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: Plaza Ballroom D
Date: Thursday, 09/Nov/2023
2:15pm
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3:45pm
Chinese Music in Theory and Practice
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Heeseung Lee
 

Chinese Musical Instruments, from Ming to Qing: Zhu Zaiyu’s Yuelü quanshu and Its Influence on Joseph-Marie Amiot’s Treatises

Stewart Arlen Carter



Music and Dance in Zhu Zaiyu’s Ceremonial Music: An Ontological Intervention on Early Modern Dance Studies

Joyce Wei-Jo Chen



Stretched to the Breaking Point: Singing as Phonological Analysis in Kunqu Theory

Jacob Reed

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Representing Racialized Selves and Others in Czech Music
Brian Stuart Locke
Western Illinois University,
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Kelly St. Pierre
 

Chair(s): Kelly St. Pierre

Discussant(s): Michael Beckerman

Presenter(s): Tina Frühauf, Brian Locke, Tereza Havelková, Christopher Campo-Bowen

8:00pm
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10:00pm
Anti-Semitism, Music, and Music Studies: Views from the Field
Uri S Schreter
Harvard University,
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
 

Chair(s): Uri Schreter, Nicolette van den Bogerd

Discussant(s): Amanda Ruppenthal Stein

Presenter(s): Ruth HaCohen (Pinczower), Bonnie Gordon, Rebecca Cypess, Kathryn Huether


Date: Friday, 10/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
Transnational Politics of the Stage
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Anne Searcy
 

Negotiating Racial Identity: Racialized Assimilation in the Performances of Lee Tung Foo as the First Chinese American Vaudeville Singer

FANGYUAN LIU



Mozart and Verdi for the Revolution: Performing Classical Music in Allende’s Chile (1970-73)

Alyssa Cottle



Representation, Performative Exchange, and Afropolitanism: Rethinking Opera Production in Nigeria through The Magic Flute.

Joshua Tolulope David

10:45am
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12:15pm
Mediation of Blackness in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Christopher Lynch
 

(Re)introducing Marian Anderson: Television’s Normative Power at the _Ford 50th Anniversary Show_ (1953)

Lauren Berlin



RCA’s Portrait of America: Opera, Blackness, and Industrial Integration Post-World War II

Matthew Keenan Timmermans

12:30pm
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2:00pm
AMS Global East Asian Music Research Study Group Business Meeting
Kunio Hara
University of South Carolina
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Kunio Hara, University of South Carolina
Chair: Amanda Hsieh, Durham University
 

Kunio Hara

2:15pm
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3:45pm
Writing and Collecting Music in the Thirteenth Century: New Perspectives and Historiographical Challenges
Áine Palmer
Yale University,
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Mark Everist
 

Chair(s): Mark Everist

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Rethinking Musical Historiographies of Thirteenth-Century Paris: Benedicamus Domino and Unwritten Polyphony

Catherine A. Bradley

 

Notating Contrafacta in the Chansonnier Cangé

Áine Palmer

 

What Killed Petrus de Cruce?

Anna Zayaruznaya

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Message Music: Musicology and Social Movements
Jessie Ann Owens
University of California, Davis,
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Jessie Ann Owens, University of California, Davis
Chair: Roger Freitas, Eastman School of Music
Presenter: Reiland Rabaka, University of Colorado Boulder
Presenter: Loren Kajikawa, George Washington University
 

Chair(s): Jessie Ann Owens, Roger Freitas

Presenter(s): Reiland Rabaka, Loren Kajikawa

6:45pm
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7:45pm
Joint Student Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
9:30pm
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11:30pm
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom D

Date: Saturday, 11/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
Nationalism and Politics
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Steven Huebner
 

“‘No Anthem Linked to Russia’: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 as a Substitute Russian Anthem at the Olympic Games”

Lena Leson



A Lost Legacy: Multivalent Nationalism in the Works of Emilie Mayer

Eleanor Legault



Rehearsing Settler Colonialism: Music in The Spectacle of Canadian National Identity

Hannah Claire Willmann

10:45am
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12:15pm
Copyright, Reparations, and the Marketplace
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Ryan Raul Bañagale, Colorado College
 

"Hot Milk" to "One Hundred Guns": Samples and Riddims in Music Publishing

Claire E McLeish



Haunted House Blues: Bessie Smith, Vocal Possessions, and the Time of Redress

Matthew Mendez



Turning Rap into Pop on Commercial Radio Stations

Amy Coddington

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Notation, Inscription and Visualization Study Group Business Meeting
Ginger Dellenbaugh
American Musicological Society,
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Ginger Dellenbaugh, Yale University
Chair: Giulia Accornero, Yale University

Closed meeting.

 

Ginger Dellenbaugh

2:15pm
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3:45pm
News, American Politics, and the Stage
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Hannah Lewis
 

“Welcome to America”: Exoticizing the United States in David Henry Hwang/Jeanine Tesori’s Soft Power (2018)

Zachary Lloyd



Anthemic Aspirations and Operatic Opinions: Rallying Communities in An American Soldier (2018) and The Central Park Five (2019)

Allison Chu



Sex Crimes and 1990s Politics in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN and PARADE

Michael Andrew Bennett

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Historicizing Queerness
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Kimberly Francis, University of Guelph
 

Dead Divas and Duets for One: Jesse Shepard, Queer Musical Mediumship, and Intermundane Vocal Drag

Gabrielle Elaine Ferrari



Facing the Music: Evangelical Beliefs and Queer Identities in the Christian Contemporary Music Industry

Anneli Loepp Thiessen



The Queer Musical Temporality of Vernon Lee

Jessica Gabriel Peritz

8:00pm
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10:00pm
Music and Dance Study Group Business Meeting
Stephen S. Hudson
Occidental College
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
 

Stephen S. Hudson


Date: Sunday, 12/Nov/2023
9:00am
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10:30am
Music and Female Agency in European Society
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Sanna Pederson
 

“My Harmonious Companion”: English Square Pianos as Sites of Women’s Agency in the Eighteenth Century

Rebecca Cypess



From Matinée Musicale to the Brighton Musical Union: Anna Caroline de Belleville and the Cultivation of “Classical” Chamber Music Culture

Peng Liu



Tracking Women’s Multiple Roles in the Concert Life of Vienna 1780-1830: Opportunities, Networking, and Agency

Mary Kirchdorfer

10:45am
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12:15pm
Narrating Indigenous Musical Histories
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Chair: Allison Robbins
 

How Music Renders Property: Museums, Pieces, and Other Common Dispossessions

Patrick Nickleson



Tracing Sounds, Sounding Traces: Indigenous Musical Histories of a Mexican Island

Chris Batterman Cháirez



Upstream of Global Music History: Against the Musical Flow in North Sumatra

Julia Byl