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 AMS Board Meeting Location: Skyway A-B
8:00am Eleventh New Beethoven Research Conference Location: Regency SMT Board Meeting Location: Executive Boardroom
9:00am A Feminist Killjoy at the AMS (CWG Lecture) Location: Remote Session Encoding Conflict in Music Location: Remote Session Exploring Regional and Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century Location: Remote Session
9:00am "Whose Brahms?" Reception and Uses of Nineteenth-Century Music Up to the Present Day Location: Lakeshore C SMT Peer Learning Workshop: A Microcosm of Rhythm: Theorizing and Analyzing Groove-Based Music Location: Lake Harriet SMT Peer Learning Workshop: Shark!: A Dive into Film Music Analysis Location: St. Croix
9:00am France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918 Location: Lakeshore A
10:45am Analysis of Popular Music I Location: Lake Bemidji Expression in Vocal Music I Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Joni Mitchell Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Living in the Longer Now: Indigenous Music/Dance as History (AMS President's Endowed Plenary Lecture) Location: Remote Session
Meter Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Pedagogy Location: Lakeshore B AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Meeting: A Conversation with Dr. Marie Thompson on Music/Reproduction/Crisis Location: Remote Session Roundtable on Supporting and Uplifting the Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender-Expansive Communities in Music Scholarship Location: Remote Session
Musical Imperialisms: Forms of Domination and Ambition Location: Remote Session
11:00am Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Governing Board Meeting Location: Cedar Lake
11:45am AMS Student Grantees Meet & Greet Location: Lake Nokomis
12:00pm Joint New Attendee Reception Location: Northwoods
12:30pm AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Orientation Location: Executive Boardroom SMT Music Informatics Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji
1:00pm AMS Buddy Program Meet-up Location: Lake Harriet SMT Conference Guides Location: Skyway A-B
1:15pm AMS Explore: Orientation Location: Lake Nokomis
2:15pm African Pianism: A Celebration of African Composers Location: Regency Disability in Musical Topics and Form Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F History of Theory I Location: Mirage Music Theory and Spirituality Location: Lakeshore B
Between Finger Spans and Harmonic Theory: Reconstructing the Meroë Doublepipes Location: Minnehaha Developing a Student-Centered Approach to Classroom Learning Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Hybridity, restructure and renewal: Anthony Braxton at 80 Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Musical Sites of Trauma, Critique, and Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Opera as Worldmaking Location: Northstar Ballroom B Adapting Musical Performance for the Screen Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Beyond the Score Location: Lakeshore C Innovation and Symbolism in Early Modern Motets Location: Lakeshore A
Jewish Musical Theater and Song Location: Northstar Ballroom A Manuscript Histories Location: Great Lakes A Music and the Cold War: Cultural Anxieties and Diplomacies Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Natural Landscapes and Sound Ecologies Location: Lake Minnetonka
Rock Narratives Location: Lake Superior B Video Game Franchises and Musical Recontextualization: An Intergenerational Approach Location: Lake Superior A
3:15pm Coffee 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 AMS Board Meet & Greet 1 Location: Exhibit Hall
4:00pm 20th-Century Ideas I Location: Mirage Groove Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Sets and Solfège Location: Lake Bemidji Beyond Misinformation: Early Nineteenth-Century Dubious Sources and the Historical Post-Truth Location: Northstar Ballroom B
New Perspectives in Canadian Jewish Music Location: Minnehaha Puccinian Endings, One Hundred Years On: Rotation, Focalization, and Climax in Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, and Turandot Location: Great Lakes A Sonic Specters: Cross-Cultural Hauntings, Collective Grief, and Musicking Trauma Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Cultural Imaginings in Global Organology Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Gender and Embodiment in Chopin Location: Regency Motets as Mediums of Power and Sovereignty Location: Lakeshore A Music, Education, and Care Location: Lake Minnetonka Opera Staging for Effect: Lights, Masks, and Magic Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Sound Worlds: Music, Nostalgia and Augmenting Reality in Video Games Location: Lake Superior A Theorizing and Mythologizing Whiteness Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Teaching Electronic Dance Music in Core Theory: Practical Applications and Critical Pedagogy Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan Location: Lakeshore C
The Prince of Porn: The Racialized Politics of Minneapolis's Music and Sex Culture During the 1980s (Critical Race Lecture) Location: Northstar Ballroom A Theorizing Popular Music in the Interregnum: Stylistic Shifts in an Era of Upheaval Location: Lake Superior B
4:00pm Iranian Musical Encounters and Meanings Location: Lakeshore B
4:30pm Joint Interest Groups and Affiliates Fair Location: Great Lakes B-C
5:00pm AMS Presidential Reception Location: Lake Nokomis
6:00pm 12-Step Recovery Meeting Location: St. Croix
6:30pm Joint Welcome Reception Location: Nicollet Ballroom
7:00pm UNC Chapel Hill Reception Location: Lakeshore C
7:15pm SMT Scholars for Social Responsibility Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F SMT Dance and Movement & Performance and Analysis Interest Groups Meeting Location: Mirage
7:30pm 8-Bit Chiptunes, Retro-Aesthetics, and Nostalgia Location: Lake Superior A AMS Global East Asian Music Research Annual Business Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji Histories of Hidden and Vernacular Theories of Music Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Musical Explorations of Jewish Past(s) Location: Minnehaha
8:00pm Minnesota Party (University of Minnesota, Carleton College, St. Olaf College) Location: Lake Harriet
8:30pm 10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark Location: Regency
9:30pm Northwestern University Reception Location: Skyway A-B
