Special Events

Chair: Julie Cumming (McGill University) Presenter: Ellie M. Hisama (University of Toronto) A question posed by the historian Howard Zinn in 1970–“what kinds of work can scholars do, in deliberate... Read More

Chairs: Abby Anderton (CUNY Graduate Center); Kristen Franseen (Western University) Organized by the AMS Committee on Women and Gender. For centuries and across borders, La Llorona has made her presence known,... Read More

Image: Meetmeatthemuny, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Chair: Rachana Vajjhala Presenter: Masi Asare (Northwestern University) Organized by the AMS Committee on Race, Indigeneity, and Ethnicity. This talk will explore... Read More

Chair: Julie Cumming (McGill University) Presenters: Jane Bernstein; Laurie Stras; Gioa Filocamo; Katelijne Schiltz; Margaret Bent; Leofranc Holford-Strevens Bonnie Blackburn (1939-2026) was an independent scholar who played a central role... Read More

Organized by the AMS Ibero-American Music Study Group Presenter: Benjamin Barson (Bucknell University) This session, given in-person at the University of Texas at Austin and live-streamed to the AMS Annual... Read More

Image: Steven Pisano, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Chair: Jeff Dailey Presenters: Christopher Thompson; Carla Wesby; Mary Pinto; John Graziano (CUNY); Deborah Surdi (Queens Symphony Orchestra); Gordon Ostrowski (Manhattan School of Music); Jeff Dailey Organized by... Read More

Chair: Barbara Dietlinger (University of North Texas) Presenters: Sarah Lucas (Texas A&M University-Kingsville); Brian Anderson (University of North Texas); Kimberly Beck Hieb (West Texas A&M University) Organized by the AMS Southwest Chapter. As music history teaching... Read More

Organized by the AMS Midwest Chapter. Fior Angelico, an early music chorus based in Columbus, Ohio, celebrating its 20th year, will present a concert of sacred Renaissance polyphony inspired by... Read More

Chair: Kyle Kaplan (Syracuse University) Presenters: Anthony Reed (Vanderbilt University); Vijay Iyer (Harvard University); Malte Kobel (Guildhall School of Music & Drama); Christine Dysers (Aalborg University) Organized by the AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group. This in-person panel at... Read More

Chair: Rachana Vajjhala (University of California, Davis) Organized by the AMS Committee on Race, Indigeneity, and Ethnicity. The Journal of the American Musicological Society published a colloquy on voice (“Why Voice Now?”)... Read More

Chair: Angelina Gibson (University of Michigan) Presenter: Gracie Fagan Organized by the AMS Music and Dance Study Group. In this in-person presentation and performance at the University of Michigan, live-streamed... Read More

Image: Steven Pisano, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Chair: Jeff Dailey Presenters: Christopher Thompson; Carla Wesby; Mary Pinto; John Graziano (CUNY); Deborah Surdi (Queens Symphony Orchestra); Gordon Ostrowski (Manhattan School of Music); Jeff Dailey Organized by... Read More

This performance presents an innovative interpretation of the Classical Turkish Music tradition through an ensemble of kanun (Prof. Dr. Seda Tüfekçioğlu), violin (Semih Özdemir), and oud/guitar (Emir Altuğ Karakaya). While... Read More

Organized by the AMS Midwest Chapter. Fior Angelico, an early music chorus based in Columbus, Ohio, celebrating its 20th year, will present a concert of sacred Renaissance polyphony inspired by... Read More

The pipa has long occupied a distinctive place in Chinese musical culture as an instrument uniquely associated with femininity in repertory, performance practice, and reception history. Yet the sonic means... Read More

Image: Gogeafrica, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Chair: Quintina Carter-Ényì (University of Georgia) This performance, moderated by Quintina Carter-Ényì, brings Nigerian field recordings into dialogue with newly composed works for piano,... Read More

Organizer: Aaron Carter-Ényì In 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that the sea island peoples of Georgia and South Carolina are “touched and moulded less by the world about them” (251).... Read More

Chair: Stacy Hartman (American Council of Learned Societies) Presenters: Daniel Goldmark (Case Western Reserve University); Danielle Fosler-Lussier (Ohio State University) The ACLS’s Doctoral Futures Initiative is a three-year project that... Read More

Chair: Katherine Leo (Millikin University) Presenters: Katherine Leo (Millikin University); Joe Bennett (Berklee College of Music); Claire McLeish (Grayson Music) What is forensic musicology: where has it been, what are current issues in this small, yet... Read More

Chair: Maiko Kawabata (Royal College of Music and the Open University, UK) Organized by the IMS Regional Association for East Asia (IMSEA). This panel brings together Japanese music researchers in Japan... Read More

Chair: Jermyn C. M. Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Recent scholarship on the circulations of sounds/musics in the Sinophone has illuminated their potential to engender new forms of... Read More

Image: Lee Jeong Woo (이정우) / Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism via Republic of Korea from Seoul, Republic of Korea, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Chair: Soonjung Suh... Read More

Chair: Makiko Tsuchida (Tokyo University of Arts) Organized by the IMS Regional Association for East Asia (IMSEA). This panel introduces a joint research project beginning in 2026 that takes up the challenge... Read More

Chairs: Mariantonia Palacios (Universidad Central de Venezuela and Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín, Colombia); Carlos Caballero Parra (Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín, Colombia) Organized by the ARLAC-IMS Working Group “The Villancico in... Read More

Image: Lee Jeong Woo (이정우) / Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism via Republic of Korea from Seoul, Republic of Korea, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Chair: Soonjung Suh... Read More