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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2:15pm Rock Narratives Location: Lake Superior B Chair: Jack Sheinbaum
Sounding the Rural: Productions of Space and Class in American Rock Music
Graham Elias Peterson
A Hero and a Queen: Narratives of Time Travel and Queerness in “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Marcelo Gabriel Rebuffi
Exploring the Dark Side of ABBA: The "Mini-Musical" The Girl with the Golden Hair (1977)
Albrecht Gaub
4:00pm Theorizing Popular Music in the Interregnum: Stylistic Shifts in an Era of Upheaval Location: Lake Superior B
Chair(s): Ryan Dohoney
Presentations of the Symposium
Timbre and Reconstructed Nostalgia in 2020s Popular Music
Emily Schwitzgebel
Dissolving Limits; or, How Studio Production Fixes a Sustainability Problem
Caleb Herrmann
Texture and the Political in Bon Iver’s Kanye-Influenced Music
Audrey Slote
9:00am French Court Musics in the 17th and 18th Centuries Location: Lake Superior B Chair: Jim Cassaro
The Cantatas of Philippe II d’Orléans Rediscovered: Rethinking the Early History of the Cantate française
Don Fader
Dyeing Timbres and Painting Passions in Couperin’s “Folies françoises”
SARASWATHI SHUKLA
Poisonous Personae: Operatic Sorceresses and Witchcraft in Late Seventeenth-Century France
Anna Somerville
10:45am Sonic Redface Location: Lake Superior B Chair: Katie Rios , Mercer University
Redwoods and Redface: "Playing Indian" in the Forests of California
Beth E. Levy
The "Primitive" Within: Sonic Redface and American Musical Identity
Stephen Andrew Stacks
Salvage Tourism and the 1928 Minneapolis Performance of Winona, “Minnesota’s own grand opera,” by Alberto Bimboni and Perry Williams
Gretchen Peters
12:30pm SMT Russian and Soviet Music Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Superior B
2:15pm Socio-technical Histories of Digital Music Location: Lake Superior B
Chair(s): Paula Harper
Presentations of the Symposium
Melodrama, Silent Film, and the Foundations of Generative AI Music
Ravi Krishnaswami
“Shitpost Modernism” and the (mis)reading of combinatorial internet aesthetics
Alex Tripp
Calculable Surfaces: Topic Theory and History of the "Digital Musical Object"
Allison Jerzak
4:00pm Generative AI and New Frontiers in Musicology Location: Lake Superior B Chair: Alison Maggart , The University of Texas at Austin
Voices Beyond the Human: AI-Singing and Posthuman Musicking on Bilibili
ZIXUAN WANG
Responsible Performance Practice, Generative AI and Interpretation
Thomas Irvine
Cyberspace, Threads, and AI Music: Music’s Role in Taiwan’s 2024 Blue Bird Movement
An-Ni Wei
Musicology "at the Frontier of Human Knowledge": AI (Mis)alignments in Humanity's Last Exam
William Bennett
6:30pm Friends of Stony Brook Location: Lake Superior B
9:30pm University of North Texas Reception Location: Lake Superior B
9:00am Fou Ts'ong's Creative Worlds Location: Lake Superior B
Chair(s): Keri Hui
Presentations of the Symposium
Performing Transcultural Aesthetics
Roe-Min Kok
Fou Ts’ong’s Haydn
Keri Hui
The “Chinese” Debussy
Guangchen Chen
