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Kirsten Barker, Samantha Lampe, and Mel Bialecki Miller recently presented at the annual meetings for the American Musicological Society (AMS) and Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), held in Minneapolis, MN and Atlanta, GA respectively.
Barker was on the Ecomusicology Study Group’s program committee for AMS and co-chaired their sponsored session titled “Birds, Bats, and Broken Ice: Rethinking the ‘Human’ of ‘More-than-Human Musicking.’” The panel included five short papers and a lively discussion centered on the topic of non-human sound and music and addressed questions regarding materiality, meaning, expectations, and possibilities.
Also at AMS, Lampe presented part of her dissertation research in a paper titled, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Evita? Mary Bryant’s Marketing Strategy.” Her paper examined marketing materials from the Mary Bryant Collection to demonstrate how Bryant’s multimedia promotional tactics for New York tourists constructed a glamorous–and problematic–narrative for Evita that was separate from Rice and Lloyd Webber’s political intentions.
At SEM, Miller chaired the meeting of the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Musics in and of Europe, which gathers scholars studying music with ties to the European continent to share resources and coordinate collaborative efforts. At the 2025 meeting, the SIG sponsored two paper panels, pitched ideas for future sponsored panels, solicited contributions to a group bibliography and newly created resources page, and discussed useful formats for a forthcoming workshop series.
Article by Christina Bashford, Professor of Musicology and Chair of Musicology Area