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Palmer House Hilton Hotel 17 E Monroe Street, Chicago, IL, United StatesThis is a regularly scheduled breakfast meeting of the AMS Board of Directors. In-person. Closed meeting.
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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 StatesCarrie 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 StatesAllison 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 […]
AMS Greater New York Chapter Meeting
OnlineThe winter meeting of the AMS Greater New York Chapter will take place ONLINE on Saturday, February 1, 2025. The chapter invites 200-250 word proposals on all areas of musical scholarship. Email proposals are due November 15th. For more information: https://ams-gny-announcements.blogspot.com/
AMS New England Chapter Meeting
OnlineThe American Musicological Society, New England Chapter, announces its virtual meeting of Winter 2025, to take place on February 22 via Zoom and hosted by Wesleyan University. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers and for roundtable sessions or workshops (pedagogical, performative, and/or scholarly). The keynote speaker will be […]
AMS Southeast Chapter Meeting
Christopher Newport University Newport News, Virginia, United StatesThe Southeast Chapter of the American Musicological Society will hold its Spring 2025 meeting hosted by Christopher Newport University on Saturday, February 22nd. All student members of the AMS Southeast Chapter whose papers are accepted to the meeting are encouraged to apply for a Student Presentation Award. To be considered for this award, student presenters […]
AMS Allegheny Chapter Meeting
West Virginia University Morgantown, WV, United StatesThe Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society will hold its spring meeting on Saturday, March 1, 2025, at West Virginia University. The program committee invites proposals for individual papers, lecture-recitals, seminar panels, or other presentation formats on any subject of musicological interest. Following the conference, participants will have the opportunity to attend a concert […]
Re-Animating the Sound Archive
Schaffel Recital Hall, Broyhill Music Center, Appalachian State University 813 Rivers St., Boone, NC, United StatesOver 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 StatesWhether 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 StatesJoin 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 […]