UT Austin’s Musicology and Ethnomusicology division will be well-represented at the upcoming American Musicological Society Annual Meeting in Chicago, held on November 14-17, 2024, with students, faculty, and alums presenting their research and leading sessions.
Spanning a broad spectrum of topics, the presentations and events (listed below) reflect the division’s rich array of research areas and commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship.
Join us for a reception on Nov 16, 7:30pm-9:30pm at Palmer House Hilton’s Wilson Room, 3rd floor. We look forward to gathering with UT Austin students, faculty, alums, friends, and prospective members of our community.
For the full AMS conference program, visit https://www.conftool.pro/chicago2024-ams/sessions.php.
Thursday, November 14
10:45am-12:15pm
Session: Constructing Latinidad: Cumbia Music, Identity, and Affect
Chair: Jacqueline Avila
2:15pm-3:45pm
Session: Sounding Borders: Orality and Aurality in the U.S.-Mexico/New Spain Border Region,18th-19th Centuries
Chair: Jacqueline Avila
7:30pm-9:30pm
Session: Ethics and/of Early Music
Presenters: Andrew Dell’Antonio, Luisa Nardini
Friday, November 15
9:00am-10:30am
Session: Augustinian Soundscapes: The Church and Monastery of San Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples
Presentation: The monastery in the context of Neapolitan and European history
Luisa Nardini
Presentation: Plainchant and Its Local Context at the Monastery of San Giovanni Carbonara
Bibiana Vergine
Presentation: Performance as Pedagogy: Neumes in the Aeneid and the Metamorphoses at San Giovanni a Carbonara
Catherine Heemann, Kyrie Bouressa
10:45am-12:15pm
Session: Understanding and Mediating Contemporary Culture Through Opera
Chair: Hannah Lewis
12:30pm-2pm
Session: Accessibility and the History of Theory
Presenter: Andrew Dell’Antonio
2:15pm-3:45pm
Session: Axes of Time in Eastern Orthodox Sonic Space
Chair: Luisa Nardini
Presentation: Anaphora, Anamnesis, Apocalypse: Music and Time in the Hymns of the Great Entrance in the Orthodox Church
Dmitriy Stegall
Presentation: The Veil Was Torn: Inverse Perspective in Sofia Gubaidulina’s St. John Passion
Madeline Styskal
7:30pm-9:30pm
Childhood and Youth Session and Business Meeting: Spotlight on New and Emerging Work from Early-Career Scholars
Presenter: Hannah Neuhauser
Saturday, November 16
10:45am-12:15pm
Session: The Middle Ground in Anime Music Studies
Panelist: Rose Bridges
10:45am-12:15pm
Session: Identity and Aesthetics in Asian American Popular Music
Presentation: Shaping a Pluralistic Asian America: Revisiting Asian American Popular Music in the 1970s
Peng Liu
2:15pm-3:45pm
Session: Sonic Survival and Resistance through Performance and Memory Among Women in Latin America and Korea
Chair: James Gabrillo
Presentation: Gendered Memories and Sounding Silence in the Korean Borderland
Jeong-In Lee
Presentation: Women in Malandreo: Aesthetics, Violence and Urban Sociability in Caracas
Victoria Mogollon Montagne
Presentation: Polyphony of Indigenous Identities in ‘Mujeres del Viento Florido’: Strategic Alliances in the Face of the Labor Dynamics of Colonial Capitalism
Mercedes Payán Ramírez
4:00pm-5:30pm
Session: East Asian Explorations of Temporality, Cyclicity, and Form
Chair: James Gabrillo
7:30pm-9:30pm
UT Austin Reception
Location: Wilson, 3rd floor, Palmer House Hilton
Sunday, November 17
10:45am-12:15pm
Session: Making Sense of Trauma through Music and Dance
Presentation: “Does Anyone Hear My Voice?:” Foregrounding of Sonic Trauma From Turkey and Syria’s February 6th, 2023 Earthquake in Turkish Popular Music
Ashley Nicole Thornton
10:45am-12:15pm
Session: Ecomusicology/Eco-Cultures
Chair: Alison Maggart
10:45am-12:15pm
Session: Sounding Imperiality
Chair and presenter: Erol Koymen
