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 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
Bethany Brinson
Wild Rose: Environmental ideology and acoustic community in New York's Hudson Valley in the early twentieth century
Joshua Groffman
Mevlevi Alphabetics c. 1800: Musicology as Media Ecology in the Work of Abdülbaki Nasır Dede
Peter McMurray
4:00pm 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
Erica Cao
“Not born to be a musician, but to be an excellent worker”: Class, Gender, and the Étude in the Early Nineteenth Century
Gareth Cordery
The Chipko Movement: Women, Environment, and Gendered Care in Northern India
Anchal Khansili
7:45am AMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council Location: Lake Minnetonka
9:00am 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
John Clement Wood
Peter Handford’s Steamscapes
Jonathan Hicks
The City’s Deepest Image of Itself: The Sounds of Los Angeles Between the Fires
Michele Yamamoto
10:45am 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
Brian A. Miller
Nervous Geniuses: Kurt Singer’s Diseases of the Musical Profession and the German-American Exchange of Neurasthenia
Briana Nave
Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabulation as Intervention in Grief Studies
Andrew Shenton
Melancholy, Psychiatry, and the Romantic Artist: Franz Richarz on the Death of Robert Schumann
Sonja Wermager
2:15pm Making Use of Jazz on Screen Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Anthony Casamassima
"'Shut Those Motherf----s Up!’: Jazz, Identity, and Resistance in Mike Figgis’ s Stormy Monday"
Ken Prouty
Duke Ellington’s A Drum Is A Woman: A Counterargument to Paul Whiteman’s Gentrification of Jazz
Hannah Krall
“Swing it, Professor: Jazz, Schools, and the Hollywood Film in the Mid 20th Century”
David Ake
4:00pm Jazz Philosophies and Perspectives Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Scott Gleason
Death, Denial, and Desire: Absolute Silence in Alice Coltrane’s Musical Metaphysics (1968-1972)
Luke Martin
Five Ways of Listening to Miles Davis’s Aura (1989): New Sources and Perspectives
Mikkel Vad
Sounding Like Money: Regressive Listening, Bad Faith, and the Reproduction of “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”
Varun Chandrasekhar
9:30pm Voices and Viols Jam Location: Lake Minnetonka
9:00am Musical and Extramusical Agendas (AMS Explore) Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Sarah Eyerly , Florida State University, TallahasseeChair: 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
10:45am New Paths in Classical Music (AMS Explore) Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Sarah Eyerly , Florida State University, TallahasseeChair: 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
12:30pm 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
2:15pm Workshop in Research Techniques and Bibliography, led by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale Location: Lake Minnetonka
Chair(s): Ralph Whyte
Presenter(s): Ralph Whyte
4:00pm Preserving Composers’ Work in the Digital Age Location: Lake Minnetonka
Chair(s): Libby Larsen , Robert Fink
Presenter(s): Jessica Grimmer , Stephanie Akau , Jennifer Jolley
9:00am Dance Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Stefanie Bilidas , University of Texas at Austin
A Phenomenological Perspective on Choreomusical Space-Time
Amy Ming Wai Tai
Beyond Rhythm and Steps: Interrogating Epistemologies of Academic Rhythm Tap Dance Transcription
Rachel Gain
Revealing the Habanera and Síncopa Rhythms in the Melodic, Harmonic, and Dance Patterns of “El choclo” and “La cumparsita”
Rebecca Simpson-Litke
