American Musicological Society, Southwest Chapter
Fall 2026 Meeting: Trinity University in San Antonio, TX
Meeting Date: October 24, 2026
All events take place on the 3rd floor of the Music Department (Dicke-Smith Art and Music Building).
7:45-8:30 Breakfast Tacos, Donuts, Coffee, and Registration
8:30-10:00 Session 1
Room 347
Welcoming Remarks
“Confiding in the Camera: Televisual Complicity in Kricka’s Kalhoty (1962).”
Barbara Dietlinger (University of North Texas)
“Theater and Pantomime Representations in Marcel Carne’s Children of Paradise (1945).”
Mark Brill (University of Texas at San Antonio)
“’Eine Oper gegen die Zeit’: Americanization and Anxiety in Hindemiths’s Neues Vom Tage (1929).”
Lesley Hughes (Sam Houston State University)
10:00–10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Session 2
Room 351
“#Honduras: Social Media’s Impact on Garifuna Preservation Strategies and Commercialized Punta.”
Illiana Martinez (Independent scholar)
“Modernity has Failed Us: A Case Study on The 1975’s ‘Love it If We Made It’ (2018).”
Cristian Ivan Moreno (Texas State University)
“Free Improvisation in a Neutral Nation: Anti-Apartheid Signification in Irene Schweizer’s Performance of ‘Jungle Beats II.’”
Caitlyn Cantrell (Baylor University)
Room 347
“Discovering Brazilian Music: An Analysis of Alberto Nepomuceno’s Serie Brasileira and Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Choros No. 6.”
Davi Buczynski da Silva (University of Houston)
“Mourning as a Fractured Nation: Ambiguity and Post-9/11 Musical Memorials by John Adams and Richard Danielpour.”
David Catchpole (Texas State University)
“Comparison of Nostalgic and Dystopian Themes through Ecologic Composition.”
Elizabeth Wolfe (Texas Tech University)
11:45-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:15 Workshop: AI in the Music History Curriculum
Brian Anderson (University of North Texas)
2:15-3:00 Bartók Comes to Texas: A Panel Discussion
Carl Leafstedt, Melissa Camp, Colleen Hoelscher, Jake Cipolla (Trinity University)
3:00–3:15 Break
3:15-5:15 Session 3
Room 347
“Rediscovering Underrepresented Women Musicians: Methodological Triangulation in Historical Reconstruction, with case studies of Martha Dana Shepard and Jae Eun Park.”
Ha Eun Kim (Texas State University)
“An Aristocratic Association: The Horn in the Perspective Theatre.”
Ryan Reed (Texas Tech University)
“Recomposing Monteverdi: Vincent d’Indy’s Adaption of ‘L’Orfeo’ at the Paris Schola Cantorum.”
Benjamin Thorburn (University of Central Arkansas)
“Music Clowns and Soldering Irons: Authorship, Collaboration, and Craft in Mauricio Kagel’s Zwei-Mann-Orchester (1971-73).”
Elaine R. Fitz Gibbon (University of Oklahoma)
5:15-5:30 Business Meeting and Adjournment
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