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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Daily Overview |
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Lakeshore A
Lakeshore B
Lakeshore C
Northstar Ballroom A
Northstar Ballroom B
Greenway Ballroom B-I
Greenway Ballroom C-H
Greenway Ballroom D-G
Greenway Ballroom E-F
Mirage
Regency
Nicollet Ballroom A
Nicollet Ballroom A-B
Nicollet Ballroom C-D
Lake Minnetonka
Exhibit Hall
Northwoods
Skyway A-B
St. Croix
Minnehaha
Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Great Lakes A
Great Lakes B
Great Lakes C
Lake Bemidji
Lake Harriet
Executive Boardroom
Lake Nokomis
Lake Superior A
Lake Superior B
Lakeshore A-B-C
Gender Play: Music and Forms of Gender Impersonation
9:00am - 10:30am
Legal Auralities: Critical Approaches to Music, Sound, and Law
10:45am - 12:15pm
SMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Musical Ownership and Value in the 19th Century
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Music and the Visual Arts
9:00am - 10:30am
Creative (Mis)Reading: Musical Adaptation of the Modern Novel
10:45am - 12:15pm
Chronicling American Folk Song
9:00am - 10:30am
The Secret Life of Keyboards
10:45am - 12:15pm
SMT Music Cognition Interest Group Meeting
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Philosophical Approaches to Composition and Public Presentation
2:15pm - 3:45pm
AMS Board and Council Breakfast
7:15am - 8:45am
Musical Landscapes Across the Americas
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Colonial Perspectives, Stereotypes, and Caricatures
9:00am - 10:30am
Colonial Narratives and Negotiations
10:45am - 12:15pm
AMS Global Music History Study Group Business Meeting
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Popular Music and/as Resistance
7:45pm - 9:45pm
Theorizing and Contextualizing the Harlem Renaissance
10:45am - 12:15pm
Bad Instructions? Anarchy, Excess, and Scarcity in Music Notation
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Practices of Memory and Resistance
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Closing the Gap Between Musical and Philosophical Hermeneutics
7:45pm - 9:45pm
Listening Through Machines
9:00am - 10:30am
Sounding the Healthy and Unhealthy Body
10:45am - 12:15pm
AMS Cold War and Music Study Group Business Meeting
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Gendering Strategies in Films
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Popular Music and the Global Caribbean
4:00pm - 5:30pm
UCLA Musicology Reception
9:30pm - 11:30pm
New Approaches to Harmonic Function
9:00am - 10:30am
Expression in Vocal Music II
10:45am - 12:15pm
SMT Timbre and Orchestration Interest Group Meeting
12:30pm - 2:00pm
18th Century Issues
9:00am - 10:30am
Harmony and Narrative in Film Music
10:45am - 12:15pm
SMT Work and Family Interest Group Meeting
12:30pm - 2:00pm
K-Pop: Inside, Outside, New and Old
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Form II
9:00am - 10:30am
Experience and Agency in 20th Century Music
10:45am - 12:15pm
Chinese Guzheng Performance from Antiquity to Modernity
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Speed Networking
12:30pm - 2:00pm
AMS Business Meeting
6:00pm - 7:00pm
AMS Awards Ceremony
7:00pm - 7:30pm
SMT Business Meeting
2:45pm - 3:30pm
SMT Awards Ceremony
3:30pm - 4:15pm
SMT Plenary: Queering the Pitch—Thirty Years On
4:45pm - 6:00pm
Musical and Extramusical Agendas (AMS Explore)
9:00am - 10:30am
New Paths in Classical Music (AMS Explore)
10:45am - 12:15pm
Preserving Composers’ Work in the Digital Age
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Coffee Break
10:45am - 12:00pm
Exhibit Hall Showcases: Auralia & Musition, Artusi
11:00am - 11:45am
AMS Board Meet & Greet 3
11:00am - 12:30pm
Exhibit Hall Showcases: Boulanger Initiative, W. W. Norton
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Dog Therapy
12:00pm - 2:30pm
SMT Interest Groups Breakfast Meeting
7:15am - 8:45am
Princeton University Alumni and Friends Party
9:30pm - 11:30pm
Open Access Musicology
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Stanford University Party
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Cultural Representation and Artistic Agency in Asian Popular Music
9:00am - 10:30am
State of the Field: Jazz and Gender
10:45am - 12:15pm
AMS Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Contemporary Musical Modernisms: Organizing Meeting
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Hearing Marginalization, Demanding Equity
9:00am - 12:15pm
Mastering the Art of the Abstract
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Yale Party
9:30pm - 11:30pm
Music, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis
9:00am - 10:30am
Forms of Listening in Contemporary Politics
10:45am - 12:15pm
AMS Council Meeting
12:30pm - 2:00pm
American Documentary Opera, Reconsidered
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Music and the Fight for Civil Rights
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Reception
9:30pm - 11:30pm
Composing Women: Identity and Creative Agency
10:45am - 12:15pm
In the Shadow of Mahler
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Opera and Untold Black Stories
9:00am - 10:30am
Black Racial Representations on the Musical Stage
10:45am - 12:15pm
European Bellephonics: The Sounds of War and Peace
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Concerts and Commerce in the 18th and 19th centuries
4:00pm - 5:30pm
War and Peace in France
9:00am - 10:30am
Floating: Music on/in Water
10:45am - 12:15pm
Hip Hop and Politics in the Age of Trump
2:15pm - 3:45pm
AMS-SMT Trivia Night
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Analytical Approaches to Anime Song (Anison)
10:45am - 12:15pm
20th Century Musical Institutions
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Cornell Reception
9:30pm - 11:30pm
Haydn Society of North America Annual General Meeting
12:30pm - 2:00pm
AMS Pedagogy Study Group Business Meeting
2:15pm - 3:45pm
The University of Texas at Austin Reception
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Journal of Musicology Pedagogy Editorial Board Meeting
7:30am - 9:00am
AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 2
12:30pm - 1:30pm
SMT-Pod Drop-In Gathering
8:00am - 10:00am
AMS Explore: Debrief
12:30pm - 1:30pm
University of Oregon Reception
6:00pm - 8:00pm
AMS Popular Music Study Group Business Meeting
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Identity and Authenticity in Country Music
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Italian Opera and Exoticism
4:00pm - 5:30pm
University of Pennsylvania Music Department Reception
6:45pm - 8:45pm
McGill University Reception
9:30pm - 11:30pm
Responses to Authoritarianism
9:00am - 10:30am
Race and Defiant Self-Definition through Jazz
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Seeing and Depicting Queerness
4:00pm - 5:30pm
University of Michigan Reception (Musicology and Music Theory)
6:45pm - 8:45pm
University of California, Berkeley Alumni Reception
9:30pm - 11:30pm
Joint Awards Reception
7:30pm - 8:30pm
AMS LGBTQ Study Group Party
10:00pm - 11:59pm
