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
Location: Salon 10
3rd floor, Palmer House Hilton Hotel
Date: Thursday, 14/Nov/2024
10:45am
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12:15pm
Constructing Latinidad: Cumbia Music, Identity, and Affect
Valeria Isabel Chavez Roncal
Northwestern University,
Location: Salon 10
Chair: Jacqueline Avila, University of Texas at Austin
 

Chair(s): Jacqueline Avila

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

La Sonora Dinamita Band and the Latin American Migration to Southern California: A Borgian Analysis of the only band in the US that can play in more than one place at a time

Eloy Neira de la Cadena

 

Dancing the Path to Congress: Cumbia Music and Peruvian Political Advertising at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Valeria Isabel Chavez Roncal

 

Cumbia Norteña and the Transnational Figure of the Sirreño

Kristian Rodriguez

12:30pm
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2:00pm
AMS Ludomusicology Study Group Business Meeting
Richard John Anatone
Prince George's Community College,
Location: Salon 10
 

Chair(s): Richard John Anatone, James Heazlewood-Dale

2:15pm
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3:45pm
Virtuosity, Disability, and Media
David VanderHamm
Johnson County Community College,
Location: Salon 10
Chair: David VanderHamm, Johnson County Community College
 

Chair(s): David VanderHamm

Discussant(s): Blake Howe

Presenter(s): Stefan Sunandan Honisch, Benjamin Oyler, Molly Joyce, Rachel Gain, David VanderHamm

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Performing Disabled or Non-Normative Bodies
Location: Salon 10
Chair: Maria Cizmic, University of South Florida
Discussant: Heather Hadlock, Stanford University
 

“Visible Music”: Defiant Bodies and Instrumental Theater at the Fluxus International Festival of the Newest Music (Wiesbaden, 1962)

Elaine Fitz Gibbon



Beggars, Prisoners, and Other “woful Figures”: “Crutch Dances” and Performing Disability on the Eighteenth-Century Musical Stage

Vanessa L. Rogers



Making a Monster: Louise Bertin, Victor Hugo, and the Nineteenth-Century Hunchback

Sarah K Miller

Date: Friday, 15/Nov/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
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

10:45am
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12:15pm
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

12:30pm
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2:00pm
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

2:15pm
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3:45pm
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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
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

Date: Saturday, 16/Nov/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
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

10:45am
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12:15pm
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

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Popular Music Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Salon 10
2:15pm
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3:45pm
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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
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

Date: Sunday, 17/Nov/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
Memory and Intergenerational Inheritance in Operatic Practice
Lucy Caplan
,
Location: Salon 10
Chair: Kunio Hara, University of South Carolina School of Music
 

Chair(s): Kunio Hara

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“Once Past, Also Future”: Diffractions in Canadian Operatic Performance Practice

Colleen Renihan

 

“No sudden thing”: Black Opera in the Age of Desegregation

Lucy Caplan

 

The making of a Taiwanese opera singer across colonial times: the case of Koh Bunya

Amanda Hsieh

10:45am
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12:15pm
Inside the Opera House: A Multisensory Social World
Location: Salon 10
Chair: Matthew Franke, Howard University
Discussant: Mark Everist, University of Southampton
 

From the Fashion House to the Opera House: Material Revivals in Contemporary Italian Productions

Jane Margaret Sylvester



­­­Teatri di corte, teatri di periferia: Monza’s opera houses at the turn of the nineteenth century (1778-1814)

Alessandra Palidda



From the Parisian Page to the Bavarian Stage: A Performative Approach to Opera Translation

Annelies Andries


 
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