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: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025
7:15am - 8:45amAMS Board and Council Breakfast
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

Closed meeting.

7:15am - 8:45amSMT Interest Groups Breakfast Meeting
Location: Skyway A-B
7:30am - 9:00amJournal of Musicology Pedagogy Editorial Board Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

8:00am - 10:00amSMT-Pod Drop-In Gathering
Location: Lake Nokomis
9:00am - 10:30am18th Century Issues
Location: Mirage
9:00am - 10:30amForm II
Location: Regency
9:00am - 10:30amNew Approaches to Harmonic Function
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
9:00am - 10:30amAMS Global Music History Study Group Keynote: Examining the Construction of Continental and Hemispheric Categories in Music History: 'European Music' and 'Western Music'
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
9:00am - 10:30amDay-to-day Music-Making in the Middle Ages: Re-thinking Historiographical Narratives through the Benedicamus Domino
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
9:00am - 10:30amExpressing Young Adulthood in Post-2010 American Popular Music: Generation Z, Feminist, and Queer Perspectives
Location: Lake Bemidji
9:00am - 10:30amListening to Vinyl, Together: Music, Meaning, and Materiality in Communal Listening Practice
Location: Great Lakes A
9:00am - 10:30amMusic, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:00am - 10:30amOpera and Untold Black Stories
Location: Great Lakes B
9:00am - 10:30amPlanning a Research Agenda: Sound Strategies for Faculty and Future Faculty
Location: Lake Superior A
9:00am - 10:30amColonial Perspectives, Stereotypes, and Caricatures
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
9:00am - 10:30amCultural Representation and Artistic Agency in Asian Popular Music
Location: Minnehaha
9:00am - 10:30amGender Play: Music and Forms of Gender Impersonation
Location: Lakeshore A
9:00am - 10:30amListening Through Machines
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:00am - 10:30amMusic and the Visual Arts
Location: Lakeshore B
9:00am - 10:30amMusical and Extramusical Agendas (AMS Explore)
Location: Lake Minnetonka
9:00am - 10:30amResponses to Authoritarianism
Location: Lake Superior B
9:00am - 10:30amChronicling American Folk Song
Location: Lakeshore C
9:00am - 10:30amWar and Peace in France
Location: Great Lakes C
9:00am - 12:15pmHearing Marginalization, Demanding Equity
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:45am - 12:00pmCoffee 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.

10:45am - 12:15pmExperience and Agency in 20th Century Music
Location: Regency
10:45am - 12:15pmExpression in Vocal Music II
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
10:45am - 12:15pmHarmony and Narrative in Film Music
Location: Mirage
10:45am - 12:15pmSinging from the original notation: the Libro Primo de la Croce (Rome: Pasoti and Dorico, 1526/1520) and the origins of the madrigal
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
10:45am - 12:15pm“Demy-Frères: Perspectives on the Collaboration Between Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand”
Location: Lake Superior B
10:45am - 12:15pmAnalytical Approaches to Anime Song (Anison)
Location: Lake Bemidji
10:45am - 12:15pmCreative (Mis)Reading: Musical Adaptation of the Modern Novel
Location: Lakeshore B
10:45am - 12:15pmForms of Listening in Contemporary Politics
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
10:45am - 12:15pmLegal Auralities: Critical Approaches to Music, Sound, and Law
Location: Lakeshore A
10:45am - 12:15pmPerforming Modernity Otherwise: Asian Interventions and Reimaginations of the Western Canon
Location: Lake Superior A
10:45am - 12:15pmState of the Field: Jazz and Gender
Location: Minnehaha
10:45am - 12:15pmColonial Narratives and Negotiations
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
10:45am - 12:15pmComposing Women: Identity and Creative Agency
Location: Great Lakes A
10:45am - 12:15pmFloating: Music on/in Water
Location: Great Lakes C
10:45am - 12:15pmBlack Racial Representations on the Musical Stage
Location: Great Lakes B
10:45am - 12:15pmNew Paths in Classical Music (AMS Explore)
Location: Lake Minnetonka
10:45am - 12:15pmSounding the Healthy and Unhealthy Body
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
10:45am - 12:15pmThe Secret Life of Keyboards
Location: Lakeshore C
10:45am - 12:15pmTheorizing and Contextualizing the Harlem Renaissance
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
10:45am - 12:15pmTracing the Intersection of Dance and Music through the University of Minnesota Performing Arts Archive and the Francis V Gorman Rare Arts Books, Media, and Artists Archives
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
11:00am - 12:30pmAMS Board Meet & Greet 3
Location: Exhibit Hall
12:00pm - 2:30pmDog Therapy
Location: Northwoods
12:30pm - 1:30pmAMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 2
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

12:30pm - 1:30pmAMS Explore: Debrief
Location: Lake Nokomis

Closed meeting.

12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Council Meeting
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

Closed meeting.

12:30pm - 2:00pmBusiness meeting of the Committee on the Publication of American Music
Location: Skyway A-B
12:30pm - 2:00pmHaydn Society of North America Annual General Meeting
Location: Lake Harriet
12:30pm - 2:00pmOpen Access Musicology
Location: St. Croix
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Popular Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: Great Lakes A
12:30pm - 2:00pmSpeed Networking
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Cold War and Music Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Global Music History Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Minnehaha
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Popular Music Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Lake Superior A
12:30pm - 2:00pmBad Instructions? Anarchy, Excess, and Scarcity in Music Notation
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music Cognition Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lakeshore C
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lakeshore A
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Analysis of World Musics & Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Timbre and Orchestration Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Work and Family Interest Group Meeting
Location: Mirage
12:30pm - 2:00pmMusicking in Disabled Community: Access Intimacy and Cultural Activism.
Location: Lake Minnetonka
12:30pm - 2:00pmSounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America
Location: Lake Superior B
2:15pm - 3:45pmChinese Guzheng Performance from Antiquity to Modernity
Location: Regency
2:15pm - 3:45pmFrom Chunking to 8-Bit Soundworlds: Aural Skills Foundations and Musicianship Through Video Game Music (Presented by Auralia & Musition)
Location: Lake Bemidji
2:15pm - 3:45pmAmerican Documentary Opera, Reconsidered
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
2:15pm - 3:45pmContemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session One: Roundtable Discussion
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
2:15pm - 3:45pmContemporary Musical Modernisms: Organizing Meeting
Location: Minnehaha
2:15pm - 3:45pmHidden Histories of Production and Consumption in Electronic Musical Instruments
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
2:15pm - 3:45pmHip Hop and Politics in the Age of Trump
Location: Great Lakes C
2:15pm - 3:45pmEuropean Bellephonics: The Sounds of War and Peace
Location: Great Lakes B
2:15pm - 3:45pmGendering Strategies in Films
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
2:15pm - 3:45pmIdentity and Authenticity in Country Music
Location: Lake Superior A
2:15pm - 3:45pmIn the Shadow of Mahler
Location: Great Lakes A
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusical Ownership and Value in the 19th Century
Location: Lakeshore A
2:15pm - 3:45pmPhilosophical Approaches to Composition and Public Presentation
Location: Lakeshore C
2:15pm - 3:45pmRace and Defiant Self-Definition through Jazz
Location: Lake Superior B
2:15pm - 3:45pmTransmission, Reception, and Aesthetic Experimentation in Russian and Turkish Music
Location: Lakeshore B
2:15pm - 3:45pmThe Baccusi Files: Digital Forensics of a New Corpus of Renaissance Imitation Masses
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
2:15pm - 3:45pmWorkshop in Research Techniques and Bibliography, led by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
Location: Lake Minnetonka
2:45pm - 3:30pmSMT Business Meeting
Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
3:30pm - 4:15pmSMT Awards Ceremony
Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
4:00pm - 5:30pmMusical Landscapes Across the Americas
Location: Northstar Ballroom A-B
4:00pm - 5:30pmChallenges and Opportunities Presented By Artificial Intelligence in Music
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
4:00pm - 5:30pmContemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session Two: Workshop
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
4:00pm - 5:30pmMastering the Art of the Abstract
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
4:00pm - 5:30pmMusic, Sound, and Medicalized Trauma in Global and Historical Contexts
Location: Great Lakes A
4:00pm - 5:30pmPreserving Composers’ Work in the Digital Age
Location: Lake Minnetonka
4:00pm - 5:30pmSound, Image, and Gesture in Composition and Performance (ca. 1425–1725)
Location: Lakeshore A
4:00pm - 5:30pmSounds of the Contemporary City: Music and Musicking in Urban Spaces at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Location: Lakeshore B
4:00pm - 5:30pm20th Century Musical Institutions
Location: Lake Bemidji
4:00pm - 5:30pmConcerts and Commerce in the 18th and 19th centuries
Location: Great Lakes B
4:00pm - 5:30pmItalian Opera and Exoticism
Location: Lake Superior A
4:00pm - 5:30pmPractices of Memory and Resistance
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
4:00pm - 5:30pmSeeing and Depicting Queerness
Location: Lake Superior B
4:00pm - 5:30pmWomen’s Music Networks in the United States: Illuminating Unseen Labor
Location: Great Lakes C
4:00pm - 6:00pmK-Pop: Inside, Outside, New and Old
Location: Mirage
4:00pm - 6:00pmMusic and the Fight for Civil Rights
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
4:00pm - 6:00pmPopular Music and the Global Caribbean
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
4:30pm - 6:00pmSMT Plenary: Queering the Pitch—Thirty Years On
Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
6:00pm - 7:00pmAMS Business Meeting
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B
6:00pm - 8:00pmUniversity of Oregon Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis
6:45pm - 8:45pmUniversity of Michigan Reception (Musicology and Music Theory)
Location: Lake Superior B
6:45pm - 8:45pmUniversity of Pennsylvania Music Department Reception
Location: Lake Superior A
7:00pm - 7:30pmAMS Awards Ceremony
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B
7:30pm - 8:30pmJoint Awards Reception
Location: Lakeshore A-B-C
7:30pm - 9:30pmAMS-SMT Trivia Night
Location: Great Lakes C
7:45pm - 9:45pmClosing the Gap Between Musical and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
7:45pm - 9:45pmPopular Music and/as Resistance
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
8:00pm - 10:00pmStanford University Party
Location: St. Croix
8:00pm - 10:00pmThe University of Texas at Austin Reception
Location: Lake Harriet
9:30pm - 11:30pmCornell Reception
Location: Lake Bemidji
9:30pm - 11:30pmIndiana University Jacobs School of Music Reception
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:30pm - 11:30pmMcGill University Reception
Location: Lake Superior A
9:30pm - 11:30pmPrinceton University Alumni and Friends Party
Location: Skyway A-B
9:30pm - 11:30pmUCLA Musicology Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:30pm - 11:30pmUniversity of California, Berkeley Alumni Reception
Location: Lake Superior B
9:30pm - 11:30pmYale Party
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:00pm - 11:59pmAMS LGBTQ Study Group Party
Location: Regency