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 Between Finger Spans and Harmonic Theory: Reconstructing the Meroë Doublepipes Location: Minnehaha
Chair(s): Lidia Chang , Bobby Giglio
Presenter(s): Stefan Hagel
4:00pm New Perspectives in Canadian Jewish Music Location: Minnehaha
Chair(s): Emily Richmond Pollock , Jeremiah Lockwood
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
Samantha M. Cooper
“How Do We Share It With The Generations?”: Investigating Ruth Rubin’s Lecture-Recitals at Montreal’s Jewish Public Library
Miriam Borden , Zeke Levine
“The Nationalists Wish We Didn’t Exist”: The Diasporist Songs of Geoff Berner
Nathan Friedman
7:30pm Musical Explorations of Jewish Past(s) Location: Minnehaha
Chair(s): Inbar Shifrin
Discussant(s): Amy Wlodarski
Presentations of the Symposium
More than “Mere Cantillation:” Joseph Levin Saalschütz’s Reception of Johann Nikolaus Forkel’s History of Hebrew Music
Melani Shahin
The Bible is Here: On the Performance of Biblical-Themed Operas in British Mandate Palestine (1923–1927)
Irit Youngerman
From “Master-ess of the Harpsichord” to “Lute Mother of the Netherlands”: Gusta Goldschmidt, Resistance, and Postwar Reintegration in Historical Performance Practice
Kailan Rubinoff
\Musical Works on Trauma, Mourning, and Remembrance: October 7th and Seltenreich’s The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Ronit Seter
8:00am Rewriting the History of Nineteenth-Century Music for the Stage: the Parisian vaudeville Location: Minnehaha
Chair(s): Hilary Poriss
Presentations of the Symposium
The Many Lives of a Dirty Little Song: Le beau Lycas aimait Thémire (Caveau 1778)
Richard Sherr
The Singularity of Vaudeville
Katherine Hambridge
How vaudeville became opérette, 1875–1890
Tommaso Sabbatini
Music on the Stage of Desire: the fantaisie-opérette, 1890-1914
Mark Everist
10:15am 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
Qifang Hu
‘Roman salutes’ and ethnic makeup in Clemente’s Fracassi’s Aida (1953)
Candida Billie Mantica
Jennie June's Fairie Songs
James Raymond Ace
“Tricolor Music”: Verdi’s I Lombardi in 1848
Douglas Ipson
12:30pm Music of the Long Thirteenth Century: Genre, Kind, and Culture Location: Minnehaha
Chair(s): Mark Everist
Presenter(s): Nicholas Bleisch , Mary Channen Caldwell , Mark Everist , Áine Palmer , Jennifer Saltzstein , Christelle Cazaux , Stefano Milonia , Uri Jacob , Luca Gatti , Gaël Saint-Cricq , Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne
2:15pm Femininity and Female Archetypes Location: Minnehaha Chair: Nancy Newman
"Blues Is A Woman": Situating Feminist Desire in Fantasy Concerts
Anne Elise Koppes
“The Woman Who Sings”: Femininity, Authenticity, and Russification in late Soviet Estrada
Allison Brooks-Conrad
Beyond the Eternal Feminine: Orientalism, Gender, and Timbre in Mel Bonis's Femmes de Légende
Kathryn Felt
“Tehran Tokyo”: Re-Presentation of Femininity in Iranian Pop Music
Mohammad Moridvand
4:30pm Transcultural Historical Musicology Location: Minnehaha Chair: Brett Boutwell
Echoes from the Bengal Tiger: Towards a Transcultural (Micro)historical Musicology
Samuel B. Cushman
The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach in Ghana: History, Performance Practices, and Concert Programming
Erinn E. Knyt
The Cosmopolitan Ear
Juliana M. Pistorius
Spanish Estudiantinas and the Global Rise of Plectral Ensembles in the Belle Epoque
Michael Christoforidis
7:30pm Birds, Bats, and Broken Ice: Rethinking the “Human” of “More-than-Human Musicking” (Roundtable and ESG Business Meeting) Location: Minnehaha
Chair(s): Cana McGhee , Elizabeth Frickey , Kirsten Barker
Presentations of the Symposium
Sounding Nature, Transcending Sentiments: An Ecomusicological Perspective on Ancient Chinese Guqin Music
Haiqiong Deng
Atmospheric Sovereignty: Reclaiming Multi-Species Relations in Hawai‘i Exotica
Jade Conlee
PawkieTalkie: Human-Pet Ventriloquism, Pet Voice, and Narrating the Domesticated Animal in Internet Audiovisual Media
Kate Galloway
Bat Fest(s): Situating Science and the More-than-Human
Julianne Graper
Breaking the Ice: Percussive Encounters with Glacial Soundscapes
Konstantine Vlasis
9:00am 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
Jeongin Lee
Strengthening the Socialist Legacy: Red Songs and Nationalism in C-Pop
Ya-Hui Cheng
The Core of Technique in “Bad Apple” Video Remixes
Andrew Malilay White
10:45am State of the Field: Jazz and Gender Location: Minnehaha
Chair(s): Kelsey Klotz , Stephanie Doktor , Sean Lorre
Presenter(s): Marcus Grant , Kari Anne Lindquist , Eduardo López-Dabdoub , Jenna Przybysz , Emmalouise St. Amand , Dave Wilson
12:30pm AMS Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting Location: Minnehaha
2:15pm Contemporary Musical Modernisms: Organizing Meeting Location: Minnehaha
Chair(s): Seth Brodsky , Christine Dysers , Samuel John Wilson
Presenter(s): Amy Bauer , Seth Brodsky , Chelsea Burns , Gabrielle Cornish , Jessie Cox , Ryan Dohoney , Christine Dysers , Michael Gallope , Samuel John Wilson
