Members of the Musicology and Music Theory Departments presented at the joint annual meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN, November 6-9, 2025.
Representatives and papers from the Musicology Department:
- Professor Michael Alan Anderson: “Symbolism and Intermediality in Early Music: New Work Inspired by the Research of Anne Walters Robertson.”
- PhD Candidate Bethany Brinson: “Singing a Song of Survival: How Recent Sound Art Installations Promote Empathetic Attunement to Avian Sonic Ecologies.”
- PhD Candidate Paul David Flood: “White and Black Blues: The 1990 Eurovision Song Contest and the Prospect of European (Racial) Integration.”
- PhD Student Sven Joseph: “Mazowsze and the Moderation of Polish Culture: Folk Music, Socialist Realism, and Postwar Reconstruction.”
- Assistant Professor John Kapusta: “How Broadway Got Its ‘Belt’: Ethel Merman Belting, and Cold War American Identity.”
- Professor Honey Meconi: “Mons superat saltus and Hildegard’s Song Texts.”
- Professor and Chair Holly Watkins: “Wild Hermeneutics.”
- PhD Candidate Sheridan Zahl: “An Ecology of Water and Orchestra: Deleuzian Becomings in Tan Dun’s Water Concerto.”
Representatives and papers from the Music Theory Department:
- Professors Hanisha Kulothparan and David Temperley: “Contrasting Verses in Indian Popular Music.”
- Evan Martschenko: “Uncovering Howard Hanson’s Proto-Set Theory Pedagogy.”
- Professor Nathan Lam: “Unified Solfège Equations.”
- Ash Mach: “Effort and Tension in Rebecca Saunders’s Dialoguefor Viola and Percussion.”
- Professor John Covach: panel on “Methods and Ethics in Music Copyright Analysis.”
- Sam Falotico: “Coloring Sound: Intertextual Expressions of Music, Meaning, and Identity in Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s Music Videos” and “From End Credits to Endless Loops: Intermedial Palimpsests of Momoiro Clover Z’s “Nippon Egao Hyakkei.”
- Professor Landon Morrison: “Listening to ‘Machine Listening’: Resistance and Reification in Contemporary Music Practice.”
- Maeve Gillen: “… and my (trans?) gender analysis.”
- Ryan Jones: “Imagining Posthumanist Musical Agency with George Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening.”
- Ruixue Hu: Lightning talk at “Bad Instructions? Anarchy, Excess, and Scarcity in Music Notation.”
- Lauren Irschick: “First Time Hearing: YouTube Reaction Videos and the Commodification of the Inexpert Listener.”
- Professor Ben Baker: “Participatory Covers, Audience Choirs, and Jacob Collier’s Public Music Theory.”
- Professor Zack Bernstein: “Playing with the Net Down: Formalism and Dialectics in Helmut Lachenmann’s Music and Thought.”