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: Lake Minnetonka |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Natural Landscapes and Sound Ecologies Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Dave Wilson Singing a Song of Survival: The Role of Recent Sound Art Installations in Promoting Empathetic Attunement to Avian-Human Sound Ecologies and Pathologies Wild Rose: Environmental ideology and acoustic community in New York's Hudson Valley in the early twentieth century Mevlevi Alphabetics c. 1800: Musicology as Media Ecology in the Work of Abdülbaki Nasır Dede |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Music, Education, and Care Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Louis Epstein Music and a politics of care: Collaborative songwriting in US social service and community mental health settings “Not born to be a musician, but to be an excellent worker”: Class, Gender, and the Étude in the Early Nineteenth Century The Chipko Movement: Women, Environment, and Gendered Care in Northern India |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 7:45am - 8:45am |
AMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council Location: Lake Minnetonka Closed meeting. |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Silence and Sound in Urban Environments Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Kirsten Paige “In My Merry Oldsmobile”: The Affectual Ecology of the Musical Car, 1905–1958 Peter Handford’s Steamscapes The City’s Deepest Image of Itself: The Sounds of Los Angeles Between the Fires |
| 10:45am - 12:45pm |
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and the Music of Troubled Minds Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Erin Michelle Brooks, State University of New York at Potsdam Psychoanalysis and the self in Emmanuel Ghent's early computer music improvisations Nervous Geniuses: Kurt Singer’s Diseases of the Musical Profession and the German-American Exchange of Neurasthenia Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabulation as Intervention in Grief Studies Melancholy, Psychiatry, and the Romantic Artist: Franz Richarz on the Death of Robert Schumann |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Making Use of Jazz on Screen Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Sean Lorre, Rutgers University "'Shut Those Motherf----s Up!’: Jazz, Identity, and Resistance in Mike Figgis’ s Stormy Monday" Duke Ellington’s A Drum Is A Woman: A Counterargument to Paul Whiteman’s Gentrification of Jazz “Swing it, Professor: Jazz, Schools, and the Hollywood Film in the Mid 20th Century” |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Jazz Philosophies and Perspectives Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Scott Gleason, Oxford University Press Death, Denial, and Desire: Absolute Silence in Alice Coltrane’s Musical Metaphysics (1968-1972) Five Ways of Listening to Miles Davis’s Aura (1989): New Sources and Perspectives Sounding Like Money: Regressive Listening, Bad Faith, and the Reproduction of “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” |
| 9:30pm - 11:30pm |
Voices and Viols Jam Location: Lake Minnetonka |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 Anointing, Authenticity, and Ad-libbing Stalin Prizes: State-Sponsored Awards and European Decolonization “Glorifying the American Girl:” Patriotism, American Femininity, and All-Girl Bands from the 1920s-1940s |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
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 The Distortion of Memory: Recasting the Fourth Movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet Composing the End and What Comes After: Death and the Musical Afterlife in Tod und Verklärung and "Im Abendrot" Romantic and Modern Tropes of Brazilianness: The Exploitation of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples in Art Music |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Musicking in Disabled Community: Access Intimacy and Cultural Activism. Location: Lake Minnetonka Presentations of the Symposium Access Culture at the Cedar ArtsAbly and Disability Culture Crip Sonorities |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Workshop in Research Techniques and Bibliography, led by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale Location: Lake Minnetonka |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Preserving Composers’ Work in the Digital Age Location: Lake Minnetonka |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Dance Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Stefanie Bilidas, University of Texas at Austin A Phenomenological Perspective on Choreomusical Space-Time Beyond Rhythm and Steps: Interrogating Epistemologies of Academic Rhythm Tap Dance Transcription Revealing the Habanera and Síncopa Rhythms in the Melodic, Harmonic, and Dance Patterns of “El choclo” and “La cumparsita” |