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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9:00am Hip-Hop Identities: Negotiating Boundaries of Race and Nationality Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Chair: Dan DiPiero
Negotiating Whiteness in 1990s Hip-Hop: Eminem, Insane Clown Posse, and Detroit Horrorcore
Matt Yuknas
“Watashi wa star:" Fusion, Rebirth, and Hip-Hop Identity in Megan (2024)
Tamyka Jordon-Conlin, Yiqing Ma
“You man love the Americans too much”: Reading, hearing and renegotiating America in Black-British rap music
Lizzie Bowes
10:45am American Orchestral History: the Composers, the Programming, and the Performers Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Chair(s): Colin T. Roust
Presentations of the Symposium
Howard Hanson and the Pitfalls of American National Identity
Matt E. Anderson
Orchestral Programming and American Identity in the Great Depression and World War II
Denise E. Finnegan-Hill
Frances Blaisdell: Trailblazing Flutist in the Face of Orchestral Gender Discrimination
Eden E. P. Miller
12:30pm Celebrating Diversity: An Eileen Southern Travel Fund and Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship Reunion Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Chair(s): Samuel Dorf , Ryan Bañagale
Presenter(s): Anna Gatdula , Carol Oja , Marcus Pyle , Marysol Quevedo
2:15pm Operatic Cultures of the 17th and 18th Centuries Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Chair: Bertil van Boer
Maritime geographies of the Hamburg Opera: The case of Antonio Gualandi
Kaleb J. Koslowski
Antonio Salieri's "Tarare"/"Axur," Heinrich Wilhelm Haugwitz, and Opera Politics in Post-Napoleonic Habsburg Moravia
Martin Nedbal
Rethinking Operatic Comedy: Busenello, Goldoni, and dramma giocoso
Maria Anne Purciello
4:00pm Storytelling Through Dance Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Chair: Daniel Callahan , Boston College
Eighteenth-Century Dance Topics in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: Historical Allusions and Social Critique
Jessica Castleberry
Farewell Dances: A Viennese Company Ball on the Eve of the “Anschluss”
Dietmar Friesenegger
The Mulatas de Fuego Onscreen: A Global Enactment of Afro-Cuban Dance
Cary Penate
9:00pm University of Chicago Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:00am Music, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Chair(s): Jenny Olivia Johnson
Presenter(s): Seth Brodsky , Michael Gallope , Luis Manuel Garcia , Kathryn Agnes Huether , Alisha Lola Jones , Shayna Mei Silverstein
10:45am Forms of Listening in Contemporary Politics Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Chair(s): Anna Yu Wang , Sumanth Gopinath
Discussant(s): Michael Gallope
Presentations of the Symposium
Clogged Ears, Undemocratic Times
Andrew Chung
A Pedagogy of Event-Listening
Vivian Luong
Inter-ideological Acoustics: A Model of Listening for a Divided Society
Anna Yu Wang
12:30pm AMS Council Meeting Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
2:15pm American Documentary Opera, Reconsidered Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Chair(s): Joy Calico
Presentations of the Symposium
Behind the Scenes: Documenting Opera on Early American Television
Danielle Ward-Griffin
Primary Sources and Aesthetic Forces in the Creation of _Satyagraha_ and _X_
Ryan Ebright
Reconsidering CNN Opera: The Televisual Dimensions of Documentary Opera History
Allison Chu
4:00pm Music and the Fight for Civil Rights Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Chair: Stephen Andrew Stacks , North Carolina Central University
“Together We Sing”: Ulysses Kay’s Cantatas and the Interracial Music Council
Andrew Moenning
Henry Ford, Marian Anderson, and the Political Stakes of Performance
David Catchpole
Chasing Ghosts in Princeton, New Jersey: Paul Robeson, Dorothy Maynor, and Westminster Choir College in the 1930s
Monica Alice Hershberger
The Lynching at Peekskill: Paul Robeson and Early Cold War Black Radical Politics
Aldwyn Hogg Jr
9:30pm Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:00am Music and the Lives of Medieval Women Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Chair: Kirsten Yri Discussant: Lynette Bowring
The Strong Voice of Gandersheim: Music Theory in Hrotsvit’s Tenth-Century Dramas
Flannery E. McIntyre
Medieval Women Copying Chant: A Hitherto Unknown Scriptorium in Stary Sącz (Poland)
Katarzyna Grochowska
Matrona Musica: Didactic Presence in the Material Culture of Noble Women’s Lives c. 1500
Jane Hatter
10:45am Still Here: Protest, Survival and Queer Worldbuilding Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Discussant: Kristin Marie Franseen
“I’m Gonna Keep on Dancing”: Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club,” Dance Floor Utopias, and the Queer Art of Survival
Erin Anne Fitzpatrick
“Give me sodomy or give me death:” Deciphering the Embodied Political Persuasion and Deconstruction in Diamanda Galás’s Plague Mass
Yan Gao
Nixon’s Big Gay Wedding: The Cockettes Crash the White House Fantasy
Eloy Ramirez
