November 6-9, 2025
2025 Annual Meeting Website
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Reception
Saturday, Nov. 8 | 9:30–11:30 PM | Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

 

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Conference Schedule
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

9:00 AM | France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918

Lindsay Weaver, “Hearing Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique as Fanfiction”

2:15 PM | Music and the Cold War: Cultural Anxieties and Diplomacies

Lynn M. Hooker, “Hungary’s Rajkó Ensemble at home abroad: Socialist Cultural Diplomacy or Capitalist Commodity?”

4:00 PM | Opera Staging for Effect: Lights, Masks, and Magic

Miguel Arango Calle, “Sound in New Light: Staging Magical Operas in Early-Nineteenth-Century Hamburg”

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

9:00 AM | Listening for the Holocaust in Polish/Jewish Musical Culture

Lisa Cooper Vest (Ph.D. 2014), chair
Nicolette van den Bogerd (Ph.D. 2024), “Musical Recollections of the Polish Past in Mieczysław Weinberg’s Symphony No. 8, Polish Flowers”

9:00 AM | Medieval and Early Modern Chant Traditions

Giovanni Zanovello, discussant

10:45 AM | Keyboard Technologies: Inscription and Replay

Travis Deck Whaley, “Redefining ‘Old’ Organ Tablature”

10:45 AM | Sonic Redface

Katie Rios, Chair

10:45 AM | Changing the Topic: New Paradigms for Topic Theory

J. Peter Burkholder, discussant

12:00 PM | Music of the Long Thirteenth Century: Genre, Kind, and Culture

Jennifer Saltzstein, roundtable panelist

12:30 PM | Celebrating Diversity: An Eileen Southern Travel Fund and Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship Reunion

Marysol Quevedo(Ph.D. 2016), presenter

4:00 PM | Structure and Representation in 20th Century Film Music

Rika Asai (Ph.D. 2011), chair
Orit Hilewicz, “Cinematic Structures as Musical Structures in Chantal Akerman’s Early Films”

4:00 PM | Soviet Legacies

Patrick Hutcheson Domico (Ph.D. 2025), “Nikolay Medtner and the Development of Soviet Music”

4:00 PM | Generative AI and New Frontiers in Musicology

An-Ni Wei, “Cyberspace, Threads, and AI Music: Music’s Role in Taiwan’s 2024 Blue Bird Movement”

7:30 PM | AMS Music and Media Study Group and SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group: Poster Session and Business Meeting

Daniel Bishop (Ph.D. 2016), chair

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8

9:00 AM | Planning a Research Agenda: Sound Strategies for Faculty and Future Faculty

Jennifer Saltzstein, panelist
Ayana Smith, panelist

9:00 AM | Opera and Untold Black Stories

Karen M. Bryan (Ph.D. 1994), “‘Divided Soul’: Historiography and Biography in The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson”

10:45 AM | Colonial Narratives and Negotiations

Bess Xintong Liu, Chair

4:00 PM | Music, Sound, and Medicalized Trauma in Global and Historical Contexts

Kristen Strandberg(Ph.D. 2014), “Collective Isolation and the Sonic Environment: Headphones at Waverly Tuberculosis Sanatorium”

7:45 PM | Creating Critical Editions of Music

Patrick Warfield (Ph.D. 2003), panelist

9:30 PM | Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Networking Reception

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9

9:00 AM | Beyond the Specter of “AI”: Algorithmic Bias, Systems of Power, and the Impact of Machine Learning on Contemporary Soundscapes

Matthew Blackmar, “What Madonna and Kraftwerk Can Teach Us about Music Copyright after The ‘AI Turn’”

9:00 AM | Charles Ives in 2025 (and Beyond): New Perspectives, Interpretations, and Predictions

J. Peter Burkholder, discussant
David Thurmaier (Theory Ph.D. 2006), chair and presenter, “Navigating Ives’s Legacy: Elliott Carter’s Brass Quintet, The Ives Centennial, and Multiple Musical Identities”
Chelsey Hamm (Theory Ph.D. 2016), “Reconsidering Charles Ives’s Problematic Language”

10:45 AM | Sounding Excitement and Resistance in Latin American Communities

Eduardo Herrera, “Affective Economies, Excitation Transfers, and Sonic Atmospheres in Argentine Soccer Stadiums”