Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the 2026 AMS Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.
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10:00am - 11:30amArchival Song as Knowledge Infrastructure: Mediation, Circulation, and Performance in New Mexico and Beyond
10:00am - 11:30amInterpreting Melody: Song-Level Analysis in Medieval Monophony
10:00am - 11:30amLiminal Musicking Location: Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York / Zoom Session Room 1
10:00am - 11:30amMusic and Fascism’s Transimperial Histories: Sounding to and from Pacific Asia
10:00am - 11:30amInterpreting Early 20th Century French Art Music
10:00am - 11:30amReligious Musical Reception and Reform
10:00am - 11:30amShowcasing Virtuosity: Designing the Concert Experience
10:00am - 11:30amAuthenticity and Popular Music
12:00pm - 1:30pmAccessibility Beyond the AMS: Centering Disabled Voices and Challenging Systemic Ableism in Music
12:00pm - 1:30pmActivism, Advertising, and Promotion in Social Media
12:00pm - 1:30pmFatphobia in Western Classical Music: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives
12:00pm - 1:30pmRemembering Bonnie Blackburn (1939-2026)
12:00pm - 1:30pmRethinking Music Theory’s Global Histories: Conversations on Thinking Music
12:00pm - 1:30pmCrises of Masculinity
12:00pm - 1:30pmOpera Displaced
12:00pm - 1:30pmUnderstudied Philosophical Approaches to Composition
2:00pm - 3:00pmProspective Graduate Student Fair
2:00pm - 3:00pmSound Technologies of the fin de siècle
2:00pm - 3:30pmComic Subversions and Intertexts in Early Modern Opera
2:00pm - 3:30pmLayered Translations: Institutions, Instruments, and Gender in African Art Music
2:00pm - 3:30pmMusic and Original Accumulation
2:00pm - 3:30pmPerspectives on K-Pop and Music in Korean Media
2:00pm - 3:30pmRebels, Freaks, and Feminists: Avant-Garde Women in the 1970s
2:00pm - 3:30pmTransculturation, Heritage, and Misrepresentation
2:30pm - 3:30pmArise, My Love: Renaissance Polyphony Inspired by the Song of Songs Location: Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio / Zoom Session Room 1
4:00pm - 5:30pmAMS Pedagogy Study Group Business Meeting
4:00pm - 5:30pmAMS Popular Music Study Group - Business Meeting
4:00pm - 5:30pmMusic and Animation (Global East Asian Music Research Business Meeting & Lightning Talks)
6:00pm - 7:30pmBeyond the Conservatory: The Technological Ecology of Advanced Music Education in the Long Nineteenth Century
6:00pm - 7:30pmTime and History in Black Musical Thought
6:00pm - 7:30pmOpera on Television in the Mid-Twentieth Century: New Perspectives on Intimacy and Belonging
6:00pm - 7:30pmMozart and Compositional Process
6:00pm - 7:30pmBuddhist Music Through the Ages
6:00pm - 7:30pmChina and the West
6:00pm - 7:30pmSonic Ecologies of Deindustrialization and Urban Politics
8:00pm - 9:30pmVingwengwe: Rhythm of the Fipa (Film screening)
8:00pm - 9:30pmFrom Concubines' Lament to Goddess Fantasy: The Changing Imagery of Women in the Twentieth-Century Chinese Pipa Music
8:00pm - 9:30pmNetworks of Modernist Influence
8:00pm - 9:30pmQueer Voices/Queer Narratives