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 Music and the Cold War: Cultural Anxieties and Diplomacies Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
How Broadway Got Its “Belt”: Ethel Merman, Belting, and Cold War American Identity
John Kapusta
Hungary’s Rajkó Ensemble at home abroad: Socialist Cultural Diplomacy or Capitalist Commodity?
Lynn M. Hooker
Nuclear anxiety in the reception of Marcel Landowski’s opera Le Fou (1956)
Jonathan Goldman
4:00pm Cultural Imaginings in Global Organology Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: Ralph Whyte Discussant: LIDIA CHANG
Reimagining Tango in China: Free Bass Accordion and the Marginalization of the Bandoneón
Lanxin{Nancy} Xu
Excavating Alzina’s Codiapi: Filipino Boat-lutes in the Colonial Visayas
Isabella Mahal Ortega
The Politics of Lizzo’s Sasha Flute
Tamika Sakayi Sterrs-Howard
9:00am Gendering Asian Musical Instruments and Forms Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: Charles Stratford
The Female Gendering of the Sarangi
Zehra Jabeen Shah
Sounding Gendered Trauma: The Voice of Female Ghost in Black Metal Song “Li Gui”
Qian Sun
From Courtesans to Clickbait: Gender, Power, and the Persistent Marginalization of Women in China’s Pipa Tradition
Yuxin Mei
10:45am The Perils and Promises of Timbrephilia Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Chair(s): Joseph Auner
Discussant(s): Joseph Auner
Presentations of the Symposium
In Defense of Timbrelessness
Emily I. Dolan
Sounding Like Russians; Or, In Search of the “Russian Sound”
Alexander F. Hardan
Timbre and psychoacoustic labor: Lutherie at the nexus of language, materiality, and affect
Juliet Glazer
12:30pm Music, Protest, and Systems of Representation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Chair(s): Javier Marin-López
Presentations of the Symposium
The Prohibition of Afro-Brazilian Sacred Music and Its Afterlives
Cibele M. Moura
Sound, Perversion, and Insurrection in Cristóbal de Molina’s Account of the Chiapas War of Castes 1867-1870
Ana P. Sánchez-Rojo
The Audible Ineffable: Mobilizing Grief during Mexico City’s ‘Glitter Revolution’
Anthony W. Rasmussen
“Cómo un fantasma se aparece”: Ghost Smuggling Ballads as Repositories of Haunting, Transgenerational Trauma, and Religiopolitical Migrant Resilience
Teresita D. Lozano
+57: Perreo, musicology, and the limits of aesthetic and political action
Juan Fernando Velasquez
2:15pm Transatlantic Musical Cultures Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: Elaine Fitz Gibbon , Haverford College
Mozart in the Midwest: Music-Making for German Milwaukee, 1843-1900
Amanda Ruppenthal Stein
Canadian Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Cultural-Musical Exchanges during the 1970s
Carolyne Sumner
Transatlantic Musical Culture and Nationalism: George Frederick Bristow, Nineteenth-Century Americanist Composer
Katherine K. Preston
4:00pm Music in the Early Modern Luso-Hispanic World Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: John Romey
Nahua Notions of the Sacred in Seventeenth-Century Christmas Villancicos
Ireri Chávez Bárcenas
Manuel de Sumaya, ambivalent criollismo, and re-adaptation
William Traylor
Cândido Inácio da Silva (1799/1800-1838): Composer of Songs, Master of Slaves
Marcelo Campos Hazan
9:00pm Society for American Music Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
9:00am Colonial Perspectives, Stereotypes, and Caricatures Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: Knar Abrahamyan
Imagined Migration and Colonialist Narratives in Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Symphony No. 10 “Amerindia” (1952-1954)
Silvio J dos Santos
Technology, Race, and Colonialism in Caricatures of Manzotti’s Excelsior, 1880–1900
Taryn Dubois
Columbus, Catholicism, and Colonialism in Central European Opera circa 1930
John Gabriel
10:45am Colonial Narratives and Negotiations Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: Bess Xinton Liu
Singing Between Empire and Colony: Yi Nanyŏng’s Survival Tactics in Colonial Korea
Jiyoon Auo
Acousmatic Empire: Pierre Schaeffer, African Radio, and the Late Colonial State
Sophie Angeline Brady
More than “ribald song… and smutty jest”: Vice District Performance as Black/Indigenous Survivance in the Boomtown West
Siriana Lundgren
12:30pm AMS Global Music History Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
2:15pm Hidden Histories of Production and Consumption in Electronic Musical Instruments Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Chair(s): Emily Dolan
Presentations of the Symposium
A Feminine Sound? the RCA Theremin and gendered musical labor
Clara Latham
The Push-Button Problem
Kellli Biwer-Smith
From the Sewing Machine to the Stratocaster: Rethinking Women’s Work At Fender
Jayme Kurland
4:00pm Challenges and Opportunities Presented By Artificial Intelligence in Music Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Chair(s): Lauren Elaine Wilson
Discussant(s): Lauren Elaine Wilson
Presentations of the Symposium
“Here It Goes Again:” The Copyright Challenges of A.I.-Generated Music
Dana Lauren DeVlieger
Composing Capital and the Commodification of Copyright in Generative AI Models
Emmie Head
Music Patterns, Artificial Intelligence & Copyright
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
7:45pm Popular Music and/as Resistance Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Chair(s): Matt Yuknas , Paul David Flood
Presentations of the Symposium
The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions
A.D. Carson
Algorithmic Resistance: Playlisting, Protest Music, and the Politics of Visibility
Joyce Li Yue
Embodying Resistance, Constructing Authenticity, Inciting Agency: The Queer Genius of Doechii’s Grammy Performance
Claire Terrell , Molly Reid
Raminten Caberet Show: An Indonesian Drag Venue as a Concrete Utopia
Hannah Standiford
Monetochka and IC3PEAK: Delicate Voices of Russian Subversion
Aleksandra (Sasha) Drozzina
9:00am Disney and Musical Representations of American Identity Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: Jeremy J. Peters , Wayne State University
Disney, Copland, and Lincoln
David Miller
“At the End of the Street”: The Marching Band as a Sonic Marker of U.S. American Identity
Anna Marinela Lopez
Screening Innocence, Sounding Home - Singing Children in Disney's "Silver Age" (1950-1967)
Hannah Neuhuaser
