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AMS/LoC Lecture: Recovering the Extraordinary Life and Songs of Carrie Jacobs-Bond – Christopher Reynolds

Montepelier Room, James Madison Memorial Building 101,1199 Independent Ave SE, Washington, DC, United States

Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1861-1946) was the most successful songwriter – male or female – in the first half of the 20th century. Her most popular songs sold millions of copies of sheet music and records and were sung around the world, translated into dozens of languages. Critics often thought of her music either as “semi-classical,” as […]

Singer Songwriter Traditions: Yesterday and Today with Allison Young

Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall Center for the Arts, Towson University, 7700 Osler Drive, Towson, MD, United States

Allison Young is composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist whose music is influenced by her research into early twentieth-century American popular song styles. Through her solo work and collaborations with Postmodern Jukebox, Young converses with the past even as she creates something entirely new. Join us at Towson University on January 31, 2025 to experience a wide […]

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 […]

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 […]

2025 Kennedy Creek Old-Time Music Festival

Kennedy Creek Resort 3001 High Valley Road, Suches, GA, United States

The Kennedy Creek Old-Time Music Festival takes place every autumn at the Kennedy Creek Resort in Suches, Georgia. This year’s festival features workshops and a concert by the Yellow Daisies.