<Reminder: 2025 CfP-Joint Meeting of SMT Post-1945 IG and Improvisation IG>

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN (Friday, 07/Nov/2025: 12:30pm – 2…[Read more]

<New Deadline: Call for Papers for 2025 Joint Meeting of SMT Post-1945 IG and Improvisation IG>

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN. We invite paper p…[Read more]

<Final Reminder: Call for Papers for 2025 Joint Meeting of SMT Post-1945 IG and Improvisation IG>

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN. We invite paper p…[Read more]

<Reminder: Call for Papers for 2025 Joint Meeting of SMT Post-1945 IG and Improvisation IG>

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN. We invite paper proposals o…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us on Friday, July 18 from 8-10pm EST for a film music mixer, jointly hosted by the AMS Music and Media study group and the SMT Film and Multimedia interest group. At this meeting, we’ll be discussing the soundtracks to two wonderful Studio Ghibli coming of age films scored by the eminent Joe Hisaishi, Kiki’s Del…[Read more]

<Call for Papers for 2025 Joint Meeting of SMT Post-1945 IG and Improvisation IG>

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN. We invite paper proposals on the t…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group and AMS Music and Media Study Group are organizing a 2025 Summer Film Music Mixer and we’d like your help planning!

The plan is to meet a TBD evening in mid-July (in the past, this has typically been a later-evening start time in Eastern Standard time) for 1-2 hours and discuss a…[Read more]

<(Final Reminder) 2025 Publication Awards Nominations are Now Accepted! (By March 31)>

Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

The SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group is now accepting nominations of published articles or book chapters for its annual Publication Award. Please consider nominating recent work in the field from the past three…[Read more]

<(Reminder) 2025 Publication Awards Nominations are Now Accepted! (By March 31)>

Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

The SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group is now accepting nominations of published articles or book chapters for its annual Publication Award. Please consider nominating recent work in the field from the past three years.…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group (FMIG) is pleased to announce the two winners of the 2024 SMT FMIG Publication Awards:

Karen Cook, “8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack to Faxanadu,” Music Theory Online 29/3 (2023)

Frank Lehman, “The ‘Indiana Jones’ series is back, along with the iconic music of John Willia…[Read more]

Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

The SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group is now accepting nominations of published articles or book chapters for its annual Publication Award. Please consider nominating recent work in the field from the past three years. Self-nominations are welcome.

Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published…[Read more]

Dear All,

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

The AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group invites members of both societies to submit a proposal for a joint poster session to be held at the 2025 AMS/SMT Conference in Minneapolis.  The proposals may be on any topic related to the intersection of music and media.  Early career scholars, independent s…[Read more]

Dear Post-1945 Interest Group Members,

We had one nomination for webmaster: Ryan Jones, current PhD student at Eastman. The election is now open, you may vote during the next two weeks.

The election is via an anonymous Google Form: https://forms.gle/mWV9zxQA5uz6H5Yq6

Hope everyone’s having a nice end to their semester,

Noah

Hi everyone,

We had a wonderful meeting in Jacksonville! We hosted a session of lightning talks considering the last/next ten years of multimedia scholarship, including presentations by Laine Gruver, Adam Rizzo, Austin Wilson, and Clair Nguyen. The session also included two invited presentations by the group’s founders, Juan Chattah and Frank…[Read more]