IMS Sessions to be Featured at the 2026 AMS Annual Meeting

Amplifying Dissonances in Transregional Circulation of Sinophonic Sounds

“Overhearing Discontinuous Temporality: A Bell in and around Xi’an” Yusheng Lei (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

“Transgressive Community, Translocal Solidarity: Protest Music as Expressions of Sinophonic Affects” Jermyn C. M. Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

“Mapping Sinophone Sonic Migration: A GenAI-Assisted, Zero-Coding Digital Humanities Approach to Cantonese Contemporary Christian Music (CCCM)” Issac T. L. Sit (The University of Hong Kong)

“Aging Together through Dis/Consonance: Negotiating Sinophone Music in a Los Angeles Community Health Center” Diandian Zeng (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Perspectives on Kikuko Kanai and Okinawan Music in Modern Japan

“‘Constructing Okinawa Musically’: Kikuko Kanai’s Overlooked Significance” Maiko Kawabata (Royal College of Music and the Open University, UK)

“The Reason Why Kikuko Kanai was Particular about Okinawan Music: from the Perspective of the Education and Cultural Situation in Modern Japan” Wakana Mishima (Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts)

“Western Music Theory and Composition Education in Japan: Diversity and Spread across Regions in the First Half of the Twentieth Century” Maho Nakatsuji (The Center of Creative Inheritance for the Future, Tokyo University of the Arts)

“Theory at the Periphery: Quartal Harmony and the Ryukyuan Scale in the Reception of Western Music Theory in Japan” Hiroko Nishida (Kyushu University)

“Exploring Creative Influences from Composers around Kanai” Hirofumi Ueta (Kyushu University)

Research into the Methodology Behind Digitally Archiving Materials Related to Kabuki Music

“The Significance of the International Digital Archiving of the KATADA Kiyozō Collection” Makiko Tsuchida (Tokyo University of the Arts)

“Kabuki Music Studies in Context: Materials, Accessibility, and Research Perspectives” Kei Aoki (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties and Tokyo University of the Arts)

“Analysing Kabuki Music through Performer-Written Materials: Multiple Perspectives from the KATADA Kiyozō Collection” Sayumi Kamata (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties)

“Translating for Integrity and Accessibility: The English Diffusion of the Japanese KATADA Kiyozō Collection” Colleen Christina Schmuckal (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

Sounds of Korea: Tradition and Continuation

Performance presented by the Department of Korean Traditional Music College of Music, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Music in the Press: Research Methods and the Writing of Music History in Latin America and the Caribbean

Organized by the ARLAC-IMS Study Group “Music and Periodicals”

“Researching Music in Latin American Periodicals: Sources and Methods” Miriam Escudero (Universidad de La Habana, Cuba)

“The Periodical Press and the Construction of Music Historiography in Latin America and the Caribbean” Maria Alice Volpe (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Mapping Sources in Musical Iconography: Crossing Borders and Challenging Boundaries

Organized by the ARLAC-IMS Study Group “Musical Iconography in Ibero-America and its Overseas Connections”

“Architecture, Music, and Musical Iconography: Mapping Portuguese-Brazilian Sources for the Construction of a Dialogue between the Tangible and the Envisioned” Luzia Aurora Rocha (Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, ESART, Portugal)

“Mapping Chinese and Japanese Musical Sources in Portuguese Collections” Sofia Beatriz Silva (Universidad Nova de Lisboa, CESEM, Portugal)

“The Five Senses Dual Traditions: Contextualizing Colonial Brazil Iconographic Sets” Pablo Sotuyo Blanco (RIdIM-Brasil / Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil)

“Canciones Neogranadinas” and the Latin American Villancico: Domestic Practices and Transregional Networks (1850–1930)

Organized by the IMS Study Group “The Villancico in Hispanic America”

La Lira Antioqueña

Mónica Herrera, mezzosoprano
Jamir Mauricio Moreno, tenor
Carlos Caballero Parra, guitar
Mariantonia Palacios de Sans, piano
Jorge Mario Valencia, recording artist

Organs, matracas (Church rattles) and bands in Europe and the New World: 18th–20th centuries

Organized by the IMS Study Group “Early Music and the New World”

“The Roosevelt organ (1888) at the Compañía de Jesús Church in Quito, Ecuador” Ángel Justo-Estebaranz (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)

“Mechanical organs in Colombia: The Aeolian Organ of the San José Chapel (Jesuit Church), Bogotá, and the Walcker Organola at Cali Cathedral” José Luis Castillo Higuera (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)

“The Acoustic Heritage of Two Catalan Matraques” Zorana Đorđević (Independent Scholar, Rovinj, Croatia)

“Matracas in Latin America: The case of Colombia” Egberto Bermúdez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá)

“Augusto Azzali (1863–1907): Opera and bands in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States” Mario Alberto Sarmiento Rodríguez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá)

The Architect of Americanismo: Francisco Curt Lange and the Intellectual Infrastructure of Latin American Musicology

Organized by the ARLAC–IMS Study Group “Curt Lange”

“Mapping the Intellectual Infrastructure of Latin American Musicology: The Curt Lange Networked Legacy” Edite Rocha (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / Acervo Curt Lange, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

“From Latin Americanism to Inter-Americanism: Francisco Curt Lange and the Evolution of Americanismo Musical” Diego Bosquet (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina)

“What Does Americanismo Musical Sound Like? An Approach to Francisco Curt Lange’s Project Based on the Scores Published by the Editorial Cooperativa Interamericana de Compositores (ECIC, 1941–1953)” Daniela Fugellie (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)

Decolonial Approaches to Music Studies: Listening, Historiography, and the Politics of Audibility

Organized by the ARLAC–IMS Study Group “Latin American Decolonial Musicology”

Roundtable Participants

Diósnio Machado Neto (Universidade de São Paulo)
Fátima Graciela Musri (Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina)
Mauricio Andrés Pitich (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina)