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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 Chair(s): Madison Drace Presentations of the Symposium “Nice Song. Funny Too. Wrote It Yourself?”: Diegetic Musicking, Relationships, and “Artless Singing” in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth (2024) Madison Drace Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory and the Memory of Melody Pamela Mason-Nguyen The Transformation, Re-Negotiation, and Enclosure of Crush 40’s “Live & Learn” Across Sega, Paramount, and the Sonic the Hedgehog Franchise Molly Hennig
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Sound Worlds: Music, Nostalgia and Augmenting Reality in Video Games Location: Lake Superior A Discussant: Dana Plank Ready Player One: Embodiment and Identity Performance in Multiplayer Virtual/Augmented Reality Rhythm/Dance Games Ashley Ann Greathouse The Aesthetics of Virtual and Physical Environments in Japanese BGM James Gui Memory and Nostalgia in the Sound Worlds of Video Game Demakes Hayden Harper
7:30pm - 9:30pm	8-Bit Chiptunes, Retro-Aesthetics, and Nostalgia Location: Lake Superior A Chair(s): James Heazlewood-Dale, Thomas Yee Presentations of the Symposium Kawaii and Mukokuseki in Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal’s ‘Kimono Girls' Marcis Bravo Crushing Bit: Lo-Bit Techniques Beyond Chiptunes Graham Ellinghausen A Wild Topic Appeared! Pokémon’s Encounter Topic Brandon Scribner Pixelated Sound, Cinematic Style: Chiptune Tropes in a Game-less Game Movie. Gabe Bustamante Dangerous 8-bit Waves in Nintendo Entertainment Systems JRPGS Luis Matos-Tovar

Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025
9:00am - 10:30am	Listening for the Holocaust in Polish/Jewish Musical Culture Location: Lake Superior A Chair(s): Lisa C Vest Discussant(s): Daniel Elphick Presentations of the Symposium “Mozart was Never More Beautiful”: The Politics of the Classical Canon in the Warsaw Ghetto Jules Riegel Roman Palester, Jewish Aid, and the Aporias of the Holocaust Mackenzie Pierce Musical Recollections of the Polish Past in Mieczysław Weinberg’s Symphony No. 8, Polish Flowers Nicolette van den Bogerd
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 Abby Anderton Music and the Politics of Migration in the Cyprus Detention Camps, 1946-1948 Yuval Tessman-Bar-On Ursula Mamlok’s Diary, 1937-1944: The Odyssey of a Young Jewish Composer Barry Wiener
12:30pm - 2:00pm	AMS MDSG Business Meeting with Short Papers, 2025: New Directions in Choreomusicology Location: Lake Superior A Chair(s): Rachel Gain Presentations of the Symposium Rhythmic Motives and “Las amarillas”: A Choreomusical Case Study Andrea Tinajero Perez Accentuation Patterns and their Impact on Steps in Scottish Highland Dance Stefanie Bilidas The Gurdjieff Movements Between Ritual and Reconstruction Brian Fairley
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Non-Academic Jobs after a Music Degree Location: Lake Superior A Chair(s): Julie Emelyn Cumming Presenter(s): Jessica Abbazio, Esther Criscuola de Laix, Tami Morse, Anna-Lise Santella
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 Trevor R. Nelson Canonic Variations: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the Black Atlantic Matthew Gelbart White and Black Blues: The 1990 Eurovision Song Contest and the Prospect of European (Racial) Integration Paul David Flood
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 Chair(s): Esther Criscuola de Laix Presenter(s): Carol Hess, Ayana Smith, Jennifer Saltzstein, Christine Getz
10:45am - 12:15pm	Performing Modernity Otherwise: Asian Interventions and Reimaginations of the Western Canon Location: Lake Superior A Chair(s): Anne Monique Pace Discussant(s): Emerson Morgan Presentations of the Symposium Staging Cultural Crossings: Opera, Translation, and Musical Modernity in 19th-Century Bengal Pramantha Tagore A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies: Reimagining Madama Butterfly through an Asian-American Lens Anne Monique Pace Deep Critic, Surface Critique? Yuja Wang’s “Superficial” Beethoven and Subversion of History Hiro Cho
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 Joel Schwindt Examining Genre Lines Around Country Music and the Case of Cowboy Carter Sean McDermott Gary Examining The Euro-Centric Origin Myth as a Folklorized Narrative in Bluegrass Kathleen Elizabeth Coker
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) Seokyoung Kim (New) Realism in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly Jingyi Zhang Verdi’s Aida: A Case of Western Colonial Organology Ali Saniee Nia
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
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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

Cody Black

Ailton Krenak’s Performance Theory and Opera’s Ancestral Future: Subverting Carlos Gomes’s Il Guarany

Eduardo Sato

Postcolonial Music Institutions and the Environment: The Teatro Amazonas

Philipp Lojak

10:45am
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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

Andrew Vogel

"Loud and Unnecessary": Drum Circles in Miami Beach as a Space of Socio-Political Dissensus

Hannah Marie Junco

Affective Economies, Excitation Transfers, and Sonic Atmospheres in Argentine Soccer Stadiums

Eduardo Herrera