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: Price
5th floor, Palmer House Hilton Hotel
Date: Thursday, 14/Nov/2024
10:45am
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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

2:15pm
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3:45pm
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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
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

Date: Friday, 15/Nov/2024
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

10:45am
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12:45pm
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

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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
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

Date: Saturday, 16/Nov/2024
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

10:45am
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12:15pm
“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

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Music and Philosophy Study Group Business Meeting
Kyle Kaplan
Syracuse University,
Location: Price
 

Chair(s): Kyle Kaplan

2:15pm
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3:45pm
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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
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

Date: Sunday, 17/Nov/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
Listening, Climate Catastrophe, and Colonial Extraction
Naomi Waltham-Smith
University of Oxford,
Location: Price
Chair: James Q. Davies, University of California, Berkeley
 

Chair(s): James Q. Davies

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Dialectic of *Enlightenment* [struck out] Anthropocene: Adorno and Cage

Alexander Rehding

 

Colonial Audile Techniques in the Torrid Zone

Andrew Chung

 

Ec(h)ologies and Worldmaking

Naomi Waltham-Smith

10:45am
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12:15pm
Ecomusicology/Eco-Cultures
Location: Price
Chair: Alison Maggart
 

Gesamtkunstwerk Earth: Climate Change, Globalization, and Site Specificity in Sun and Sea (Marina)

G Douglas Barrett



Preaching to Crumbling Walls: Vocal Samples and Dire Aesthetics in Post Rock

K. Tyler Osborne



Historiographies of Place, Space, and Gender: Women as Scene-Builders in Early Twentieth-Century California

Charissa Joann Noble


 
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