AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting

The American Musicological Society (AMS) and Society for Music Theory (SMT) held their annual meetings jointly November 6–9th in Minneapolis. Faculty of Music involvement included the following: “Reconfiguring Bel Canto: Operatic Voice, Cultural Negotiation, and Performance Economies in Postcolonial Lagos” by Joshua Tolulope David, “Temporal Contour & Metric Dissonance in Thomas Adès’ Piano Quintet” by Gabriella Vici, “Analyzing Groove Embodiment in Erykah Badu’s ‘On & On’ by Kaylene Chan, the paper ”‘I, too, was once a musician’: The double-marginalisation of Iranian Migrant Musicians in Canada” and moderation of the panel “Creative (Mis)Reading: Musical Adaptation of the Modern Novel” by Dr. Michelle Assay (Musicology), “Is this GenAI or Human? An Experimental Pilot Study on Distinguishing Between AI-Generated and Human-Composed Music” by Evan Chan, “Canadian Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Cultural-Musical Exchanges during the 1970s” by Prof. Carolyne Sumner (Musicology), “Bridge Function in Recent Popular Music” by Wes Khurana, “Industrialized Cityscape in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ ‘A London Symphony’” by Emily MacCallum, “Contested Modernisms: The Reception of the Darmstadt School in Soviet Latvia” by Dr. Daniel David Jordan (Musicology), “The Giulianiad, the Autodidact, and Mauro Giuliani’s Posthumous Reception in London, 1833–1843” by Dr. Lindsay Jones, and “Choreopictography: the hermeneutic implications projective symmetry and rhythmic formulae have in Prokofiev’s The Stone Flower” by Elwyn Helen Rowlands. Kudos to all Faculty of Music participants!