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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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Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025
7:15am - 8:45am	AMS Board and Council Breakfast Location: Northstar Ballroom A Closed meeting.		SMT Interest Groups Breakfast Meeting Location: Skyway A-B
7:30am - 9:00am	Journal of Musicology Pedagogy Editorial Board Meeting Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting.
8:00am - 10:00am	SMT-Pod Drop-In Gathering Location: Lake Nokomis
9:00am - 10:30am	18th Century Issues Location: Mirage	Form II Location: Regency	New Approaches to Harmonic Function Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	AMS 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
	Day-to-day Music-Making in the Middle Ages: Re-thinking Historiographical Narratives through the Benedicamus Domino Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Expressing Young Adulthood in Post-2010 American Popular Music: Generation Z, Feminist, and Queer Perspectives Location: Lake Bemidji	Listening to Vinyl, Together: Music, Meaning, and Materiality in Communal Listening Practice Location: Great Lakes A	Music, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
	Opera and Untold Black Stories Location: Great Lakes B	Planning a Research Agenda: Sound Strategies for Faculty and Future Faculty Location: Lake Superior A	Colonial Perspectives, Stereotypes, and Caricatures Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	Cultural Representation and Artistic Agency in Asian Popular Music Location: Minnehaha
	Gender Play: Music and Forms of Gender Impersonation Location: Lakeshore A	Listening Through Machines Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	Music and the Visual Arts Location: Lakeshore B	Musical and Extramusical Agendas (AMS Explore) Location: Lake Minnetonka
	Responses to Authoritarianism Location: Lake Superior B	Chronicling American Folk Song Location: Lakeshore C	War and Peace in France Location: Great Lakes C
9:00am - 12:15pm	Hearing Marginalization, Demanding Equity Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:45am - 12:00pm	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.
10:45am - 12:15pm	Experience and Agency in 20th Century Music Location: Regency	Expression in Vocal Music II Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	Harmony and Narrative in Film Music Location: Mirage	Singing 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
	“Demy-Frères: Perspectives on the Collaboration Between Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand” Location: Lake Superior B	Analytical Approaches to Anime Song (Anison) Location: Lake Bemidji	Creative (Mis)Reading: Musical Adaptation of the Modern Novel Location: Lakeshore B	Forms of Listening in Contemporary Politics Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
	Legal Auralities: Critical Approaches to Music, Sound, and Law Location: Lakeshore A	Performing Modernity Otherwise: Asian Interventions and Reimaginations of the Western Canon Location: Lake Superior A	State of the Field: Jazz and Gender Location: Minnehaha	Colonial Narratives and Negotiations Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
	Composing Women: Identity and Creative Agency Location: Great Lakes A	Floating: Music on/in Water Location: Great Lakes C	Black Racial Representations on the Musical Stage Location: Great Lakes B	New Paths in Classical Music (AMS Explore) Location: Lake Minnetonka
	Sounding the Healthy and Unhealthy Body Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	The Secret Life of Keyboards Location: Lakeshore C	Theorizing and Contextualizing the Harlem Renaissance Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Tracing 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 - 12:30pm	AMS Board Meet & Greet 3 Location: Exhibit Hall
12:00pm - 2:30pm	Dog Therapy Location: Northwoods
12:30pm - 1:30pm	AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 2 Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting.		AMS Explore: Debrief Location: Lake Nokomis Closed meeting.
12:30pm - 2:00pm	AMS Council Meeting Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Closed meeting.	Business meeting of the Committee on the Publication of American Music Location: Skyway A-B	Haydn Society of North America Annual General Meeting Location: Lake Harriet	Open Access Musicology Location: St. Croix
	SMT Popular Music Interest Group Meeting Location: Great Lakes A	Speed Networking Location: Nicollet Ballroom A	AMS Cold War and Music Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	AMS Global Music History Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
	AMS Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting Location: Minnehaha	AMS Popular Music Study Group Business Meeting Location: Lake Superior A	Bad Instructions? Anarchy, Excess, and Scarcity in Music Notation Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	SMT Music Cognition Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore C
	SMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore A	SMT Analysis of World Musics & Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Groups Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji	SMT Timbre and Orchestration Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	SMT Work and Family Interest Group Meeting Location: Mirage
	Musicking in Disabled Community: Access Intimacy and Cultural Activism. Location: Lake Minnetonka	Sounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America Location: Lake Superior B
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Chinese Guzheng Performance from Antiquity to Modernity Location: Regency	From Chunking to 8-Bit Soundworlds: Aural Skills Foundations and Musicianship Through Video Game Music (Presented by Auralia & Musition) Location: Lake Bemidji	American Documentary Opera, Reconsidered Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D	Contemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session One: Roundtable Discussion Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
	Contemporary Musical Modernisms: Organizing Meeting Location: Minnehaha	Hidden Histories of Production and Consumption in Electronic Musical Instruments Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	Hip Hop and Politics in the Age of Trump Location: Great Lakes C	European Bellephonics: The Sounds of War and Peace Location: Great Lakes B
	Gendering Strategies in Films Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	Identity and Authenticity in Country Music Location: Lake Superior A	In the Shadow of Mahler Location: Great Lakes A	Musical Ownership and Value in the 19th Century Location: Lakeshore A
	Philosophical Approaches to Composition and Public Presentation Location: Lakeshore C	Race and Defiant Self-Definition through Jazz Location: Lake Superior B	Transmission, Reception, and Aesthetic Experimentation in Russian and Turkish Music Location: Lakeshore B	The Baccusi Files: Digital Forensics of a New Corpus of Renaissance Imitation Masses Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
	Workshop in Research Techniques and Bibliography, led by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale Location: Lake Minnetonka
2:45pm - 3:30pm	SMT Business Meeting Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
3:30pm - 4:15pm	SMT Awards Ceremony Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Musical Landscapes Across the Americas Location: Northstar Ballroom A-B	Challenges and Opportunities Presented By Artificial Intelligence in Music Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	Contemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session Two: Workshop Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	Mastering the Art of the Abstract Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
	Music, Sound, and Medicalized Trauma in Global and Historical Contexts Location: Great Lakes A	Preserving Composers’ Work in the Digital Age Location: Lake Minnetonka	Sound, Image, and Gesture in Composition and Performance (ca. 1425–1725) Location: Lakeshore A	Sounds of the Contemporary City: Music and Musicking in Urban Spaces at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Location: Lakeshore B
	20th Century Musical Institutions Location: Lake Bemidji	Concerts and Commerce in the 18th and 19th centuries Location: Great Lakes B	Italian Opera and Exoticism Location: Lake Superior A	Practices of Memory and Resistance Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
	Seeing and Depicting Queerness Location: Lake Superior B	Women’s Music Networks in the United States: Illuminating Unseen Labor Location: Great Lakes C
4:00pm - 6:00pm	K-Pop: Inside, Outside, New and Old Location: Mirage	Music and the Fight for Civil Rights Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D	Popular Music and the Global Caribbean Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
4:30pm - 6:00pm	SMT Plenary: Queering the Pitch—Thirty Years On Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
6:00pm - 7:00pm	AMS Business Meeting Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B
6:00pm - 8:00pm	University of Oregon Reception Location: Lake Nokomis
6:45pm - 8:45pm	University of Michigan Reception (Musicology and Music Theory) Location: Lake Superior B		University of Pennsylvania Music Department Reception Location: Lake Superior A
7:00pm - 7:30pm	AMS Awards Ceremony Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B
7:30pm - 8:30pm	Joint Awards Reception Location: Lakeshore A-B-C
7:30pm - 9:30pm	AMS-SMT Trivia Night Location: Great Lakes C
7:45pm - 9:45pm	Closing the Gap Between Musical and Philosophical Hermeneutics Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H		Popular Music and/as Resistance Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
8:00pm - 10:00pm	Stanford University Party Location: St. Croix		The University of Texas at Austin Reception Location: Lake Harriet
9:30pm - 11:30pm	Cornell Reception Location: Lake Bemidji	Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D	McGill University Reception Location: Lake Superior A	Princeton University Alumni and Friends Party Location: Skyway A-B
9:30pm - 11:30pm	UCLA Musicology Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	University of California, Berkeley Alumni Reception Location: Lake Superior B	Yale Party Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:00pm - 11:59pm	AMS LGBTQ Study Group Party Location: Regency