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2025 Joint American Musicological Society and Society for Music Conference – Musicking in Disabled Community: Access Intimacy and Cultural Activism
November 8 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Organized by the AMS Music and Disability Study Group. Saturday, November 8, 2025. 12:30pm – 2:00pm CDT / 1:30pm – 3:00pm EST
The Music and Disability Study Group of the AMS hosts three presentations and a conversation on the theme “Musicking in Disabled Community: Access Intimacy and Cultural Activism.”
We have chosen three presentations that:
- Are driven by the interests and priorities of disabled people;
- Involve people collaborating across disability identities, prestige categories, and professional affiliations;
- Engage with co-creating disability culture (see Brown, “What is Disability Culture,” Disability Studies Quarterly 22:2 (2022) and/or access intimacy (See Mingus, “Access Intimacy: The Missing Link”, 2011; https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/ ) as a form of resistance to structural ableism.
The presentations will be followed by general conversation on the themes above. All are welcome!
Presentations:
- Access Culture at the Cedar – Elizabeth McLain
- ArtsAbly and Disability Culture – Diane Kolin
- Crip Sonorities – Molly Joyce
Full details: https://www.conftool.pro/minneapolis2025-ams-smt/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=258