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
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8:45am
AMS Board and Council Breakfast
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

Closed meeting.

SMT Interest Groups Breakfast Meeting
Location: Skyway A-B
7:30am
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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
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10:30am
18th Century Issues
Location: Mirage
Chair: Olga Sánchez Kisielewska
 

Three Melodies Walk Backwards Into a Bar: Enigmatic Music Notation in BWV 1087 and its Antecedents

Renée Barbre



Stravinsky's Reinvention of 18th-Century Schemas in the Neoclassical Period

Lucy Y. Liu



Hélène de Montgeroult’s “Accelerated” Etude after Haydn

W. Dean Sutcliffe

Form II
Location: Regency
Chair: Andrew Aziz, San Diego State University
 

Climax and Excess in the Song Forms of Jim Steinman

Alan Reese



Cadenza Reviving a One-Time Theme: The Case of the Dramatic Transition Theme in Mozart’s Piano Concertos K. 467 and K. 482

Ram Reuven



Picking up the Pieces: Form in Late Beethoven

Diego Cubero

New Approaches to Harmonic Function
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
Chair: Kyle Hutchinson
 

"The Most Distinctive Feature:" Harmonic Function within The Sacred Harp

Lily Marshae Hammond



The Prominent Dominant: Representing Function in the Roman Numeral Analysis of Tritone Substitutions

Jessica Hunt



Beyond the Classical Canon: A Neo-Dualist Approach to Harmonic Function for Broader Tonal Contexts

Gabriel Venegas, Gabriel Navia

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
 

Chair(s): Hedy Law, Ireri Chávez Bárcenas, Daniel Castro Pantoja

Discussant(s): Diane Oliva, Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit

Presenter(s): David RM Irving

Day-to-day Music-Making in the Middle Ages: Re-thinking Historiographical Narratives through the Benedicamus Domino
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
 

Chair(s): Anne Walters Robertson

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Making Music in the Margins: Notation and Practice in Twelfth-Century Pistoia

Emily Korzeniewski

 

Polytextual Motets as “Simple” Polyphony

Catherine A. Bradley

 

Multipurpose Music in the Fifteenth Century: The Benedicamus Domino Carols

Kalina Tomova

Expressing Young Adulthood in Post-2010 American Popular Music: Generation Z, Feminist, and Queer Perspectives
Location: Lake Bemidji
 

Organizer(s): Hon Ki Cheung

Chair(s): Hon Ki Cheung

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Reading Transgender Identity in Music: SOPHIE’s “It’s Okay to Cry” and “Faceshopping”

Andrew Darling

 

Hill Country Gay Boy: Topophilia, Queer Embodiment, and Myself in the Music of Sufjan Stevens

Brandon Foskett

 

“I’m the Perfect All-American:” Producing a Commodification of Girlhood for a New Generation

Lauren Molloy

Listening to Vinyl, Together: Music, Meaning, and Materiality in Communal Listening Practice
Location: Great Lakes A
 

Chair(s): Andrea Bohlman

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A ‘Physically Sound’ Nation: Listening to Fitness Vinyl of the 1960s

Destiny Meadows

 

The Juketheque Record: Continuous Dance Music in 1960s U.S. American Discotheque Jukeboxes

Sarah Lindmark

 

Modern Analog Listening and the Transculturation of the Japanese Jazz Kissa

Mark Katz

Music, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
 

Chair(s): Jenny Olivia Johnson

Presenter(s): Seth Brodsky, Michael Gallope, Luis Manuel Garcia, Kathryn Agnes Huether, Alisha Lola Jones, Shayna Mei Silverstein

Opera and Untold Black Stories
Location: Great Lakes B
 

Chair(s): Gwynne Kuhner Brown

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Dispelling Racial Othering through Opera: Edmond Dédé's Morgiane (1887)

Candace L Bailey

 

Singer, Composer, Librettist: Current engagement with Black Opera and examining the careers of Denyce Graves, Nkeiru Okoye, and Sandra Seaton

Naomi André

 

"Divided Soul": Historiography and Biography in The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson

Karen M. Bryan

Planning a Research Agenda: Sound Strategies for Faculty and Future Faculty
Location: Lake Superior A
 

Chair(s): Esther Criscuola de Laix

Presenter(s): Carol Hess, Ayana Smith, Jennifer Saltzstein, Christine Getz

Colonial Perspectives, Stereotypes, and Caricatures
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Chair: Knar Abrahamyan
 

Imagined Migration and Colonialist Narratives in Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Symphony No. 10 “Amerindia” (1952-1954)

Silvio J dos Santos



Technology, Race, and Colonialism in Caricatures of Manzotti’s Excelsior, 1880–1900

Taryn Dubois



Columbus, Catholicism, and Colonialism in Central European Opera circa 1930

John Gabriel

Cultural Representation and Artistic Agency in Asian Popular Music
Location: Minnehaha
Chair: Stella Li, RILM
 

From Military Stages to Pop Charts: The Eighth Army Show System and the Making of South Korean Popular Music

Jeongin Lee



Strengthening the Socialist Legacy: Red Songs and Nationalism in C-Pop

Ya-Hui Cheng



The Core of Technique in “Bad Apple” Video Remixes

Andrew Malilay White

Gender Play: Music and Forms of Gender Impersonation
Location: Lakeshore A
Chair: Ashley Ann Greathouse, University of Cincinnati & Marshall University
Discussant: Daniele Shlomit Sofer, University of Dayton
 

Becoming “Miss Grym”: Gender, Politics, and Suffragist Impersonation in Vaudeville and Music Halls

Kendall Hatch Winter



Musical Worldbuilding in Drag: Trans-Coded ‘Spliced Collage’ and Audience Co-Creation

Sarah Cooper



“Is That My Camera?”: Voicing Camp on RuPaul’s “Snatch Game”

Morgan Bates

Listening Through Machines
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
 

Listening to ‘Machine Listening’: Resistance and Reification in Contemporary Music Practice

Landon Morrison



Listening to the Chinese Room: Muzak, Artificial Intelligence, and Humanity as Encounter Fetish, c. 1776

Lester Hu

Music and the Visual Arts
Location: Lakeshore B
Chair: Navid Bargrizan, East Carolina University
 

"Music That Makes Holes in the Sky": The Idea of Absolute Music in Georgia O'Keeffe's Early Music Paintings

Frederick Cruz Nowell



Wassily Kandinsky: A Paint-Splattered Musical Modernist

Emma Bolton



Fanny Hensel’s Notturno Napolitano in the Artistic Imagination

Deirdre Toh

Musical and Extramusical Agendas (AMS Explore)
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Chair: Sarah Eyerly, Florida State University, Tallahassee
Chair: James O'Leary, Oberlin College
 

Sowing the Flora of Modernity: Başak Günak’s Rewilding

Hazel Landers



Anointing, Authenticity, and Ad-libbing

Hannah Jackson



Stalin Prizes: State-Sponsored Awards and European Decolonization

Holden Meech



“Glorifying the American Girl:” Patriotism, American Femininity, and All-Girl Bands from the 1920s-1940s

Claire Ledingham

Responses to Authoritarianism
Location: Lake Superior B
Chair: Jeremy Eichler
 

“A New Style for a New Time”: Chaos and Consolidation in the Works of Paul Hindemith

Lesley Hughes



Advocating for Operetta in Mussolini’s Italy: An Archival Story

Marco Ladd

Chronicling American Folk Song
Location: Lakeshore C
Chair: Larry Hamberlin
 

“Many Songs, One Nation: Towards a Pluralistic Understanding of Folksong in America, 1890s–1930s”

Heather Platt



Where ‘Songs Old Men Have Sung’ Were Sung: Robert W. Gordon and the Origins of California Folk Song

Matthew Gilbert



The Distributed Sonic Archives of Participatory Musicians

Esther M. Morgan-Ellis

War and Peace in France
Location: Great Lakes C
 

Chair(s): Kenneth Kreitner

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Compère and the Wartime Devotion of the French Royal Chapel (1494-95)

Deanna Pellerano

 

Hobrecht’s Motet Against War

Robert Nosow

 

Adolphe Sax’s Sonic Fusillades and the Military Politics of Timbral Homogeneity

Samuel Nemeth

 
9:00am
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12:15pm
Hearing Marginalization, Demanding Equity
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
 

Organizer(s): Cora Palfy

Chair(s): Cora Palfy

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Sonic Misogyny and Resistance: Gender-based Violence and Girlhood in J-pop

Yiqing Ma

 

...And My (Trans?) Gender Analysis

Maeve Gillen

 

Subversion and the Double Burden in Varvara Gaigerova’s Suite for Viola and Piano

Jacy Pedersen

 

Teaching Fanny: Marginalized Voices in Rock and the Role of AI in Repertorial Equity

Sarah Louden

 

Identity in the Brass Quintet Genre

Abigail Webster

10:45am
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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
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12:15pm
Experience and Agency in 20th Century Music
Location: Regency
Chair: Orit Hilewicz, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
 

Experiencing the Music of Brian Ferneyhough

David Ellis Orvek



Imagining Posthumanist Musical Agency with George Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening

Ryan Jones



When a composer does not want their performers to succeed: examining the vocal and pianistic styles of Strauss’s Der Krämerspiegel (1918)

Cecilia Ester Oinas

Expression in Vocal Music II
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
Chair: Emily Garlen Milius
 

Celebration and Self-Empowerment in Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song”

Catrina S. Kim



Make-Believe Becomes Material-Reality: Analyzing the Musical Persona of Anna Indiana

Gerardo Lopez



Cadential Expression of Tonalities in Cavalli’s Il Giasone

Vlad Praskurnin

Harmony and Narrative in Film Music
Location: Mirage
Chair: Frank Lehman, Tufts University
 

Parallel Tritone Progressions in Film: Affekt and Voice Leading

Michael G. Ebie



Kiarostami and Kristeva: A Study of Abjection and Semiotics in the Film Taste of Cherry (1997)

Jane Allen, Saman Montaseri



Minding the Fantastical Gap at Crime Scenes in Batman Media

William Ayers

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
Chair: Julie Emelyn Cumming, McGill University
“Demy-Frères: Perspectives on the Collaboration Between Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand”
Location: Lake Superior B
 

Chair(s): Robynn Stilwell

Discussant(s): Todd Decker

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Genre and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Walter Frisch

 

Reflexive Dubbing in The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

Hannah Lewis

 

Complicated Passions and Discreet Documentaries: The Demy-Legrand Partnership via Varda

Nathan Platte

 

Counterfactual Casting and Audiovisual Style in Demy and Legrand’s Parking (1985)

Jenny Oyallon-Koloski

Analytical Approaches to Anime Song (Anison)
Location: Lake Bemidji
 

Organizer(s): Stephen Tian-You Ai

Chair(s): Liam Hynes-Tawa

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The Anime OP(ening): a Corpus Study of Anison

Tan Nazaré

 

Anison’s Incomplete Narratives: Media Mix, Musical Form, and Divergence in "The Tatami Galaxy"

Stephen Tian-You Ai

 

From End Credits to Endless Loops: Intermedial Palimpsests of Momoiro Clover Z’s “Nippon Egao Hyakkei”

Sam Falotico

Creative (Mis)Reading: Musical Adaptation of the Modern Novel
Location: Lakeshore B
 

Chair(s): Michelle Assay

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A“Bad” German: Walter Kretschmer in Weinberg’s "The Passenger"

Nicole Steinberg

 

“Her Voice Is Full of Money”: Daisy Buchanan’s Siren Song in Kate Soper’s "Voices from the Killing Jar"

Jacob LaBarge

 

Sympathy for the Devil: Woland as Adaptation

Olga Haldey

Forms of Listening in Contemporary Politics
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
 

Chair(s): Anna Yu Wang, Sumanth Gopinath

Discussant(s): Michael Gallope

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Clogged Ears, Undemocratic Times

Andrew Chung

 

A Pedagogy of Event-Listening

Vivian Luong

 

Inter-ideological Acoustics: A Model of Listening for a Divided Society

Anna Yu Wang

Legal Auralities: Critical Approaches to Music, Sound, and Law
Location: Lakeshore A
 

Chair(s): Derek Baron, Matthew Mendez

Discussant(s): Eric Drott

Presenter(s): Audrey Amsellem, Derek Baron, Breana McCullough, Matthew Mendez, Ana María Ochoa, Martin Scherzinger

Performing Modernity Otherwise: Asian Interventions and Reimaginations of the Western Canon
Location: Lake Superior A
 

Chair(s): Anne Monique Pace

Discussant(s): Emerson Morgan

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Staging Cultural Crossings: Opera, Translation, and Musical Modernity in 19th-Century Bengal

Pramantha Tagore

 

A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies: Reimagining Madama Butterfly through an Asian-American Lens

Anne Monique Pace

 

Deep Critic, Surface Critique? Yuja Wang’s “Superficial” Beethoven and Subversion of History

Hiro Cho

State of the Field: Jazz and Gender
Location: Minnehaha
 

Chair(s): Kelsey Klotz, Stephanie Doktor, Sean Lorre

Presenter(s): Marcus Grant, Kari Anne Lindquist, Eduardo López-Dabdoub, Jenna Przybysz, Emmalouise St. Amand, Dave Wilson

Colonial Narratives and Negotiations
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Chair: Bess Xinton Liu
 

Singing Between Empire and Colony: Yi Nanyŏng’s Survival Tactics in Colonial Korea

Jiyoon Auo



Acousmatic Empire: Pierre Schaeffer, African Radio, and the Late Colonial State

Sophie Angeline Brady



More than “ribald song… and smutty jest”: Vice District Performance as Black/Indigenous Survivance in the Boomtown West

Siriana Lundgren

Composing Women: Identity and Creative Agency
Location: Great Lakes A
Chair: Megan Sarno
 

Double-Voicedness as Feminist Agency in Johanna Beyer’s “The Federal Music Project” (1936) and “The Composer’s Forum Laboratory” (1937)

Alexandrea Jonker



Dedicating the Exposition: Women musicians in the fin-de-siècle United States through Amy Beach’s para-musical writing

Virginia Jansen



‘Love Has the Victory’: Musical Representations of Female Power in Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald

Amy E Zigler

Floating: Music on/in Water
Location: Great Lakes C
Chair: Nick Stevens
 

Microcosm/Macrocosm: The Hydrophonic Sound Art Practice of Tomoko Sauvage

Annie Garlid



Water Music on the Arno: The Argonautica of 1608

Kelley Harness



An Ecology of Water and Orchestra: Deleuzian Becomings in Tan Dun’s Water Concerto

Sheridan Zahl

Black Racial Representations on the Musical Stage
Location: Great Lakes B
Chair: Marva Carter
 

“With just a leavening of low comedy”: John W. Isham’s Black Chorines Circa 1900

Elea Proctor



Race, Representation, and the Limits of Dramaturgy

Ryan Minor



Rewriting Wickedness: Black Feminine Power, Labor, and Race from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) to Wicked (2024)

Virginia Christy Lamothe

New Paths in Classical Music (AMS Explore)
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Chair: Sarah Eyerly, Florida State University, Tallahassee
Chair: James O'Leary, Oberlin College
 

The Sound of Resistance: From the Cacerolazo Sinfónico to the Musical Protests of Today

Sara Arango



The Distortion of Memory: Recasting the Fourth Movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet

Alyssa Spina



Composing the End and What Comes After: Death and the Musical Afterlife in Tod und Verklärung and "Im Abendrot"

Aleksander Prasolov



Romantic and Modern Tropes of Brazilianness: The Exploitation of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples in Art Music

João Rocha

Sounding the Healthy and Unhealthy Body
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Chair: Alexander Cowan, Jesus College, Cambridge
 

Contagion and Commemoration in Fanny Hensel’s Cholera Cantata

Frederick Reece



The Early Modern Afterlife of Musica Humana: Sonic Circulation in Robert Fludd’s Meta-Physiology

Hannah Marie Waterman



(Re)Constructing the Healthy Turn: Body Images and Mental Health in Popular Music

Melanie Ptatscheck

The Secret Life of Keyboards
Location: Lakeshore C
Chair: Lindsey Macchiarella
 

“Which of these keyboards would you eat?” Towards an Aesthetics of Computer Keyboard Sounds

Addi Liu



Reinforcing the Tone: Connections in the Transference of Clavichord-Specific Devices

Blake Proehl

Theorizing and Contextualizing the Harlem Renaissance
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Chair: Paul Schleuse
 

Thomas W. Talley’s Harlem Renaissance Musicology

Benjamin P. Skoronski



Reconceiving “Renaissance Happenings”: Blurred Boundaries and the Ethos of R. Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses (1932)

Christina Smiley



Seed Funding Black Theatre: Rockefeller Support of the Morehouse College and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Premiere of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha

Michael Sy Uy

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
 

Chair(s): Destiny Meadows, Rachel Gain

Presenter(s): Deborah Ultan

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
 

Chair(s): Ginger Dellenbaugh, Sarah Koval

Presenter(s): Michael Gallope

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
 

Chair(s): Rena Roussin, Sarah Miller, Tekla Babyak, Andrew Dell'Antonio

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Access Culture at the Cedar

Elizabeth McLain

 

ArtsAbly and Disability Culture

Diane Kolin

 

Crip Sonorities

Molly Joyce

Sounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America
Location: Lake Superior B
 

Chair(s): Erin Johnson-Williams, Yvonne Liao, Mia Pistorius

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Sounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America

Erin Johnson-Williams

 

Sounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America

Yvonne Liao

 

Sounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America

Mia Pistorius

   
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
Presenter: Timothy K Chenette
Presenter: Thomas Yee, The University of Texas at San Antonio School of Music
American Documentary Opera, Reconsidered
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
 

Chair(s): Joy Calico

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Behind the Scenes: Documenting Opera on Early American Television

Danielle Ward-Griffin

 

Primary Sources and Aesthetic Forces in the Creation of _Satyagraha_ and _X_

Ryan Ebright

 

Reconsidering CNN Opera: The Televisual Dimensions of Documentary Opera History

Allison Chu

Contemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session One: Roundtable Discussion
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
 

Chair(s): Dale Chapman

Presenter(s): Amy Stillman, Patrick Warfield, Alexander Dean, Pamela Whitcomb

Contemporary Musical Modernisms: Organizing Meeting
Location: Minnehaha
 

Chair(s): Seth Brodsky, Christine Dysers, Samuel John Wilson

Presenter(s): Amy Bauer, Seth Brodsky, Chelsea Burns, Gabrielle Cornish, Jessie Cox, Ryan Dohoney, Christine Dysers, Michael Gallope, Samuel John Wilson

Hidden Histories of Production and Consumption in Electronic Musical Instruments
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
 

Chair(s): Emily Dolan

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

A Feminine Sound? the RCA Theremin and gendered musical labor

Clara Latham

 

The Push-Button Problem

Kellli Biwer-Smith

 

From the Sewing Machine to the Stratocaster: Rethinking Women’s Work At Fender

Jayme Kurland

Hip Hop and Politics in the Age of Trump
Location: Great Lakes C
 

Chair(s): Justin D. Burton

Discussant(s): Justin D. Burton

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

"Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up?": Eminem as Political Football

Loren Kajikawa

 

“I Am a God”: Kanye West, Religion, and the Right-Wing Cultural Strategy

Micah English

 

Rapwashing America

A.D. Carson

European Bellephonics: The Sounds of War and Peace
Location: Great Lakes B
Chair: Jacek Blaszkiewicz
 

Contested, Controlled, Blended: Catholic Street Song in the Urban Soundscapes of Nineteenth-Century France

Katharine Ellis



“The cannons fired shots as a call to prayer”: Sound, Ritual, and Conquest in the Austrian Habsburg–Ottoman Thirteen Years’ War (1593–1606)

D Linda Pearse



Hidden Resistance, Unknowing Collaboration: The Paradox of French Prisoner of War Music during World War II

Mary Margaret Zrull

Gendering Strategies in Films
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Chair: Brooke Okazaki
 

Warriors for the New Right: Hearing Gender in the Sword-and-Sorcery Film Score

Grace Edgar



How Do You Solve a Problem Like Evita? Mary Bryant’s Marketing Strategy

Samantha Lampe



“It's she who holds her tongue who gets a man”: Performativity, music, gender, and sexuality in a selection of animated Disney films

Camilo Andrés Lozano Velásquez

Identity and Authenticity in Country Music
Location: Lake Superior A
Chair: Esther M. Morgan-Ellis, University of North Georgia
Discussant: Nadine Hubbs, University of Michigan
 

“Murder on Music Row”: Debates on Authenticity in Country Music, and the Transgression of Fundamentalist Religious Polity

Joel Schwindt



Examining Genre Lines Around Country Music and the Case of Cowboy Carter

Sean McDermott Gary



Examining The Euro-Centric Origin Myth as a Folklorized Narrative in Bluegrass

Kathleen Elizabeth Coker

In the Shadow of Mahler
Location: Great Lakes A
Chair: Brent Wetters
Discussant: Karen Painter
 

Mahler’s Role in Bernstein’s Jewish Identity

Matthew Mugmon



"Abscheulich, langweilig, und obszön": Strauss's Feuersnot as Musical Secession at Mahler's Vienna Court Opera

Charles Youmans



....music's time is the time of the trees...': Schubert-Mahler-Berio and the Sound of Nature

Thomas Peattie

Musical Ownership and Value in the 19th Century
Location: Lakeshore A
Chair: Matthew Franke
 

"Not Worth the Price of Engraving": Heugel's failed publication of Rossini’s late piano music

Simon Cohen



Beyond Genius to Ownership in the Early 19th Century

Samuel Ross Budnyk



Who Owns this Song? Translating Musical Property in Nineteenth-Century London

Christopher Parton

Philosophical Approaches to Composition and Public Presentation
Location: Lakeshore C
Chair: Jeffrey Perry, Louisiana State University
 

For a Semi-Public Musicology (or, Hindemith in the Playground)

Giles Masters



Xenakis’s Polytope of Persepolis: An Immersive Composition

Khashayar Shahriyari



Contending with Hegelian Dialectics in Sigfrid Karg-Elert’s Organ Works

Emma Wimberg

Race and Defiant Self-Definition through Jazz
Location: Lake Superior B
Chair: Mark Lomanno
 

Jazz Maroonage at the 1960 Newport Rebel Festival

Ben Papsun



Improvised Forms, Speculative Communities, Don Cherry’s Mu-bility

Paul Nicholas Roth



A Rising Star Confronts His Idol: Revisiting Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis at Expo ‘86

John Vincent Fath

Transmission, Reception, and Aesthetic Experimentation in Russian and Turkish Music
Location: Lakeshore B
Chair: Inna Naroditskaya
 

Opera Audiences in St. Petersburg, Russia (1825-1840)

Daniil Zavlunov



The Three Rachmaninoffs: Late-Romantic, Symbolist, & Post-Romantic

Keenan A. Reesor



Alaben voisen: A Turkish Song in Avignon (ca. 1630-1650)

Ana Beatriz Mujica

The Baccusi Files: Digital Forensics of a New Corpus of Renaissance Imitation Masses
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
 

Chair(s): Remi Chiu

Presenter(s): Richard Freedman, Alessandra Ignesti, Mark Janello, Megan Long, Peter Schubert, Remi Chiu

Workshop in Research Techniques and Bibliography, led by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
Location: Lake Minnetonka
 

Chair(s): Ralph Whyte

Presenter(s): Ralph Whyte

     
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
 

Chair(s): Lauren Elaine Wilson

Discussant(s): Lauren Elaine Wilson

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

“Here It Goes Again:” The Copyright Challenges of A.I.-Generated Music

Dana Lauren DeVlieger

 

Composing Capital and the Commodification of Copyright in Generative AI Models

Emmie Head

 

Music Patterns, Artificial Intelligence & Copyright

Olufunmilayo B. Arewa

Contemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session Two: Workshop
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
 

Chair(s): Dale Chapman

Presenter(s): Amy Stillman, Patrick Warfield, Alexander Dean, Pamela Whitcomb

Mastering the Art of the Abstract
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
 

Chair(s): Stella Zhizhi Li

Presenter(s): Stella Zhizhi Li

Music, Sound, and Medicalized Trauma in Global and Historical Contexts
Location: Great Lakes A
 

Chair(s): Erin Johnson-Williams, Michelle Meinhart

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The Socio-Cultural and Liturgical Response to the English Sweats or Sudor Anglicus, 1485-1551

Samantha Bassler

 

Sonic Healing and Resistance: Music and Sound in Asian Healthcare Contexts

Hippocrates Cheng

 

Charting Trauma’s Embodied Imprints: The Endemic Era and its Sonic Cartographies of Medicalization

Ailsa Lipscombe

 

A Match Made in Medical Doubt: WWI Musico-Therapy and Shell Shock

Briana Nave

 

Collective Isolation and the Sonic Environment: Headphones at Waverly Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Kristen Strandberg

Preserving Composers’ Work in the Digital Age
Location: Lake Minnetonka
 

Chair(s): Libby Larsen, Robert Fink

Presenter(s): Jessica Grimmer, Stephanie Akau, Jennifer Jolley

Sound, Image, and Gesture in Composition and Performance (ca. 1425–1725)
Location: Lakeshore A
 

Chair(s): Virginia Lamothe

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Visual and Sounding Symmetries in the Chansons of Gilles Binchois (ca. 1400–60)

Adam Knight Gilbert

 

Didactics Beyond Depiction: Ratio, Sensus, and Jesuit Dialectic in Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas (ca. 1680)

Malachai Komanoff Bandy

 

“Figures” in Marin Marais’s Pièces de Caractère: A Musical Vocabulary of Characters and Actions

Eric Tinkerhess

Sounds of the Contemporary City: Music and Musicking in Urban Spaces at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Location: Lakeshore B
 

Chair(s): Charissa Noble

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

NEW GENRE PUBLIC OPERA: CRITICISM AND AESTHETICS IN "ANOTHER CITY."

Kathryn L. Caton

 

HEAR MỊ OUT: REMIXING ETHNICITY/CIVILIZATION IN V-POP

Damjan Rakonjac

 

MEDELLINIFICACIÓN: GENTRIFICATION, TOURISTIFICATION, AND THE URBAN AURAL SPHERE

Juan Fernando Velasquez

20th Century Musical Institutions
Location: Lake Bemidji
Chair: Rachel Vandagriff
 

Beyond State Support: IRCAM and the Cultivation of Elite Patronage

John Bateman



Contested Modernisms: The Reception of the Darmstadt School in Soviet Latvia

Daniel David Jordan



Music Patron James Loeb

Andrea Louise Olmstead

Concerts and Commerce in the 18th and 19th centuries
Location: Great Lakes B
Chair: Beverly Wilcox, California State University, Sacramento
 

Music, Manners, and Money: The Bach-Abel Subscription Concerts, 1773-1780

Ann van Allen-Russell



Virtuosity and Economics: Johann Christian Bach’s Symphonies Concertantes in Eighteenth-Century Public Concerts

Baris Demirezer



Visualizing Women’s Roles and Networks in the Concert Life of 1820s Vienna

Mary Elizabeth Kirchdorfer

Italian Opera and Exoticism
Location: Lake Superior A
Chair: Laura Vasilyeva
 

Counter-Reversal of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly as Operatic Critique in Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly (2022)

Seokyoung Kim



(New) Realism in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly

Jingyi Zhang



Verdi’s Aida: A Case of Western Colonial Organology

Ali Saniee Nia

Practices of Memory and Resistance
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Chair: Lesley Hughes
 

Memorializing (and Manipulating?) 9/11 Musical Memory

Abigail Shupe



"Y2K Turned Out All Right": Vaporwave Livestreams as Therapuetic Memory Practice

Elisabeth Christine Roberts



A New Collective Memory: The Sonic Battle Between Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and Liberty Plaza

Heather Kay Couture

Seeing and Depicting Queerness
Location: Lake Superior B
Chair: Joseph Ortiz, University of Texas at El Paso
 

“He’s Become a Part of Me”: Queering the Levi-Brahms Artistic Relationship

Laurie McManus



Alienness, Queerness, and the Sacred in Clones of Dr. Funkenstein (1976)

Alejandro Cueto



Gay Panic: Sonic Intensifiers of Queer Tragedy in Horrific Video Games

Blaire Ziegenhagel

Women’s Music Networks in the United States: Illuminating Unseen Labor
Location: Great Lakes C
 

Chair(s): Kimberly Beck Hieb

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Women’s Clubs’ Nationalistic Promotion of American Women Composers

Marian Wilson Kimber

 

The Power of Women Mentoring Women: Agnes Woodward’s Whistling School and the Propagation of Whistling as an Art

Maribeth Clark

 

Henry Cowell, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and Musical Internationalism in the 1930s

Danielle Fosler-Lussier

   
4:00pm
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6:00pm
K-Pop: Inside, Outside, New and Old
Location: Mirage
Chair: Jeongin Lee
 

“You make it feel me good": K-pop English and Gestalt Listening Across Borders

Jacob Reed



Korean Wind: A Trend Toward Tradition in Modern K-Pop?

Seth J Coluzzi



“You can call me SUGA, or Agust D, or Yoongi”: An Examination of K-pop Artist Min Yoongi's Vocal Personas

Natalie R. Hedberg



"Narratives of Modernization in Korean Pop Ballads from the 1990s and Early 2000s"

Mi Kyung Hwang

Music and the Fight for Civil Rights
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Chair: Stephen Andrew Stacks, North Carolina Central University
 

“Together We Sing”: Ulysses Kay’s Cantatas and the Interracial Music Council

Andrew Moenning



Henry Ford, Marian Anderson, and the Political Stakes of Performance

David Catchpole



Chasing Ghosts in Princeton, New Jersey: Paul Robeson, Dorothy Maynor, and Westminster Choir College in the 1930s

Monica Alice Hershberger



The Lynching at Peekskill: Paul Robeson and Early Cold War Black Radical Politics

Aldwyn Hogg Jr

Popular Music and the Global Caribbean
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Chair: Maria Ryan
 

Lukewarm Liminality: A Reggae Band Challenges Switzerland’s Sense of Self

Florian Conzetti



Transcultural Identity Construction in Caribbean Popular Music: A Comparative Analysis of Shenseea and Stefflon Don

Holland Rhodd-Lee



Contradictions of U.S. Imperialism and Rebel Soundscapes: Julio Cueva, Tito Enríquez, Bebo Valdés, and Jazz in the Caribbean

Benjamin Matthew Barson



Black middle-class contributions to Carnival music in late-nineteenth century Trinidad

Patrick Murphy

 
4:30pm
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6:00pm
SMT Plenary: Queering the Pitch—Thirty Years On
Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
Chair: Stephan Pennington, Tufts University
Presenter: James Currie, University at Buffalo
Presenter: Nadine Hubbs, University of Michigan
Presenter: Vivian Luong, University of Oklahoma
6:00pm
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7:00pm
AMS Business Meeting
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B
6:00pm
-
8:00pm
University of Oregon Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis
6:45pm
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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
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7:30pm
AMS Awards Ceremony
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B
7:30pm
-
8:30pm
Joint Awards Reception
Location: Lakeshore A-B-C
7:30pm
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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
 

Chair(s): Dylan Principi

Presenter(s): Thomas Christensen, Sumanth Gopinath, Holly Watkins

Popular Music and/as Resistance
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
 

Chair(s): Matt Yuknas, Paul David Flood

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions

A.D. Carson

 

Algorithmic Resistance: Playlisting, Protest Music, and the Politics of Visibility

Joyce Li Yue

 

Embodying Resistance, Constructing Authenticity, Inciting Agency: The Queer Genius of Doechii’s Grammy Performance

Claire Terrell, Molly Reid

 

Raminten Caberet Show: An Indonesian Drag Venue as a Concrete Utopia

Hannah Standiford

 

Monetochka and IC3PEAK: Delicate Voices of Russian Subversion

Aleksandra (Sasha) Drozzina

8:00pm
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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
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