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: Lakeshore C |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
"Whose Brahms?" Reception and Uses of Nineteenth-Century Music Up to the Present Day Location: Lakeshore C |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Beyond the Score Location: Lakeshore C Chair: Sarah Iker Against Muteness but Beyond Sound: Republican Shanghai’s Forgotten Gestural Musicology Tactile Acousmatic: Between Braille Sounds and the Vernacular of Flesh (Photo)Graphic Scores |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan Location: Lakeshore C Presentations of the Symposium “When Will You Return?”: The Voice(s) of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Voicing Modernity: Singsong Girls, Shidaiqu, and the Feminine Pulse of Old Shanghai Jazz Queens in Women’s Magazines: Negotiating Femininity in Occupied Japan |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
UNC Chapel Hill Reception Location: Lakeshore C |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Music, Sexual Performance, and Ethno-Porn Location: Lakeshore C Chair: Elizabeth Wollman Earwitness Accounts of Sexuality and Other Ethnopornographic Tales Lost to the An(n)als of History: Whatever Happened to the First X-Rated Musical Film? “The Freak who Sings in the Tubs”: Camp Performance and Gay Empowerment in New York’s Continental Bathhouse |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Memory, Affect, and Attention Location: Lakeshore C Chair: Andrew Goldman, Indiana University Musical features shape semantic content of music-evoked autobiographical memories Materializing Affect in Sound: Ethnography, Nostalgia, and Kinesthetic Memory in the Arab Diaspora Investigating the impact of textural dynamics on performers’ listening behaviors and coordination |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Music and Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore C |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Song Form Location: Lakeshore C Chair: David Forrest, Texas Tech University Grooving until you can’t: formal process and embodiment in early British Grindcore How Are Verse Melodies Different than Chorus Melodies?: A Katy Perry Corpus Study Form and the Song Persona |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 A Berliozian Aesthetic of Sacred Music English Hymnody from Leipzig Conservatory Professors: William Bradbury’s Album Book from Germany |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Chronicling American Folk Song Location: Lakeshore C Chair: Larry Hamberlin “Many Songs, One Nation: Towards a Pluralistic Understanding of Folksong in America, 1890s–1930s” Where ‘Songs Old Men Have Sung’ Were Sung: Robert W. Gordon and the Origins of California Folk Song The Distributed Sonic Archives of Participatory Musicians |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
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 Reinforcing the Tone: Connections in the Transference of Clavichord-Specific Devices |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Music Cognition Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore C |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
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) Xenakis’s Polytope of Persepolis: An Immersive Composition Contending with Hegelian Dialectics in Sigfrid Karg-Elert’s Organ Works |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Opera and Disability Studies Location: Lakeshore C Chair: Anita Hardeman, Western Illinois Univeristy Silent Sirens, Singing Signs: Music’s Gestures in Unsuk Chin’s Le Silence des Sirènes and Christine Sun Kim’s Face Opera II Shadows and Schmerzenskind: In/Fertility in Strauss and Hofmannsthal's Die Frau ohne Schatten |