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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Location: Monroe 6th floor, Palmer House Hilton Hotel |
| Date: Thursday, 14/Nov/2024 | |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Recent Research on African American Music in the Nineteenth Century Tyler Quentin Diaz CUNY Hunter College, Location: Monroe Chair: Mark Burford, Reed College Presentations of the Symposium Philadelphia as a Black Musical Center from 1800-1850 Francis Johnson’s Grand American Tour, 1842–43 The Indifference of Difference: Sonic Representation of Blackness in Classical Music at the 1893 Chicago World Fair |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Sounding a Center Away from the Coast: Global Music History Study Group Lightning Talks Hedy Law , Location: Monroe Presentations of the Symposium South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene A Music Historian on the Histories of Chicago and Futurities Chongqing China Symphony Orchestra: A Musical Utopia in the Wartime Capital of China "Chi[na]-town": Molding Chinese-American Musical Identities in the Heartland Gold Rush Rhapsody: Why Boomtowns Matter for Music History From Cosmopolitan Crossroads to National Stronghold: Musical Life in Tbilisi between Two Empires When Puppets Sing in Tehran: Reconfiguring Iran’s National Opera |
| 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 Who are you, Miss Simone?: Voice, Androgyneity, and Identity in the Civil Rights Movement Pots, Pans, and Potentiometers: Radio, Song, and Women's Protests in Allende’s Chile (1970-1973) Sonidos Malcriados: Huelga Songs of the United Farm Workers |
| 8:30pm - 11:59pm |
AMS After Dark Location: Monroe |
| Date: Friday, 15/Nov/2024 | |
| 12:00am - 12:30am |
AMS After Dark (con't) Location: Monroe |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 Presentations of the Symposium The monastery in the context of Neapolitan and European history Plainchant and Its Local Context at the Monastery of San Giovanni Carbonara Performance as Pedagogy: Neumes in the Aeneid and the Metamorphoses at San Giovanni a Carbonara |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
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 Feminine Refusal Allegorized: Songs and Snakes in Machaut’s Manuscript A Choirbooks and Crossroads: Tracing Liturgy, Educational Heritage, and Franciscan Networks in Colonial Mexico |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
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 |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Embodying Women's Song in the Middle Ages Henry Parkes University of Nottingham, Location: Monroe Chair: Rebecca Maloy, University of Notre Dame Presentations of the Symposium In the Footsteps of St. Dunstan’s Virgins: Vestiges of Female Song and Dance in Metz MS 1168 The Procession of Memory at Wilton Abbey Embodying the Magdalene at Late Medieval Barking Abbey |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 Sin and Singing Nuns: Tensions Between Musical Activity and Reform in the Convents of the Convertite, c. 1569-1607. ‘Extraordinary Subtill Queanes’: Musical Diplomacy and Jewish Women in the Early Modern Constantinople Harem |
| 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
Teaching Music Philosophy Kyle Kaplan Syracuse University, Location: Monroe |
| Date: Saturday, 16/Nov/2024 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Scandinavian Symphony and Ballet Location: Monroe Chair: Christopher M Scheer, Utah State University Creating Musical Modernism in Mid-Twentieth Century Iceland George Balanchine and Song of Norway (1944) Composition as a Feminist Act: The Case of Elfrida Andrée’s Symphony No. 1 (1869) |
| 10:45am - 12:45pm |
Black Voices and Sonic Racializations Location: Monroe Chair: Babatunji Dada, University of Ibadan The Negro Folk Symphony's New World Cecil Taylor in Madison and Yellow Springs, 1970–1973 Refusing to Be Finished: Marian Anderson and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ‘If we became a homogenous culture’: Florence Price, Roy Harris, and the Search for American Musical Populism 1946-50 |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Staged Dance Location: Monroe Chair: Wayne Henry Heisler, The College of New Jersey “A ballet unlike any other”: Belsky’s Leningrad Symphony A Friendship in Music and Dance: Carlos Salzedo and Adolph Bolm What’s Funny About War? Humor, Banality, and French Artistic Identity in Parade |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Sound / Body Connections Location: Monroe Chair: Daniel Callahan, Boston College Journeys Through Snow: A Case Study on Nutcracker Reinvention Mr. Ailey, Sam, Miss Price, and the Hermitage: Intersections of Sexuality, Race, and Gender in Alvin Ailey’s Hermit Songs Pauline Oliveros and Biofeedback |
| 9:30pm - 11:00pm |
LGBTQ Study Group Party Lee K. Tyson Ithaca College, Location: Monroe |
| Date: Sunday, 17/Nov/2024 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Country Musicology: A Panel in Memory of Travis D. Stimeling Brian F. Wright University of North Texas, Location: Monroe Chair: Paula Bishop, Bridgewater State University Presentations of the Symposium Harold Bradley, the Nashville A-Team, and the “Tic-Tac” Bass Style Space for Just a Few: How Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift Navigated Country Music’s Exclusion of Women Chapel Hart’s Uses of Humor: Creating Commercial Spaces for Black Women in Country Music |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Making Sense of Trauma through Music and Dance Location: Monroe Chair: Samantha Jones, Harvard University Jubano Rikudim in Havana: Cultural Politics of Dance in Cuban Synagogues Settling the Score: Trauma and Domestic Revolution in Alicia Adelaide Needham’s Irish Suffrage Songs “Does Anyone Hear My Voice?:” Foregrounding of Sonic Trauma From Turkey and Syria's February 6th, 2023 Earthquake in Turkish Popular Music |
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