans, and Potentiometers: Radio, Song, and Women's Protests in Allende’s Chile (1970-1973) Alyssa Cottle Sonidos Malcriados: Huelga Songs of the United Farm Workers Juan Luis Rivera
3:15pm - 4:30pm	Coffee Break Location: Exhibit Hall Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.
3:15pm - 4:45pm	AMS Board Meet & Greet 1 Location: Exhibit Hall
4:00pm - 5:30pm	(Re)Mediating Metastasio at 300 Jessica Gabriel Peritz Yale University, Location: Crystal Chair: Martha Feldman, University of Chicago Chair(s): Martha Feldman Presentations of the Symposium Metastasio's Lyric Imperium Jessica Gabriel Peritz Markedness Correlations and the Constraints of Operatic Multimedia Nathaniel Mitchell The (In)Audible Master: Reading as Listening in/to Metastasio’s Libretti Carlo Lanfossi	Adapting the Eighteenth Century to the Nineteenth: Access, Authenticity, and Authority Mark Egerton Everist University of Southampton, Location: Adams Chair: Dana Gooley, Brown University Chair(s): Dana Gooley Presentations of the Symposium The Musical Past in the Age of the Virtuoso; or, Mortier de Fontaine Plays Handel Kregor Jonathan Mozart Opera Beyond the ‘Romantic Arrangement’ Nancy November Time, Place, Tradition: Authorizing Musical Adaptation in the Long Nineteenth-Century Mark Everist	AMS Ecomusicology Study Group Business Meeting and Special Lecture by Luis Chavez: In Xúchitl, in Cuicatl: Listening to Carbon through Nahuatl Metaphor Ludim Rebeca Pedroza Texas State University, San Marcos, Location: Salon 12 Chair(s): Ludim Pedroza, Emily MacCallum	Demystifying Academic Publishing Jennifer Saltzstein Indiana University, Location: Price Chair(s): Jennifer Saltzstein Presenter(s): Jake Johnson, K.E. Goldschmitt, Anna-Lise Santella, Esther Criscuola de Laix, Andrea Bohlman
	Black Musical Worlding: Early Contributors to a Black Musical Aethestic Location: Wabash Chair: Mark Lomanno, University of Miami “We almost feel with the people who wrote them”: Racialized Folk Authenticity in the Reception of William L. Dawson’s Concert Spirituals Emma Elizabeth Beachy Mungo in the Ballroom(s): Performance Practice, Error, and Ignatius Sancho’s Country Dances Emily H. Green The Luca Family Singers in Antebellum America Julia Chybowski	Creating Soundscapes Location: State Ballroom Chair: Sarah Fuchs, Royal College of Music “. . . and they started to insult the priests”: Disruptive Behavior in Milan’s Duomo Lorenzo Tunesi Sound(e)scaping Skateparks: Headphone Listening as Self-Imposed Isolation within Skateboard Culture Bryce Carey Noe Remapping València in the Festival Borderlands: Musical Repertoire and the Reconfiguration of the Everyday Rachel Horner	Performing Disabled or Non-Normative Bodies Location: Salon 10 Chair: Maria Cizmic, University of South Florida Discussant: Heather Hadlock, Stanford University “Visible Music”: Defiant Bodies and Instrumental Theater at the Fluxus International Festival of the Newest Music (Wiesbaden, 1962) Elaine Fitz Gibbon Beggars, Prisoners, and Other “woful Figures”: “Crutch Dances” and Performing Disability on the Eighteenth-Century Musical Stage Vanessa L. Rogers Making a Monster: Louise Bertin, Victor Hugo, and the Nineteenth-Century Hunchback Sarah K Miller	The Aural Animated Imaginary Location: Water Tower Parlor Chair: Megan Francisco Musical Myths of Gender: Rapunzel as a Postfeminist Princess in Tangled (2010) Kaitlyn Clawson-Cannestra The Aural Imaginary Worlds of Anime Fans: Listening to Voices as an Affective Encounter Cheuk Ling Yu Dixieland at Disneyland: Performing "New Orleans Jazz" Andy Fry
	Strings as Tribute: Epochal Changes through Guitar Music Location: Red Lacquer Ballroom	The Past and Present of Activist Music-Making in the United States Alexandria Sofia Pecoraro , Location: Grant Park Parlor Chair: Eugenia Siegel Conte, Ithaca College Chair(s): Eugenia Conte Presentations of the Symposium Fighting AIDS with Pop Culture: The Red Hot Organization, Cover Songs, and HIV/AIDS Matthew Jones “Sing Out, March On”: Social Justice Choirs’ Repertoires of Resistance Alexandria Pecoraro The Bifarious Social Character of Community Singing in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Jackson Mann
4:00pm - 6:00pm	Music and Migration Location: Spire Parlor Chair: Eduardo Sato Migrant Music Making and the Limits of International Solidarity in Socialist East Germany Elaine Kelly Music, Magic, and Migration: György Ligeti’s Síppal, dobbal as Sonic Healing Joseph Robert Cadagin Prison Music as Reform, Research and Recreation in the 1930s: Immigrant Folk Songs at the Reformatory for Women at Framingham Velia Ivanova Specters, Saints, and Borderlands: Ghost Smuggling Ballads as Haunting Testimonio of Trauma and Survival in the Undocumented Migrant Experience Teresita Lozano
4:30pm - 6:00pm	AMS Affiliates Fair Location: Honoré
5:00pm - 5:45pm	AMS President's Plenary Lecture Pre-Session Location: Cresthill
5:00pm - 6:15pm	Sustainable Mentorship Program Cohort Meetup Location: Indiana
6:00pm - 7:00pm	Post-Rumble Rumble: Inflection Points in Native American Music and Arts (AMS President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture) Location: Red Lacquer Ballroom Chair: Georgia Cowart, Case Western Reserve University Presenter: Philip J. Deloria, Harvard University
6:30pm - 7:45pm	Welcome Reception Location: Grand Ballroom
7:00pm - 9:00pm	UNC-Chapel Hill Reception Location: Kimball
7:30pm - 8:00pm	President's Toast for AMS Committee and Governance Volunteers Location: State Ballroom
7:30pm - 9:30pm	“We will dance again”: Amplifying Jewish Joy in the Face of Contemporary Trauma Samantha Madison Cooper University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Location: Crystal Chair(s): Ezekiel Levine, Nicolette van den Bogerd Discussant(s): Samantha Madison Cooper Presenter(s): Rachel Baum, Philip V. Bohlman	AMS Pedagogy Study Group Evening Session (Please see below for individual paper titles for the two groups.) Kristy Swift University of Cincinnati, Location: Spire Parlor Chair(s): Mary Natvig, Anna Grau Schmidt Discussant(s): Mary Natvig, Anna Grau Schmidt Presentations of the Symposium Who cares. . . and how? Mary Natvig (chair and moderator), Eric Hung, Colin Roust, Colette/Kyla Simonot/Kelsey, Sarah Teetsel, Alexa Woloshyn Innovations in information literacy: enhancing student learning with the Music Companion to the Framework for Information Literacy Erin Conor, Angela Pratesi, Anna Grau Schmidt	Ethics and/of Early Music Jeannette Jones , Location: Wabash Chair(s): Jeannette Jones, Daniel DiCenso, Eleanor Price, Dmitriy Stegall Presenter(s): Anna Zayaruznaya, Luisa Nardini, Catherine Adoyo, Peter Jeffrey, Andrew Dell'Antonio, Katharina Uhde	Music, Games, Performance, and Play Richard John Anatone Prince George's Community College, Location: Adams Chair(s): Richard John Anatone, James Heazlewood-Dale Presenter(s): Gregg Rossetti, Pamela Mason-Nguyen, Yun-Kiu Lo, Jordan Good, Natalie Miller, Ryan Bunch
8:15pm - 9:45pm	President's Reception for AMS Annual Meeting Grantees Location: Chicago
8:30pm - 11:59pm	AMS After Dark Location: Monroe
9:30pm - 11:30pm	Northwestern University Reception Location: Hancock Parlor

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