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: Minnehaha |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Between Finger Spans and Harmonic Theory: Reconstructing the Meroë Doublepipes Location: Minnehaha |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
New Perspectives in Canadian Jewish Music Location: Minnehaha Presentations of the Symposium Putting His Story Back on the Record: Mike G. Lawrence’s Management of the Colonial Tavern as Canadian Jewish Music History “How Do We Share It With The Generations?”: Investigating Ruth Rubin’s Lecture-Recitals at Montreal’s Jewish Public Library “The Nationalists Wish We Didn’t Exist”: The Diasporist Songs of Geoff Berner |
| 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
Musical Explorations of Jewish Past(s) Location: Minnehaha Presentations of the Symposium More than “Mere Cantillation:” Joseph Levin Saalschütz’s Reception of Johann Nikolaus Forkel’s History of Hebrew Music The Bible is Here: On the Performance of Biblical-Themed Operas in British Mandate Palestine (1923–1927) From “Master-ess of the Harpsichord” to “Lute Mother of the Netherlands”: Gusta Goldschmidt, Resistance, and Postwar Reintegration in Historical Performance Practice \Musical Works on Trauma, Mourning, and Remembrance: October 7th and Seltenreich’s The Prisoner’s Dilemma |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 10:00am |
Rewriting the History of Nineteenth-Century Music for the Stage: the Parisian vaudeville Location: Minnehaha Presentations of the Symposium The Many Lives of a Dirty Little Song: Le beau Lycas aimait Thémire (Caveau 1778) The Singularity of Vaudeville How vaudeville became opérette, 1875–1890 Music on the Stage of Desire: Fantaisie-opérette, 1900-1910 |
| 10:15am - 12:15pm |
Politics and Representations of Identity in Music Location: Minnehaha Chair: Gundula Kreuzer Interpolating Tradition, Resisting Power: Okinawan Hip-Hop and the Politics of Musical Hybridity ‘Roman salutes’ and ethnic makeup in Clemente’s Fracassi’s Aida (1953) Jennie June's Fairie Songs “Tricolor Music”: Verdi’s I Lombardi in 1848 |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Music of the Long Thirteenth Century: Genre, Kind, and Culture Location: Minnehaha |
| 2:15pm - 4:15pm |
Femininity and Female Archetypes Location: Minnehaha Chair: Nancy Newman "Blues Is A Woman": Situating Feminist Desire in Fantasy Concerts “The Woman Who Sings”: Femininity, Authenticity, and Russification in late Soviet Estrada Beyond the Eternal Feminine: Orientalism, Gender, and Timbre in Mel Bonis's Femmes de Légende “Tehran Tokyo”: Re-Presentation of Femininity in Iranian Pop Music |
| 4:30pm - 6:30pm |
Transcultural Historical Musicology Location: Minnehaha Chair: Brett Boutwell Echoes from the Bengal Tiger: Towards a Transcultural (Micro)historical Musicology The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach in Ghana: History, Performance Practices, and Concert Programming The Cosmopolitan Ear Spanish Estudiantinas and the Global Rise of Plectral Ensembles in the Belle Epoque |
| 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
Birds, Bats, and Broken Ice: Rethinking the “Human” of “More-than-Human Musicking” (Roundtable and ESG Business Meeting) Location: Minnehaha Presentations of the Symposium Sounding Nature, Transcending Sentiments: An Ecomusicological Perspective on Ancient Chinese Guqin Music Atmospheric Sovereignty: Reclaiming Multi-Species Relations in Hawai‘i Exotica PawkieTalkie: Human-Pet Ventriloquism, Pet Voice, and Narrating the Domesticated Animal in Internet Audiovisual Media Bat Fest(s): Situating Science and the More-than-Human Breaking the Ice: Percussive Encounters with Glacial Soundscapes |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Cultural Representation and Artistic Agency in Asian Popular Music Location: Minnehaha Chair: Stella Li, RILM From Military Stages to Pop Charts: The Eighth Army Show System and the Making of South Korean Popular Music Strengthening the Socialist Legacy: Red Songs and Nationalism in C-Pop The Core of Technique in “Bad Apple” Video Remixes |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
State of the Field: Jazz and Gender Location: Minnehaha |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
AMS Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting Location: Minnehaha |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Contemporary Musical Modernisms: Organizing Meeting Location: Minnehaha |