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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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Daily Overview

Session

Rethinking Music Theory’s Global Histories: Conversations on Thinking Music

Presentation 1

Rethinking Music Theory’s Global Histories: Conversations on Thinking Music

Chair(s): Ireri Chávez Bárcenas (Bowdoin College); Hedy Law (The University of British Columbia); Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit (Cornell University)

Discussant(s): Marcel Camprubí (Universität Hamburg); Xóchitl C. Chávez (University of California, Riverside); Elizabeth Elmi (Williams College)

Presenter(s): Thomas Christensen (University of Chicago); Lester Hu (University of California, Berkeley); Carmel A Raz (Cornell University)

Organized by the AMS Global Music History Study Group.

The AMS Global Music History Study Group special session centers on Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory (University of Chicago Online Research and Publication Service, forthcoming), a new online anthology of translated sources with commentary essays spanning more than seven millennia of musical thought. The session will open with a 30-minute presentation by editors Carmel Raz, Thomas Christensen, and Lester Hu introducing the project’s aims, scope, and potential uses for research and pedagogy, with particular attention to how the anthology invites scholars of global music history to rethink the boundaries of music-theoretical knowledge and its global dimensions.

The presentation will be followed by three 10-minute responses by Elizabeth Elmi, Xóchitl Chávez, and Marcel Camprubí, each offering critical reflections on the anthology from their disciplinary perspectives and considering how such a volume might reshape questions of historiography, method, and category formation across global music studies. The session will conclude with a Q&A, inviting collective discussion on the anthology’s intersections with global music history scholarship.