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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2:15pm Adapting Musical Performance for the Screen Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Paul Sommerfeld Discussant: Julie Hubbert
"Filming a Stage Performance is Not a Form of Art": Opera’s Divided Screen Cultures
Christopher Morris
"I Detest Opera Done on the Small Screen": Maria Callas on Television
Emanuele Senici
Paradise as Paradox: The Fauré Requiem in American Television
Heather de Savage
4:00pm Theorizing and Mythologizing Whiteness Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Chase Castle , University of Delaware
Resonances of the Sacred: Coldplay, Gospel Stylisation, and Music’s Meanings
Matthew Williams
White Mythologies in Messiaen
Edmund Mendelssohn
“This is why we can’t have nice things:” White Feminism and the Cultural Value of Taylor Swift
Maureen Rafter
9:00am In Fashion: Musical Women in the Long 18th Century Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Alexandra Amati , Harvard University
The Self-Fashioning of Musical Women, 1760–1800
Rebecca Cypess
Musical Parties Public and Private: Observing Music in the Journal of Miss Jane Ewbank of York, 1803–1805
Rachel Elizabeth Cowgill
Vittoria Tesi: the Conception of the Black Diva in Italian Opera, 1715–1775
Emmanuela Wroth
10:45am Reich at 89 Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Chair(s): Eric Isaacson
Presentations of the Symposium
Lingering Horrors: Trauma in Reich’s Different Trains, “After the War”
Martin Ross
Reich’s Philosopher: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s influence on Reich and his Reception in Music Theory
Kristen Wallentinsen
The Evolution of Reich’s Tritone Bop
Eric Isaacson
Musical Translation and Recontextualization of Gerhard Richter’s Film Moving Picture (946-3) in Steve Reich’s Reich/Richter
Nevena Stanić
Reich and Rock: Evaluating a Conjunction
Sumanth Gopinath
Steve Reich and Intergenerational Discourse in American New Music
William Robin
12:30pm AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
2:15pm Singing Memory: Traditional and Folk Musicking in the British Isles Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Trevor R. Nelson , Wichita State UniversityDiscussant: Christopher Scheer , Utah State University
Decolonial Listening across Offa’s Dyke: English Music, Colonialism, and Cymru/Wales
Nalini Ghuman
“All Lovers of Cornwall:” Defining the Cornish Celtic Folk through Song in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Nicholas Alexander Booker
Singing the Past, Shaping the Present: Female Voices and the Festival as Archive
Larissa N Mulder
4:00pm City Soundscapes Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Winnie W. C. Lai , Dartmouth College
Industrialized Cityscape in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ "A London Symphony"
Emily MacCallum
"The Sound of a Positive Dollar:" The Chicago Bucket Boys and Contestations of Public Spaces Within Chicago's Street Music Ordinance Debates
Christopher Copley
Community, Race, and Politics Downtown
Sean Keenan
6:15pm Rice University Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
9:00am 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
10:45am 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
12:30pm Bad Instructions? Anarchy, Excess, and Scarcity in Music Notation Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Chair(s): Ginger Dellenbaugh , Sarah Koval
Presenter(s): Michael Gallope
2:15pm 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
4:00pm 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
7:45pm 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
9:00am From the Garden to the Sea: Sonic Worlds of Race and Ecology Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Chair(s): Rachel Mundy
Presentations of the Symposium
“All Green Plants Swing”: Sonic Porosity in the Improvised Garden
Elizabeth Frickey
“Please Hold Me in the Green”: Blackness, Planthood, and Critical Botanical Listening
Cana F. McGhee
The Mermaid and the Whale: The Ecological Memory and Knowledge of Haitian Vodou Songs
Christelle Jasmin
10:45am Queen Bey: Perception, Reception, and Audience Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Chair(s): Jasmine Henry
Presentations of the Symposium
“Let Me Upgrade U:” Beyoncé as a Captive Maternal
Lydia Bangura
“Hear ‘em swarming, right? Bees is known to bite”: The Beyhive, Anti-Criticism, and Fan Mythology
Lee Thomas Richardson
Praise for the Alien Underground: Beyoncé, Sampling, and Identity in Renaissance
Jordan Brown
