CFP: Ecomusicology Roundtable, AMS-SMT Annual Meeting

[Elizabeth Frickey]

The Ecomusicology Study Group of the American Musicological Society seeks proposals for the joint AMS-SMT meeting in Minneapolis (6‒9 November 2025).

We seek contributions for a roundtable of 4-5 papers (~15 mins each) on the theme “More-than-Human Musicking.” The program committee envisions the roundtable as addressing the question of how decentering the human in “more-than-human” or “nonhuman” musicking contributes to fresh understandings of environments, soundscapes, and other multispecies entanglements.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

• Critiques of anthropocentrism or anthropomorphism through sonic expression
• Innovative approaches to listening to/with animal, vegetable, mineral, or fungal musics
• Multispecies musicality, communication, and/or mediation
• More-than-human agencies and identities, perhaps in relation to notions of Otherness, exoticization, or (de)coloniality
• Sounding as problematizing anthropogenic binaries (e.g., organic vs. inorganic, constructed vs. natural, etc)
• Role of more-than-human voices/sounds in shaping perceptions of place, space, and temporality

Please submit a 250-word proposal to this GoogleForm by 17 February 2025. We welcome proposals for traditional papers, artist talks, or collaborative presentations, among other creative format possibilities. Note: this roundtable will be held in tandem with the ESG business meeting.

Proposals will be reviewed anonymously by the program committee, and those who submitted accepted proposals will be notified in early March. Please email ams...@gmail.com with any other questions or concerns.