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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10:45am Meter Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Chair: John Paul Ito , Carnegie Mellon University
Temporal Contour & Metric Dissonance in Thomas Adès’ Piano Quintet
Gabriella Vici
Texture and Meter in Funk Music
Timothy Koozin
The Waltz Topic and 5/4 Time in Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique
Kimberly Kawczinski
2:15pm Musical Sites of Trauma, Critique, and Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Chair(s): Nadine Hubbs
Presentations of the Symposium
Aztec Dance Spaces: Healing and the Ethics of Scholarship in a Fraught Moment
Kristina Nielsen
Imagining Healing in New Mexico’s Experimental Feminist Sound Art
Ana Alonso-Minutti
Yo vine from “Just Across the Rio Grande”: The Texas Sweethearts, Intergenerational Migrant Trauma, and Intercultural Healing
Teresita D. Lozano
4:00pm Sonic Specters: Cross-Cultural Hauntings, Collective Grief, and Musicking Trauma Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Chair(s): Jenny Olivia Johnson
Discussant(s): Jenny Olivia Johnson
Presentations of the Symposium
“Oh Freedom”: Rememory and the Afterlives of Slavery through Collective Singing at Mt. Vernon
Jordan Matthew Hugh Sam
Rocío Dúrcal: la Llorona española
Ramona Gonzalez
South Vietnamese Specters & More “Significant Ghosts”: The Voice of Khánh Ly Between Saigons
Ashley Dao
7:30pm Histories of Hidden and Vernacular Theories of Music Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Chair(s): Giulia Accornero , Siavash Sabetrohani , Daniel Walden , William O'Hara
Discussant(s): Thomas Christensen , Anna Gawboy , Michael Gallope , Olivia Lucas , Robert Gjerdingen
Presentations of the Symposium
Can a rehearsal be an archive? Ornette Coleman and the limits of theorising an errant practice
Malte Kobel
Theorizing Similarity in Latvian Melodies and Ethnographic Marginalia
Anna Aldins
“Cosmic Rhythm”: Music Theory and Non-Objective Painting
Fred Cruz Nowell
9:00am “The Times They Are A-Changin’”: Musicking through Challenging Times Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Chair(s): Bonnie Gordon
Presenter(s): Bonnie Gordon , Charles Carson , Andrea Bohlman , Maribeth Clark , Loren Kajikawa
10:45am Changing the Topic: New Paradigms for Topic Theory Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Organizer(s): Johanna Frymoyer
Chair(s): Johanna Frymoyer
Discussant(s): Peter Burkholder
Presentations of the Symposium
Topics aren’t Icons
Bryan Parkhurst
Topic Theory and/as Iconography
Nathan Martin
Extraction, Commodification, Circulation: Topical Representation and Modernity
Stephen Rumph
(Game)playing with Signs: Topical Learning and Present-Day Listeners
Johanna Frymoyer
12:30pm SMT Jazz & Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Groups Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
2:15pm Symbolism and Intermediality in Early Music: New Work Inspired by the Research of Anne Walters Robertson Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Chair(s): Catherine Saucier
Discussant(s): Mary Channen Caldwell
Presenter(s): Lawrence Earp , Michael Anderson , Michelle Urberg , Dawn De Rycke , M. Jennifer Bloxam
4:00pm 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
Frances L. Pinkham
Hearing The TV Glow: Sonic/Somatechnic Possibilities for Queer Becoming in Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow
Elizabeth Sweet-Breu
“Like the World Fading into View After a Dream:” Spectral Houses, Music, Memory and the Trans* Gothic in The House in Fata Morgana (2012)
Aria Christopher Greene
8:00pm Brandeis University and University of Pittsburgh Joint Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:00am 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
10:45am 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
12:30pm AMS Cold War and Music Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
2:15pm 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
4:00pm 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
9:30pm UCLA Musicology Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:00am Jazz Instrumentalities Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Chair: David Ake , Frost School of Music/Univ. of Miami
Reproducing Jazz through Machines : The Forgotten Master of Player Piano in Jazz History—J. Lawrence Cook (1899–1976) and His Thousands of Piano Rolls
ching-nam Hippocrates Cheng
Glocalization in Polish Jazz Violin: Manifestations of Folk and Freedom
Alexa Torres Skillicorn
Patrice Rushen and the Fender Rhodes as Facilitator in Negotiations of Positionality
Glen Bourgeois
10:45am Operatic Echoes in the Global Francophone World Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Chair(s): Erica Levenson
Presentations of the Symposium
Singing Subjugation: Ursuline Nuns and Opera Airs in Colonial Nouvelle-Orléans
John Romey
Democratizing French Opéra-Comique: Circus Show in Eighteenth-Century Montréal
Elizabeth Rouget
Reflections on the So-Called Enlightenment: Staging Science and Superstition in Post-Revolutionary Haiti
Henry Stoll
