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: Wabash
3rd floor, Palmer House Hilton Hotel
Date: Thursday, 14/Nov/2024
12:30pm
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2:00pm
Embracing the Position of Chair: Using Administrative Roles to Foster Positive Change
Jennifer Saltzstein
Indiana University,
Location: Wabash
 

Chair(s): Jennifer Saltzstein, Alexander Hardan

Presenter(s): William Cheng, Daniel DiCenso, David Garcia, Halina Goldberg

2:15pm
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3:45pm
Reassessing Black Musical Pioneers
Location: Wabash
Chair: Naomi André, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 

More Than Business Savvy: The Touring Legacy of Sallie Martin, Gospel Pioneer

KAY NORTON



“I Owe It To My Race”: Racial Negotiation in the Early Works of Ulysses Kay

Andrew Moenning



“Were You There?”: Caterina Jarboro Signifies at Thalian Hall

Helena Kopchick Spencer

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Black Musical Worlding: Early Contributors to a Black Musical Aethestic
Location: Wabash
Chair: Mark Lomanno, University of Miami
 

“We almost feel with the people who wrote them”: Racialized Folk Authenticity in the Reception of William L. Dawson’s Concert Spirituals

Emma Elizabeth Beachy



Mungo in the Ballroom(s): Performance Practice, Error, and Ignatius Sancho’s Country Dances

Emily H. Green



The Luca Family Singers in Antebellum America

Julia Chybowski

7:30pm
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9:30pm
Ethics and/of Early Music
Jeannette Jones
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Location: Wabash
 

Chair(s): Jeannette Jones, Daniel DiCenso, Eleanor Price, Dmitriy Stegall

Presenter(s): Anna Zayaruznaya, Luisa Nardini, Catherine Adoyo, Peter Jeffrey, Andrew Dell'Antonio, Katharina Uhde

Date: Friday, 15/Nov/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
Scoring the Genre Film
Philip Bixby
,
Location: Wabash
Chair: Julie Hubbert, University of South Carolina
 

Chair(s): Julie Hubbert

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

"Just the Right Note of Melancholy Regret": Scoring the 1970s British Gangster Film

Amy Bauer

 

The Gay Movie Soundtrack

Stephan Hammel

 

Horror's Hostile Formalism: Inexorable Sonic Design in Dario Argento's Inferno and David Prior's The Empty Man

Philip Bixby

10:45am
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12:45pm
Cinematic Interpretations
Location: Wabash
Chair: Michael Baumgartner, Cleveland State University
 

Discovery of "The Psycho Theme"

Stephen Husarik



Cool Jazz, Quiet Revolution: The Racial Politics of Jazz at the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s

Allyson Rogers



The Theme That Was Never Born: Deleted Music from Tiomkin’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”

Zachary Cairns



Sounding the Clarion: Call-to-Action Music in the Attenborough Nature Documentary

Leo Julian Sarbanes

2:15pm
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3:45pm
Hip-Hop Aesthetics
Location: Wabash
Chair: Loren Kajikawa, George Washington University
 

Promotion Effects in Music Videos: Run DMC and Aerosmith’s “Walk this Way”

Mark Samples



Stylo Milo: Gendered Aesthetics in Tamil Rap

Shiva Ramkumar



Seriously Unserious: The Aesthetics of Absurdity in Viral Hip-Hop Remixes

Jasmine A. Henry

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Hip-Hop as Catharsis and Social Commentary
Location: Wabash
Chair: Alisha Jones
 

The “Cathartic Cry” in Hip-Hop: Redefining Sonic Warfare

Leah Marie Amarosa



Night of the Social Dead: Hip-hop, Zombies, and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in Lupe Fiasco's The Cool

Alexander Joshua Moore



SIGNIFYIN’ THE GOLDEN AGE: ESTABLISHING A HIP-HOP COMMUNITY THROUGH INTRA-GENRE QUOTATION

Matt Yuknas

6:30pm
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8:30pm
New York University Reception
Location: Wabash
Date: Saturday, 16/Nov/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
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

10:45am
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12:15pm
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

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting
Kimberly Hannon Teal
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Location: Wabash
 

Chair(s): Kimberly Hannon Teal

2:15pm
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3:45pm
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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
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

9:30pm
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11:30pm
UCLA Musicology Alumni Reception
Location: Wabash
Date: Sunday, 17/Nov/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
Women's Musical Networks and the Creation of Feminized Artistic Space
Location: Wabash
Chair: Vanessa L. Rogers, Rhodes College
 

Women at the Heart of Opera: Juana de Orozco and the Creation of Spanish Eighteenth-Century Opera

Maria Virginia Acuna



Women and the Early History of the Amarillo Symphony

Kimberly Hieb



Subscription Lists, Concert Notices, and Musical Clues: Reconstructing Elizabeth Turner’s Mid-Eighteenth-Century Musical Network

Paula Maust

10:45am
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12:45pm
Pioneering a Profession: Women in Musical Careers
Location: Wabash
Chair: Laura Stokes, Brown University
 

The Path of the Artist: Public Performance, Class, and the Late Career of Delphine von Schauroth

Amanda Lalonde



“Hearing her, one rejoices and delights”: Women’s Musical Activities at the Venetian Ospedali Maggiori

Vanessa Tonelli



Louise Farrenc’s Compositional Dedications: A Window on the Networks of Professional Women Musicians in 19th-Century Paris

Marie Sumner Lott



New Light on the Life and Career of the Trouvère Maroie de Dergnau

Suzanna Grace Feldkamp


 
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