AMS Southwest Chapter Meeting, September 20, 2025
Hosted online by Dr. Kimberly Hieb (West Texas A&M University)
9:00-9:30 | Gathering
Bring your favorite morning beverage and catch up with fellow chapter members!
9:30 to 10:30 | American Imaginaries
Colin J. Brown (Texas A & M International University), “Playing Indian in Sound: The Tomahawk Chop and the Sonic Appropriation of Indigeneity”
Benjamin Thorburn (University of Central Arkansas), “Dorris L. Curtis, An Amateur Country Songwriter of the 1950s”
11:00 to noon | Positionalities
Ji Yeon Li (University of Houston), Compositional “Translation” in Unsuk Chin’s Operascope (2023)
Christopher Hepburn (Southern Methodist University), “Who Framed Ethnomusicology? On The Disappearance of the ‘Ethn–‘ and the Politics of Knowing Otherwise”
Noon-1:00 | Lunch Break
1:00 to 2:30 | Transformation
Elise Rosen (Independent Scholar) and Emily Peterson (Central Texas College), “Staging Hybridity: Genre and Narrative in the Music of Madds Buckley and Marianas Trench”
Barbara Dietlinger (University of North Texas), “From Martial Noise to Civic Sound: The Sonic Transition after the Thirty Years’ War”
Seokyoung Kim (University of Texas at Austin), “Allusion and Counter-Reversal: Madama Butterfly in Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly(2022)”
2:30-3:00 | Coffee Break