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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Session Overview
Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025
7:30am - 12:00pmAMS Board Meeting
Location: Skyway A-B

Closed meeting.

8:00am - 12:00pmEleventh New Beethoven Research Conference
Location: Regency
8:00am - 12:00pmSMT Board Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

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

By invitation only.

9:00am - 12:00pmSMT Peer Learning Workshop: Shark!: A Dive into Film Music Analysis
Location: St. Croix

By invitation only.

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

Closed meeting.

11:45am - 12:30pmAMS Student Grantees Meet & Greet
Location: Lake Nokomis

By invitation only.

12:00pm - 1:30pmJoint New Attendee Reception
Location: Northwoods
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Orientation
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

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

Closed meeting.

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

By invitation only.

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