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: Saturday, 16/Nov/2024
7:15am
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8:45am
AMS Board and Council Breakfast
Georgia Cowart
Case Western Reserve University,
Location: Chicago
 

Chair(s): Georgia Cowart

7:30am
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9:00am
Publications Committee Meeting
Location: Hancock Parlor
8:30am
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6:00pm
Exhibit Hall Open
Location: Exhibit Hall
 
9:00am
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10:00am
Copyright Controversies: Evolutions and Legacies
Location: Price
Chair: Joshua Neumann, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
Discussant: Katherine Leo
 

Vaughan Williams and the Folksong Copyright Controversy Revisited

Julian H. Onderdonk



"Everything Has Changed"? Taylor Swift's Music Copyright Legacy

Dana Lauren DeVlieger

9:00am
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10:30am
“Unblemished Harmonies: Modernism in Spanish Music, 1898-1936”
Alessio Olivieri
University of Nebraska - Lincoln,
Location: Adams
Chair: William Krause, Hollins University
 

Chair(s): William Craig Krause

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Tradition and Modernity in Usandizaga’s Las golondrinas (1914): A Veristic Exploration

Alessio Olivieri

 

Disinfecting the Piano: Suite para piano (1923) and the Advent of Bitonality in the Works of Joaquín Rodrigo

Walter Aaron Clark

 

Rafael Rodríguez Albert between Tradition and Modernism: a Multifaceted Composer in the Silver Era.

Pedro López de la Osa

Open Access Publishing in Musicology: A Roundtable Discussion
Rachel Scott
Illinois State University Library,
Location: Crystal
Chair: Rachel Scott, Illinois State University Library
 

Chair(s): Rachel E. Scott

Presenter(s): Daniel Barolsky, Matthew Franke, Jesse P. Karlsberg, Colin Roust, Anne Shelley

Rethinking Gender in Music Pedagogy and Research
Lauren Shepherd
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Location: Wabash
Chair: Jennifer Iverson, University of Chicago
 

Chair(s): Jennifer Iverson

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Without a Technical Bone in My Body: Critical Strategies for Inclusive and Accessible Technical Studio Design

Bethany Younge, Seth Cluett

 

Starting from the Beginning

Nina Fukuoka

 

Advocating for Inclusivity in Pedagogy Through Analysis and the Archive

Lauren Shepherd

Seeking the Unseen, Hearing the Unheard: Amplifying Voices from the Periphery, c.1300–1500
Elina Hamilton
,
Location: Honoré
Chair: Evan A. MacCarthy, UMass Amherst
 

Chair(s): Evan A. MacCarthy

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Songbooks for Margherita and Marietta: Florentine Women’s Musical Lives c. 1500

Jane Hatter

 

Theinred of Dover and the Consonance of the Third, c. 1340 [sic]

Elina Hamilton

 

Relying on the Lost and Unknown—the 15th-century manuscript Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Municipale 222 C.22

Carolann Buff

Artifacts of French Music-Making
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Chair: Peter Asimov, University of Cambridge
 

"Incunables du son": Contextualizing Guy Ferrant’s Sound Recording Collection

Sarah Fuchs



Adam de la Bassée’s Ludus Anticlaudianum and Music-Making in Late-Medieval Lille

Sarah Ann Long



Partimento as Socio-Musical Hieroglyph in Early Nineteenth-Century France

Calum Tomas Jensen

Early Modern Musical Theater
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Chair: Berta Joncus, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
 

Rediscovering Dramma in Musica: A Re-Consideration of its Origins at the Crossroads between Art Theory, Rhetoric, and Counter-Reformation.

Antonio Cascelli



Singing for Others: Marionettes, Children, and ‘Pygmées’ at the Palais-Royal

Mara Peters Lane



Death Once-Removed: Zombie Biopolitics and White World-Building in 'Le Turc généreux' (1735)

Tomos Watkins

Global Opera and Cross-Cultural Aesthetics
Location: State Ballroom
Chair: Ryan Minor, Stony Brook University
 

Callas Athena: Greekness, Rebetiko, and the Unsentimental

Martha Feldman



Performing Dissimulation in Jingju: Mei Lanfang and the Cross-Cultural Aesthetics of Feigned Madness

Wendy Heller



The Butterfly (Lovers) Effect: Opera Reform and Composition in Western Idiom in the Chinese Yue Opera Film The Butterfly Lovers (1953)

Xinyi Ye

Music & Nazism
Location: Spire Parlor
Chair: Karen Painter
 

“A ritual representation of new life in public spectacle”: Modernist Opera and German Identity in the Nationalsozialistische Kulturgemeinde (NSKG)

Max Erwin



“Dem deutschen Meister“? Liszt, Bayreuth and the Nazis

Monika Hennemann



Lament for the Heroes: A Musical Response to Nazi-Occupied Athens

Alexandra Burkot

Onscreen Identities
Location: Salon 12
Chair: Jacques Dupuis
 

Much Too Sensuous: Irish Film Censor James Montgomery’s Musical Worries in the 1920s

James Doering



Hard Men Softened: Lyric Form and Anempathic Attachments in the Early Work of Martin Scorsese

Todd Decker



Mediated Stages: Theatricality and Emotional Persuasion in Taiwanese Documentary Film

David Wilson

Pragmatic and Creative Solution-Making in Early Composition
Location: Salon 10
Chair: Lynette Bowring
 

Composing Music at a Cardinal’s Palace: Graffiti of Two New Three-voice Rondeaux at Villeneuve-lez-Avignon

Lawrence M. Earp



More Than Meets the Ear: Recomposition as Exegesis in Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Imitation Masses

Maura Sugg



Re-used, reduced, recycled: a fragmented antiphoner from medieval Trier

Anna de Bakker

Scandinavian Symphony and Ballet
Location: Monroe
Chair: Christopher M Scheer, Utah State University
 

Creating Musical Modernism in Mid-Twentieth Century Iceland

Arni Heimir Ingolfsson



George Balanchine and Song of Norway (1944)

Patricia Sasser



Composition as a Feminist Act: The Case of Elfrida Andrée’s Symphony No. 1 (1869)

Jonathan David Spatola-Knoll

 
9:30am
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11:00am
Poster Session
Location: Exhibit Hall
 

Why do we practice the harmonic minor scale?

Jenine Brown, Yeonju Lee



Harmonies of Empowerment: Exploring Contemporary Women Composers Dana Kaufman and Leaha Villarreal in Western Art Music

Ruojin Wu



Feeling the Rigid Coldness of Bud Powell's "Glass Enclosure"

Joon Park



Ways of Singing Poetry: Mapping Italian Song Formulas, 1504–1635

Chelsey Belt

10:45am
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12:00pm
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
"She Proclaimed a Chicago Renaissance": Mapping Black Women's Classical World-Making (AMS Committee on Women and Gender Endowed Lecture)
Christi Jay Wells
Arizona State University,
Location: Red Lacquer Ballroom
Chair: Christi Jay Wells, Arizona State University
 

Chair(s): Christi Jay Wells

Discussant(s): Regina Harris Baioicchi, Artina McCain, Medomfo Owusu

Presenter(s): Samantha Ege

“Fight the Real Enemy”: Sinéad O’Connor’s Musical and Cultural Legacies
Áine Palmer
Yale University,
Location: Price
Chair: Emmalouise St. Amand, Colby College
 

Chair(s): Emmalouise St. Amand

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Sinéad O’Connor, Catholicism, and Irish Society, 1990-1997

Adam Behan

 

“I Never Said I Had a Problem with America”: Genre Trouble in Sinéad O’Connor’s Am I Not Your Girl?

Áine Palmer

 

The Ceaseless Twilight of ‘Pop Time’

Julian Day

Decolonizing Ukrainian Music
Location: Adams
Chair: Halina Goldberg, Indiana University
Chair: Laikin Dantchenko, Indiana University
Dis-eased Musical Bodies
Bettina Gisela Varwig
University of Cambridge,
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Chair: Remi Chiu, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PEABODY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
 

Chair(s): Remi Chiu

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Bodies in Pain: Dis-eased Musicking in J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion

Bettina Varwig

 

Fearful Bodies – Fearful Sounds? Musically Navigating the Dis-ease of Plague

Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild

 

Bent Bodies: Dis-ease in Heinrich Biber’s Scordatura and Joni Mitchell’s Alternate Tunings

Mark Seow

Ensemble Origo Presents "Un sarao de la Chacona – Tracing the African and Mesoamerican Origins of the Sarabande and the Chaconne"
Eric Rice
University of Connecticut,
Location: State Ballroom
 

Eric Rice

Music and the Third Reich
Helmut Reichenbacher
,
Location: Spire Parlor
Chair: Pamela Potter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Chair(s): Pamela M. Potter

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Politics and the Werk: Staging Parsifal in NS-Germany

Anthony J. Steinhoff

 

Wir Machen Musik: Performing Gender and Race on Hitler’s Screens

James Deaville

 

A Prototype Digital Tool for Analyzing Opera and Musical Theatre Programming during Third Reich

Helmut Reichenbächer

Identity and Aesthetics in Asian American Popular Music
Location: Honoré
Chair: Eric Hung
 

Shaping a Pluralistic Asian America: Revisiting Asian American Popular Music in the 1970s

Peng Liu



“The Ballad of Chol Soo Lee”: Asian American Song about You and Me

Sora Woo



Aesthetics of Deterritorialization: Transforming Traditional Music by Korean Diasporic Artists in 21st Century America

Mingyeong Son

Music Writing: Moving Beyond Notation
Location: Salon 10
Chair: Rika Asai, University of Pittsburgh
 

Searching for the True Land: A Critical Edition of Lee Morgan’s “Search for the New Land”

Collin Felter



Six String Standard: Evaluating Folk Guitaristic Legibility Through Text and Song

Zeke Levine



Stendhal’s Embellishments: Music Notation and the History of Writing

Peter Mondelli

Navigating Issues of Trauma and Safety in the Post-Secondary Music Classroom
Location: Crystal
Chair: Matthew Baumer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Sara Haefeli, Ithaca College
 

Abuse, Trauma, and the Politics of "Excellence" in US Musical Training Programs

Jillian Rogers



Trauma-informed Pedagogy and the Post-secondary Music Class

Kimber Andrews, Kristy Swift



The Student Experience Project in the Music History Classroom: Outcomes, Activities, and Observations

J. Drew Stephen

Sounding European Identities
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Chair: John Gabriel, University of Melbourne
 

“Everybody Wanna Move Like Us!”: Performing Afro-Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, 2019-2021

Paul David Flood



Synthesizers as Markers of Identity in the "Ost-Berlin School" of East German Electronic Rock

Heather Elizabeth Moore



Libation as Intercultural Communication: Hermann Leopoldi’s “I bin a stiller Zecher”

Barbara Dietlinger

Women, Life, and Music in Iran
Location: Wabash
Chair: Maria Virginia Acuna, University of Victoria
 

Opera and 'Opera' in Iran: Battleground of Ideology and Gender

Michelle Assay



Sound of Iran

Mahdis Bayat



Say Her Name, Hear Our Voice: Exploring Intersectional Soundscapes in Iranian Diasporic Protests in the United States

Sara Fazeli Masayeh

The Middle Ground in Anime Music Studies
Kunio Hara
University of South Carolina School of Music,
Location: Salon 12
Chair: Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, Carleton College
 

Chair(s): Brooke McCorkle Okazaki

Presenter(s): Gui Hwan Lee, Nicholas Anderson, Rose Bridges, Stefan Greenfield-Casas, Thomas Yee, Kunio Hara, Stacey Jocoy

10:45am
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12:45pm
Black Voices and Sonic Racializations
Location: Monroe
Chair: Babatunji Dada, University of Ibadan
 

The Negro Folk Symphony's New World

Gwynne Kuhner Brown



Cecil Taylor in Madison and Yellow Springs, 1970–1973

Dexter Edge



Refusing to Be Finished: Marian Anderson and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Michael Kinney



‘If we became a homogenous culture’: Florence Price, Roy Harris, and the Search for American Musical Populism 1946-50

Katharina Uhde, Larry Todd

11:00am
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12:30pm
AMS Board Meet & Greet 3
Location: Exhibit Hall
12:00pm
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1:30pm
AMS Pedagogy Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Kimball
12:00pm
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2:30pm
Dog Therapy
Location: Marshfield
12:30pm
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1:30pm
AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 2
Location: Hancock Parlor
12:30pm
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2:00pm
2024 MDSG Business Meeting
Rebecca Schwartz
University of Michigan,
Location: Adams
Chair: Rebecca Schwartz, University of Michigan
 

Chair(s): Rebecca Schwartz, Rachel Gain

AMS Council
Location: Honoré
AMS Global Music History Study Group Business Meeting
Hedy Law
,
Location: Spire Parlor
 

Chair(s): Daniel Castro Pantoja, Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas, Hedy Law

Haydn Society of North America Annual General Meeting
Location: Empire
Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting
Kimberly Hannon Teal
,
Location: Wabash
 

Chair(s): Kimberly Hannon Teal

LGBTQ Study Group Business Meeting and Conversation
Lee K. Tyson
Ithaca College,
Location: Chicago
 

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

Listening to the Cold War Through the Anthropocene
Gabrielle Cornish
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Location: Crystal
 

Chair(s): Andrew Barrett

Discussant(s): Gabrielle Cornish

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“Power to Produce for Peace”: The University of Michigan Symphony Band at the 1961 Cairo Agricultural Exhibition

Kari Lindquist

 

John Cage, 0’00”, and the Atomic Sublime

Sara Haefeli

 

Reflecting on Gaia: How Can the Soil Change in the New Cold War?

Oksana Nesterenko

Music and Embodiment in Screen Media
Daniel Bishop
Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University,
Location: Water Tower Parlor
 

Chair(s): Daniel Bishop, Jordan Stokes, Lisa Scoggin, James Deaville

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“Close to You”: Bootleg Aesthetics, Grain, & the Erotics of Empathy in Todd Haynes’s <i>Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story </i>(1987)

Ashley Dao

 

“They were real”: Authenticity and Liveness in 1930s Hollywood Tap Dance Numbers

Samantha Jones

Music and Philosophy Study Group Business Meeting
Kyle Kaplan
Syracuse University,
Location: Price
 

Chair(s): Kyle Kaplan

Music, Sound, and Trauma Study Group Business Meeting
Jillian Rogers
,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
 

Chair(s): Jillian Rogers, Erin Brooks

Popular Music Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Salon 10
Speed Networking
Location: Clark 5
The Committee on Women & Gender: Looking to the Past, Envisioning the Future
Christi Jay Wells
Arizona State University,
Location: Salon 12
 

Chair(s): Christi Jay Wells

Presenter(s): Christi Jay Wells, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Honey Meconi, Judith Tick

     
2:15pm
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3:45pm
Home Away from Home: Diasporic Musical Expressions in the United States
Uri S. Schreter
Harvard University,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Chair: Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Harvard University
 

Chair(s): Kay K. Shelemay

Discussant(s): Kay K. Shelemay

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“As Natural to Me as Breathing”: Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City

Uri S. Schreter

 

“Subcultural Things: A Study of Transnational Being of the Balalaika and Domra in the United States”

Anya Shatilova

 

Rehearsing Multiculturalism: Andean Grupos ​F​olklóricos in the Florida Panhandle

Vivianne Asturizaga

Navigating the Archive: Collection Development, Stewardship, and Access Issues for Researchers in the 21st Century
Paul Sommerfeld
Library of Congress,
Location: Price
Chair: Paul Sommerfeld, Library of Congress
 

Chair(s): Paul Sommerfeld

Presenter(s): Paul Sommerfeld, Stephanie Akau, Dwandalyn Reece, Theodore Gonzalves, Alison Hinderliter, Bob Kosovsky

On the redistribution of the sensible: Articulating critical popular music studies through emo rap, hardcore punk, and riot grrrl
Runchao Liu
,
Location: Salon 10
Chair: Eric Hung
 

Chair(s): Eric Hung

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“An Empire of Emotion:” Emo Rap, Auto-Tune, and the Sonic-racial Politics of Depression

Catherine Provenzano

 

Soundtrack to (un)representable bodies: Musical archives and the urgency of alternative counter-discourses

Runchao Liu

 

“Hyperactive Child”: Punk and Reagan-Era Neuropolitics

Jessica Schwartz

Post-War France and its Others
Mary Ann Smart
University of California, Berkeley,
Location: Spire Parlor
Chair: Brian Kane, Yale University
 

Chair(s): Brian Kane

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Abstraction’s Others: Yvonne Loriod’s prepared piano, beyond Boulez and Cage

Peter Asimov

 

Music, Symbol, Myth: Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Anthropological Imaginary

Alexandra Kieffer

 

The Grain of the Voice before Barthes

Mary Ann Smart

Sonic Survival and Resistance through Performance and Memory Among Women in Latin America and Korea
Victoria Mogollón Montagne
The University of Texas at Austin,
Location: Salon 12
Chair: James Gabrillo
 

Chair(s): James Gabrillo

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Gendered Memories and Sounding Silence in the Korean Borderland

Jeong-In Lee

 

Women in Malandreo: Aesthetics, Violence and Urban Sociability in Caracas

Victoria Mogollon Montagne

 

Polyphony of Indigenous Identities in ‘Mujeres del Viento Florido’: Strategic Alliances in the Face of the Labor Dynamics of Colonial Capitalism

Mercedes Alejandra Payán Ramírez

Sounding the Russian and Soviet Frontier: Perspectives from Manchuria, Bulgaria, and Armenia
Ryan Gourley
,
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Chair: Gabrielle Cornish, University of Wisconsin–Madison
 

Chair(s): Gabrielle Cornish

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The Bulgarian Question in Music: Balkan Internationalism at the End of Empire

David Salkowski

 

War as Musical Entertainment: Sounding the Siege of Port Arthur on Early Gramophone Recordings

Ryan Gourley

 

Staging Geopolitics: Opera and Historical Revisionism in Soviet Armenia

Knar Abrahamyan

Queer Music Modalities: Nostalgia, Grief and Activism
Location: Wabash
Chair: Sadie Jessica Hochman, Harper College
 

The Classical Music “Influencer:” Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Gen-Z Performer

Shannon Draucker



Camping the ‘80s: Queer Nostalgia in Pop Music Remixes on YouTube

Moira de Kok



The Black Queer Gospel According to Usher: Contested Religious Meanings in Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop (2019)

Zachary Lloyd, Joshua Carpenter

Rethinking Beethoven in Theory and Practice
Location: Adams
Chair: Stephen Husarik, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
 

When Theory Intersects Performance: Flexible Formal Boundaries and Schmalfeldt’s “Becoming” in Beethoven’s Sonata in F major, Op. 10, no. 2, First Movement

James MacKay, James MacKay



From Apotheosis to Bacchanal: Dance and the Beethovenian Finale

Erica Buurman



Beethoven's Theme-and-Variation Movement in String Quartet Op. 131: Approaches to Formal and Hypermetrical Strategies Revealed Through Comparative Analysis

Wanyi Li

Sounding Blackness: Defining Racial Identity through Music
Location: Crystal
Chair: Clifton Boyd, New York University
 

Stride Organology: Fats Waller’s Victor Pipe Organ Recordings, 1926–1928

Emma Wimberg



“In Our Raven-Like Body … Blooms a Heart as White as a Lily”: Sonic, Kinetic, and Visual Imaginings of Blackness in Court Festivals of the Protestant Union, 1596-1616

Arne Spohr



“Property of the Race”: Betty Boop, “Hot Licks,” and Musical Expropriation, ca. 1934

Matthew Mendez

Staged Dance
Location: Monroe
Chair: Wayne Henry Heisler, The College of New Jersey
 

“A ballet unlike any other”: Belsky’s Leningrad Symphony

Laura Kennedy



A Friendship in Music and Dance: Carlos Salzedo and Adolph Bolm

Carolyn Jo Watts



What’s Funny About War? Humor, Banality, and French Artistic Identity in Parade

Julian William Duncan

Frozen Figures: Grief, Denial, and Stephen Sondheim's 1966 Television Musical Evening Primrose
Location: State Ballroom
Traveling Tunes, Pilfered Poems: Medieval Song Across Language, Genre, and Setting
Anya B. Wilkening
Columbia University,
Location: Honoré
Chair: Mary Channen Caldwell, University of Pennsylvania
 

Chair(s): Mary Channen Caldwell

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Stealing the Show: Composition, Authorship, and Musical Theft in the Kitāb al-Aghānī and the Troubadour Tradition

Anya B. Wilkening

 

The Winner Takes It All? How Melody Determines Attribution in Three Apparent Self-Contrafaction Networks

Nicholas W. Bleisch

 

Contrafacture and the lai lyrique

Daniel E. O’Sullivan

3:15pm
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4:30pm
American Brahms Society Afternoon Reception
Location: Cresthill
4:00pm
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5:30pm
AI Ecstasy? Towards Generative AI Tools for Arab Music
Melissa June Scott
Carleton College,
Location: Salon 12
Chair: Fadi Al-Ghawanmeh, University of Jordan
 

Chair(s): Fadi Al-Ghawanmeh

Presenter(s): Fadi Al-Ghawanmeh, Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Melissa J. Scott, Nedal Nsairat

Global Economies of Talent
Anaar Desai-Stephens
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Chair: Lindsay Wright, Yale University
Chair: Anaar Desai-Stephens, CUNY Graduate Center
 

Chair(s): Anaar Desai-Stephens, Sergio Opina Romero, Lindsay Wright

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“Get the Hook”: the Birth of U.S. Talent Shows and the Aesthetics of Exclusion

Lindsay Wright

 

The Economy of Talent and Other Tales of Extractivism

Sergio Ospina Romero

 

“‘All That Matters Here Is Talent:’ Musical Talent and the (Bio)Politics of Meritocracy in NeoLiberalizing India”

Anaar Desai-Stephens

East Asian Explorations of Temporality, Cyclicity, and Form
Location: Honoré
Chair: James Gabrillo
Discussant: Bess Xintong Liu
 

Music, Time, and History in East Asian Modernity: Temporal Disjuncture in He Zhanhao’s Eternal Regrets at Lin’an

Gavin S. K. Lee



A Japanese Imperial Philosophy of Musical Fantasy

Rina Sugawara



A Taoist Approach to Bach: Zhu Xiao-Mei's Performance of the Goldberg Variations

FANGYUAN LIU

Amplifying Voices: Critical Approaches to Women in Rock, Jazz, and R&B
Location: Salon 10
Chair: Amy Coddington
 

Saying Something: Esperanza Spalding's "Girl Talk" and Jazz Patriarchy

Kelsey Klotz



This is a Song About an Old Welsh Witch: Stevie Nicks’ “Rhiannon”(1976), the Wiccan Influx, and Feminist Spirituality in the Rock ’n’ Roll Counterculture

Shelina Brown

Global Music Theory: Perspectives on Tonality and Phrasing
Location: Price
Chair: Michael Weinstein-Reiman, The University of Wisconsin - Madison
 

Theorizing Phrase Structure in Guqin Music

Ruixue Hu



Schoenberg over the Dnipro: Free Atonality and Dodecaphony in modernist Ukraine

Leah Batstone



Alfabeto, punto, and diapason: the guitar as an instrument of music theory in seventeenth-century Iberia

Juan Patricio Saenz

Jazz Convergences: Tone, Color, Fusion
Location: Wabash
Chair: Kimberly Hannon Teal
Discussant: Justin Williams, University of Bristol
 

Talking in Timbre: Tone Color as a Site for Interstylistic Improvisation

James McNally



We Like It Here: "Post-Fusion" Jazz and Snarky Puppy

Jacob Edward Collins



Ted Dunbar’s Theory of Tonal Convergence (1975) and the Speculative Tritone Substitution

Dustin Chau

Musical Trends in 20th -Century England
Location: Spire Parlor
Chair: Heather Wiebe, University of Notre Dame
Discussant: Trevor Nelson, Wichita State University
 

The Historiography of Gustav Holst: Reconsidering Imogen Holst and At The Boar’s Head (1925)

Christopher M Scheer



Girton’s Musical War: Music on the Home Front in a Cambridge Women’s College, 1914–1918

Kathleen McGowan



“Barbarians nearer home”: Defining the Pure and the Primitive in English Folksong

Grant Woods

Sound / Body Connections
Location: Monroe
Chair: Daniel Callahan, Boston College
 

Journeys Through Snow: A Case Study on Nutcracker Reinvention

Celine Elizabeth Gosselin



Mr. Ailey, Sam, Miss Price, and the Hermitage: Intersections of Sexuality, Race, and Gender in Alvin Ailey’s Hermit Songs

Wayne Henry Heisler



Pauline Oliveros and Biofeedback

Alexandria Renata Smith

The Outsider Within: Black and African Voices in European Music
Location: Crystal
Chair: Mark A. Pottinger, Manhattan University
 

African Music and the History of Colonial Time

Martin Scherzinger



Blackening music: Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges on the 19th-century stage

Thomas Ludwig Betzwieser



Style Change as Tactical Repositioning: José Maurício Nunes Garcia as a Black Colonial Subject

Bernardo Illari

Transnational Currents
Location: Adams
Chair: Marysol Quevedo, University of Miami
 

Strained Strains: Complicating Nationalist Rhetoric at the NFL Super Bowl

Joanna Love



The Invention of Andalusi Music as Western Music during the Decolonization of the Maghreb

Samuel Llano



Face to face with the 1889 gamelan: A first study of this legendary instrument, its features, and implications in the context of the Paris Universal Exhibition

Angela Lopez-Lara, Luca Chiantore

Voicing Coloniality
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Chair: Yili Zhou
 

Contact Listening: Using and Refusing Hymnody in Early Native America

Glenda Goodman



Choirs as [a Tool of] Colonialism: Diagnostic Embodiment, Affect, and the Elision of Physical and Cultural in Choralism

Eugenia Siegel Conte



Algeria and Memories of Resistance in Tomasi’s Le Silence de la mer

Zachary Lee Nazar Stewart

From Prague and Beyond: Slavic Routes for Voices and Winds
Location: Red Lacquer Ballroom
4:00pm
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6:00pm
Taylor Swift: Economies of Fandom and Female Rage
Location: State Ballroom
Chair: Paula Clare Harper, University of Chicago
 

On Heartbeats and Heartbreaks: Diagnostic Listening in the Era of Taylor Swift

Ailsa Lipscombe



Mean Girls: Or, Violence as Female Rage in Contemporary Popular Music

Sharri K. Hall



Taylor Swift, Her Prosumer "Swifties," And The New Commodified Celebrity Narrative

Emilie Catlett



Creating Concert Culture: How Fan Behaviour at the Taylor Swift Eras Tour Movie Highlights Audience Co-Creation in Concert Experiences

Alyssa Michaud

6:00pm
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7:00pm
AMS Business Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom
6:30pm
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8:30pm
University of Cincinnati CMT-Musicology Reception
Location: Spire Parlor
7:00pm
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7:30pm
AMS Awards Ceremony
Location: Grand Ballroom
7:00pm
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9:00pm
Voices and Viols Jam
Location: Kimball
7:30pm
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9:00pm
AMS Awards Reception
Location: Red Lacquer Ballroom
7:30pm
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9:30pm
Accommodation and Accessibility in the Music Classroom
Tekla Babyak
Disabled Independent Scholar,
Location: Crystal
 

Chair(s): James Deaville, Tekla Babyak, Stefan Sunandan Honisch, Rena Roussin, Kristy Swift, Reba Wissner

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Leveraging Technology in Universal Design for Learning in the Music Classroom

Faith Lanam

 

Beyond Compliance: Enhancing Accessibility in Higher Education through Universal Design for Learning

Shannon McAlister

 

Accommodation and Accessibility in the Music Classroom

Michael Weinstein-Reiman

 

Exploring the Neurodiverse Classroom

Eric Whitmer

 

Sound Pedagogy: Using UDL in Score Reading and Music Listening

Reba Wissner

Memes, Reels, TikToks: Inscribing and Visualizing Music in the Age of Social Media
Giulia Accornero
Yale University,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
 

Chair(s): Giulia Accornero, Ginger Dellenbaugh

Presenter(s): Braxton Shelley

The Body as Instrument, the Body as Insight: Bridging Jazz Music and Its Dance through Rhythm Tap, MDSG Workshop 2024
Rebecca Schwartz
University of Michigan,
Location: Honoré
 

Chair(s): Rebecca Schwartz, Rachel Gain

Presenter(s): Bril Barrett

The Conflicting Sonic Memories of Mid-Twentieth-Century Wars in East Asia
Kunio Hara
University of South Carolina School of Music,
Location: Salon 12
 

Chair(s): Amanda Hsieh

Presenter(s): Elina G. Asato Hamilton, Heeseung Lee, David Wilson, Suzanne Scherr, Anna B. Gatdula, Kunio Hara, Gavin Lee

University of Pennsylvania Music Department Reception
Location: Chicago
University of Texas at Austin Reception
Location: Wilson
   
8:00pm
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10:00pm
Stanford University Department of Music Reception
Location: Hancock Parlor
9:30pm
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11:00pm
LGBTQ Study Group Party
Lee K. Tyson
Ithaca College,
Location: Monroe
 

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

9:30pm
-
11:30pm
Case Western Reserve University Reception Featuring a Celebration of Georgia Cowart
Location: Adams
Cornell Reception
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Networking Reception
Location: Clark 5
McGill Reception
Location: Marshfield
Princeton University Alumni and Friends Party
Location: Cresthill
UCLA Musicology Alumni Reception
Location: Wabash
University of Michigan Reception
Location: Salon 6
Yale Alumni Reception & Party
Location: Salon 7
10:00pm
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11:59pm
University of California, Berkeley Alumni Reception
Location: Spire Parlor

 
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