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Re-Animating the Sound Archive

Schaffel Recital Hall, Broyhill Music Center, Appalachian State University 813 Rivers St., Boone, NC, United States

Over the past two decades, Brian Harnetty has located historical recordings that document spoken words and musical performance in archives across Appalachia and the Midwest, including the Berea Appalachian Sound Archives (Berea, Kentucky), the Little Cities of Black Diamonds Archive (Shawnee, Ohio), and the Thomas Merton Collection (Louisville, Kentucky). In this talk, Harnetty will discuss […]

“Vicariously Being There”: How The T.A.M.I. Show Invented the Concert Film

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1100 E 9th Street, Cleveland, OH, United States

Whether we’re watching Stop Making Sense for the 100th time, catching The Eras Tour in a packed movie theater, or tuning into Coachella live on YouTube, today we take for granted that we can see live concerts recorded for screens big and small. But in the 1960s, there was no set answer to the question […]

Science into Art: Discourses of Occult Vibration in Chicago’s Musical Culture

Fulton Hall, University of Chicago 5845 S Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL, United States

Join Professors Anna Gawboy and Christopher Scheer at the University of Chicago as they discuss the fascinating ways that esoteric philosophies influenced Chicago musicians. Among the many varied offerings that comprised Chicago’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 were myriad scientific exhibitions, as well as the Parliament of World Religions, which brought together spiritual leaders representing a […]

HipHop and US Diplomacy

Maroon Culture Lab (Formerly the Pythian Theatre) Columbus, OH, United States

The AMS proudly partners with the HipHop Literacies Conference, Irrepressible Soul, The Ohio State University, and Urban Arts Space to present a special panel and performance featuring hip hop duo Mother Nature and dr. gloria j. wilson. Mother Nature is the women-led HipHop force of Klevah and TRUTH, who are emcees devoted to building a […]

2025 AMS/NYU Lecture

Room 303, Education Building, New York University 35 West 4th Street, New York

The 2025 AMS/NYU Lecture, “Razza, Race, and the Operatic Voice in Seventeenth-Century Italy,” will be held on Thursday, 10 April 2025 at 7:00pm in Room 303 at New York University’s Education Building, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10011. Attendance is free, but registration is required. In this lecture, Professor Emily Wilbourne draws on […]

The Golden Age of Latino Country: Ronstadt, Fender, and Rodriguez in the ’70s

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1100 E 9th Street, Cleveland, OH, United States

This lecture by Nadine Hubbs revisits the music and machinations of country’s 1970s Latino prime and considers this moment in the context of the hundred-year history of Mexican American involvements and contributions in country music.

Music, Disputes, and the Silent Western: The Yaqui (1916)

Library of Congress Washington, DC

In this AMS/ Library of Congress lecture, Mariana Whitmer examines two differing musical accompaniments created by Luz and Winkler for The Yaqui—an early Mexican-border prestige Western.

Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1100 E 9th Street, Cleveland, OH, United States

In this AMS/Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lecture to be held 9 April at 7:00 p.m. ET, DiPiero contextualizes the approach to studying indie rock before outlining some core examples from Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl.

Free

Amy Beach: Path-Breaking American Musician

Library of Congress Washington, DC

In this AMS/Library of Congress Lecture, E. Douglas Bomberger gives a talk on the remarkable composer and pianist Amy Beach (1867-1944).

2026 NYU/AMS Lecture

New York University 20 Cooper Square, Floor 3, New York, NY, United States

The 2026 NYU/AMS Lecture, “Unsettled Sounds: The Critical Frame of Arab-Jewish Musical Inheritance,” will be held on 24 April 2026.