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 Music, Sexual Performance, and Ethno-Porn Location: Lakeshore C Chair: Elizabeth Wollman
Earwitness Accounts of Sexuality and Other Ethnopornographic Tales
Cibele M. Moura
Lost to the An(n)als of History: Whatever Happened to the First X-Rated Musical Film?
Nolan Stolz
“The Freak who Sings in the Tubs”: Camp Performance and Gay Empowerment in New York’s Continental Bathhouse
Courtney Rae Nichols
10:45am Memory, Affect, and Attention Location: Lakeshore C Chair: Andrew Goldman , Indiana University
Musical features shape semantic content of music-evoked autobiographical memories
Cara Turnbull
Materializing Affect in Sound: Ethnography, Nostalgia, and Kinesthetic Memory in the Arab Diaspora
Issa Aji
Investigating the impact of textural dynamics on performers’ listening behaviors and coordination
Madeline Anne Kushan
12:30pm SMT Music and Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore C
2:15pm Song Form Location: Lakeshore C Chair: David Forrest , Texas Tech University
Grooving until you can’t: formal process and embodiment in early British Grindcore
Florian Walch
How Are Verse Melodies Different than Chorus Melodies?: A Katy Perry Corpus Study
Brian Edward Jarvis
Form and the Song Persona
Drew Nobile
4:00pm Perspectives on 19th-Century Sacred Music Location: Lakeshore C Chair: Eftychia Papanikolaou
German Sincerity vs. Italian Vitality: Haydn's Masses in the Eyes of His Early Biographers
Robert B. Wrigley
A Berliozian Aesthetic of Sacred Music
Jennifer Walker
English Hymnody from Leipzig Conservatory Professors: William Bradbury’s Album Book from Germany
Joanna Pepple
7:00pm University of Illinois Reception Location: Lakeshore C
9:00am Chronicling American Folk Song Location: Lakeshore C Chair: Larry Hamberlin
“Many Songs, One Nation: Towards a Pluralistic Understanding of Folksong in America, 1890s–1930s”
Heather Platt
Where ‘Songs Old Men Have Sung’ Were Sung: Robert W. Gordon and the Origins of California Folk Song
Matthew Gilbert
The Distributed Sonic Archives of Participatory Musicians
Esther M. Morgan-Ellis
10:45am The Secret Life of Keyboards Location: Lakeshore C Chair: Lindsey Macchiarella
“Which of these keyboards would you eat?” Towards an Aesthetics of Computer Keyboard Sounds
Addi Liu
Reinforcing the Tone: Connections in the Transference of Clavichord-Specific Devices
Blake Proehl
12:30pm SMT Music Cognition Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore C
2:15pm Philosophical Approaches to Composition and Public Presentation Location: Lakeshore C Chair: Jeffrey Perry , Louisiana State University
For a Semi-Public Musicology (or, Hindemith in the Playground)
Giles Masters
Xenakis’s Polytope of Persepolis: An Immersive Composition
Khashayar Shahriyari
Contending with Hegelian Dialectics in Sigfrid Karg-Elert’s Organ Works
Emma Wimberg
9:00am Opera and Disability Studies Location: Lakeshore C
Silent Sirens, Singing Signs: Music’s Gestures in Unsuk Chin’s Le Silence des Sirènes and Christine Sun Kim’s Face Opera II
Samantha Kim Heinle
Shadows and Schmerzenskind: In/Fertility in Strauss and Hofmannsthal's Die Frau ohne Schatten
Madison Schindele
Disability as Narrative Prosthesis in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera
Júlia Coelho
