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: 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