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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12:00am - 12:30amAMS/SMT After Dark (con't) Location: Windows
7:00am - 9:00amW. W. Norton Focus Group Location: Director's Row I
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
9:00am - 12:00pmGraduate Student Workshop: Marxism, Music Studies, and Hermeneutics Location: Plaza Court 7
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
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