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: Lake Superior A |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Video Game Franchises and Musical Recontextualization: An Intergenerational Approach Location: Lake Superior A Presentations of the Symposium “Nice Song. Funny Too. Wrote It Yourself?”: Diegetic Musicking, Relationships, and “Artless Singing” in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth (2024) Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory and the Memory of Melody The Transformation, Re-Negotiation, and Enclosure of Crush 40’s “Live & Learn” Across Sega, Paramount, and the Sonic the Hedgehog Franchise |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Sound Worlds: Music, Nostalgia and Augmenting Reality in Video Games Location: Lake Superior A Chair: Kate Galloway Discussant: Dana Plank Ready Player One: Embodiment and Identity Performance in Multiplayer Virtual/Augmented Reality Rhythm/Dance Games The Aesthetics of Virtual and Physical Environments in Japanese BGM Memory and Nostalgia in the Sound Worlds of Video Game Demakes |
| 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
8-Bit Chiptunes, Retro-Aesthetics, and Nostalgia Location: Lake Superior A Presentations of the Symposium Kawaii and Mukokuseki in Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal’s ‘Kimono Girls' Crushing Bit: Lo-Bit Techniques Beyond Chiptunes A Wild Topic Appeared! Pokémon’s Encounter Topic Pixelated Sound, Cinematic Style: Chiptune Tropes in a Game-less Game Movie. Dangerous 8-bit Waves in Nintendo Entertainment Systems JRPGS |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Listening for the Holocaust in Polish/Jewish Musical Culture Location: Lake Superior A Presentations of the Symposium “Mozart was Never More Beautiful”: The Politics of the Classical Canon in the Warsaw Ghetto Roman Palester, Jewish Aid, and the Aporias of the Holocaust Musical Recollections of the Polish Past in Mieczysław Weinberg’s Symphony No. 8, Polish Flowers |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
In the Shadow of the Holocaust Location: Lake Superior A Chair: Tina Frühauf The Singing Survivor: The Voice, Affect, and Testimony after 1945 Music and the Politics of Migration in the Cyprus Detention Camps, 1946-1948 Ursula Mamlok’s Diary, 1937-1944: The Odyssey of a Young Jewish Composer |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
AMS MDSG Business Meeting with Short Papers, 2025: New Directions in Choreomusicology Location: Lake Superior A Presentations of the Symposium Rhythmic Motives and “Las amarillas”: A Choreomusical Case Study Accentuation Patterns and their Impact on Steps in Scottish Highland Dance The Gurdjieff Movements Between Ritual and Reconstruction |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Non-Academic Jobs after a Music Degree Location: Lake Superior A |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Race, Nation, and Identity Location: Lake Superior A Chair: Elea Proctor, The Ohio State University So Long, Farewell: The Musical Politics of Westminster Abbey Independence Services, 1962–1966 Canonic Variations: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the Black Atlantic White and Black Blues: The 1990 Eurovision Song Contest and the Prospect of European (Racial) Integration |
| 6:30pm - 8:30pm |
W. W. Norton Reception Location: Lake Superior A |
| 9:30pm - 11:30pm |
CUNY Graduate Center Reception Location: Lake Superior A |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Planning a Research Agenda: Sound Strategies for Faculty and Future Faculty Location: Lake Superior A |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Performing Modernity Otherwise: Asian Interventions and Reimaginations of the Western Canon Location: Lake Superior A Presentations of the Symposium Staging Cultural Crossings: Opera, Translation, and Musical Modernity in 19th-Century Bengal A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies: Reimagining Madama Butterfly through an Asian-American Lens Deep Critic, Surface Critique? Yuja Wang’s “Superficial” Beethoven and Subversion of History |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
AMS Popular Music Study Group Business Meeting Location: Lake Superior A |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Identity and Authenticity in Country Music Location: Lake Superior A Chair: Esther M. Morgan-Ellis, University of North Georgia Discussant: Nadine Hubbs, University of Michigan “Murder on Music Row”: Debates on Authenticity in Country Music, and the Transgression of Fundamentalist Religious Polity Examining Genre Lines Around Country Music and the Case of Cowboy Carter Examining The Euro-Centric Origin Myth as a Folklorized Narrative in Bluegrass |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Italian Opera and Exoticism Location: Lake Superior A Chair: Laura Vasilyeva Counter-Reversal of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly as Operatic Critique in Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly (2022) (New) Realism in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly Verdi’s Aida: A Case of Western Colonial Organology |
| 6:45pm - 8:45pm |
University of Pennsylvania Music Department Reception Location: Lake Superior A |
| 9:30pm - 11:30pm |
McGill University Reception Location: Lake Superior A |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Re-Sounding the Postcolonial City Location: Lake Superior A Chair: John Gabriel, University of Melbourne Playlisting the City: Japanese City Pop, Alienated Listening, and the Aural Politics of Urban Belonging in Postcolonial South Korea Ailton Krenak’s Performance Theory and Opera’s Ancestral Future: Subverting Carlos Gomes’s Il Guarany Postcolonial Music Institutions and the Environment: The Teatro Amazonas |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Sounding Excitement and Resistance in Latin American Communities Location: Lake Superior A Chair: Eduardo Sato Somos Mexicanos, No Somos Criminales: Sounding Resistance Through Chican@ Ska "Loud and Unnecessary": Drum Circles in Miami Beach as a Space of Socio-Political Dissensus Affective Economies, Excitation Transfers, and Sonic Atmospheres in Argentine Soccer Stadiums |