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 12
3rd floor, Palmer House Hilton Hotel
Date: Thursday, 14/Nov/2024
10:45am
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12:15pm
Global Keyboards
Kirsten Paige
North Carolina State University,
Location: Salon 12
Chair: Sergio Ospina Romero, Indiana University
 

Chair(s): Sergio Ospina Romero

Discussant(s): Morton Wan

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The Elephant in the Piano: Music, Ecology, Empire

Fanny Gribenski

 

Keyboard Botany, 1842-1911: Colonial Science and the Remaking of the Piano in British Myanmar

Kirsten Paige

 

Choropoetics: How Keyboard Instruments Disrupt Tonal Space and Shape Cultural Politics

Daniel Walden

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Cold War Music Study Group Business Meeting
Gabrielle Cornish
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Location: Salon 12
 

Chair(s): Gabrielle Cornish

2:15pm
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3:45pm
Jewish Voices
Location: Salon 12
Chair: Tina Frühauf, CUNY Graduate Center
 

Negotiating the Image of a Modern Woman: Chinese and Jewish Sing-Song Girls in Shanghai’s Jazz Cabarets

Matthew Shih



“The Jew in You”: Diasporism and Utopia in the Songs of Geoff Berner and Daniel Kahn

Nathan Friedman



The Aesthetics of the Musical Salon and Jewish Reform at the Home of Amalie Beer

Samuel Teeple

4:00pm
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5:30pm
AMS Ecomusicology Study Group Business Meeting and Special Lecture by Luis Chavez: In Xúchitl, in Cuicatl: Listening to Carbon through Nahuatl Metaphor
Ludim Rebeca Pedroza
Texas State University, San Marcos,
Location: Salon 12
 

Chair(s): Ludim Pedroza, Emily MacCallum

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

10:45am
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12:15pm
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

12:30pm
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2:00pm
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

2:15pm
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3:45pm
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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
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

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

10:45am
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12:15pm
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

12:30pm
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2:00pm
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
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

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

7:30pm
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9:30pm
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


 
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