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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7:30am AMS Board of Directors' Meeting Location: Cresthill
8:00am Tenth New Beethoven Research Conference Location: Marshfield
9:00am Beyond Contrafacts: Broadening Approaches to Musical Borrowing, Intertextuality, and Re-Creation Location: Clark 5
10:00am Eileen Southern Scholars Cohort Meet-up Location: Kimball
10:30am Exhibit Hall Open Location: Exhibit Hall
10:45am Bordering Modernisms Sherry Lee
,
Location: Crystal Chant among the Franciscans: Songs, Singing, Sequences Location: Adams Constructing Latinidad: Cumbia Music, Identity, and Affect Valeria Isabel Chavez Roncal
Northwestern University,
Location: Salon 10 Global Keyboards Kirsten Paige
North Carolina State University,
Location: Salon 12
New American Opera in the Institutional Imagination Ryan Ebright
,
Location: Price Recent Research on African American Music in the Nineteenth Century Tyler Quentin Diaz
CUNY Hunter College,
Location: Monroe Student-led Approaches to Teaching Equity in Music Studies Ely Lyonblum
University of Toronto,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
11:00am Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Governing Board Meeting Location: Medinah Parlor
12:00pm New Attendee Reception Location: Chicago
12:30pm AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Orientation Location: Hancock Parlor AMS Ludomusicology Study Group Business Meeting Richard John Anatone
Prince George's Community College,
Location: Salon 10 AMS Music and Disability Business Meeting Tekla Babyak
Disabled Independent Scholar,
Location: Adams Business meeting of the Committee on the Publication of American Music Dale Edward Chapman
Bates College,
Location: Cresthill
Cold War Music Study Group Business Meeting Gabrielle Cornish
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Location: Salon 12 Embracing the Position of Chair: Using Administrative Roles to Foster Positive Change Jennifer Saltzstein
Indiana University,
Location: Wabash Sounding a Center Away from the Coast: Global Music History Study Group Lightning Talks Hedy Law
,
Location: Monroe
1:00pm AMS Buddy Meet-up Location: Indiana
2:15pm Beyond the Musical Friendship Album: Collective Memory and Transnational Exchange Abigail Fine
University of Oregon,
Location: Adams Celebrating Twenty Years of Battlestar Galactica Megan Francisco
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Location: Water Tower Parlor New Perspectives on Opera Education and Uplift Ideology in the United States, 1880–1940 Lily Tamara Kass
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Location: Crystal Sounding Borders: Orality and Aurality in the U.S.-Mexico/New Spain Border Region,18th-19th Centuries Javier Marín-López
Universidad de Jaén,
Location: Spire Parlor
Jewish Voices Location: Salon 12 Reassessing Black Musical Pioneers Location: Wabash Video Game Songbooks: Matching Music to the Medium Location: Grant Park Parlor Bis repetita placent: C. P. E. Bach, W. A. Mozart, and the Sonata with Varied Reprises Location: State Ballroom
The Current State of Music Librarianship and Implications for Musicology Jonathan Sauceda
University of Rochester,
Location: Price Virtuosity, Disability, and Media David VanderHamm
Johnson County Community College,
Location: Salon 10
2:15pm Music, Civil Rights, and Social Protest Location: Monroe
3:15pm Coffee Break Location: Exhibit Hall Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.
3:15pm AMS Board Meet & Greet 1 Location: Exhibit Hall
4:00pm (Re)Mediating Metastasio at 300 Jessica Gabriel Peritz
Yale University,
Location: Crystal Adapting the Eighteenth Century to the Nineteenth: Access, Authenticity, and Authority Mark Egerton Everist
University of Southampton,
Location: Adams 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 Demystifying Academic Publishing Jennifer Saltzstein
Indiana University,
Location: Price
Black Musical Worlding: Early Contributors to a Black Musical Aethestic Location: Wabash Creating Soundscapes Location: State Ballroom Performing Disabled or Non-Normative Bodies Location: Salon 10 The Aural Animated Imaginary Location: Water Tower Parlor
Strings as Tribute: Epochal Changes through Guitar Music Location: Red Lacquer Ballroom The Past and Present of Activist Music-Making in the United States Alexandria Sofia Pecoraro
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Location: Grant Park Parlor
4:00pm Music and Migration Location: Spire Parlor
4:30pm AMS Affiliates Fair Location: Honoré
5:00pm AMS President's Plenary Lecture Pre-Session Location: Cresthill
5:00pm Sustainable Mentorship Program Cohort Meetup Location: Indiana
6:00pm Post-Rumble Rumble: Inflection Points in Native American Music and Arts (AMS President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture) Location: Red Lacquer Ballroom
6:30pm Welcome Reception Location: Grand Ballroom
7:00pm UNC-Chapel Hill Reception Location: Kimball
7:30pm President's Toast for AMS Committee and Governance Volunteers Location: State Ballroom
7:30pm “We will dance again”: Amplifying Jewish Joy in the Face of Contemporary Trauma Samantha Madison Cooper
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee,
Location: Crystal AMS Pedagogy Study Group Evening Session (Please see below for individual paper titles for the two groups.) Kristy Swift
University of Cincinnati,
Location: Spire Parlor Ethics and/of Early Music Jeannette Jones
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Location: Wabash Music, Games, Performance, and Play Richard John Anatone
Prince George's Community College,
Location: Adams
8:15pm President's Reception for AMS Annual Meeting Grantees Location: Chicago
8:30pm AMS After Dark Location: Monroe
9:30pm Northwestern University Reception Location: Hancock Parlor
12:00am AMS After Dark (con't) Location: Monroe
7:30am JMHP Editorial Board Meeting Location: Wilson
7:45am AMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council Location: Clark 5
8:30am Eileen Southern Scholars Breakfast and Mentoring Session Location: Cresthill
8:30am Power and Resistance: Musical Historiographs of China and Tibet Location: Price
8:30am Exhibit Hall Open Location: Exhibit Hall
9:00am Rendering Audible: Voice, Creative Practice, and 18th-century Airs about African Enslavement Berta Joncus
Goldsmiths, University of London,
Location: Adams Augustinian Soundscapes: The Church and Monastery of San Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples Kyrie Ekaterina Bouressa
McGill University,
Location: Monroe Building Ideology in Chicago Natalie Farrell
University of Chicago,
Location: Honoré Curating Memory: Sonic and Musical Commemorations of Systematic Persecution and Genocide Nicole Gabrielle Steinberg
University of Maryland, College Park,
Location: Crystal
Disciplinarity and the Affordances of Musicological Critique Derek Baron
Rutgers University-New Brunswick,
Location: Grant Park Parlor Performing Remix from Broadside to Broadway Richard Will
University of Virginia,
Location: Water Tower Parlor Scoring the Genre Film Philip Bixby
,
Location: Wabash Shades of Red: Russian Musical Inheritances across the Soviet ‘Periphery’ Alexander Fadi Hardan
Brown University,
Location: Salon 10
Operatic Regionalism Location: Spire Parlor The Social Life of Musical Instruments Location: Salon 12
9:00am MGG Online - Meeting Editorial Board Location: Hancock Parlor Composition / Adaptation / Reception Location: State Ballroom
10:45am Coffee Break Location: Exhibit Hall Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.
10:45am Grove Music Online Roundtable Deane Root
University of Pittsburgh,
Location: Crystal Representations of Musical Mentorship Nina Penner
Brock University,
Location: Grant Park Parlor Chicago: America's Musical Crossroads Location: Honoré Racial Politics on Broadway: Explorations of Race in Musical Theater Location: Water Tower Parlor
The Experience and Legacy of Soviet Musical Identities Location: Salon 10 The Secret Life of Manuscripts: Illuminations and Improvisations Location: Monroe Understanding and Mediating Contemporary Culture Through Opera Location: Spire Parlor Women and the Piano in the 19th Century Location: Salon 12
“Vivir mi vida: Toward a Critical Salsa Romántica and a Sonic Global South Brownness” (Critical Race Lecture) Location: Adams
10:45am Cinematic Interpretations Location: Wabash Performing Gender in Music and Dance Location: Price
11:00am AMS Board Meet & Greet 2 Location: Exhibit Hall
11:45am Sound Expertise LIVE! The American Composer and the Future of the Conservatory with Jonathan Bailey Holland Katharine Ellis
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Location: State Ballroom
12:00pm Knitting Circle Location: Medinah Parlor
12:30pm AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 1 Location: Hancock Parlor
12:30pm Accessibility and the History of Theory August Sheehy
,
Location: Adams AMS Global East Asian Music Research Study Group Business Meeting Amanda Hsieh
,
Location: Salon 12 CCRI Brown Bag Lunch Jennifer Saltzstein
Indiana University,
Location: Wilson 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
Lightning Lounge: "Political uses of music in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula" Vera Wolkowicz
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Location: Spire Parlor Mozart Society of America Study Session & Business Meeting Location: Water Tower Parlor Organology Study Group Annual Meeting Lidia Chang
Colorado College,
Location: Grant Park Parlor Queer at AMS: The LGBTQ Study Group Returns to Chicago Lee K. Tyson
Ithaca College,
Location: Salon 10
Religious Conversion and Music among Christians and Jews: A Transhistorical View Uri Jacob
,
Location: Crystal Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Informal Business Meeting Location: Salon 7 Speed Mentoring Location: Clark 5 Student Reception Location: Empire
Wesleyan University Press Book Launch Location: Indiana
1:45pm The Instrumental Self: Musical Instruments as Expressions of Social and Spiritual Identity Location: Price
2:00pm AMS/MLA Joint RISM Committee Location: Hancock Parlor
2:15pm Ancient Forms in Modern Times: Sacred, Semiotic, and Situated Interpretations of Guqin (古琴) Repertory MingJun X Wilson
University of Michigan,
Location: State Ballroom Axes of Time in Eastern Orthodox Sonic Space Brian Fairley
University of Pittsburgh,
Location: Grant Park Parlor Embodying Women's Song in the Middle Ages Henry Parkes
University of Nottingham,
Location: Monroe Songs of Agency: Women’s Voicing of Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century Rachel Michele Bani
Converse University,
Location: Spire Parlor
Disruptive Vocal Techniques in 19th Century Opera Location: Water Tower Parlor Hip-Hop Aesthetics Location: Wabash Movement and Emotion in the Works of Franz Joseph Haydn Location: Adams Sound Wars: Weaponizing Sound Media Technologies Location: Salon 12
South Side Impresarios: Sonic Legacies and Lineages Location: Honoré Towards Indigenous-Led Art Music: Bridging Scholarship, Performance, and Activism Rena Roussin
University of Toronto,
Location: Salon 10 Workshop in Research Techniques and Bibliography, led by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale Ralph Whyte
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM),
Location: Crystal
4:00pm Alt Rock to Alt Right: The “Alternative Revolution” and its Ironic Aftermath S. Alexander Reed
Ithaca College,
Location: Water Tower Parlor Forensic Musicology Now Katherine Leo
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Location: Price Improvisation in Chicago Kimberly Hannon Teal
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Location: Honoré Rethinking Bruckner Studies: Questioning Old Answers and Asking New Questions in a Bicentennial Year Benjamin Korstvedt
Clark University,
Location: Grant Park Parlor
Critical Examinations of Minimalism: Focusing on Gender and Race Location: Salon 10 Handel, Cosmopolitanism and Empire in the 18th Century Location: Adams Hip-Hop as Catharsis and Social Commentary Location: Wabash Making Music for the Screen: Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein, and Mr. Rogers Location: Crystal
Reaching Audiences: Approaches to Music Broadcasting and Advertising Location: Salon 12 Sounding "Real": Identity and Authentic Performance Location: Spire Parlor Worship, Women, and Song: Medieval/Early Modern Economies of Sex and Power Location: Monroe
5:00pm Prospective Graduate Student Fair Location: Grand Ballroom Robert F. Judd Fund Donor Reception Location: State Ballroom
5:45pm Friends of Stony Brook Location: Salon 6 & 7 Norton Reception Location: Empire Reception for Opera Lab and New Material Histories of Music Book Series Location: Wilson Rice University Alumni Reception Location: Indiana
RILM / RIPM Reception Location: Hancock Parlor
6:30pm Skills and Resources for Early Music Study Group Business Meeting and Keynote Daniel DiCenso
College of the Holy Cross,
Location: Honoré
6:30pm New York University Reception Location: Wabash
7:00pm Visions of Afro-Futurism from the 1970s Location: Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium Please use the Art Institute entrance at 230 S. Columbus Drive
7:00pm Brandeis University Reception (open to all) Location: Clark 5 Eighteenth-Century Societies Reception Location: Salon 4 & 9 Florida State University College of Music Alumni Reception Location: Chicago University of Illinois Reception Location: Kimball
University of Pittsburgh Reception Location: Grant Park Parlor
7:30pm Childhood and Youth Session and Business Meeting: Spotlight on New and Emerging Work from Early-Career Scholars Ryan Bunch
,
Location: Crystal Sex, Drugs, and Disappointment: Popular Music And Feeling Badly Amy Coddington
,
Location: Adams Teaching Music Philosophy Kyle Kaplan
Syracuse University,
Location: Monroe
7:45pm Lenka Hlávková Memorial Session Michael Beckerman
New York University,
Location: Honoré
9:00pm Columbia University Reception Location: Hancock Parlor Harvard Alumni and Affiliates Reception Location: State Ballroom University of Chicago Reception Location: Empire
9:30pm Society for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Reception Location: Wilson University of North Texas Reception Location: Salon 5 & 8
7:15am AMS Board and Council Breakfast Georgia Cowart
Case Western Reserve University,
Location: Chicago
7:30am Publications Committee Meeting Location: Hancock Parlor
8:30am Exhibit Hall Open Location: Exhibit Hall
9:00am Copyright Controversies: Evolutions and Legacies Location: Price
9:00am “Unblemished Harmonies: Modernism in Spanish Music, 1898-1936” Alessio Olivieri
University of Nebraska - Lincoln,
Location: Adams Open Access Publishing in Musicology: A Roundtable Discussion Rachel Scott
Illinois State University Library,
Location: Crystal Rethinking Gender in Music Pedagogy and Research Lauren Shepherd
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Location: Wabash Seeking the Unseen, Hearing the Unheard: Amplifying Voices from the Periphery, c.1300–1500 Elina Hamilton
,
Location: Honoré
Artifacts of French Music-Making Location: Water Tower Parlor Early Modern Musical Theater Location: Grant Park Parlor Global Opera and Cross-Cultural Aesthetics Location: State Ballroom Music & Nazism Location: Spire Parlor
Onscreen Identities Location: Salon 12 Pragmatic and Creative Solution-Making in Early Composition Location: Salon 10 Scandinavian Symphony and Ballet Location: Monroe
9:30am Poster Session Location: Exhibit Hall
10:45am Coffee Break Location: Exhibit Hall
Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.
10:45am "She Proclaimed a Chicago Renaissance": Mapping Black Women's Classical World-Making (AMS Committee on Women and Gender Endowed Lecture) Christi Jay Wells
Arizona State University,
Location: Red Lacquer Ballroom “Fight the Real Enemy”: Sinéad O’Connor’s Musical and Cultural Legacies Áine Palmer
Yale University,
Location: Price Decolonizing Ukrainian Music Location: Adams Dis-eased Musical Bodies Bettina Gisela Varwig
University of Cambridge,
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Ensemble Origo Presents "Un sarao de la Chacona – Tracing the African and Mesoamerican Origins of the Sarabande and the Chaconne" Eric Rice
University of Connecticut,
Location: State Ballroom Music and the Third Reich Helmut Reichenbacher
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Location: Spire Parlor Identity and Aesthetics in Asian American Popular Music Location: Honoré Music Writing: Moving Beyond Notation Location: Salon 10
Navigating Issues of Trauma and Safety in the Post-Secondary Music Classroom Location: Crystal Sounding European Identities Location: Grant Park Parlor Women, Life, and Music in Iran Location: Wabash The Middle Ground in Anime Music Studies Kunio Hara
University of South Carolina School of Music,
Location: Salon 12
10:45am Black Voices and Sonic Racializations Location: Monroe
11:00am AMS Board Meet & Greet 3 Location: Exhibit Hall
12:00pm AMS Pedagogy Study Group Business Meeting Location: Kimball
12:00pm Dog Therapy Location: Marshfield
12:30pm AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 2 Location: Hancock Parlor
12:30pm 2024 MDSG Business Meeting Rebecca Schwartz
University of Michigan,
Location: Adams AMS Council Location: Honoré AMS Global Music History Study Group Business Meeting Hedy Law
,
Location: Spire Parlor Haydn Society of North America Annual General Meeting Location: Empire
Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting Kimberly Hannon Teal
,
Location: Wabash LGBTQ Study Group Business Meeting and Conversation Lee K. Tyson
Ithaca College,
Location: Chicago Listening to the Cold War Through the Anthropocene Gabrielle Cornish
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Location: Crystal Music and Embodiment in Screen Media Daniel Bishop
Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University,
Location: Water Tower Parlor
Music and Philosophy Study Group Business Meeting Kyle Kaplan
Syracuse University,
Location: Price Music, Sound, and Trauma Study Group Business Meeting Jillian Rogers
,
Location: Grant Park Parlor Popular Music Study Group Business Meeting Location: Salon 10 Speed Networking Location: Clark 5
The Committee on Women & Gender: Looking to the Past, Envisioning the Future Christi Jay Wells
Arizona State University,
Location: Salon 12
2:15pm Home Away from Home: Diasporic Musical Expressions in the United States Uri S. Schreter
Harvard University,
Location: Grant Park Parlor Navigating the Archive: Collection Development, Stewardship, and Access Issues for Researchers in the 21st Century Paul Sommerfeld
Library of Congress,
Location: Price On the redistribution of the sensible: Articulating critical popular music studies through emo rap, hardcore punk, and riot grrrl Runchao Liu
,
Location: Salon 10 Post-War France and its Others Mary Ann Smart
University of California, Berkeley,
Location: Spire Parlor
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 Sounding the Russian and Soviet Frontier: Perspectives from Manchuria, Bulgaria, and Armenia Ryan Gourley
,
Location: Water Tower Parlor Queer Music Modalities: Nostalgia, Grief and Activism Location: Wabash Rethinking Beethoven in Theory and Practice Location: Adams
Sounding Blackness: Defining Racial Identity through Music Location: Crystal Staged Dance Location: Monroe Frozen Figures: Grief, Denial, and Stephen Sondheim's 1966 Television Musical Evening Primrose Location: State Ballroom Traveling Tunes, Pilfered Poems: Medieval Song Across Language, Genre, and Setting Anya B. Wilkening
Columbia University,
Location: Honoré
3:15pm American Brahms Society Afternoon Reception Location: Cresthill
4:00pm AI Ecstasy? Towards Generative AI Tools for Arab Music Melissa June Scott
Carleton College,
Location: Salon 12 Global Economies of Talent Anaar Desai-Stephens
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester,
Location: Grant Park Parlor East Asian Explorations of Temporality, Cyclicity, and Form Location: Honoré Amplifying Voices: Critical Approaches to Women in Rock, Jazz, and R&B Location: Salon 10
Global Music Theory: Perspectives on Tonality and Phrasing Location: Price Jazz Convergences: Tone, Color, Fusion Location: Wabash Musical Trends in 20th -Century England Location: Spire Parlor Sound / Body Connections Location: Monroe
The Outsider Within: Black and African Voices in European Music Location: Crystal Transnational Currents Location: Adams Voicing Coloniality Location: Water Tower Parlor From Prague and Beyond: Slavic Routes for Voices and Winds Location: Red Lacquer Ballroom
4:00pm Taylor Swift: Economies of Fandom and Female Rage Location: State Ballroom
6:00pm AMS Business Meeting Location: Grand Ballroom
6:30pm University of Cincinnati CMT-Musicology Reception Location: Spire Parlor
7:00pm AMS Awards Ceremony Location: Grand Ballroom
7:00pm Voices and Viols Jam Location: Kimball
7:30pm AMS Awards Reception Location: Red Lacquer Ballroom
7:30pm Accommodation and Accessibility in the Music Classroom Tekla Babyak
Disabled Independent Scholar,
Location: Crystal Memes, Reels, TikToks: Inscribing and Visualizing Music in the Age of Social Media Giulia Accornero
Yale University,
Location: Grant Park Parlor The Body as Instrument, the Body as Insight: Bridging Jazz Music and Its Dance through Rhythm Tap, MDSG Workshop 2024 Rebecca Schwartz
University of Michigan,
Location: Honoré The Conflicting Sonic Memories of Mid-Twentieth-Century Wars in East Asia Kunio Hara
University of South Carolina School of Music,
Location: Salon 12
University of Pennsylvania Music Department Reception Location: Chicago University of Texas at Austin Reception Location: Wilson
8:00pm Stanford University Department of Music Reception Location: Hancock Parlor
9:30pm LGBTQ Study Group Party Lee K. Tyson
Ithaca College,
Location: Monroe
9:30pm Case Western Reserve University Reception Featuring a Celebration of Georgia Cowart Location: Adams Cornell Reception Location: Water Tower Parlor Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Networking Reception Location: Clark 5 McGill Reception Location: Marshfield
Princeton University Alumni and Friends Party Location: Cresthill UCLA Musicology Alumni Reception Location: Wabash University of Michigan Reception Location: Salon 6 Yale Alumni Reception & Party Location: Salon 7
10:00pm University of California, Berkeley Alumni Reception Location: Spire Parlor
8:30am Exhibit Hall Open Location: Exhibit Hall
9:00am AI and Music / AI and Musicology: Teaching, Learning, Research, Ethics, and Generative AI Katharine Ellis
,
Location: Adams Country Musicology: A Panel in Memory of Travis D. Stimeling Brian F. Wright
University of North Texas,
Location: Monroe Listening, Climate Catastrophe, and Colonial Extraction Naomi Waltham-Smith
University of Oxford,
Location: Price Memory and Intergenerational Inheritance in Operatic Practice Lucy Caplan
,
Location: Salon 10 Women's Musical Networks and the Creation of Feminized Artistic Space Location: Wabash
9:00am Dance Scenes: Defining Self and Community through Dance Location: Crystal
10:45am Music Under Glass, 1860-1947: Magic Lanterns, Sound, and Racial Difference Anna Christine Schultz
University of Chicago,
Location: Adams Sounding Inter-imperiality Erol Koymen
Florida State University,
Location: Grant Park Parlor Ecomusicology/Eco-Cultures Location: Price Inside the Opera House: A Multisensory Social World Location: Salon 10 Making Sense of Trauma through Music and Dance Location: Monroe
10:45am Pioneering a Profession: Women in Musical Careers Location: Wabash
