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
Date: Wednesday, 08/Nov/2023
9:00am - 6:00pmFrance: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918
Location: Director's Row H
2:00pm - 6:00pmSMT Executive Board Meeting
Location: Plaza Court 5
7:30pm - 9:30pmAMS Board of Directors' Dinner

Closed meeting.

Date: Thursday, 09/Nov/2023
8:00am - 12:00pmSMT Executive Board Meeting
Location: Plaza Court 5
8:30am - 12:30pmAMS Board of Directors' Meeting
Location: Plaza Court 4

Closed meeting.

9:00am - 12:00pmPeer Learning Program: Music and Sound in Political Movements
Location: Plaza Court 1

Noriko Manabe, leader

9:00am - 12:00pmPeer Learning Program: Music Theory Fundamentals Today: Core Skills, Concepts, and Repertories
Location: Plaza Court 2

Ian Quinn, leader

9:00am - 1:00pmFrance: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918
Location: Director's Row H
12:00pm - 12:30pmEileen Southern Scholars Cohort Meet-up
Location: Governor's Sq. 10
12:15pm - 1:15pmAMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Orientation
Location: Director's Row E
12:30pm - 2:00pmJoint New Attendee Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom A
1:00pm - 2:00pmAMS Buddy Meet-up
Location: Plaza Court 6
1:00pm - 2:00pmSMT Conference Guides Common Meeting
Location: Plaza Court 3
1:00pm - 6:00pmExhibit Hall Open
Location: Plaza Exhibit

Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.

2:15pm - 3:45pm19th-Century Technology on the Opera Stage
Location: Grand Ballroom II
2:15pm - 3:45pmBiographical Reinventions: Grainger, Beach, and Ellington
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
2:15pm - 3:45pmChange and Conflict in Chant
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
2:15pm - 3:45pmChinese Music in Theory and Practice
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
2:15pm - 3:45pmGender and Voice on Record
Location: Majesty Ballroom
2:15pm - 3:45pmLisette: A Song's Journey From Haiti & Back
Jean Bernard Cerin1, Nicholas Matthew2
1: Cornell University; 2: University of California, Berkeley
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusical Closure
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusical Responses to Trauma
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
2:15pm - 3:45pmStyle and Interpretation in American Music
Location: Windows
2:15pm - 3:45pmTaking on Administrative Roles in Academia: Preparation, Challenges, Rewards
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
2:15pm - 3:45pmVideo Game Music
Location: Silver
2:15pm - 3:45pmVisibility, Coalition, and Hearing Otherwise: Music Theory and Asian/American Identities
Location: Grand Ballroom I
2:15pm - 3:45pmWomen, Musical Communities, and Social Change
Location: Vail
2:15pm - 4:15pmPerspectives on Rhythm and Meter
Location: Denver
2:15pm - 4:15pmText and Music
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
3:15pm - 4:30pmCoffee Break
Location: Plaza Exhibit

Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.

4:00pm - 5:30pm“Doing Musicology” with Primary Sources
Location: Grand Ballroom II
4:00pm - 5:30pm19th-Century Biography
Location: Windows
4:00pm - 5:30pm19th-Century Orchestration, Genre, and Form
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
4:00pm - 5:30pmBritish Imaginings of the Other
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
4:00pm - 5:30pmComposing Jewish Modernity
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
4:00pm - 5:30pmDoes Russian music have a woman problem? (Re)locating the feminine in song, opera and music history
Marina Frolova-Walker
University of Cambridge,
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
4:00pm - 5:30pmHBCUs and Music Theory
Location: Grand Ballroom I
4:00pm - 5:30pmMusic and Disability
Location: Silver
4:00pm - 5:30pmMusic, Media, and Place: AMS Music and Media Study Group Panel and Business Meeting
Katherine Reed
,
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
4:00pm - 5:30pmNow You See Us, Now You Don’t: Radical Queer Expression and Mainstream Assimilation
Harry Castle
,
Location: Vail
4:00pm - 5:30pmOrganological Origins and Obsessions
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
4:00pm - 5:30pmRepresenting Racialized Selves and Others in Czech Music
Brian Stuart Locke
Western Illinois University,
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
4:00pm - 5:30pmSpaces and Transformations
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
4:00pm - 5:30pmWhat is Latin Song in the Medieval World?
Mary Channen Caldwell
University of Pennsylvania,
Location: Majesty Ballroom
4:30pm - 5:30pmHarmony in Popular Music
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
4:30pm - 5:30pmMeter and Form in Metal
Location: Denver
5:00pm - 5:45pmAMS President's Plenary Lecture Pre-Session
Location: Gold
5:00pm - 6:15pmAMS Board Meet & Greet 1
Location: South Convention Lobby
5:00pm - 6:15pmJoint Interest Group and Affiliates Fair
Location: South Convention Lobby
5:30pm - 7:00pmSMT Music Theory Online Editorial Board Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 10
6:00pm - 7:00pmDreaming Reparative Musicologies in a Paranoid Time (AMS President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture)
Location: Grand Ballroom II
6:30pm - 7:45pmJoint Welcome Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom (A/B/C)
7:00pm - 9:00pmNorthwestern University Reception
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Analysis of World Musics /History of Theory Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Silver
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Dance & Movement Interest Group Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom I
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Mathematics of Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
8:00pm - 10:00pmAMS Ecomusicology Study Group Lightning Talks and Business Meeting
Heidi Lee Jensen
Alfred University
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
8:00pm - 10:00pmAnti-Semitism, Music, and Music Studies: Views from the Field
Uri S Schreter
Harvard University,
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
8:00pm - 10:00pmBeyond the Staff: Notation Pedagogies and Practices
Ginger Dellenbaugh
Yale University,
Location: Majesty Ballroom
8:00pm - 10:00pmEarly Sacred/Liturgical Musics and Digital Humanities: Skills and Resources
Catherine Saucier
Arizona State University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
8:00pm - 10:00pmPopular Music, Gendered Violence, and Trauma Studies
Jillian C Rogers
,
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
8:00pm - 10:00pmTaking Stock: The Ibero-American Music Study Group Turns Thirty
Vera Wolkowicz
,
Location: Vail
8:30pm - 11:59pmAMS/SMT After Dark
Location: Windows
Date: Friday, 10/Nov/2023
12:00am - 12:30amAMS/SMT After Dark (con't)
Location: Windows
7:00am - 9:00amW. W. Norton Focus Group
Location: Director's Row I

Closed session.

7:15am - 8:45amSMT Music Notation & Visualization Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
7:15am - 8:45amSMT Student Breakfast Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom A
7:30am - 9:00amAmerican Brahms Society Board of Directors Business Meeting
Location: Tower Court C
7:30am - 9:00amAMS Communications Committee Meeting
Sarah Eyerly
Florida State University
Location: Governor's Sq. 10
7:30am - 9:00amAMS Publications Committee
Location: Tower Court D
7:45am - 8:45amAMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council
Location: Director's Row E
8:00am - 9:30amSMT Poster Session
Location: Columbine
8:30am - 10:00amEileen Southern Scholars Breakfast and Mentoring Session
Location: Tower Court B
8:30am - 10:00amEileen Southern Travel Fund Committee
Location: Tower Court A
8:30am - 10:30amNew Approaches in Popular Music, Performance, and Technology
Location: Windows
8:30am - 6:00pmExhibit Hall Open
Location: Plaza Exhibit

Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.

9:00am - 10:30amBoethius, Harmonic Theory, and the Alia musica: New Perspectives
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
9:00am - 10:30amCatholic Circles
Location: Majesty Ballroom
9:00am - 10:30amConstructions of Race and Gender in Film
Location: Vail
9:00am - 10:30amExploring Feminist Scholarship in Music Theory
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
9:00am - 10:30amFairy tales and music between “Asia” and “Germany”
Amanda Hsieh
Durham University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
9:00am - 10:30amLost and Found: New Work in Ravel Studies
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
9:00am - 10:30amOpen Access Resources in the Music History Classroom and Beyond: A Roundtable Discussion
Location: Grand Ballroom II
9:00am - 10:30amPrice’s “Whiteness”, Shostakovich’s “Jewishness” and Cooper’s “Royalty”: Signifying Otherness as Resistance within Existing Collectivities
Tanya Landau
Roosevelt University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
9:00am - 10:30amSounds, Materialities, and Pleasures in the Garden
Devanney Turpin Haruta
Brown University,
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
9:00am - 10:30amThe Genesis of Popular Song
Location: Silver
9:00am - 10:30amTheory, History, and the Practice of Listening
Location: Grand Ballroom I
9:00am - 10:30amTransnational Politics of the Stage
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
9:00am - 12:00pmGraduate Student Workshop: Feminist Analysis
Location: Plaza Court 6

Rachel Lumsden, leader

9:00am - 12:00pmGraduate Student Workshop: Marxism, Music Studies, and Hermeneutics
Location: Plaza Court 7

Sumanth Gopinath, leader

9:00am - 12:15pmA Survey of the Sources of Serialism at its Centenary
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
9:00am - 12:15pmMicrotonal Listenings
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
10:15am - 11:15amCultural History of Western Music
Location: Plaza Ballroom A
10:15am - 11:30amCoffee Break
Location: Plaza Exhibit

Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.

10:30am - 11:30amSMT Retired Members Coffee Hour
Location: Director's Row J
10:45am - 12:15pmFragments to Footlights: What can we learn from operatic sketches?
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
10:45am - 12:15pmMediation of Blackness in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
10:45am - 12:15pmMobility, Media, and Money in Early Modern Popular Music
Erica Pauline Levenson
SUNY Potsdam,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
10:45am - 12:15pmMusic Education and Cultural Identity in 19th-century France
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
10:45am - 12:15pmMusical Utopias
Location: Majesty Ballroom
10:45am - 12:15pmNew Approaches to Studying Recorded Jewish Music
Mark Kligman
UCLA,
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
10:45am - 12:15pmPerformance, Analysis, and Embodiment
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
10:45am - 12:15pmQueer Musical Codes in Disguise
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
10:45am - 12:15pmQueer Otherwise Possibilities in the SMT and Beyond: A Workshop and Conversation
Location: Grand Ballroom I
10:45am - 12:15pmSongs of the Self / Sounds of the Nation
Location: Vail
10:45am - 12:15pmThe Shape of Musicology to Come (AMS Critical Race Lecture)
Location: Grand Ballroom II

This session features contributions from:

Invited Panelists

  • Alex Blue V (Assistant Professor of Art History and Communication at McGill University
  • Rena Roussin (PhD candidate in musicology at the University of Toronto) 
  • Ireri E. Chávez-Bárcenas (Assistant Professor of Music at Bowdoin)
  • Amanda Hsieh (Assistant Professor of Musicology at Durham University)

Emcees

  • Diane Oliva (Assistant Professor of Musicology in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan; current CRIE member and incoming CRIE co-chair) 
  • Sergio Ospina Romero (Assistant Professor of Musicology in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University; current CRIE member)
10:45am - 12:15pmWorkshop: Rethinking Aural Skills Through Backwards Design
Location: Silver
10:45am - 12:45pm18th-Century Poietics
Location: Windows
11:00am - 12:30pmAMS Board Meet & Greet 2
Location: Plaza Exhibit
11:00am - 2:15pmMusic Copyright Office Hours: Ask a Theorist-Attorney!
Location: Plaza Exhibit

SMT Booth 408 

Bring your burning music copyright questions to the Exhibit Hall and chat with music theorists whose work in music theory has brought them to the law. 

12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Global East Asian Music Research Study Group Business Meeting
Kunio Hara
University of South Carolina
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Music and Disability Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom II
12:30pm - 2:00pmCommittee on Career-Related Issues Brown-Bag Lunch
Catherine Mayes
University of Utah
Location: Director's Row E
12:30pm - 2:00pmJazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting
Kimberly Hannon Teal
University of North Texas,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
12:30pm - 2:00pmMozart Society of America Business Meeting and Study Session
Location: Vail
12:30pm - 2:00pmMusic and the Unique Challenges of Dance Research: MDSG Workshop 2023
Stephen S. Hudson
,
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
12:30pm - 2:00pmMusic, Sound, and Trauma Study Group Business Meeting
Jillian C Rogers
Indiana University Bloomington
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
12:30pm - 2:00pmPedagogy Study Group Business Meeting
Esther Marie Morgan-Ellis
University of North Georgia,
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
12:30pm - 2:00pmSkills and Resources for Early Musics Study Group Business Meeting and Keynote
Daniel DiCenso
College of the Holy Cross
Location: Majesty Ballroom
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Autographs & Archival Documents Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Committee on Disability & Accessibility Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Governor's Sq. 10
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Committee on Feminist Issues & Gender Equity Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Director's Row H
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 9

Closed Meeting.

12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music & Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom I
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Popular Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: Denver
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: Silver
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Russian Music Theory Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
12:30pm - 2:00pmSociety for Seventeenth Century Music Business Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
12:30pm - 2:00pmSpeed Mentoring
Location: South Convention Lobby
1:00pm - 3:00pmSMT CV Review Session
Location: Plaza Court 6
1:00pm - 3:00pmSMT CV Review Waiting Room
Location: Plaza Court 7
1:30pm - 3:00pmAMS/MLA Joint RISM Committee
Location: Director's Row G
1:45pm - 3:45pmRethinking Representation and Experience
Location: Windows
2:15pm - 3:45pmAnalyzing Hip-Hop
Location: Denver
2:15pm - 3:45pmHearing Hybridity
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
2:15pm - 3:45pmHistoricizing Celebrity
Shaena Weitz
University of Bristol,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
2:15pm - 3:45pmInterrogating "Global East Asia"
Kunio Hara
University of South Carolina,
Location: Grand Ballroom II
2:15pm - 3:45pmMaterials that Matter: Cultivating a Musical Tradition with Found Objects
Luke Helker
Benedictine College
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
2:15pm - 3:45pmMissionaries and Music
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusic, Labor, and Jewish Identity
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusic, State Populism, and Affective Nationalism in Early 20th-Century Latin America
Location: Majesty Ballroom
2:15pm - 3:45pmNew Considerations in Black Music Research
Location: Vail
2:15pm - 3:45pmPublic Scholarship: How We Got Here, Where We’re Going
Reba Wissner
,
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
2:15pm - 3:45pmPuppetry, Music, and National Identity
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
2:15pm - 3:45pmRethinking the West: Arabic and Hebrew Music Theory in Medieval Iberia
Location: Silver
2:15pm - 3:45pmWriting and Collecting Music in the Thirteenth Century: New Perspectives and Historiographical Challenges
Áine Palmer
Yale University,
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
2:15pm - 4:15pmHarmonic Effects
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
2:15pm - 5:30pmProfessional Ins and Outs: Practicing/Performing Public Music Theory
Location: Grand Ballroom I
4:00pm - 5:00pmAmbient Music and EDM
Location: Silver
4:00pm - 5:30pmClassical Forms
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
4:00pm - 5:30pmComposing the "Other" in the Early 20th Century
Location: Majesty Ballroom
4:00pm - 5:30pmHearing “American” Music: Subjectivity and Diplomacy during the Cold War
Kari Lindquist
,
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
4:00pm - 5:30pmMessage Music: Musicology and Social Movements
Jessie Ann Owens
University of California, Davis,
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
4:00pm - 5:30pmMetric Modulations, Patterns, and Schemas
Location: Denver
4:00pm - 5:30pmMusic, Technology, and Communication
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
4:00pm - 5:30pmOrality in Italian Popular Song
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
4:00pm - 5:30pmQuotation and Borrowing in the Sacred
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
4:00pm - 5:30pmReframing the Music Theory Curriculum with Sarah Louden (NYU Steinhardt) & Paula Maust (Peabody Institute), Presented by Auralia & Musition
Location: Vail
4:00pm - 5:30pmRiddled with Regression?: Prospects for Inclusive Professionalism in the Music Fields
Location: Windows
4:00pm - 5:30pmSilence, Dissonance, and Dialogue: New Perspectives on French Modernism
David T. Salkowski
University of Tennessee,
Location: Grand Ballroom II
4:00pm - 5:30pmTransauralities: Thinking Trans in Music/Sound Studies
Alejandrina M. Medina
University of California San Diego,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
4:30pm - 5:30pmGospel Music
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
4:30pm - 6:00pmMusic Copyright Office Hours: Ask a Theorist-Attorney!
Location: Plaza Exhibit

SMT Booth 408 

Bring your burning music copyright questions to the Exhibit Hall and chat with music theorists whose work in music theory has brought them to the law. 

5:45pm - 6:30pmAMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 1
Location: Director's Row E
5:45pm - 6:45pmJoint Prospective Graduate Student Fair
Location: South Convention Lobby
5:45pm - 6:45pmReception for Friends of the AMS
Jessie Ann Owens
University of California, Davis,
Location: Governor's Sq. 10
5:45pm - 7:45pmEastman School of Music Alumni Reception
Location: Director's Row I
5:45pm - 7:45pmFriends of Stony Brook
Location: Tower Court A
5:45pm - 7:45pmRice University Alumni Reception
Location: Tower Court B
5:45pm - 7:45pmRIPM / RILM Reception
Location: Director's Row H
5:45pm - 7:45pmUniversity of Kansas School of Music Meet and Greet
Location: Plaza Court 1
6:45pm - 7:45pmJoint Student Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
7:00pm - 9:00pmCase Western Reserve University Reception
Location: Tower Court C
7:00pm - 9:00pmFlorida State University Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
7:00pm - 9:00pmNew York University Reception
Location: Vail
7:00pm - 9:00pmProject Spectrum Reception
Location: Tower Court D
7:00pm - 9:00pmW. W. Norton Party
Location: Majesty Ballroom
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Composition Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group Meeting
Location: Silver
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Global Interculturalism & Musical Peripheries Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Hip-Hop & Rap Interest Group Meeting
Location: Denver
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Musical Theater Interest Group Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom I
8:00pm - 10:00pm“Godless Communists” and “Christian Patriots”: Music and Spirituality in the Cold War
Gabrielle Cornish
,
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
8:00pm - 10:00pmAMS Ludomusicology Poster Session: Music, Games, and Play
Cristian Martinez Vega
AMS Ludomusicology Study Group,
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
8:00pm - 10:00pmDisability Identity in Music Scholarship
Elizabeth McLain
Virginia Tech,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
8:00pm - 10:00pmQueer Musicology from Dykecore to the Quare Canon
Maria Murphy
University of Pennsylvania,
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
8:00pm - 10:00pmRethinking (Im)mobility in Global Music History Studies
Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang
,
Location: Windows
8:00pm - 10:00pmStudent Engagement: Texts and Tools
Esther Marie Morgan-Ellis
University of North Georgia,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
8:00pm - 10:00pmUniversity of Chicago Reception
Location: Grand Ballroom II
9:30pm - 10:30pmUniversity of Alberta Reception
Location: Tower Court B
9:30pm - 11:30pmSociety for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Reception
Location: Tower Court A
9:30pm - 11:30pmUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
9:30pm - 11:30pmUniversity of Oregon Reception
Location: Director's Row I
9:30pm - 11:30pmViola da Gamba Jam
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
10:00pm - 11:59pmColumbia University Reception
Location: Vail
10:00pm - 11:59pmLGBTQ Study Group Party
Maria Murphy
University of Pennsylvania,
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
Date: Saturday, 11/Nov/2023
7:00am - 9:00amOhio State University Student-Alumni Breakfast
Location: Director's Row E
7:15am - 8:45amAMS Board and Council Breakfast
Location: Plaza Ballroom A
7:15am - 8:45amSMT 2024 Program Committee Meeting
Location: Director's Row F
7:15am - 8:45amSMT Interest Groups Breakfast Meeting
Location: Director's Row I
7:15am - 8:45amSMT-V Editorial Board Meeting
Location: Director's Row J
8:00am - 10:00amSMT-Pod Drop-In Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 10

SMT-Pod will be having a drop-in session, open to all attendees. Past, current, and future authors, board member, and peer reviewers are encouraged to come by! Ask questions, share experiences, and hear out about opportunities to publish or work with SMT-Pod. 

8:30am - 6:00pmExhibit Hall Open
Location: Plaza Exhibit

Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.

9:00am - 10:00amCountry Music
Location: Silver
9:00am - 10:00amQueer Theory
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
9:00am - 10:30amBetween Worlds: Making Community in Black Music
Location: Grand Ballroom II
9:00am - 10:30amCreative Characterizations in Film
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
9:00am - 10:30amDisability and Affordance in Popular Music
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
9:00am - 10:30amDissertation to Book: Recent Survivors
Location: Vail
9:00am - 10:30amGender, Opera, and Social Politics
Location: Majesty Ballroom
9:00am - 10:30amMedieval Polyphony
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
9:00am - 10:30amMentoring Grad Students Toward Many Possible Futures: A Workshop for Faculty Advisors
Location: Windows
9:00am - 10:30amNationalism and Politics
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
9:00am - 10:30amNavigating Cultural Identity: New York City’s Professional Musician Community, 1824-1858
Douglas Shadle
Vanderbilt University,
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
9:00am - 10:30amRedefining Music Theory through Translation
Location: Grand Ballroom I
9:00am - 10:30amSound Recording and Global Imperialism in the Early Twentieth Century
Sergio Ospina Romero
Indiana University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
9:00am - 10:30amThe History of Harmony
Location: Denver
9:00am - 10:30amThe Ur of the Ore: Moments in the Origins of Heavy Metal
Charles Wofford
,
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
9:00am - 11:00amAMS Poster Session
Location: South Convention Lobby
9:00am - 12:15pmThe SMT Committee on Disability and Accessibility Session
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
10:15am - 11:30amCoffee Break
Location: Plaza Exhibit

Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.

10:15am - 12:15pmForm in Popular Music
Location: Silver
10:15am - 12:15pmRomantic Form
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
10:45am - 12:15pmCompositional Strategies for Sacrality and Acceptance
Location: Vail
10:45am - 12:15pmCopyright, Reparations, and the Marketplace
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
10:45am - 12:15pmGeorgia, Ukraine, and Decolonizing Soviet Music History
Peter Schmelz
,
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
10:45am - 12:15pmLessons from the CRIM Project: What Can We Teach Machines about Renaissance Counterpoint, and What Can They Teach Us about Analysis
Location: Grand Ballroom I
10:45am - 12:15pmModels and Maps
Location: Denver
10:45am - 12:15pmMusic and the Middlebrow
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
10:45am - 12:15pmMusic for White America
Location: Majesty Ballroom
10:45am - 12:15pmMy Life in Music: An Autoethnography of a Curator (AMS Committee on Women and Gender Endowed Lecture)
Location: Grand Ballroom II
10:45am - 12:15pmOpera on the Periphery
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
10:45am - 12:15pmPerformance, Politics, and Media in the Philippines
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
10:45am - 12:15pmTransforming Nationalism in Spanish Music: From Cultural Expression to Propaganda (1898-1975)
Alessio Olivieri
University of Nebraska Lincoln,
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
10:45am - 12:45pmEuropean Music and Caribbean Slavery in the Eighteenth Century
Maria Ryan
Florida State University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
12:00pm - 4:00pmBusiness meeting of the Committee on the Publication of American Music
Stephanie Vander Wel
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Location: Director's Row F
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Council
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Global Music History Business Meeting
Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang
University of Sheffield
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Music and Philosophy Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
12:30pm - 2:00pmDecolonizing Mode in the Twenty-First Century Music History Classroom
Jacob Ryan Ludwig
The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music,
Location: Majesty Ballroom
12:30pm - 2:00pmHaydn Society of North America Annual General Meeting and Business Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 10
12:30pm - 2:00pmLGBTQ Study Group Business Meeting
Maria Murphy
University of Pennsylvania
Location: Vail
12:30pm - 2:00pmMusic Copyright Office Hours: Ask a Theorist-Attorney!
Location: Plaza Exhibit

SMT Booth 408 

Bring your burning music copyright questions to the Exhibit Hall and chat with music theorists whose work in music theory has brought them to the law. 

12:30pm - 2:00pmNotation, Inscription and Visualization Study Group Business Meeting
Ginger Dellenbaugh
American Musicological Society,
Location: Plaza Ballroom D

Closed meeting.

12:30pm - 2:00pmOpen Access Musicology
Location: Columbine
12:30pm - 2:00pmOvercoming Barriers, Using Assets as ADHD Scholars in Musicology
Stephanie Frakes
University of Manitoba,
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
12:30pm - 2:00pmPopular Music Study Group Business Meeting
Amy Coddington
Amherst College
Location: Grand Ballroom II
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Jazz Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music Cognition Interest Group Meeting
Location: Denver
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music Informatics & Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Silver
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Timbre & Orchestration Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Work & Family Interest Group Meeting
Location: Plaza Court 1
12:30pm - 2:00pmSpeed Networking
Location: South Convention Lobby
2:15pm - 3:45pmAMS Board Meet & Greet 3
Location: Plaza Exhibit
2:15pm - 3:45pmComposition and Indigeneity
Location: Majesty Ballroom
2:15pm - 3:45pmConceptualizing Mode and Key
Location: Windows
2:15pm - 3:45pmFields, Gardens, and Labyrinths
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
2:15pm - 3:45pmFrom Political Work to Homoerotic Play: Music in Cults of James and Anna
K. Dawn Grapes
Colorado State University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
2:15pm - 3:45pmHow George Bridgetower Flourished: A Violinist's Bridge Between Past and Future
Nicole Cherry
University of Texas at San Antonio
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusic and the Law
Ginger Dellenbaugh
Yale University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
2:15pm - 3:45pmNews, American Politics, and the Stage
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
2:15pm - 3:45pmOperetta and cultural transfer in Europe
Mirjana Plath
University of Oslo,
Location: Vail
2:15pm - 3:45pmVocal Timbre in Popular Music
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
2:30pm - 3:15pmSMT Business Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom I

Open to all attendees.

3:15pm - 4:00pmSMT Awards Ceremony
Location: Grand Ballroom I
4:00pm - 5:15pmScott Joplin's Ragtime
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
4:00pm - 5:30pmBases and Superstructures: Academic Music Studies and the Capitalist Present
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
4:00pm - 5:30pmEast Asia, Composition, and Transnationalism
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
4:00pm - 5:30pmHistoricizing Queerness
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
4:00pm - 5:30pmHistories of Pedagogy/Pedagogies of History
Darren Mueller
Eastman School of Music,
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
4:00pm - 5:30pmLate 16th–Early 17th-Century Polyphony
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
4:00pm - 5:30pmLessons from Avian Organology
Robert Vincent Giglio
,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
4:00pm - 5:30pmMachine Sounds
Location: Majesty Ballroom
4:00pm - 5:30pmRace and Identity in Colonial Latin America
Location: Windows
4:00pm - 5:30pmRethinking Intercultural Composition
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
4:00pm - 5:30pmWagnerian Parodies
Adeline Anastasia Heck
,
Location: Vail
4:00pm - 6:00pmMusic Copyright Office Hours: Ask a Theorist-Attorney!
Location: Plaza Exhibit

SMT Booth 408 

Bring your burning music copyright questions to the Exhibit Hall and chat with music theorists whose work in music theory has brought them to the law. 

4:15pm - 6:00pmSMT Plenary: Public Music Theory
Location: Grand Ballroom I

Submit questions for the panel at the following link: https://shorturl.at/kvJK1

5:30pm - 6:15pmAMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 2
Location: Director's Row E
6:00pm - 7:00pmAMS Business Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom II
7:00pm - 7:30pmAMS Awards Ceremony
Location: Grand Ballroom II
7:00pm - 9:00pmCCM Reception
Location: Plaza Court 1
7:30pm - 9:00pmAMS/SMT Awards Reception
Location: Windows
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Disability and Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: Grand Ballroom I
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Improvisation Interest Group Meeting
Location: Silver
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting
Location: Denver
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Performance and Analysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
7:30pm - 9:00pmSMT Scholars for Social Responsibility Interest Group Meeting
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
8:00pm - 10:00pmArchives
Kyle Christopher Kaplan
University College Dublin,
Location: Vail
8:00pm - 10:00pmMusic and Dance Study Group Business Meeting
Stephen S. Hudson
Occidental College
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
8:00pm - 10:00pmMusic, Sound, and the Making of Eco-Culture
Heidi Lee Jensen
Alfred University,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
8:00pm - 10:00pmRetrofitting the Bandura for a Soviet Childhood: Ukraine’s National Instrument, Violent Erasures, and the Plan for a Communist Music
Susan Boynton
,
Location: Majesty Ballroom
8:00pm - 10:00pmTeaching Popular Music Studies: Pedagogy and Curriculum
Amy Coddington
,
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
8:00pm - 10:00pmUCLA Musicology Alumni Party
Location: Plaza Ballroom A
9:00pm - 11:00pmHonoring Susan Youens
Location: Director's Row I
9:00pm - 11:00pmMcGill Reception
Location: Tower Court B
9:00pm - 11:00pmUniversity of Pennsylvania Department of Music Reception
Location: Director's Row H
9:30pm - 11:00pmStanford University Department of Music Reception
Location: Tower Court A
9:30pm - 11:00pmYale Alumni and Friends Reception
Location: Grand Ballroom II
9:30pm - 11:30pmAP Music Theory Reception
Location: Director's Row J
9:30pm - 11:30pmCUNY Party
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
9:30pm - 11:30pmIndiana University Jacobs School of Music Networking Reception
Location: Tower Court C
9:30pm - 11:30pmPrinceton University Party for Students, Alumni, and Friends
Location: Tower Court D
9:30pm - 11:30pmUniversity of Illinois Reception
Location: Gold
9:30pm - 11:30pmUniversity of North Texas Reception
Location: Governor's Sq. 10
9:30pm - 11:30pmUniversity of Texas at Austin Alumni Reception
Location: Governor's Sq. 12
10:00pm - 11:59pmCornell Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
10:00pm - 11:59pmUniversity of California, Berkeley Alumni Reception
Location: Plaza Ballroom F
Date: Sunday, 12/Nov/2023
8:30am - 12:15pmExhibit Hall Open
Location: Plaza Exhibit

Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.

9:00am - 10:00amAnalyzing Jazz
Location: Grand Ballroom I
9:00am - 10:30amBlindness and Musical Identity
Location: Windows
9:00am - 10:30amContemporary American Opera at the Intersection of Genre and Institution
Ryan Ebright
,
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
9:00am - 10:30amExpanded Anthology of Sources in the History of Music Theory
Thomas Christensen
University of Chicago
Location: Plaza Court 2
9:00am - 10:30amMusic and Female Agency in European Society
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
9:00am - 10:30amMusic and Quackery in Britain and America
Remi Chiu
Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University,
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
9:00am - 10:30amMusic and World War II
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
9:00am - 10:30amMusic of China
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
9:00am - 10:30amPower and Aurality in Colonial Latin America
Javier Marín-López
Universidad de Jaén,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
9:00am - 10:30amRevisiting the 2017 _Musicology Now_ "Open Letter to AMS Members on the State of the Academic Job Market": Strategies for Implementation
Catherine Mayes
,
Location: Grand Ballroom II
9:00am - 10:30amSigns in Film and Television
Location: Governor's Sq. 15
9:00am - 10:30amTheorizing Timbre, Texture, and Space in Hip-Hop Music
Location: Silver
9:00am - 10:30amTimbres, Voices, Ciphers
Location: Plaza Court 1
10:15am - 11:30amCoffee Break
Location: Plaza Exhibit

Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.

10:15am - 12:15pmThe Popular Singing Voice
Location: Grand Ballroom I
10:45am - 11:45amDiscoveries in Post-Tonal Music
Location: Silver
10:45am - 12:15pmContrafacts: A Template for Agency and Identity Formation
Kendall Hatch Winter
,
Location: Governor's Sq. 17
10:45am - 12:15pmDemystifying Public Musicology
Eduardo Herrera
Indiana University,
Location: Grand Ballroom II
10:45am - 12:15pmFrance and the Politics of Cultural Exchange
Location: Plaza Ballroom E
10:45am - 12:15pmMusic and Dance
Location: Plaza Court 1
10:45am - 12:15pmNarrating Indigenous Musical Histories
Location: Plaza Ballroom D
10:45am - 12:15pmOn the Totalitarian Stage
Location: Governor's Sq. 16
10:45am - 12:15pmOpera and the Politics of Inclusion and Consent
Location: Governor's Sq. 14
10:45am - 12:15pmSemiotics
Location: Governor's Sq. 11
10:45am - 12:15pmSpecters of Polyphony
Location: Governor's Sq. 15