Conference Agenda

The Online Program of events for the 2023 AMS & SMT Joint 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: Governor's Sq. 17
Date: Thursday, 09/Nov/2023
2:15pm
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3:45pm
Musical Responses to Trauma
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
Chair: Erin Brooks, SUNY Potsdam
 

“‘Real Pain’: Trauma and Good Non-Sovereignty in the music of Indigo De Souza.”

Dan DiPiero



Hearing Suffering and Faith in Lingua Ignota’s SINNER GET READY

Olivia Rose Lucas



Waters on Fire: Post-War Trauma, Disability, and Multi-Narrative Strategies in Prog Rock

Marcelo Gabriel Rebuffi

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Organological Origins and Obsessions
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
Chair: Lindsey Macchiarella, University of Texas at El Paso
 

Albrecht Dürer: His Obsession with Music

Susan Forscher Weiss



The First Instrument: Paleolithic Organology and Other Considerations on the Origins of Music

Joshua Charney



Traces of European Renaissance Keyboards in Early Modern Sub-Saharan Africa

Janie Cole

7:00pm
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9:00pm
Northwestern University Reception
Location: Governor's Sq. 17

Date: Friday, 10/Nov/2023
9:00am
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12:15pm
Microtonal Listenings
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
 

Chair(s): Jordan Lenchitz

Discussant(s): Julia Werntz, Kate Galloway

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“…per aiutare una consonanza…”: Learning Vicentino's Enharmonic Music by Ear

Jordan Lenchitz

 

Listening to Recursive Translations of Easley Blackwood’s Twelve Microtonal Etudes

William Ayers

 

Danger! Wolf Crossing: Expressive Discordance in Froberger’s Keyboard Music

Stephen Tian-You Ai

 

Sonic Shadings in Two Versions of BWV 21/3, “Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not”

Jack Bussert

 

Finding Meter in Acoustics: Ryoji Ikeda’s matrix

Noah Kahrs

 

NANO-TONALITY: Queer Phenomenology or dis-Oriented Noumenology?

Paul Mortilla

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting
Kimberly Hannon Teal
University of North Texas,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
 

Kimberly Hannon Teal

2:15pm
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3:45pm
Puppetry, Music, and National Identity
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
Chair: Margaret Lucia, Shippensburg University
 

Between Human and Machine in Manuel de Falla’s _El retablo de Maese Pedro_

Sylvia Kahan



Reclaiming the Puppet’s Voice at the Petit-Théâtre de la Marionnette (1888-1894)

Catrina Flint de Médicis

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Transauralities: Thinking Trans in Music/Sound Studies
Alejandrina M. Medina
University of California San Diego,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
Chair: Amy Cimini
 

Chair(s): Amy Cimini

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The Trans Ear/(h)earing

Alejandrina M. Medina

 

Vocal Transcendence: Performing and Perceiving Transgender Drag Vocal Performance

Morgan Bates

 

"I’ll figure out a way to get us out of here": Cavetown and Trans Youthful Care

Hermán Luis Chávez

8:00pm
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10:00pm
Disability Identity in Music Scholarship
Elizabeth McLain
Virginia Tech,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
 

Chair(s): Elizabeth McLain, Andrew Dell'Antonio

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Ethnography Through All Of Our Bodies: Reconsidering Methodology through Disability Expertise

Emily Williams Roberts

 

I got a right to be Mad: Madness in Beyoncé’s Lemonade

Samar Johnson

 

Perspective

Molly Joyce

 

Inclusive Music Workshops

Diane Kolin

 

An Initial Exploration of Autistic, Synesthetic Queer Listening

Steph Ban

 

You Want Us to do What? : Analysing the Disability Identity in Music Scholarship Call for Papers

Heather Strohschein, Mags Smith, Linda Yates

 

Crip-Punk! Exploring Disability and Liberation Through Music

Chris Wylie


Date: Saturday, 11/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
Creative Characterizations in Film
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
Chair: Esther Marie Morgan-Ellis, University of North Georgia
 

Francis Chagrin, Gerard Hoffnung, and the Art of Musical Caricature

Jeremy Orosz



From 'Agitato' to 'Yearning': Interpreting Stock Music for Silent Film through Data Analysis and Musical Topoi

Paul Allen Sommerfeld



Inside the Score: Towards a Poetics of Theme Park Music

Gregory Louis Camp

10:45am
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12:15pm
Performance, Politics, and Media in the Philippines
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
Chair: John Gabriel, University of Melbourne
 

La Mascotte’s Travels: Innocence and Empire on the Lilliputian Stages Across Asia Pacific

Isidora Kabigting Miranda



Popular Prancing: Implications of Cultural Hybridity and Blackface Minstrelsy in Reckoning Nicanor Abelardo’s “Naku….Kenkoy!”

James Carl Lagman Osorio



Surveilled Soundscapes of Big Brother

James Gabrillo

12:30pm
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2:00pm
AMS Council
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
2:15pm
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3:45pm
Music and the Law
Ginger Dellenbaugh
Yale University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
Chair: Eric Drott
 

Chair(s): Eric Drott

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Sing for the competition and go to prison: How the Italian “opera war” of Victorian London shaped contract and labor law

Matt Stahl

 

What was an Author?

Ginger Dellenbaugh

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Lessons from Avian Organology
Robert Vincent Giglio
,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
 

Chair(s): Matthew Zeller, Lidia Chang

Presenter(s): Emily I. Dolan

8:00pm
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10:00pm
Music, Sound, and the Making of Eco-Culture
Heidi Lee Jensen
Alfred University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
 

Chair(s): Ludim Pedroza, Heidi Jensen, Emily MacCallum

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“More than Topography and Landforms: Musical Depictions of Southern Utah’s Wilderness"

Kirsten Barker

 

"Surface Reflections: Hearing the Eco-History of Town Branch in Lexington, KY"

Megan Murph

 

"The Re-Purposing of Folk Culture in the Struggle Against Resource Extractivism in Contemporary Greece"

Dimitris Gkoulimaris

 

“Goin’ to the Big Oil Show: Celebrating Oil in Song"

Jamie Meyers-Riczu

 

"A Playlist for the Anthropocene: Elements of a Music-Ecological Aesthetics"

Alex Rehding


Date: Sunday, 12/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
Power and Aurality in Colonial Latin America
Javier Marín-López
Universidad de Jaén,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
 

Chair(s): Ana María Ochoa Gautier

Discussant(s): Sarah Finley

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Hearing Doctrine: Catechism as Aurality in Colonial Mexico

Javier Marín-López

 

Exaudi vocem meam. Race, Voice, and Transgression in New Spain

Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell

10:45am
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12:15pm
Contrafacts: A Template for Agency and Identity Formation
Kendall Hatch Winter
,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
Chair: Drew Edward Davies
 

Chair(s): Drew Edward Davies

Discussant(s): Drew Edward Davies

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Aquilino Coppini’s Third Book (1609) and the Diplomatic Use of Spiritual Contrafacts

Michael Carlson

 

Opera Seria Contrafacts at the Amsterdam Sephardic Synagogue and the Negotiation of Jewish Identity in the Eighteenth Century

Paul Gustav Feller-Simmons

 

Hegemonic Refashioning: The 1888 Song Leaflet of the American Woman Suffrage Association

Kendall Hatch Winter