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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 […]

AMS Greater New York Chapter Meeting

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/

AMS New England Chapter Meeting

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 […]

AMS Southeast Chapter Meeting

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 […]

AMS Allegheny Chapter Meeting

West Virginia University Morgantown, WV, 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 […]

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 […]

AMS Southwest Chapter Meeting

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 […]

AMS South-Central Chapter Meeting

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