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 Musicology Pedagogy for the Future: Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public Musicology Location: Great Lakes A
Chair(s): Scott Harris
Presenter(s): Laurie Alltop , Anna Kijas , Melissa Krakow , Paige Pendleton , Karen Uslin , Reba Wissner , Madison Witzke , Erin Fowler
10:45am Form, Voice, and Canonicity: Taking Dolly Parton’s Songwriting Seriously Location: Great Lakes A
Chair(s): Lydia Hamessley
Presentations of the Symposium
Form Is Like a Fingerprint: Dolly Parton’s Songwriting Craft
Jocelyn Neal
Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Dolly Parton’s Singing and Storytelling Across Genre
Jacqueline Warwick , Cameron Bennett
Hall of Famous: Dolly Parton and the New Pantheon
Eric Weisbard
2:15pm Searching for "lo inaudito" in the Sound Archive Location: Great Lakes A
Chair(s): Velia Ivanova
Discussant(s): Jairo Moreno
Presentations of the Symposium
Finding What Is Lost: The Intangible Archive of València’s Falles Festival
Rachel Horner
Dispossession of Archives, Archives of Dispossession
María Alejandra Privado
Mexican Rarities, De-Sedimentation, and the Promise of a Sound Archive of Postnational Memory
Alejandro L. Madrid
4:00pm Structure and Representation in 20th Century Film Music Location: Great Lakes A Chair: Rika Asai
Cinematic Structures as Musical Structures in Chantal Akerman’s Early Films
Orit Hilewicz
Theater and Pantomime Representations in Marcel Carné’s Children of Paradise (1945)
Mark Brill
Music, Sound and Silence: Contrasting Religious Discourse Through Parallel Adaptations by Scorsese (2016) and Shinoda (1971)
Charles Stewart Edholm
9:00am Listening to Vinyl, Together: Music, Meaning, and Materiality in Communal Listening Practice Location: Great Lakes A
Chair(s): Andrea Bohlman
Presentations of the Symposium
A ‘Physically Sound’ Nation: Listening to Fitness Vinyl of the 1960s
Destiny Meadows
The Juketheque Record: Continuous Dance Music in 1960s U.S. American Discotheque Jukeboxes
Sarah Lindmark
Modern Analog Listening and the Transculturation of the Japanese Jazz Kissa
Mark Katz
10:45am Composing Women: Identity and Creative Agency Location: Great Lakes A Chair: Megan Sarno
Double-Voicedness as Feminist Agency in Johanna Beyer’s “The Federal Music Project” (1936) and “The Composer’s Forum Laboratory” (1937)
Alexandrea Jonker
Dedicating the Exposition: Women musicians in the fin-de-siècle United States through Amy Beach’s para-musical writing
Virginia Jansen
‘Love Has the Victory’: Musical Representations of Female Power in Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald
Amy E Zigler
12:30pm SMT Popular Music Interest Group Meeting Location: Great Lakes A
2:15pm In the Shadow of Mahler Location: Great Lakes A Chair: Brent Wetters Discussant: Karen Painter
Mahler’s Role in Bernstein’s Jewish Identity
Matthew Mugmon
"Abscheulich, langweilig, und obszön": Strauss's Feuersnot as Musical Secession at Mahler's Vienna Court Opera
Charles Youmans
....music's time is the time of the trees...': Schubert-Mahler-Berio and the Sound of Nature
Thomas Peattie
4:00pm Music, Sound, and Medicalized Trauma in Global and Historical Contexts Location: Great Lakes A
Chair(s): Erin Johnson-Williams , Michelle Meinhart
Presentations of the Symposium
The Socio-Cultural and Liturgical Response to the English Sweats or Sudor Anglicus, 1485-1551
Samantha Bassler
Sonic Healing and Resistance: Music and Sound in Asian Healthcare Contexts
Hippocrates Cheng
Charting Trauma’s Embodied Imprints: The Endemic Era and its Sonic Cartographies of Medicalization
Ailsa Lipscombe
A Match Made in Medical Doubt: WWI Musico-Therapy and Shell Shock
Briana Nave
Collective Isolation and the Sonic Environment: Headphones at Waverly Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Kristen Strandberg
