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 B |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Rock Narratives Location: Lake Superior B Chair: Jack Sheinbaum Sounding the Rural: Productions of Space and Class in American Rock Music A Hero and a Queen: Narratives of Time Travel and Queerness in “Bohemian Rhapsody” Exploring the Dark Side of ABBA: The "Mini-Musical" The Girl with the Golden Hair (1977) |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Theorizing Popular Music in the Interregnum: Stylistic Shifts in an Era of Upheaval Location: Lake Superior B Presentations of the Symposium Timbre and Reconstructed Nostalgia in 2020s Popular Music Dissolving Limits; or, How Studio Production Fixes a Sustainability Problem Texture and the Political in Bon Iver’s Kanye-Influenced Music |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 Dyeing Timbres and Painting Passions in Couperin’s “Folies françoises” Poisonous Personae: Operatic Sorceresses and Witchcraft in Late Seventeenth-Century France |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Sonic Redface Location: Lake Superior B Chair: Katie Rios, Mercer University Redwoods and Redface: "Playing Indian" in the Forests of California The "Primitive" Within: Sonic Redface and American Musical Identity Salvage Tourism and the 1928 Minneapolis Performance of Winona, “Minnesota’s own grand opera,” by Alberto Bimboni and Perry Williams |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Russian and Soviet Music Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Superior B |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Socio-technical Histories of Digital Music Location: Lake Superior B Presentations of the Symposium Melodrama, Silent Film, and the Foundations of Generative AI Music “Shitpost Modernism” and the (mis)reading of combinatorial internet aesthetics Calculable Surfaces: Topic Theory and History of the "Digital Musical Object" |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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 Responsible Performance Practice, Generative AI and Interpretation Cyberspace, Threads, and AI Music: Music’s Role in Taiwan’s 2024 Blue Bird Movement Musicology "at the Frontier of Human Knowledge": AI (Mis)alignments in Humanity's Last Exam |
| 6:30pm - 8:30pm |
Friends of Stony Brook Location: Lake Superior B |
| 9:30pm - 11:30pm |
University of North Texas Reception Location: Lake Superior B |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Responses to Authoritarianism Location: Lake Superior B Chair: Jeremy Eichler “A New Style for a New Time”: Chaos and Consolidation in the Works of Paul Hindemith Advocating for Operetta in Mussolini’s Italy: An Archival Story |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
“Demy-Frères: Perspectives on the Collaboration Between Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand” Location: Lake Superior B Presentations of the Symposium Genre and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Reflexive Dubbing in The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) Complicated Passions and Discreet Documentaries: The Demy-Legrand Partnership via Varda Counterfactual Casting and Audiovisual Style in Demy and Legrand’s Parking (1985) |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Sounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America Location: Lake Superior B Presentations of the Symposium Sounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America Sounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America Sounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Race and Defiant Self-Definition through Jazz Location: Lake Superior B Chair: Mark Lomanno Jazz Maroonage at the 1960 Newport Rebel Festival “Sounds that Swing”: Don Cherry’s Sonic Philosophy A Rising Star Confronts His Idol: Revisiting Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis at Expo ‘86 |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Seeing and Depicting Queerness Location: Lake Superior B Chair: Joseph Ortiz, University of Texas at El Paso “He’s Become a Part of Me”: Queering the Levi-Brahms Artistic Relationship Alienness, Queerness, and the Sacred in Clones of Dr. Funkenstein (1976) Gay Panic: Sonic Intensifiers of Queer Tragedy in Horrific Video Games |
| 6:45pm - 8:45pm |
University of Michigan Reception (Musicology and Music Theory) Location: Lake Superior B |
| 9:30pm - 11:30pm |
University of California, Berkeley Alumni Reception Location: Lake Superior B |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Fou Ts'ong's Creative Worlds Location: Lake Superior B Presentations of the Symposium Performing Transcultural Aesthetics Fou Ts’ong’s Haydn The “Chinese” Debussy |