This year, for the first time ever, you can experience an in-person AMS Annual Meeting online. To better serve those who are unable or unwilling to travel to the meeting, the Society will record or stream more than two dozen featured sessions and performances and make them available to online registrants.
How does it work? Well, just register for an AMS Annual Meeting “Select Pass” ($45) and you’ll get access to online sessions scheduled to take place in the morning on Thursday, 6 November 2025, hybrid sessions throughout the day on Friday, as well as recordings of nearly two dozen featured sessions and performances. All content will be either live streamed or recorded and posted within twenty-four hours. All content will also be archived for later viewing.
(NOTE: In-person annual meeting registrants automatically get access to all Select Pass content. There is no need to register separately for Select Pass if you are attending in person.)
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Select Pass Program
The AMS Select Pass will include the following sessions:
- Music Leadership Forum: Navigating Crisis and Change
- A Feminist Killjoy at the AMS (Committee on Women and Gender Lecture)
- Living in the Longer Now: Indigenous Music/Dance as History (AMS President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture)
- The Prince of Porn: The Racialized Politics of Minneapolis’ Music and Sex Culture during the 1980s (Critical Race Lecture)
- Black American Composers and Coded Meanings
- Chinese Guzheng Performance from Antiquity to Modernity
- Rewriting the History of Nineteenth-Century Music for the Stage: the Parisian Vaudeville
- Composing Women: Identity and Creative Agency
- Gender Play: Music and Forms of Gender Impersonation
- Beyond the Specter of “AI”: Algorithmic Bias, Systems of Power, and the Impact of Machine Learning on Contemporary Soundscapes
- 200 Years of Italian Opera in the United States: 1825–2025
- Celebrating Scandinavian and Somali Music with the Nordstär Ensemble
- Musical Imperialisms: Forms of Domination and Ambition
- Singing Memory: Traditional and Folk Musicking in the British Isles
- Transcultural Historical Musicology
- Manuscript Histories
- Disney and Musical Representations of American Identity
- AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Meeting: A Conversation with Dr. Marie Thompson on Music/Reproduction/Crisis
- Roundtable on Supporting and Uplifting the Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender-Expansive Communities in Music Scholarship
- Politics and Representations of Identity in Music
- Taken in Stride: The Mundanity of Ambulation
- African Pianism: A Celebration of African Composers
- Musical Landscapes Across the Americas
- Concerts and Commerce in the 18th and 19th Centuries
SMT Hybrid Sessions
Every year, the Society for Music Theory streams a small number of sessions from the SMT Annual Meeting. To access a list of those sessions and links for viewing, visit the SMT Hybrid Sessions page.