We’ve assembled a list of all content at AMS that relates to Jewish music or Jewish studies. If you notice anything missing, please let us know!
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Jewish Voices
2:15pm-3:45pm | Location: Salon 12, 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hotel Hilton
Session Chair: Tina Frühauf (Columbia University and CUNY Graduate Center)
Negotiating the Image of a Modern Woman: Chinese and Jewish Sing-Song Girls in Shanghai’s Jazz Cabarets, Matthew Shih (University of Toronto)
“The Jew in You”: Diasporism and Utopia in the Songs of Geoff Berner and Daniel Kahn, Nathan Friedman (University of Chicago)
The Aesthetics of the Musical Salon and Jewish Reform at the Home of Amalie Beer, Samuel Teeple (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
New Perspectives on Opera Education and Uplift Ideology in the United States, 1880–1940
2:15pm-3:45pm | Location: Crystal, 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hotel Hilton
Overcoming “Yellow Elbows”: Jewish New Yorkers and the Uplifting Potential of Opera Education, 1880-1940, Samantha M. Cooper (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
“We will dance again”: Amplifying Jewish Joy in the Face of Contemporary Trauma
7:30pm-9:30pm | Location: Crystal, 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hotel Hilton
Chairs: Zeke Levine (New York University), Nicolette van den Bogerd (Indiana University)
Discussant: Samantha Madison Cooper (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Presenters: Rachel Baum (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee), Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago)
Organized by the Jewish Studies and Music Study Group.
Friday, November 15, 2024
Curating Memory: Sonic and Musical Commemorations of Systematic Persecution and Genocide
9:00am-10:30am | Location: Crystal, 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hotel Hilton
Chair: Amy Lynn Wlodarski (Dickinson College)
Resonant Legacies, Dissonant Translations: A Comparative Ethnographic Analysis of Sonic Curation in Holocaust and US Slave Memorial Sites, Kathryn Agnes Huether (UCLA)
Performing Auschwitz Abroad: The Passenger in Bregenz, Tel Aviv, and Madrid, Nicole Gabrielle Steinberg (University of Maryland, College Park)
Negotiating Appropriateness: Ambivalence about the Use of Music in Exhibitions Commemorating Romani Genocide, Siv B. Lie (University of Maryland, College Park)
Religious Conversion and Music among Christians and Jews: A Transhistorical View
12:30pm-2:00pm | Location: Crystal, 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hotel Hilton
Chair: Tina Frühauf (Columbia University and CUNY Graduate Center)
Discussant: Mary Channen Caldwell (University of Pennsylvania)
Presenters: Uri Jacob (Bar-Ilan University), Paul Feller-Simmons (Northwestern University), Rebecca Cypess (Yeshiva University), Dan Deutsch (University of Haifa)
Worship, Women, and Song: Medieval/Early Modern Economies of Sex and Power
4:00pm-5:30pm | Location: Monroe, 6th Floor, Palmer House Hotel Hilton
‘Extraordinary Subtill Queanes’: Musical Diplomacy and Jewish Women in the Early Modern Constantinople Harem, Elizabeth Weinfield (The Juilliard School)
Making Music for the Screen: Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein, and Mr. Rogers
4:00 PM-5:30 PM | Crystal
Manufacturing the Maestro: The Infrastructure of Educational Television on Omnibus (1952–61), Lauren Berlin (Eastman School of Music)
Saturday, November 16
Sounding European Identities
10:45am-12:15pm | Location: Grant Park Parlor, 6th Floor, Palmer House Hotel Hilton
Libation as Intercultural Communication: Hermann Leopoldi’s “I bin a stiller Zecher,” Barbara Dietlinger (University of North Texas)
Music Writing: Moving Beyond Notation
10:45am-12:15pm | Location: Salon 10, 3rd Floor, Palmer House Hotel Hilton
Six String Standard: Evaluating Folk Guitaristic Legibility Through Text and Song, Zeke Levine (New York University)
Home Away from Home: Diasporic Musical Expressions in the United States
4:00pm-5:30pm | Location: Grant Park Parlor, 6th Floor, Palmer House Hotel Hilton
Chair: Kay K. Shelemay (Harvard University)
“As Natural to Me as Breathing”: Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City, Uri S. Schreter (Harvard University)
Sunday, November 17
Making Sense of Trauma through Music and Dance
10:45am-12:15pm | Location: Monroe, 6th Floor, Palmer House Hotel Hilton
Jubano Rikudim in Havana: Cultural Politics of Dance in Cuban Synagogues, Hannah Marie Junco (University of Pennsylvania)