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The American Musicological Society (AMS) will hold its 94th Annual Meeting in San Diego, California at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego on 13 November through 19 November 2028.
The AMS Annual Meeting is a forum for the exploration of music, history and culture, and is made possible by the support and service of AMS members and volunteers. The 2028 AMS-CMS-SEM-SMT Joint Annual Meeting will be held in San Diego, a large coastal city in Southern California know for its mild climate and wide beaches. With a rich music scene, the city is home to the San Diego Symphony Orchestra and the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park and a historical hotbed for country-western music. So, mark your calendar. We look forward to welcoming you to the 2028 Joint Annual Meeting in San Diego!
If you have any questions about the Annual Meeting, please contact the AMS Office at events [at] amsmusicology.org.
Taken in Stride: The Mundanity of Ambulation
This lecture/performance focuses on stride piano technique, where a pianist’s left hand maintains the rhythmic pulse of a song with alternating leaps between the instrument’s lower and middle registers, simulating the dialogic and propulsive exchange within a band’s rhythm section. Stride was one of the first methods developed in American popular music where a singular musician could, with the additions of a melody-carrying right hand and the human voice, achieve a texturally dense and polyrhythmic performance. Kwami Coleman interprets some of this historical piano repertoire and use it as an aesthetic and technical source for further improvisation, interpolating sounds via synthesizer and sampler—more contemporary, electronic (digital and analog) bands-in-boxes. This event was held as part of the Many Musics of America Project at the 2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
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