Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the 2025 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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7:30am - 12:00pmAMS Board Meeting Location: Skyway A-B
8:00am - 12:00pmEleventh New Beethoven Research Conference Location: Regency
8:00am - 12:00pmSMT Board Meeting Location: Executive Boardroom
9:00am - 10:30amA Feminist Killjoy at the AMS (CWG Lecture) Location: Remote Session
9:00am - 10:30amEncoding Conflict in Music Location: Remote Session
9:00am - 10:30amExploring Regional and Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century Location: Remote Session
9:00am - 12:00pm"Whose Brahms?" Reception and Uses of Nineteenth-Century Music Up to the Present Day Location: Lakeshore C
9:00am - 12:00pmSMT Peer Learning Workshop: A Microcosm of Rhythm: Theorizing and Analyzing Groove-Based Music Location: Lake Harriet
9:00am - 12:00pmSMT Peer Learning Workshop: Shark!: A Dive into Film Music Analysis Location: St. Croix
9:00am - 1:00pmFrance: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918 Location: Lakeshore A
10:45am - 12:15pmAnalysis of Popular Music I Location: Lake Bemidji
10:45am - 12:15pmExpression in Vocal Music I Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:45am - 12:15pmJoni Mitchell Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
10:45am - 12:15pmLiving in the Longer Now: Indigenous Music/Dance as History (AMS President's Endowed Plenary Lecture) Location: Remote Session
10:45am - 12:15pmMeter Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
10:45am - 12:15pmPedagogy Location: Lakeshore B
10:45am - 12:15pmAMS Music and Marxism Study Group Meeting: A Conversation with Dr. Marie Thompson on Music/Reproduction/Crisis Location: Remote Session
10:45am - 12:15pmRoundtable on Supporting and Uplifting the Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender-Expansive Communities in Music Scholarship Location: Remote Session
10:45am - 12:15pmMusical Imperialisms: Forms of Domination and Ambition Location: Remote Session
11:00am - 1:00pmSociety for Seventeenth-Century Music Governing Board Meeting Location: Cedar Lake
11:45am - 12:30pmAMS Student Grantees Meet & Greet Location: Lake Nokomis
12:00pm - 1:30pmJoint New Attendee Reception Location: Northwoods
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Orientation Location: Executive Boardroom
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music Informatics Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji
1:00pm - 2:00pmAMS Buddy Program Meet-up Location: Lake Harriet
1:00pm - 2:00pmSMT Conference Guides Location: Skyway A-B
1:15pm - 2:00pmAMS Explore: Orientation Location: Lake Nokomis
2:15pm - 3:45pmAfrican Pianism: A Celebration of African Composers Location: Regency
2:15pm - 3:45pmDisability in Musical Topics and Form Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
2:15pm - 3:45pmHistory of Theory I Location: Mirage
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusic Theory and Spirituality Location: Lakeshore B
2:15pm - 3:45pmBetween Finger Spans and Harmonic Theory: Reconstructing the Meroë Doublepipes Location: Minnehaha
2:15pm - 3:45pmDeveloping a Student-Centered Approach to Classroom Learning Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
2:15pm - 3:45pmHybridity, restructure and renewal: Anthony Braxton at 80 Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusical Sites of Trauma, Critique, and Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
2:15pm - 3:45pmOpera as Worldmaking Location: Northstar Ballroom B
2:15pm - 3:45pmAdapting Musical Performance for the Screen Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
2:15pm - 3:45pmBeyond the Score Location: Lakeshore C
2:15pm - 3:45pmInnovation and Symbolism in Early Modern Motets Location: Lakeshore A
2:15pm - 3:45pmJewish Musical Theater and Song Location: Northstar Ballroom A
2:15pm - 3:45pmManuscript Histories Location: Great Lakes A
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusic and the Cold War: Cultural Anxieties and Diplomacies Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
2:15pm - 3:45pmNatural Landscapes and Sound Ecologies Location: Lake Minnetonka
2:15pm - 3:45pmRock Narratives Location: Lake Superior B
2:15pm - 3:45pmVideo Game Franchises and Musical Recontextualization: An Intergenerational Approach Location: Lake Superior A
3:15pm - 4:30pmCoffee Break Location: Exhibit Hall Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.
3:15pm - 4:45pmAMS Board Meet & Greet 1 Location: Exhibit Hall
4:00pm - 5:30pm20th-Century Ideas I Location: Mirage
4:00pm - 5:30pmGroove Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
4:00pm - 5:30pmSets and Solfège Location: Lake Bemidji
4:00pm - 5:30pmBeyond Misinformation: Early Nineteenth-Century Dubious Sources and the Historical Post-Truth Location: Northstar Ballroom B
4:00pm - 5:30pmNew Perspectives in Canadian Jewish Music Location: Minnehaha
4:00pm - 5:30pmPuccinian Endings, One Hundred Years On: Rotation, Focalization, and Climax in Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, and Turandot Location: Great Lakes A
4:00pm - 5:30pmSonic Specters: Cross-Cultural Hauntings, Collective Grief, and Musicking Trauma Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
4:00pm - 5:30pmCultural Imaginings in Global Organology Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
4:00pm - 5:30pmGender and Embodiment in Chopin Location: Regency
4:00pm - 5:30pmMotets as Mediums of Power and Sovereignty Location: Lakeshore A
4:00pm - 5:30pmMusic, Education, and Care Location: Lake Minnetonka
4:00pm - 5:30pmOpera Staging for Effect: Lights, Masks, and Magic Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
4:00pm - 5:30pmSound Worlds: Music, Nostalgia and Augmenting Reality in Video Games Location: Lake Superior A
4:00pm - 5:30pmTheorizing and Mythologizing Whiteness Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
4:00pm - 5:30pmTeaching Electronic Dance Music in Core Theory: Practical Applications and Critical Pedagogy Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
4:00pm - 5:30pmThe “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan Location: Lakeshore C
4:00pm - 5:30pmThe Prince of Porn: The Racialized Politics of Minneapolis's Music and Sex Culture During the 1980s (Critical Race Lecture) Location: Northstar Ballroom A
4:00pm - 5:30pmTheorizing Popular Music in the Interregnum: Stylistic Shifts in an Era of Upheaval Location: Lake Superior B
4:00pm - 6:00pmIranian Musical Encounters and Meanings Location: Lakeshore B
4:30pm - 6:00pmJoint Interest Groups and Affiliates Fair Location: Great Lakes B-C
5:00pm - 5:45pmAMS Presidential Reception Location: Lake Nokomis
6:00pm - 7:00pm12-Step Recovery Meeting Location: St. Croix
6:30pm - 7:45pmJoint Welcome Reception Location: Nicollet Ballroom
7:00pm - 9:00pmUNC Chapel Hill Reception Location: Lakeshore C
7:15pm - 8:45pmSMT Scholars for Social Responsibility Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
7:15pm - 8:45pmSMT Dance and Movement & Performance and Analysis Interest Groups Meeting Location: Mirage
7:30pm - 9:30pm8-Bit Chiptunes, Retro-Aesthetics, and Nostalgia Location: Lake Superior A
7:30pm - 9:30pmAMS Global East Asian Music Research Annual Business Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji
7:30pm - 9:30pmHistories of Hidden and Vernacular Theories of Music Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
7:30pm - 9:30pmMusical Explorations of Jewish Past(s) Location: Minnehaha
8:00pm - 10:00pmMinnesota Party (University of Minnesota, Carleton College, St. Olaf College) Location: Lake Harriet
8:30pm - 11:59pm10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark Location: Regency
9:30pm - 11:30pmNorthwestern University Reception Location: Skyway A-B