[iberoamericanmusiclist] IAMSG activities at the 2026 AMS Annual Meeting

[Javier Marín-López]

Dear colleagues and friends of the IAMSG-AMS,

We are writing to share some updates about IAMSG-AMS activities and, more
broadly, the presence of Ibero-American music and music scholarship at the
upcoming AMS Annual Meeting.

This year, Ibero-American topics will have a particularly strong presence
at the conference. In addition to our traditional IAMSG Business Meeting,
scheduled for Friday, November 20, we will have a special in-person session
organized in collaboration with the Butler School of Music at the
University of Texas at Austin, which will also be livestreamed. This is one
of the in-person special events proposed and accepted for inclusion in the
2026 AMS Annual Meeting and selected for support by AMS. The session will
take place on Saturday, November 14, and will feature Benjamin Barson,
winner of the 2025 Robert M. Stevenson Award.

In addition, we will have a series of six thematic panels and performance
sessions organized through ARLAC-IMS, the Regional Association for Latin
America and the Caribbean of the International Musicological Society. These
sessions are the result of a long-developed agreement between the American
Musicological Society and the International Musicological Society, an
initiative in which several members of IAMSG-AMS have been actively
involved. We believe this new thematic format offers a wonderful
opportunity to increase the visibility of Ibero-American music and
scholarship within the broader conference program, while also encouraging
dialogue among researchers working in different contexts and academic
traditions.

Below is the list of these special sessions, with titles, times (all in
Eastern Time), and links to the online program for the details. The program
is still provisional, although significant changes to the times of these
sessions seem unlikely, particularly as they involve scholars joining from
several different countries.

*Saturday, November 14*
– 10:00–10:45 — “Music in the Press: Research Methods and the Writing of
Music History in Latin America and the Caribbean” (ARLAC-IMS Working Group
"Music and Periodicals")
https://www.conftool.pro/online2026-ams/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2026-11-14ARLAC&form_session=1383&presentations=show#paperID516

– 10:45–11:30 — “Mapping Sources in Musical Iconography: Crossing Borders
and Challenging Boundaries” (ARLAC-IMS Working Group "Music Iconography")
https://www.conftool.pro/online2026-ams/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2026-11-14ARLAC&form_session=1384&presentations=show#paperID517

– 12:00–13:30 — “‘Canciones Neogranadinas” and the Latin American
Villancico: Domestic Practices and Transregional Networks (1850–1930)”
(ARLAC-IMS Working Group "Villancico in Spanish America")
https://www.conftool.pro/online2026-ams/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=1385

– 14:00–15:30 — *IAMSG–AMS Special In-Person Session* (live stream from the
Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin): Benjamin Barson
(Bucknell University): “Music History From Below in (and Across) the
Gulf-Caribbean World: Archival Envelopment, Thick Description, and Atlantic
Methods in Musicology” (IAMSG-AMS)
https://www.conftool.pro/online2026-ams/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2026-11-14ARLAC&form_session=1431&presentations=show#paperID530

*Thursday, November 19*
– 10:00–11:30 — “Organs, matracas (Church rattles) and bands in Europe and
the New World: 18th–20th centuries” (IMS Study Group "Early Music and the
World")
https://www.conftool.pro/online2026-ams/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2026-11-14ARLAC&form_session=1386&presentations=show#paperID518

– 12:00–12:45 — “The Architect of Americanismo: Francisco Curt Lange and
the Intellectual Infrastructure of Latin American Musicology” (ARLAC-IMS
Working Group "Francisco Curt Lange")
https://www.conftool.pro/online2026-ams/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2026-11-14ARLAC&form_session=1387&presentations=show#paperID519

– 12:45–13:30 — “Decolonial Approaches to Music Studies: Listening,
Historiography, and the Politics of Audibility” (ARLAC-IMS Working Group
"Latin American Decolonial Musicology")
https://www.conftool.pro/online2026-ams/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2026-11-14ARLAC&form_session=1388&presentations=show#paperID520

*Friday, November 20*
– 14:00–15:30 — *IAMSG Business Meeting*: “>From ‘cine silente’ to TikTok:
Music, Sound, and Moving Media Across the Ibero-American World” (IAMSG-AMS)
https://www.conftool.pro/online2026-ams/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2026-11-14ARLAC&form_session=1405&presentations=show#paperID497

Beyond this special programming, the conference will also include a number
of other panels and individual papers related to Ibero-American music, so
our field will have an especially visible presence at this year’s meeting.

We warmly encourage all of you to join these sessions whenever you can, and
especially the two events organized directly through the IAMSG. It would be
wonderful to see a strong turnout from our community and to take advantage
of these opportunities to connect with one another.

We hope to see many of you there!

Javier Marín-López (University of Jaen, Spain), chair
Jacqueline Avila (University of Texas at Austin), incoming chair
Vera Wolkowicz (University of Glasgow, UK), outgoing chair

Ibero-American Music Study Group
American Musicological Society

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