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 | |
| Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Meter Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Chair: John Paul Ito, Carnegie Mellon University Temporal Contour & Metric Dissonance in Thomas Adès’ Piano Quintet Texture and Meter in Funk Music The Waltz Topic and 5/4 Time in Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Musical Sites of Trauma, Critique, and Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Presentations of the Symposium Aztec Dance Spaces: Healing and the Ethics of Scholarship in a Fraught Moment Imagining Healing in New Mexico’s Experimental Feminist Sound Art Yo vine from “Just Across the Rio Grande”: The Texas Sweethearts, Intergenerational Migrant Trauma, and Intercultural Healing |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Sonic Specters: Cross-Cultural Hauntings, Collective Grief, and Musicking Trauma Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Presentations of the Symposium “Oh Freedom”: Rememory and the Afterlives of Slavery through Collective Singing at Mt. Vernon Rocío Dúrcal: la Llorona española South Vietnamese Specters & More “Significant Ghosts”: The Voice of Khánh Ly Between Saigons |
| 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
Histories of Hidden and Vernacular Theories of Music Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Presentations of the Symposium Can a rehearsal be an archive? Ornette Coleman and the limits of theorising an errant practice Theorizing Similarity in Latvian Melodies and Ethnographic Marginalia “Cosmic Rhythm”: Music Theory and Non-Objective Painting |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
“The Times They Are A-Changin’”: Musicking through Challenging Times Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Changing the Topic: New Paradigms for Topic Theory Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Presentations of the Symposium Topics aren’t Icons Topic Theory and/as Iconography Extraction, Commodification, Circulation: Topical Representation and Modernity (Game)playing with Signs: Topical Learning and Present-Day Listeners |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Jazz & Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Groups Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Symbolism and Intermediality in Early Music: New Work Inspired by the Research of Anne Walters Robertson Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Technology, Timbre, and Trans Identities Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Chair: Emily Wilbourne Transhuman Timbres: Mimetic Engagement with Glitch Aesthetics in Three Songs by TAMAGOTCHI MASSACRE Hearing The TV Glow: Sonic/Somatechnic Possibilities for Queer Becoming in Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow “Like the World Fading into View After a Dream:” Spectral Houses, Music, Memory and the Trans* Gothic in The House in Fata Morgana (2012) |
| 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
Brandeis University and University of Pittsburgh Joint Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Listening Through Machines Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Chair: Jingyi Zhang, Harvard University Listening to ‘Machine Listening’: Resistance and Reification in Contemporary Music Practice Listening to the Chinese Room: Muzak, Artificial Intelligence, and Humanity as Encounter Fetish, c. 1776 |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
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 The Early Modern Afterlife of Musica Humana: Sonic Circulation in Robert Fludd’s Meta-Physiology (Re)Constructing the Healthy Turn: Body Images and Mental Health in Popular Music |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
AMS Cold War and Music Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
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 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Evita? Mary Bryant’s Marketing Strategy “It's she who holds her tongue who gets a man”: Performativity, music, gender, and sexuality in a selection of animated Disney films |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 Transcultural Identity Construction in Caribbean Popular Music: A Comparative Analysis of Shenseea and Stefflon Don Contradictions of U.S. Imperialism and Rebel Soundscapes: Julio Cueva, Tito Enríquez, Bebo Valdés, and Jazz in the Caribbean |
| 9:30pm - 11:30pm |
UCLA Musicology Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Queen Bey: Perception, Reception, and Audience Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Presentations of the Symposium “Let Me Upgrade U:” Beyoncé as a Captive Maternal “Hear ‘em swarming, right? Bees is known to bite”: The Beyhive, Anti-Criticism, and Fan Mythology Praise for the Alien Underground: Beyoncé, Sampling, and Identity in Renaissance |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Operatic Echoes in the Global Francophone World Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Presentations of the Symposium Singing Subjugation: Ursuline Nuns and Opera Airs in Colonial Nouvelle-Orléans Democratizing French Opéra-Comique: Circus Show in Eighteenth-Century Montréal Reflections on the So-Called Enlightenment: Staging Science and Superstition in Post-Revolutionary Haiti |