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
Session
SMT Jazz & Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Groups Meeting
Time:
Friday, 07/Nov/2025:
12:30pm - 2:00pm

 Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Session Topics:
SMT

Session Abstract

The joint meeting of the SMT Jazz Interest Group and Hip-Hop & Rap Interest Group will feature 10-minute lightning talks on points of dialogue between jazz and hip-hop/rap. The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

I. 10 minute Lightning Talks (each followed by up to 5 minutes of Q&A)

  1. Jacob P. Cupps, “Deconstructing Jazz Rap: Footwork, Sampling, and Formal Process in RP Boo & Armand Hammer’s 'Blood Running High' (2023)”

  2. Collin Felter, “Hargrove’s Horns: An Analysis of Roy Hargrove’s Horn Arrangements for the Soulquarians”

  3. Anna Peloso, “Analyzing Jazz–Hip-Hop Hybridity: Tension and Release in the Music of DOMi & JD BECK”

  4. Leah Amarosa, “Jazz as Collaborator and Canvas in Rap: McKinley Dixon's Conversational Soundscape in Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?”

  5. Kevin Costello, “Interactions Between Jazz Schemata, Melody, and Formal Position in Popular Music”

II. Business Meetings (each IG will meet separately in the same room)