Conference Time: 30th Apr 2025, 01:29:22am CDT
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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12:00am - 12:30am
AMS After Dark (con't) Location: Monroe
7:30am - 9:00am
JMHP Editorial Board Meeting Location: Wilson
7:45am - 8:45am
AMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council Location: Clark 5
8:30am - 10:00am
Eileen Southern Scholars Breakfast and Mentoring Session Location: Cresthill
8:30am - 10:30am
Power and Resistance: Musical Historiographs of China and Tibet Location: Price
8:30am - 6:00pm
Exhibit Hall Open Location: Exhibit Hall
9:00am - 10:30am
Rendering Audible: Voice, Creative Practice, and 18th-century Airs about African Enslavement Berta Joncus
Goldsmiths, University of London,
Location: Adams
Augustinian Soundscapes: The Church and Monastery of San Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples Kyrie Ekaterina Bouressa
McGill University,
Location: Monroe
Building Ideology in Chicago Natalie Farrell
University of Chicago,
Location: Honoré
Curating Memory: Sonic and Musical Commemorations of Systematic Persecution and Genocide Nicole Gabrielle Steinberg
University of Maryland, College Park,
Location: Crystal
Disciplinarity and the Affordances of Musicological Critique Derek Baron
Rutgers University-New Brunswick,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Performing Remix from Broadside to Broadway Richard Will
University of Virginia,
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Scoring the Genre Film Philip Bixby
,
Location: Wabash
Shades of Red: Russian Musical Inheritances across the Soviet ‘Periphery’ Alexander Fadi Hardan
Brown University,
Location: Salon 10
Operatic Regionalism Location: Spire Parlor
The Social Life of Musical Instruments Location: Salon 12
9:00am - 11:00am
MGG Online - Meeting Editorial Board Location: Hancock Parlor
Composition / Adaptation / Reception Location: State Ballroom
10:45am - 11:45am
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.
10:45am - 12:15pm
Grove Music Online Roundtable Deane Root
University of Pittsburgh,
Location: Crystal
Representations of Musical Mentorship Nina Penner
Brock University,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Chicago: America's Musical Crossroads Location: Honoré
Racial Politics on Broadway: Explorations of Race in Musical Theater Location: Water Tower Parlor
The Experience and Legacy of Soviet Musical Identities Location: Salon 10
The Secret Life of Manuscripts: Illuminations and Improvisations Location: Monroe
Understanding and Mediating Contemporary Culture Through Opera Location: Spire Parlor
Women and the Piano in the 19th Century Location: Salon 12
“Vivir mi vida: Toward a Critical Salsa Romántica and a Sonic Global South Brownness” (Critical Race Lecture) Location: Adams
10:45am - 12:45pm
Cinematic Interpretations Location: Wabash
Performing Gender in Music and Dance Location: Price
11:00am - 12:30pm
AMS Board Meet & Greet 2 Location: Exhibit Hall
11:45am - 1:15pm
Sound Expertise LIVE! The American Composer and the Future of the Conservatory with Jonathan Bailey Holland Katharine Ellis
,
Location: State Ballroom
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Knitting Circle Location: Medinah Parlor
12:30pm - 1:30pm
AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 1 Location: Hancock Parlor
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Accessibility and the History of Theory August Sheehy
,
Location: Adams
AMS Global East Asian Music Research Study Group Business Meeting Amanda Hsieh
,
Location: Salon 12
CCRI Brown Bag Lunch Jennifer Saltzstein
Indiana University,
Location: Wilson
Ethical Approaches to Trauma Studies Research and Media—Screening and Discussion of WE ARE NOT AFRAID: Music and Resistance in Apartheid Prisons (co-directed by Janie Cole and Shameela Seedat) Jillian Rogers
,
Location: Monroe
Lightning Lounge: "Political uses of music in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula" Vera Wolkowicz
,
Location: Spire Parlor
Mozart Society of America Study Session & Business Meeting Location: Water Tower Parlor
Organology Study Group Annual Meeting Lidia Chang
Colorado College,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Queer at AMS: The LGBTQ Study Group Returns to Chicago Lee K. Tyson
Ithaca College,
Location: Salon 10
Religious Conversion and Music among Christians and Jews: A Transhistorical View Uri Jacob
,
Location: Crystal
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Informal Business Meeting Location: Salon 7
Speed Mentoring Location: Clark 5
Student Reception Location: Empire
Wesleyan University Press Book Launch Location: Indiana
1:45pm - 3:45pm
The Instrumental Self: Musical Instruments as Expressions of Social and Spiritual Identity Location: Price
2:00pm - 3:30pm
AMS/MLA Joint RISM Committee Location: Hancock Parlor
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Ancient Forms in Modern Times: Sacred, Semiotic, and Situated Interpretations of Guqin (古琴) Repertory MingJun X Wilson
University of Michigan,
Location: State Ballroom
Axes of Time in Eastern Orthodox Sonic Space Brian Fairley
University of Pittsburgh,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Embodying Women's Song in the Middle Ages Henry Parkes
University of Nottingham,
Location: Monroe
Songs of Agency: Women’s Voicing of Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century Rachel Michele Bani
Converse University,
Location: Spire Parlor
Disruptive Vocal Techniques in 19th Century Opera Location: Water Tower Parlor
Hip-Hop Aesthetics Location: Wabash
Movement and Emotion in the Works of Franz Joseph Haydn Location: Adams
Sound Wars: Weaponizing Sound Media Technologies Location: Salon 12
South Side Impresarios: Sonic Legacies and Lineages Location: Honoré
Towards Indigenous-Led Art Music: Bridging Scholarship, Performance, and Activism Rena Roussin
University of Toronto,
Location: Salon 10
Workshop in Research Techniques and Bibliography, led by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale Ralph Whyte
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM),
Location: Crystal
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Alt Rock to Alt Right: The “Alternative Revolution” and its Ironic Aftermath S. Alexander Reed
Ithaca College,
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Forensic Musicology Now Katherine Leo
,
Location: Price
Improvisation in Chicago Kimberly Hannon Teal
,
Location: Honoré
Rethinking Bruckner Studies: Questioning Old Answers and Asking New Questions in a Bicentennial Year Benjamin Korstvedt
Clark University,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Critical Examinations of Minimalism: Focusing on Gender and Race Location: Salon 10
Handel, Cosmopolitanism and Empire in the 18th Century Location: Adams
Hip-Hop as Catharsis and Social Commentary Location: Wabash
Making Music for the Screen: Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein, and Mr. Rogers Location: Crystal
Reaching Audiences: Approaches to Music Broadcasting and Advertising Location: Salon 12
Sounding "Real": Identity and Authentic Performance Location: Spire Parlor
Worship, Women, and Song: Medieval/Early Modern Economies of Sex and Power Location: Monroe
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Prospective Graduate Student Fair Location: Grand Ballroom
Robert F. Judd Fund Donor Reception Location: State Ballroom
5:45pm - 7:45pm
Friends of Stony Brook Location: Salon 6 & 7
Norton Reception Location: Empire
Reception for Opera Lab and New Material Histories of Music Book Series Location: Wilson
Rice University Alumni Reception Location: Indiana
RILM / RIPM Reception Location: Hancock Parlor
6:30pm - 7:45pm
Skills and Resources for Early Music Study Group Business Meeting and Keynote Daniel DiCenso
College of the Holy Cross,
Location: Honoré
6:30pm - 8:30pm
New York University Reception Location: Wabash
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Visions of Afro-Futurism from the 1970s Location: Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium Please use the Art Institute entrance at 230 S. Columbus Drive
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Brandeis University Reception (open to all) Location: Clark 5
Eighteenth-Century Societies Reception Location: Salon 4 & 9
Florida State University College of Music Alumni Reception Location: Chicago
University of Illinois Reception Location: Kimball
University of Pittsburgh Reception Location: Grant Park Parlor
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Childhood and Youth Session and Business Meeting: Spotlight on New and Emerging Work from Early-Career Scholars Ryan Bunch
,
Location: Crystal
Sex, Drugs, and Disappointment: Popular Music And Feeling Badly Amy Coddington
,
Location: Adams
Teaching Music Philosophy Kyle Kaplan
Syracuse University,
Location: Monroe
7:45pm - 9:30pm
Lenka Hlávková Memorial Session Michael Beckerman
New York University,
Location: Honoré
9:00pm - 11:00pm
Columbia University Reception Location: Hancock Parlor
Harvard Alumni and Affiliates Reception Location: State Ballroom
University of Chicago Reception Location: Empire
9:30pm - 11:30pm
Society for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Reception Location: Wilson
University of North Texas Reception Location: Salon 5 & 8