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: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Developing a Student-Centered Approach to Classroom Learning Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Opera Staging for Effect: Lights, Masks, and Magic Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Chair: Harris Saunders Sound in New Light: Staging Magical Operas in Early-Nineteenth-Century Hamburg Curating the Past: Contemporary Stagings of Early Baroque Opera and the Challenge to the Work Concept Gian Francesco Malipiero's Tre commedie goldoniane (1926): Visions of Staging in Fascist Italy |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 “Watashi wa star:" Fusion, Rebirth, and Hip-Hop Identity in Megan (2024) “You man love the Americans too much”: Reading, hearing and renegotiating America in Black-British rap music |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
American Orchestral History: the Composers, the Programming, and the Performers Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Presentations of the Symposium Howard Hanson and the Pitfalls of American National Identity Orchestral Programming and American Identity in the Great Depression and World War II Frances Blaisdell: Trailblazing Flutist in the Face of Orchestral Gender Discrimination |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Celebrating Diversity: An Eileen Southern Travel Fund and Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship Reunion Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
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 Antonio Salieri's "Tarare"/"Axur," Heinrich Wilhelm Haugwitz, and Opera Politics in Post-Napoleonic Habsburg Moravia Rethinking Operatic Comedy: Busenello, Goldoni, and dramma giocoso |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 Farewell Dances: A Viennese Company Ball on the Eve of the “Anschluss” The Mulatas de Fuego Onscreen: A Global Enactment of Afro-Cuban Dance |
| 9:00pm - 11:00pm |
University of Chicago Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Music, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Forms of Listening in Contemporary Politics Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Presentations of the Symposium Clogged Ears, Undemocratic Times A Pedagogy of Event-Listening Inter-ideological Acoustics: A Model of Listening for a Divided Society |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
AMS Council Meeting Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Closed meeting. |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
American Documentary Opera, Reconsidered Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Presentations of the Symposium Behind the Scenes: Documenting Opera on Early American Television Primary Sources and Aesthetic Forces in the Creation of _Satyagraha_ and _X_ Reconsidering CNN Opera: The Televisual Dimensions of Documentary Opera History |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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 Henry Ford, Marian Anderson, and the Political Stakes of Performance Chasing Ghosts in Princeton, New Jersey: Paul Robeson, Dorothy Maynor, and Westminster Choir College in the 1930s The Lynching at Peekskill: Paul Robeson and Early Cold War Black Radical Politics |
| 9:30pm - 11:30pm |
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 Medieval Women Copying Chant: A Hitherto Unknown Scriptorium in Stary Sącz (Poland) Matrona Musica: Didactic Presence in the Material Culture of Noble Women’s Lives c. 1500 |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Still Here: Protest, Survival and Queer Worldbuilding Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Chair: Lee K. Tyson, Ithaca College 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 “Give me sodomy or give me death:” Deciphering the Embodied Political Persuasion and Deconstruction in Diamanda Galás’s Plague Mass Nixon’s Big Gay Wedding: The Cockettes Crash the White House Fantasy |