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: Greenway Ballroom B-I |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Music and the Cold War: Cultural Anxieties and Diplomacies Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: Brad Cawyer How Broadway Got Its “Belt”: Ethel Merman, Belting, and Cold War American Identity Hungary’s Rajkó Ensemble at home abroad: Socialist Cultural Diplomacy or Capitalist Commodity? Nuclear anxiety in the reception of Marcel Landowski’s opera Le Fou (1956) |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 Excavating Alzina’s Codiapi: Filipino Boat-lutes in the Colonial Visayas The Politics of Lizzo’s Sasha Flute |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Gendering Asian Musical Instruments and Forms Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: Charles Stratford The Female Gendering of the Sarangi Sounding Gendered Trauma: The Voice of Female Ghost in Black Metal Song “Li Gui” From Courtesans to Clickbait: Gender, Power, and the Persistent Marginalization of Women in China’s Pipa Tradition |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
The Perils and Promises of Timbrephilia Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Presentations of the Symposium In Defense of Timbrelessness Sounding Like Russians; Or, In Search of the “Russian Sound” Timbre and psychoacoustic labor: Lutherie at the nexus of language, materiality, and affect |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Music, Protest, and Systems of Representation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Presentations of the Symposium The Prohibition of Afro-Brazilian Sacred Music and Its Afterlives Sound, Perversion, and Insurrection in Cristóbal de Molina’s Account of the Chiapas War of Castes 1867-1870 The Audible Ineffable: Mobilizing Grief during Mexico City’s ‘Glitter Revolution’ “Cómo un fantasma se aparece”: Ghost Smuggling Ballads as Repositories of Haunting, Transgenerational Trauma, and Religiopolitical Migrant Resilience +57: Perreo, musicology, and the limits of aesthetic and political action |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Transatlantic Musical Cultures Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: Elaine Fitz Gibbon, Amherst College Mozart in the Midwest: Music-Making for German Milwaukee, 1843-1900 Canadian Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Cultural-Musical Exchanges during the 1970s Transatlantic Musical Culture and Nationalism: George Frederick Bristow, Nineteenth-Century Americanist Composer |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 Manuel de Sumaya, ambivalent criollismo, and re-adaptation Cândido Inácio da Silva (1799/1800-1838): Composer of Songs, Master of Slaves |
| 9:00pm - 11:00pm |
Society for American Music Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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) Technology, Race, and Colonialism in Caricatures of Manzotti’s Excelsior, 1880–1900 Columbus, Catholicism, and Colonialism in Central European Opera circa 1930 |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
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 Acousmatic Empire: Pierre Schaeffer, African Radio, and the Late Colonial State More than “ribald song… and smutty jest”: Vice District Performance as Black/Indigenous Survivance in the Boomtown West |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
AMS Global Music History Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Presenter: Daniel Castro Pantoja, Emory University Presenter: Hedy Law, University of British Columbia Presenter: Ireri Chávez Bárcenas, Bowdoin College |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Hidden Histories of Production and Consumption in Electronic Musical Instruments Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Presentations of the Symposium A Feminine Sound? the RCA Theremin and gendered musical labor The Push-Button Problem: Gendered Labor and Hi-Fi Interfaces in the U.S. Midcentury From the Sewing Machine to the Stratocaster: Rethinking Women’s Work At Fender |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Challenges and Opportunities Presented By Artificial Intelligence in Music Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Presentations of the Symposium “Here It Goes Again:” The Copyright Challenges of A.I.-Generated Music Composing Capital and the Commodification of Copyright in Generative AI Models Music Patterns, Artificial Intelligence & Copyright |
| 7:45pm - 9:45pm |
Popular Music and/as Resistance Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Presentations of the Symposium The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions Algorithmic Resistance: Playlisting, Protest Music, and the Politics of Visibility Embodying Resistance, Constructing Authenticity, Inciting Agency: The Queer Genius of Doechii’s Grammy Performance Raminten Caberet Show: An Indonesian Drag Venue as a Concrete Utopia Monetochka and IC3PEAK: Delicate Voices of Russian Subversion |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Disney and Musical Representations of American Identity Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: Jeremy J. Peters, Wayne State University Screening Innocence, Sounding Home - Singing Children in Disney's "Silver Age" (1950-1967) “At the End of the Street”: The Marching Band as a Sonic Marker of U.S. American Identity Disney, Copland, and Lincoln |