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: Friday, 15/Nov/2024
12:00am
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12:30am
AMS After Dark (con't)
Location: Monroe
7:30am
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9:00am
JMHP Editorial Board Meeting
Location: Wilson
7:45am
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8:45am
AMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council
Location: Clark 5
8:30am
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10:00am
Eileen Southern Scholars Breakfast and Mentoring Session
Location: Cresthill
8:30am
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10:30am
Power and Resistance: Musical Historiographs of China and Tibet
Location: Price
Chair: Hedy Law
 

What makes listening “extractive”? Sulfur, jade, and resource-making in 18th-century China

Lester Hu



Wang Xilin, Tiananmen Square, and Symphony no. 3

John O. Robison



“Music is for the People”: Zheng Xiaoying, Yangxizhongchang, and Das Lied von der Erde

Edwin Li



Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy in Jokar's Symphonic Poem Gendun Chophel

Mengdan Mao

8:30am
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6:00pm
Exhibit Hall Open
Location: Exhibit Hall
 
9:00am
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10:30am
Rendering Audible: Voice, Creative Practice, and 18th-century Airs about African Enslavement
Berta Joncus
Goldsmiths, University of London,
Location: Adams
Chair: Naomi André, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 

Chair(s): Naomi André

Discussant(s): Jasmine Henry

Presenter(s): Awet Andemicael, Rebecca Cypess, Berta Joncus, Julia Hamilton-Louey, Maria Ryan

Augustinian Soundscapes: The Church and Monastery of San Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples
Kyrie Ekaterina Bouressa
McGill University,
Location: Monroe
Chair: Evan A. MacCarthy, UMass Amherst
 

Chair(s): Evan MacCarthy

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The monastery in the context of Neapolitan and European history

Luisa Nardini

 

Plainchant and Its Local Context at the Monastery of San Giovanni Carbonara

Bibiana Vergine

 

Performance as Pedagogy: Neumes in the Aeneid and the Metamorphoses at San Giovanni a Carbonara

Catherine Heemann, Kyrie Ekaterina Bouressa

Building Ideology in Chicago
Natalie Farrell
University of Chicago,
Location: Honoré
Chair: Mark Clague, University of Michigan
 

Chair(s): Mark Clague

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

From Fieldhouse to Opera House: Ideology, Infrastructure, and Music in Chicago’s Parks During the Early 20th Century

Katherine Brucher

 

In Search of Lost Reverb Time: Orchestra Hall Renovations and the Acoustic Work Environment

Natalie Farrell

 

The Battle to Preserve The Warehouse

Max Chavez

Curating Memory: Sonic and Musical Commemorations of Systematic Persecution and Genocide
Nicole Gabrielle Steinberg
University of Maryland, College Park,
Location: Crystal
Chair: Amy Lynn Wlodarski, Dickenson College
 

Chair(s): Amy Lynn Wlodarski

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Resonant Legacies, Dissonant Translations: A Comparative Ethnographic Analysis of Sonic Curation in Holocaust and US Slave Memorial Sites

Kathryn Agnes Huether

 

Performing Auschwitz Abroad: The Passenger in Bregenz, Tel Aviv, and Madrid

Nicole Gabrielle Steinberg

 

Negotiating Appropriateness: Ambivalence about the Use of Music in Exhibitions Commemorating Romani Genocide

Siv B. Lie

Disciplinarity and the Affordances of Musicological Critique
Derek Baron
Rutgers University-New Brunswick,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Chair: Sumanth Gopinath, University of Minnesota
 

Chair(s): Sumanth Gopinath

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

How does the Law Hear? Settler Jurisdiction, Aurality and the Sound/Law Problem

Derek Baron

 

Music Studies Against Race Science; or, Some Limits of Some Critique

Alexander Cowan

 

Unveiling Silence: A Paradigmatic Critique of Musicological Criticism through Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima by Toshio Hosokawa

Anna Gatdula

Performing Remix from Broadside to Broadway
Richard Will
University of Virginia,
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Chair: Jessica Gabriel Peritz, Yale University
 

Chair(s): Jessica Peritz

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Singing Fake News

Bonnie Gordon

 

Performers Critiquing Opera

Richard Will

 

“Now More Than Ever”: Black Womanhood and the Politics of Revival in Oklahoma! (2019)

Hannah Young

Scoring the Genre Film
Philip Bixby
,
Location: Wabash
Chair: Julie Hubbert, University of South Carolina
 

Chair(s): Julie Hubbert

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

"Just the Right Note of Melancholy Regret": Scoring the 1970s British Gangster Film

Amy Bauer

 

The Gay Movie Soundtrack

Stephan Hammel

 

Horror's Hostile Formalism: Inexorable Sonic Design in Dario Argento's Inferno and David Prior's The Empty Man

Philip Bixby

Shades of Red: Russian Musical Inheritances across the Soviet ‘Periphery’
Alexander Fadi Hardan
Brown University,
Location: Salon 10
Chair: Kevin Bartig, Michigan State University
 

Chair(s): Kevin Bartig

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Listening for Sovietization in Cold War Cuba

Alexander Hardan

 

Russian "guitar poetry" in late Soviet Central Asia

Katherine Wolf

Operatic Regionalism
Location: Spire Parlor
Chair: Colleen Lydia Renihan, Queen's University
 

Creating a National Operatic Metropole: The Chicago Civic Opera Company (1922–1932) and the “Capitol of the Great Empire of the Middle West"

Cody Andrew Norling



ARTICULATING MODERNITIES ON STAGE: OPERA IN LATE-COLONIAL MEXICO

Francesco Milella González Luna



Winning Fame and Fortune? Race and Operatic Competitions in mid-century America

Erin Michelle Brooks

The Social Life of Musical Instruments
Location: Salon 12
Chair: Erik Broess, Rice University
 

A Highway Acoustemology

John Clement Wood



Race, Labor, Body: The Player Piano and the Mediation of Blackness

Benjamin Patrick Skoronski



Instruments and Their Musicians on the Grand Tour, 1775–1795

Stephen Armstrong

   
9:00am
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11:00am
MGG Online - Meeting Editorial Board
Location: Hancock Parlor
Composition / Adaptation / Reception
Location: State Ballroom
Chair: Lindsey Macchiarella, University of Texas at El Paso
 

Virtuosic (Dis)continuities: Ravel Translating Liszt

Caleb Labbe Phelan



Philosophy’s Unsounded Note: The Silence of Melody in Erik Satie’s Vexations

Luke Martin



Americanizing Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette: Theodore Thomas, the John Church Company, and J.H. Cornell’s English Translation

Rebecca Anna Schreiber



Romantic Thresholds

Matteo Magarotto

10:45am
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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
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12:15pm
Grove Music Online Roundtable
Deane Root
University of Pittsburgh,
Location: Crystal
Chair: Scott Gleason, Oxford University Press
 

Chair(s): Scott Gleason

Presenter(s): Philip V. Bohlman, Kimberly A. Francis, Tes Slominski, Imani Mosley, Marcus Pyle, Scott Gleason, Deane Root

Representations of Musical Mentorship
Nina Penner
Brock University,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Chair: Nathan Platte
 

Chair(s): Nathan Platte

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“If you cannot fight them with art, do so as a teacher”: Musical Influence and Mentorship in Der Musikfeind (1835) and Der Sohn vom Ritter Gluck (1837)

Kristin Franseen

 

“Push People Beyond What’s Expected of Them”: Pedagogy and Narrative Control in Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995) and Whiplash (2014)

Emily Baumgart

 

Mentorship Relationships and the Weight of Tradition in Lena Raine’s Soundtrack to Chicory: A Colorful Tale (2021)

Nina Penner

Chicago: America's Musical Crossroads
Location: Honoré
Chair: Larry Hamberlin, Middlebury College
 

The Chicago Musical College and Midwestern Modernism

Nancy Newman



Alternative Country Love Songs: Bloodshot Records and the "Chicago Sound"

Nancy Park Riley



Gigging in the Great Migration: How Chicago Musicians Built New Careers on the South Side, 1940-1950

Reed Alexis Williams

Racial Politics on Broadway: Explorations of Race in Musical Theater
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Chair: Mark Burford, Reed College
 

The Good, the Bad, and the Body: Moral Imperatives in Hairspray

Tracy Monaghan



The Witch’s Rap and the Racial Politics of Into the Woods

Dana Gooley



Oz and The Urban Imagination: Musical Adaptations of L. Frank Baum’s Novel and Changing Conceptions of the American City

David C. Paul

The Experience and Legacy of Soviet Musical Identities
Location: Salon 10
Chair: Olga Haldey, University of Maryland
Discussant: Anne Searcy
 

Sonically Articulated Spaces for Women: Soviet Women’s Labor, Ethnicity, and Solidarity in Nino Davadze’s The Geometry of Soviet Women

Allison Brooks-Conrad



Avet Terterian’s First Symphony: Sacred Music and Avant-garde in the Late Soviet Armenia

Oksana Nesterenko



Sounding US Blackness on Post-War Soviet Screens

Joan Titus

The Secret Life of Manuscripts: Illuminations and Improvisations
Location: Monroe
Chair: Frederick Reece
 

Inside the Practice Room of an Eighteenth-Century Improviser: Reading Behind the Text of the Gallipoli Manuscript

Marco Pace



Feminine Refusal Allegorized: Songs and Snakes in Machaut’s Manuscript A

Sarah Fiona Le Van



Choirbooks and Crossroads: Tracing Liturgy, Educational Heritage, and Franciscan Networks in Colonial Mexico

Christina Kim

Understanding and Mediating Contemporary Culture Through Opera
Location: Spire Parlor
Chair: Hannah Lewis, University of Texas at Austin
 

Transmedia Activist Opera, Reconsidered: Elite Capture in the White Snake Projects’ The Pandemic Trilogy (2020-2021)

Jingyi Zhang



Materiality and the Case of Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of Soul

Nancy Yunhwa Rao



Intercultural Music and Approaches to Total Art: The “Shadow Chord” in Akin Euba’s Opera Chaka

Jennifer Lynne LaRue

Women and the Piano in the 19th Century
Location: Salon 12
Chair: Margaret Lucia, Shippensburg University
 

“Describe her hair. Does she have curls or a part?” Clara Schumann on other virtuosas.

Roe-Min Kok



Teresa Carreño and the Legitimization of Powerhouse Pianism

Alexander John Stefaniak



At the Intersection of Loss and Renewal: Women, Widowhood, and Piano Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

Joe Davies

“Vivir mi vida: Toward a Critical Salsa Romántica and a Sonic Global South Brownness” (Critical Race Lecture)
Location: Adams
 

“Vivir mi vida: Toward a Critical Salsa Romántica and a Sonic Global South Brownness” (Critical Race Lecture)

Chair(s): Jessica Bissett Perea, Diane Oliva, Alison Martin

Presenter(s): Frances R. Aparicio

     
10:45am
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12:45pm
Cinematic Interpretations
Location: Wabash
Chair: Michael Baumgartner, Cleveland State University
 

Discovery of "The Psycho Theme"

Stephen Husarik



Cool Jazz, Quiet Revolution: The Racial Politics of Jazz at the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s

Allyson Rogers



The Theme That Was Never Born: Deleted Music from Tiomkin’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”

Zachary Cairns



Sounding the Clarion: Call-to-Action Music in the Attenborough Nature Documentary

Leo Julian Sarbanes

Performing Gender in Music and Dance
Location: Price
Chair: Sharon Mirchandani, Westminster Choir College
 

The Jeanie Auditions: Stephen Foster and White Southern Womanhood in Florida, 1951-1979

Esther M. Morgan-Ellis



"Girling" at the Tropical Piano: Race, Sex, Value, and the Domestication of Cuban Contradance

Brian Barone



The Relatable Rebel: Miranda Lambert’s Expressions of Femininity

Madison Stepherson



Erotic Agency and Queer Embodiment in Martines–Metastasio’s Secular Chamber Cantata La Tempesta (1778)

Jonathan Gerrard

11:00am
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12:30pm
AMS Board Meet & Greet 2
Location: Exhibit Hall
11:45am
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1:15pm
Sound Expertise LIVE! The American Composer and the Future of the Conservatory with Jonathan Bailey Holland
Katharine Ellis
,
Location: State Ballroom
Chair: William Robin, Visa
 

Chair(s): William Robin

Presenter(s): Jonathan Bailey Holland

12:00pm
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1:00pm
Knitting Circle
Location: Medinah Parlor
Chair: Steve Swayne, Dartmouth University
Chair: Kunio Hara, University of South Carolina School of Music
12:30pm
-
1:30pm
AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 1
Location: Hancock Parlor
12:30pm
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2:00pm
Accessibility and the History of Theory
August Sheehy
,
Location: Adams
 

Chair(s): August Sheehy

AMS Global East Asian Music Research Study Group Business Meeting
Amanda Hsieh
,
Location: Salon 12
 

Chair(s): Amanda Hsieh, Elina G. Asato Hamilton, Heeseung Lee

CCRI Brown Bag Lunch
Jennifer Saltzstein
Indiana University,
Location: Wilson
 

Chair(s): Kendall Winter, Jennifer Saltzstein

Presenter(s): Kendall Winter, Jennifer Saltzstein

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
 

Chair(s): Jillian Rogers, Erin Brooks

Presenter(s): Janie Cole, Emily Abrams Ansari, Eric Hung

Lightning Lounge: "Political uses of music in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula"
Vera Wolkowicz
,
Location: Spire Parlor
 

Chair(s): Vera Wolkowicz, Juan Fernando Velásquez, Javier Marín-López

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Rethinking “Francoist Music” through Intimate History

Andrew L. Barrett

 

Unmasking Amália: Fado and Covert Protest

Mariana Da Silva Gabriel

 

Popular music, media, and violence in Mexico; or, the bellicose ordinary

Chris Batterman Cháirez

 

Title: Opera Aria, Patriotic Song, Funeral Dirge: The Political Uses of Aurora

Melanie Plesch

 

Musical Tertulias and the Pursuit of Democracy in Mexico City, 1866–1867

Sean Gower

 

El Caloret Faller: Sound, Language, and the Political Power of Musical Implicature

Rachel Horner

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
 

Chair(s): Lidia Chang, Bobby Giglio

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Instruments as specimens: How the Photographs of 19th-century English Instrument Collections Made Organology a Science

Maia Perez

 

The Plek Machine: A Study of Automation in California’s Guitar Repair Shops

Jon Turner

 

Berthelot’s Serpent Tablature: A Blueprint for a Lost Musical Instrument from Colonial Canada

Alex Belser

Queer at AMS: The LGBTQ Study Group Returns to Chicago
Lee K. Tyson
Ithaca College,
Location: Salon 10
 

Chair(s): Lee K. Tyson, Alex Nik Pasqualini

Presenter(s): Mitchel Morris, Judith Peraino

Religious Conversion and Music among Christians and Jews: A Transhistorical View
Uri Jacob
,
Location: Crystal
 

Chair(s): Tina Frühauf

Discussant(s): Mary Channen Caldwell

Presenter(s): Uri Jacob, Paul Feller-Simmons, Rebecca Cypess, Dan Deutsch‬

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
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3:45pm
The Instrumental Self: Musical Instruments as Expressions of Social and Spiritual Identity
Location: Price
Chair: John Romey, Purdue University Fort Wayne
 

Phonocentrism in Chopin’s Piano Music

MyungJin Oh



Silenced Voices and History from Below: Working-Class Violin Culture in Britain, 1880-1930

Christina Bashford



Coya Huarmi: Reconstruction of a Song, a Vessel, and an Ancestor’s voice

Felipe Ledesma Núñez



“A Bad Instrument Although Well Played”: Status, Identity, and the Nineteenth-Century Double Bassist

Shanti Nachtergaele

2:00pm
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3:30pm
AMS/MLA Joint RISM Committee
Location: Hancock Parlor
2:15pm
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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
Chair: Qingfan Jiang, Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University
 

Chair(s): MingJun X Wilson

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Performing Sacred Connections: Interpreting Divine-Human Interactions and the Revival of an Ancient Genre through “Shenren Chang” (神人畅)

MingJun X Wilson

 

Qin as Performable Work: Two Semiotic Analysis of "Meihua Sannong"

Yiqing Ma

 

Responding to Composing/Performing Dynamics in Contemporary Guqin Music

Bryan Wang

Axes of Time in Eastern Orthodox Sonic Space
Brian Fairley
University of Pittsburgh,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Chair: Luisa Nardini, University of Texas at Austin
 

Chair(s): Luisa Nardini

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Anaphora, Anamnesis, Apocalypse: Music and Time in the Hymns of the Great Entrance in the Orthodox Church

Dmitriy Stegall

 

The Veil Was Torn: Inverse Perspective in Sofia Gubaidulina’s St. John Passion

Madeline Styskal

 

Deep Time of Polyphony: Twentieth-Century Excavations of Medieval Georgian Chant

Brian Fairley

Embodying Women's Song in the Middle Ages
Henry Parkes
University of Nottingham,
Location: Monroe
Chair: Rebecca Maloy, University of Notre Dame
 

Chair(s): Rebecca Maloy

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

In the Footsteps of St. Dunstan’s Virgins: Vestiges of Female Song and Dance in Metz MS 1168

Henry Parkes

 

The Procession of Memory at Wilton Abbey

Alison Altstatt

 

Embodying the Magdalene at Late Medieval Barking Abbey

Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis

Songs of Agency: Women’s Voicing of Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century
Rachel Michele Bani
Converse University,
Location: Spire Parlor
Chair: Jennifer Oates, Carroll College
 

Chair(s): Jennifer Oates

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Voicing Germanic Nationalism: Lieder in Caroline Pichler’s Biedermeier Music Salon

Emily Eubanks

 

Women, Song, and the Battle for Land Reform in Nineteenth-century Scotland

Rachel M. Bani

 

Revoicing Tennyson: Maude Valérie White’s Asseveration of Faith in Four Songs from “In Memoriam”

Alison Gilbert

Disruptive Vocal Techniques in 19th Century Opera
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Chair: Lily Tamara Kass
 

Lethal Timbres and Exploding Tenors: Reconstructing a Change in Operatic Vocal Technique, 1830–1848

Devon Carter



The Operatic Sounds of Prosthetics: Performing Disability in Rigoletto

Shadi Seifouri



The prehistory of Sprechgesang as theoretical opposition to bel canto in the nineteenth century

Jacqueline Waeber

Hip-Hop Aesthetics
Location: Wabash
Chair: Loren Kajikawa, George Washington University
 

Promotion Effects in Music Videos: Run DMC and Aerosmith’s “Walk this Way”

Mark Samples



Stylo Milo: Gendered Aesthetics in Tamil Rap

Shiva Ramkumar



Seriously Unserious: The Aesthetics of Absurdity in Viral Hip-Hop Remixes

Jasmine A. Henry

Movement and Emotion in the Works of Franz Joseph Haydn
Location: Adams
Chair: Barbara Dietlinger, University of North Texas
 

Learnedness as Type and Style in Haydn's Nelsonmesse

Robert Benjamin Wrigley



Reassessing Haydn's Orfeo in the Theater

Caryl Clark, Dorian Bandy



Incorporating Haydn’s Minuets: Towards a Somatic Theory of Music

Joseph Fort

Sound Wars: Weaponizing Sound Media Technologies
Location: Salon 12
Chair: Susan Bay, University of California, Berkeley
 

A Fascist's Guide to Music

Samuel N Dorf



Weaponizing IP: The Sinister and the Absurd in Sonic Encounters between Police Officers and Activists

Audrey Amsellem



Vocal Deepfakes and The New Rhetorical Strategies of The Online Copyright Debate: "Clean" Data, Content "Creators," and Popular Music in The Era of AI

Matthew Day Blackmar

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
Chair: Alexa Woloshyn, Carnegie Mellon University
 

Chair(s): Alexa Woloshyn

Presenter(s): Rena Roussin, Bridget Cauthery, Amy Hull, Olivia Shortt

Workshop in Research Techniques and Bibliography, led by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
Ralph Whyte
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM),
Location: Crystal
Chair: Ralph Whyte, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM)
 

Chair(s): Ralph Whyte

Presenter(s): Ralph Whyte

 
4:00pm
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5:30pm
Alt Rock to Alt Right: The “Alternative Revolution” and its Ironic Aftermath
S. Alexander Reed
Ithaca College,
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Chair: S. Alexander Reed, Ithaca College
 

Chair(s): S. Alexander Reed

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“Play Free Bird!” Communal Sarcasm and Alternative Rock in the 1990s

Theo Cateforis

 

Protest Song as Empty Vessel: The Leftist Anthems of the Alt Right

S. Alexander Reed

 

“No, You Can’t Take That Away from Me!”: Wounded Entitlement, 1990s Alt Rock, and Financialized Media Industries Then and Now

Robin James

Forensic Musicology Now
Katherine Leo
,
Location: Price
Chair: Katherine Leo
 

Chair(s): Katherine Leo

Presenter(s): Joe Bennett, Christopher Doll, Joseph Fishman, Katherine Leo, Alexander Stewart

Improvisation in Chicago
Kimberly Hannon Teal
,
Location: Honoré
 

Chair(s): Kimberly Hannon Teal, ken tianyuan Ge

Presenter(s): Coco Elysses, Ritwik Banerji

Rethinking Bruckner Studies: Questioning Old Answers and Asking New Questions in a Bicentennial Year
Benjamin Korstvedt
Clark University,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Chair: R. Larry Todd, Duke University
 

Chair(s): Larry Todd

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“A Titan in Battle with the Gods”: Viennese Reception of Bruckner in the 1880s and 1890s

Miguel Ramirez

 

The New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition: Revisiting Old Editorial Issues

Paul Hawkshaw

 

Bruckner, postcritique

Benjamin Korstvedt

Critical Examinations of Minimalism: Focusing on Gender and Race
Location: Salon 10
Chair: Edmund Mendelssohn, University of California, Berkeley
 

Music as Craftivism: The Feminist Minimalism and Serialism of Ann Southam

Emily Abrams Ansari



Notation, Repetition, and Feminism in Ann Southam’s Glass Houses

Carter Miller



Philip Glass’s Dance and the Institutionalization of Minimalism

Anne Searcy

Handel, Cosmopolitanism and Empire in the 18th Century
Location: Adams
Chair: Erica Levenson, University of Michigan
 

Handel, Queen Caroline, Merlin's Cave, and the Performance of Power in 1730s London

Joseph V. Nelson



“What a father the lord has bestowed upon me”: The Fowke Family, Handel, and Imperial Gender in Eighteenth-Century Calcutta

Peter Kohanski



Staging Conquest and Colonial Encounter in Handel’s Poro, re dell’Indie

Anushka Kulkarni

Hip-Hop as Catharsis and Social Commentary
Location: Wabash
Chair: Alisha Jones
 

The “Cathartic Cry” in Hip-Hop: Redefining Sonic Warfare

Leah Marie Amarosa



Night of the Social Dead: Hip-hop, Zombies, and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in Lupe Fiasco's The Cool

Alexander Joshua Moore



SIGNIFYIN’ THE GOLDEN AGE: ESTABLISHING A HIP-HOP COMMUNITY THROUGH INTRA-GENRE QUOTATION

Matt Yuknas

Making Music for the Screen: Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein, and Mr. Rogers
Location: Crystal
Chair: Julie Hubbert, University of South Carolina
 

Manufacturing the Maestro: the Infrastructure of Educational Television on Omnibus (1952–61)

Lauren Berlin



Riffing on the Soundtrack Album in Duke Ellington Plays with the Original Motion Picture Score from Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins (1964)

Nathan Platte



Mister Rogers the Opera Composer and the Peculiar Genesis of Josephine the Short Neck Giraffe

Molly M. Breckling

Reaching Audiences: Approaches to Music Broadcasting and Advertising
Location: Salon 12
Chair: Theodore Gordon, Baruch College & Graduate Center, CUNY
 

An Accidental Benchmark: Tracing the History and Outsized Influence of the GTZAN Dataset on Music Recommendation Systems

Allison Jerzak



(Dis)Connected by Wire. Music Transmissions via Telephone as an “Audible Infrastructure” in the Late Nineteenth Century

Jasmin Goll



Studebaker Songs: Product Advertising with Sheet Music in the Nineteenth Century

Nicole Vilkner

Sounding "Real": Identity and Authentic Performance
Location: Spire Parlor
Chair: Esther Marie Morgan-Ellis, University of North Georgia
 

‘Sounding’ Bartók c.1950

Laura Tunbridge



Creating Characters: Billy Bragg's Pronunciation in Mermaid Avenue

Mary Blake Bonn



The Scratchy Fiddle: Cultural Politics of Timbre in Old-Time Music

Zachary Wallmark

Worship, Women, and Song: Medieval/Early Modern Economies of Sex and Power
Location: Monroe
Chair: Michael Noone, Boston College
Discussant: Melinda Latour, Tufts University
 

At the Intersection Between Music, Love, Devotion and Sexuality: Late-Medieval Song of Songs Antiphons in Germany

Gerard Russel Weber



Sin and Singing Nuns: Tensions Between Musical Activity and Reform in the Convents of the Convertite, c. 1569-1607.

Eliza-Jane Callander



‘Extraordinary Subtill Queanes’: Musical Diplomacy and Jewish Women in the Early Modern Constantinople Harem

Elizabeth Weinfield

 
5:00pm
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6:30pm
Prospective Graduate Student Fair
Location: Grand Ballroom
Robert F. Judd Fund Donor Reception
Location: State Ballroom
5:45pm
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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
Presenter: Janie Cole, University of Connecticut
 

Chair(s): Daniel DiCenso, Jeannette DiBernardo Jones

6:30pm
-
8:30pm
New York University Reception
Location: Wabash
7:00pm
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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
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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
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9:30pm
Childhood and Youth Session and Business Meeting: Spotlight on New and Emerging Work from Early-Career Scholars
Ryan Bunch
,
Location: Crystal
 

Chair(s): Ryan Bunch, Susan Boynton

Presenter(s): Demetrius Shahmehri, Ala Krivov, Trevor R. Nelson, Hannah Neuhauser, Carrie A. Danielson

Sex, Drugs, and Disappointment: Popular Music And Feeling Badly
Amy Coddington
,
Location: Adams
 

Chair(s): Dan DiPiero, Amy Coddington

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Keynote: The Travels of Unhappy Songs: Or, Feeling Mediated, from Du Bois to “Fast Car”

Sara Marcus

 

Depression in Three Tempos: RAYE’s 21st Century Blues

Amy Skjerseth

 

Survivor’s Guilt: Navigations of Masculinity, Political Disdain and Mental Health in Black-British Rap Music

Lizzie Bowes

 

Tuning into Emotions: How Bad Feelings Resonate within the TikTok Music Industry Ecosystem

Kate Hamori

 

Climate Afro-Dysphoria, Ugly Feelings, and Affective Analysis in Childish Gambino’s “Feels Like Summer”

ken tianyuan Ge

Teaching Music Philosophy
Kyle Kaplan
Syracuse University,
Location: Monroe
 

Chair(s): Kyle Kaplan

Presenter(s): Kirsten Speyer Carithers, Michael Gallope, Melinda Latour, Stephen Decatur Smith

 
7:45pm
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9:30pm
Lenka Hlávková Memorial Session
Michael Beckerman
New York University,
Location: Honoré
 

Chair(s): Michael Beckerman

Presenter(s): Erica Honisch, Martha Feldman, Jeannette di Bernardo Jones, Laurie Stras, Anne Robertson, Tereza Havelkova, Marc Niubo, Jan Ciglbauer, Margaret Bent

9:00pm
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11:00pm
Columbia University Reception
Location: Hancock Parlor
Harvard Alumni and Affiliates Reception
Location: State Ballroom
University of Chicago Reception
Location: Empire
 
9:30pm
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11:30pm
Society for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Reception
Location: Wilson
University of North Texas Reception
Location: Salon 5 & 8

 
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