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HipHop and US Diplomacy
2025-03-22 19:00 (America/New_York) | 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 legacy founded on defiance and self-discovery. In addition to being award winning performers, they are both artist-educators who participated in Next Level residencies which mobilized HipHop as a tool of diplomacy in places like Morocco and Azerbaijan.
In this evening panel, dr. wilson will lead a discussion with Klevah and TRUTH about their experience with HipHop education and diplomacy in the US and abroad. Following the conversation, Mother Nature will give a brief performance.
This event is presented as part of the HipHop Literacies Conference, bringing together scholars, K–12 teachers, and artist-practitioners from a variety of fields who use HipHop in a variety of ways, from literacy instruction to political advocacy. It will take place at the Maroon Culture Lab, a new performance space in the historically Black neighborhood of Bronzeville in Columbus, Ohio. Originally built as a temple for the Knights of Pythias, the building is dedicated to promoting and honoring artistic and cultural contributions by Black artists, musicians, and other creative professionals.
Tickets are free, but registration will be required. For more information, visit the Many Musics of America website.

AMS Rocky Mountain Chapter Meeting
2025-03-21 - 2025-03-22 | Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Musicological Society is pleased to announce the call for papers for the Chapter’s Annual Meeting, this year hosted at Brigham Young University, March 2025. Current plans are for a fully in-person event. The Chapter will meet jointly with the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society for Music Theory.
Dates: Friday-Saturday, March 21-22, 2025
Location: Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
Submission Deadline: 11:55pm MST, January 10, 2025
The chapter invites paper submissions on any topic related to musicology, broadly defined. Each presentation will be twenty minutes, plus ten-minute discussions.

Individual papers: Submit by email (single Word or PDF attachment): title and abstract (up to 250 words).
Sessions on a single topic: Submit by email (single sender): proposed session title, along with all abstracts for the session (individually titled Word or PDF attachments, up to 250 words per abstract).
Roundtable discussions: Submit by email (single Word or PDF attachment): session title and abstract (up to 450 words)

For all submissions, please do not include names or affiliations in Word/PDF attachments. Include in the email body only presenter name(s), along with institutional affiliation(s), if applicable. Papers will be chosen by the selection committee through a blind-review process. According to Chapter bylaws, papers submitted by undergraduate or master’s students must be accompanied by faculty letters of endorsement (not to be shared with the selection committee). A prize for best student paper will be announced at the conference’s end. If you would like to be considered for this prize, please indicate this additionally in the email body.
Additional information about conference format and registration will be posted at: https://arts.unco.edu/music/american-musicological-society-rocky-mountain/
Please email proposals or inquiries to Hannah McLaughlin: hannah_mclaughlin – at – byu.edu.

AMS Midwest Chapter Meeting
2025-03-15 - 2025-03-16 | Illinois State University / Online
The Midwest Chapter officers are pleased to announce that the Spring 2025 meeting will be held online and in-person at Illinois State University on March 15-16th. Thorton Miller will be our host for the meeting.
Proposals for presentations, special sessions, panel discussions, and papers with a performance component are welcomed on any topic related to musicology. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and should clearly indicate the scope of the research, methodology, and conclusions. Presentations will be limited to twenty minutes, with an additional ten minutes allotted for questions and discussion. Applications will include an option to indicate preference for online or in-person presentation formats. Speakers at the 2024 Fall meeting are not eligible to submit a paper abstract for the 2025 Spring meeting; however, they are welcome to participate in panel discussions. Only one submission per person is allowed.
Deadline for abstract submission: February 17, 2025
The meeting will feature a keynote presentation by Scott Schwartz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) titled “Sousa and Baseball.”
Complete Guidelines for Paper Submission may be found at:
https://amsmidwest.weebly.com/abstract-submission.html
We have instituted an easy online submission process available at the chapter website:
https://amsmidwest.weebly.com/abstract-submission.html
You need to be a current regular or student member of the AMS-Midwest Chapter for your abstract to be considered (chapter membership is not the same as national membership in the AMS). To join or renew your membership, please visit our membership page:
https://amsmidwest.weebly.com/membership.html
Submission of an abstract denotes the speaker’s willingness and availability to attend the 2025 Spring Chapter meeting online.
We encourage both graduate and undergraduate students to present their work at our meetings. Student members of AMS-Midwest are invited to compete for one of two annual prizes for outstanding papers offered by Indiana University Press and A-R Editions, Inc. For updated details of the awards, see:
https://amsmidwest.weebly.com/awards.html
Thank you for your interest in the upcoming meeting of the AMS-Midwest Chapter. We hope to see you there!
Your AMS-Midwest Chapter Officers

AMS South-Central Chapter Meeting
2025-03-15 - 2025-03-16 | Belmont University, Nashville, TN, United States
The AMS South-Central Chapter is pleased to announce its Spring 2025 meeting at Belmont University in Nashville, TN.
Students from the AMS South-Central Chapter whose abstracts are selected by the program committee will be eligible to compete in the Rey M. Longyear Student Paper Competition.
Local Arrangements Chair: Peter Lamothe, peter.lamothe -at- belmont.edu
Register

AMS Southwest Chapter Meeting
2025-03-15 | University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, United States
The Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society is pleased to announce a Spring 2025 Meeting, which will take place in person at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas, on Saturday, 15 March 2025. A related leadership summit that is open to all members of the chapter will take place on the afternoon Friday, March 14.
Student members of the AMS-SW chapter may submit their papers to the competition for the Hewitt-Oberdoerffer Award.
For more information, visit https://ams-sw.org/ or email AMS-SW Secretary Dr. Sarah Lucas at sarah.lucas -at- tamuk.edu.

Science into Art: Discourses of Occult Vibration in Chicago’s Musical Culture
2025-03-14 16:30 (America/New_York) | Fulton Hall, University of Chicago, 5845 S Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL, 60637, 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 wide spectrum of beliefs. The Parliament included members of the Theosophical Society, an esoteric organization which sought to reconcile the growing divide between science and religion by treating both as corrupted branches of a universal ancient wisdom.
One concept which transcended these divisions at the time was vibration. At the exposition, vibration could be seen and experienced everywhere through the electric current that powered the geysers and illuminated the amusements of White City, as well as the novel inventions on display in the Electricity Building. At the same time, participating Theosophists advocated a conception of reality that was founded on the fundamental presence and manipulation of spiritual vibrations. In many cases, the language used to articulate scientific and spiritual meanings for vibration was shared, reflecting the Theosophists’ appropriation of scientific discourse and the deployment of Theosophy’s vibrational metaphysics in explanations of natural forces by scientists such as Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.
This vocabulary of vibration was an important element in the musical culture of Chicago in the twentieth century and provides a framework to re-enchant its history. We will explore two overlapping but contrasting case studies: 1) the salon of Djane Lavoie Herz and the ultramodern musical experiments of her student, Ruth Crawford Seeger; and 2) the relationship of Alton Abraham’s Thmei Research group to the performances and music of Sun Ra. In both cases, the study of Theosophical texts and their discourses of vibration motivated musical experimentation, revealing esotericism’s potential to inspire creativity in networks of Chicago musicians, traversing divisions of style and genre, science and religion, and class and race.
This event will be held as part of the Many Musics of America Project.
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“Vicariously Being There”: How The T.A.M.I. Show Invented the Concert Film
2025-03-13 19:00 (America/New_York) | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, 1100 E 9th Street, Cleveland, OH, 44114, 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 of how to capture a concert on film, or what to even do with such a product once it’s been made.
In 1964, the concert film The T.A.M.I. Show gave young America a stunning answer, showcasing on large movie screens an eclectic medley of performers including the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, the Supremes, and an electrifying set by James Brown. The T.A.M.I. Show opened a path for more concert documentaries to be made and find their audiences, but it was also a unique moment in American popular music history. Join Landon Palmer as he uncovers the curious story of The T.A.M.I. Show, one that involves William Shakespeare, strange television technologies, and a very short-lived charity organization. In this talk, he’ll explain how this movie came to exist and why there’s never been anything quite like it since.
This event will be held as part of the AMS Many Musics of America Project and the AMS/Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Lecture Series.

Re-Animating the Sound Archive
2025-03-05 18:00 (America/New_York) | Schaffel Recital Hall, Broyhill Music Center, Appalachian State University, 813 Rivers St., Boone, NC, 28608, 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 strategies by which people in the present relate to recorded sounds that document the past. Through listening with people who live today in the communities where the recordings were made, Harnetty has helped these communities understand and respond to their histories. In this talk he explores themes from several recording, performance, and installation projects that embed old audio in new contexts, playing illustrative examples from historic and present-day audio and video recordings. These projects document histories of extraction in Appalachia, social and environmental justice concerns, and contemplative practices.
This talk will be held in conjunction with Brian Harnetty’s residency as part of the Music Humanities Community Conversations Series at Appalachian State University. The Music Humanities Community Conversation Series provides a forum for students, faculty, and staff at Appalachian State University and community members to engage current topics in music humanities through invited talks and workshops given by scholars, artists, and cultural leaders from Appalachian State and the surrounding region.
Attendees may park in the Schaefer Lot, Broyhill Lot, or Peacock Lot for free from 5:00pm to the end of the event. The Broyhill Music Center is at 813 Rivers St, Boone, NC, 28608.
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AMS Allegheny Chapter Meeting
2025-03-01 | West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26506, United States
The 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 featuring the Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble VOCES8 at 7:30pm in the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre.
Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words along with the proposed title and presentation format to graffp [at] denison.edu by Saturday, February 1st.
We encourage proposal submissions for a number of scholarly presentation formats. In accordance with AMS policies, please follow these guidelines:
1. Individual papers should be no longer than 20 minutes with 10 minutes of discussion.
2. “Lightning” sessions consist of individual 8-10 minute talks with additional discussion or media. Entire session will fill a one-hour slot.
3. Video presentation abstracts should include information on the goals and format of the presentation. Additional guidelines will be distributed with acceptance.
4. Seminar panels will distribute written papers ahead of the conference and include extended discussion of the topic. See AMS Seminar FAQ for additional information on proposing a topic and why to choose this format: https://www.amsmusicology.org/page/MinneapolisSeminarFAQ
5. Additional formats (workshops, roundtables, lecture-recitals) should fill an hour and 20-minute slot. Please identify session format, musicological significance, and participant roles in the abstract.
*Students are also eligible for the annual Deane L. Root Student Paper Award, sponsored by the Center for American Music in the University of Pittsburgh Library System. The Award consists of a $250 monetary prize and will be named at the end of the conference. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for this prize in the body of your email. The Chapter also offers limited support for travel and lodging to student presenters. Details can be found on the AMS Allegheny website.
All submissions will be evaluated by a blind peer-review process, and those from a committee member’s immediate colleagues or students will not be forwarded by the chair to that member.
For information on the chapter and upcoming events, see: https://amsallegheny.wordpress.com/

AMS Southeast Chapter Meeting
2025-02-22 | Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia, United States
The 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 must submit a complete draft of their paper to the chapter president via e-mail no later than twenty-four hours prior to the conference.
We look forward to seeing you all in February!

AMS New England Chapter Meeting
2025-02-22 | Online
The 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 Dr. John Dankwa (Wesleyan University), who specializes in African music, with performance areas ranging from West African traditional drumming to African pop and art music.
Papers focusing on global topics are especially encouraged–including, but not limited to, topics from any period or genre on historic and current non-AngloEuropean music, interactions between AngloEuropean and non-AngloEuropean musical cultures, globalization and colonization. All abstracts are subject to blind review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and students are encouraged and welcome.
Abstracts should be submitted by December 30, 2024 to the Program Committee through this Google form or at the following email: ams.newengland [at] gmail [dot] com. Submitters will be informed of the committee’s decision by January 27, 2025, with the hope of announcing the conference program on February 5, 2025.
Please refer to the AMS guidelines for abstracts: “Proposals should represent the presentation as fully as possible. A successful proposal typically articulates the main aspects of the argument or research findings clearly, positions the author’s contribution with respect to previous scholarship, and suggests the paper’s significance for the musicological community, in language that is accessible to scholars with a variety of specializations.” Applicants are requested to submit only one proposal per meeting, and that the proposal not be currently under review for presentation at other conferences. In the case of a roundtable or workshop, the same guidelines apply, and the committee asks that the single proposal be for the session as a whole, including information for all participants, rather than individual proposals.
For more information, please visit: https://www.newengland.ams-net.org/?p=1473

AMS Greater New York Chapter Meeting
2025-02-01 | Online
The 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/

Singer Songwriter Traditions: Yesterday and Today with Allison Young
2025-01-31 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall, Center for the Arts, Towson University, 7700 Osler Drive, Towson, MD, 21204, 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 history of American popular music in one evening! Young will discuss her influences, her creative process, and the challenges of retaining the sense and style of the songs as they existed in the past. Along the way, she will discuss the problems with the repertoire, including racialized song lyrics and outdated gendered references, and present her model for carefully reusing old music in the present. Tickets are required. Reserve your free ticket.

AMS/LoC Lecture: Recovering the Extraordinary Life and Songs of Carrie Jacobs-Bond - Christopher Reynolds
2024-12-04 07:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Montepelier Room, James Madison Memorial Building, 101,1199 Independent Ave SE, Washington, DC, 20540, 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 “high-class songs,” or, because so many millions of people sang her songs, as folk music, calling her a descendant of Stephen Foster. Americans sang her songs at weddings, funerals, and gatherings of all kinds, usually by heart. She was also an early female entrepreneur, founding her own music publishing house, designing her early sheet music covers, writing the lyrics to half of her nearly 200 songs. As a result she earned enough to build homes in Chicago, in the hills north of San Diego, and in Hollywood, where she was one of the founding cultural figures. Before Mrs. Bond began to tour as a means of promoting her songs, performing them to thousands of audiences over four decades, there was no such thing as a woman singer-songwriter. And like popular folk and rock singer-songwriters in the 1960s and later, she made no pretense of being a professional singer. Quite the contrary.
A sure measure of Bond’s broad appeal: professional singers and performers of all musical styles embraced her songs. Many leading opera singers (e.g., Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Lawrence Tibbett) promoted them in their recitals, in dozens of recordings, and in testimonials. Vaudeville and Broadway musicians regularly performed her songs—Elsie Baker and Eubie Blake made early recordings; with the advent of national radio networks in the late 1920s, popular musicians and swing band leaders increasingly arranged and recorded their versions. She was always among ASCAP’s top royalty earners. In 1938 her earnings of $10,000 put her in an elite group with Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and George Gershwin’s estate. Yet while there are currently 19 biographies of Berlin (seven since 2000) and 18 of Gershwin (nine since 2000), there are no scholarly biographies of Mrs. Bond.
Jacobs-Bond’s life story and cultural significance, like her songs, are today mostly unknown. In this presentation, Christopher Reynolds will examine what it is that made her such an extraordinarily significant figure, and then discuss three of her songs that became central parts of American rituals: “I Love you Truly,” at weddings, “I’ve Done My Work,” at funerals, particularly those of Black Americans, and “A Perfect Day,” a song that was routinely sung to end public gatherings of all kinds, a song favored above all others by WWI soldiers.

AMS Board Meeting
2024-11-14 19:30 - 22:30 (America/New_York) | Palmer House Hilton Hotel, 17 E Monroe Street, Chicago, IL, United States
This is a regularly scheduled breakfast meeting of the AMS Board of Directors. In-person. Closed meeting.

2024 AMS Annual Meeting
2024-11-14 - 2024-11-17 | Palmer House Hilton Hotel, 17 E Monroe Street, Chicago, IL, United States
In 2024, the American Musicological Society will hold its annual meeting on 14-17 November at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. Join us for this exciting scholarly event which will feature hundreds of papers, workshops, roundtables, lectures and performances. Don’t miss out.

AMS Board Meeting
2024-11-13 14:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Palmer House Hilton Hotel, 17 E Monroe Street, Chicago, IL, United States
This is a regularly scheduled meeting of the AMS Board of Directors. In-person. Closed meeting.

AMS Capital Chapter / MLA Atlantic Chapter Meeting
2024-10-18 - 2024-10-19 | Library of Congress, Washington, DC
This is the fall chapter meeting of the AMS Capital Chapter, which will be held jointly with the MLA Atlantic Chapter.

AMS Midwest Chapter Meeting
2024-10-12 - 2024-10-13 | Online
AMS-Midwest Chapter Meeting, Fall 2024
Hosted online by the University of Missouri, October 12–13, 2024
Deadline for abstract submission: Friday, September 6, 2024, by 11:59 PM, EST
The Midwest Chapter officers are pleased to announce that the Fall 2024 meeting will be held online on Saturday and Sunday, October 12–13. Judith Mabary and Megan Murph will be the “virtual” hosts for the meeting.
Proposals for presentations, special sessions, panel discussions, and papers with a performance component are welcomed on any topic related to musicology. Given that 2024 serves as the centennial of the death of Puccini, the first recordings made by Duke Ellington, and the world-premieres of Sibelius’s Symphony no. 7 and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, the committee especially encourages proposals related to the milestone year of 1924. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and should clearly indicate the scope of the research, methodology, and conclusions. Presentations will be limited to twenty minutes, with an additional ten minutes allotted for questions and discussion. Speakers at the 2023 Fall meeting are not eligible to submit a paper abstract for the 2024 Fall meeting; however, they are welcome to participate in panel discussions. Only one submission per person is allowed.
The meeting will feature a keynote presentation by Karen Fournier (University of Michigan) titled “Suburbia and the Supermarket: Parodies of Gendered Spaces as Feminist Protest in Early British Punk.”
Complete Guidelines for Paper Submission may be found at:
https://amsmidwest.weebly.com/fall-2024-call-for-papers.html

AMS Southwest Chapter Meeting
2024-10-05 | University of North Texas, Denton, Denton, TX, United States
The AMS Southwest Chapter (AMS-SW) is pleased to announce its Fall 2024 Meeting, to be held Saturday, October 5 at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. This will be an in-person meeting; however, AMS-SW remains committed to making our meetings accessible, and hybrid options are available. Student members of the AMS-SW chapter may submit their papers to the competition for the Hewitt-Oberdoerffer Award. For further details, please see the AMS-Southwest Chapter Upcoming Meetings webpage: https://ams-sw.org/index.php/upcoming-meetings/.

AMS/LoC Lecture: Heard on the Small Screen: Music in Jack Arnold's and Henry Mancini's Episodes of Peter Gunn - Reba Wissner
2024-09-28 02:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Pickford Theater, James Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC, 20540, United States
Best known for his science fiction films, Jack Arnold also directed television episodes in different genres, not only science fiction but also westerns, comedies, and detective shows. Among all of his television works, Peter Gunn provides an important example because this is the first television series that has an original score rather than library music for every episode (Withey, 2001). This meant that the score would be composed specifically based on the rough cut of the episode, considering the director’s choices. Before Peter Gunn, television networks were required to have 13 original scores for a television season and any additional shows relied on music libraries to piece together cues for a complete score (Wissner, 2013). Further, the series was in a style of television noir (Glover, 2019) that Arnold had to account for when directing and which series composer Henry Mancini had to consider when writing the score. Mancini responded by composing a rock-jazz hybrid he deemed as West Coast Cool Jazz and this was the first television score to use jazz throughout, pioneering a new style of television scoring in the late 1950s and early 1960s. One of the hallmarks of the series was that its music was inseparable from the show and often, even its narrative, and the show’s creator, Blake Edwards, noted that the series’ music was responsible for at least half of its success (Burlingame, 2002). Much of the research on Arnold’s works concern his directorial practices and styles and the films themselves but there is little literature on his television episodes and virtually no literature on the music of these episodes. A discussion of the music in these episodes is important because the choice of music helps to heighten the directorial choices that Arnold made and understand how Mancini responded to those choices through his scores.
As a detective show, which differed from much of Arnold’s other works, Arnold had to fit the established parameters of the show when directing (he was called in to direct his first episode midway through the first season when Edwards had already established the series’ format). Similarly, Mancini had to incorporate jazz, which was pervasive in the detective genre in 1950s television, with a consideration of each episode’s plot, script, and Arnold’s directing style. Mancini also established a unique compositional style for the series based on the onscreen action. In this lecture, Reba Wissner will discuss how the composition of music amplifies Arnold’s directorial choices in his episodes of Peter Gunn (“The Hunt,” “Vendetta,” “Bullet for a Badge,” “Love Me to Death,” “Keep Smiling,” and “The Ugly Frame”). Wissner will plot out Mancini’s compositional process as a reflection of Arnold’s directing choices by using Peter Gunn as a case study and elaborate on how this small scale study of Mancini’s music for the show under one director can be expanded to the other directors who worked on the series.

AMS Council Workshop: Advancing the AMS Mission Over Time
2024-09-20 03:00 - 16:15 (America/New_York) | Online
The AMS Council Workshops have been instituted to further educate Council members on AMS operations and to increase transparency. The Council Workshop on Advancing the AMS Mission Over Time will be held at 3 PM EST online. Council members will receive instructions to register for the meeting in their email inbox. By invitation only.

AMS/RRHoF Lecture: What Is The Modern Rock 500? - Counting Down the Evolution of Modern/Indie Rock & Independent Radio - Robin James
2024-09-19 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, 1100 E 9th Street, Cleveland, OH, 44114, United States
Every Memorial Day Weekend from 1989-2009, and from 2023 until who knows when, the Cincinnati-area independent (internet) radio stations WOXY and Inhailer broadcast a countdown of the top 500 songs in their library. Dubbed “The Modern Rock 500” in 1989 and renamed “The Indie 500” in 2024, the chart’s contents can tell us a lot about what “modern rock” is and how it differs from alternative and indie. Doing a deep dive into each of the yearly countdowns, Robin James will show how the countdown shifts from a pluralistic and “modern” approach to genre to a more guitar-oriented one that views the influence of non-rock genres like electronic dance music and reggae/dub as relics from the 20th century. The ongoing existence of the Modern Rock 500 as an institution has an even more important lesson for lovers and practitioners of independent media: as an institution that survived the closure of WOXY in 2010 only to be resurrected again by former WOXY staff and the crew at Inhailer.com, The Modern Rock 500 both reveals the challenges indie media faces in an increasingly financialized industry, and models some successful tactics one indie media institution has used to survive amid those challenges.
For more information, visit https://tickets.rockhall.com/events/0182b120-9521-36c4-171c-967341dbaf4f

AMS Greater New York Chapter Meeting
2024-09-14 | CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
The Greater New York Chapter of the American Musicological Society will meet on Saturday, September 14th, at the CUNY Graduate Center.
We invite you to send us proposals for presentations. E mail 250 word abstracts by August 15th. We look forward to reading proposals in all areas of musical scholarship.
Instead, Please send abstracts to both DrJSDailey “at” aol.com and Jonathan.Waxman “at” gmail.com. Do not send attachments, but put the abstract right in the e mail. Include your name, phone number, e mail address and include a brief biography that contains your affiliation (if you have one). Put AMSGNY Fall 2024″ in the subject line.

AMS Board Meeting
2024-09-13 12:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Online
This is a regularly scheduled meeting of the AMS Board of Directors. Closed meeting.

2024 Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Festival
2024-09-06 - 2024-09-08 | Kennedy Creek Resort, 3001 High Valley Road, Suches, GA, 30572, United States
The Kennedy Creek Old-Time Music Festival takes place every autumn at the Kennedy Creek Resort in Suches, GA. Participants are invited to reserve cabins, yurts, or campsites, and food is available at the resort restaurant. Guest artists teach workshops, lead competitions, and present concerts, but the main event is always jamming with friends. Admission is free.
For more information, visit the Many Musics of America website.
