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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
In this AMS/Library of Congress Lecture, Laurie McManus of Shenandoah Conservatory gives a talk on a little-known opera libretto that was given to Johannes Brahms for consideration. While Johannes Brahms excelled in many musical arenas, he never managed to compose an opera, despite a lingering interest and much encouragement from his friends. The most encouraging […]
The joint meeting of the Greater New York Chapter of the AMS and the Mid Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (MACSEM), will take place from April 4th through April 6th
For more information, visit https://www.ams-net.org/chapters/capital/upcoming-meeting-details/. The call for papers will be issued in early January.
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 American Musicological Society, New England Chapter, announces its meeting of Spring 2025, to take place on April 12 hosted by Smith College. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers. In addition, the committee would also like to invite proposals for participation in a roundtable discussion that will focus […]
During this event, we will delve into the exploration of musical modernism in Mexico in the long 20th century.
A program of informational workshops, called Council Workshops, has been instituted to further educate Council members on AMS operations and to increase transparency.
Join 
Donate