2024 AMS Annual Meeting – Chicago

Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Festival

An annual fall celebration of American old time and folk music

Nov 07

Deadline: 07 Nov 2025

Contemporary Issues in Music & Copyright Law

The AMS is offering practicing attorneys Continuing Legal Education credits for participation in special programming at the Annual Meeting.

Nov 05

Deadline: 05 Nov 2025

Music Leadership Forum: Navigating Crisis and Change

This day-long event will gather leaders in music studies and arts administration to share, learn, and connect.

Nov 07

Deadline: 07 Nov 2025

Taken in Stride: The Mundanity of Ambulation

The American Musicological Society is proud to present an unforgettable performance and lecture by musicologist and music creator Kwami Coleman.

Apr 25

Deadline: 25 Apr 2025

Ibero-American Music Readings

This members-only event organized by the Ibero-American Music Study Group explores musical modernism in Mexico in the long 20th century.

Jun 17

Deadline: 17 Jun 2025

Careers Through Musicology

This event, organized by the Committee on Career-Related Issues, will expose musicology PhD students and musicology PhDs to a variety of career paths outside traditional teaching positions.

Apr 10

Deadline: 10 Apr 2025

2025 AMS/NYU Lecture

In this lecture, Emily Wilbourne draws on her award-winning book, Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence.

May 01

Deadline: 01 May 2023

2023 AMS/NYU Lecture

The 2023 AMS-NYU Lecture was on "Reimagining the Music Theory Curriculum"

“Vicariously Being There”: How The T.A.M.I. Show Invented the Concert Film

In this lecture, Landon Palmer uncovers the curious story of The T.A.M.I. Show and explains why there’s never been anything quite like it since.

Oct 02

Deadline: 02 Oct 2025

The Golden Age of Latino Country: Ronstadt, Fender, and Rodriguez in the ’70s

This lecture by Nadine Hubbs revisits the music and machinations of country’s 1970s Latino prime.

Mar 26

Deadline: 26 Mar 2025

Happy Little Seahorses: Brahms’ Unwritten “Melusine” Opera

In this AMS/ Library of Congress lecture, Laurie McManus gives a talk on a little-known opera libretto that was given to Johannes Brahms for consideration.

Oct 21

Deadline: 21 Oct 2025

Music, Disputes, and the Silent Western: The Yaqui (1916)

In this AMS/ Library of Congress lecture, Mariana Whitmer examines two differing musical accompaniments created by Luz and Winkler for The Yaqui—an early Mexican-border prestige Western.

Oct 18

Deadline: 18 Oct 2024

How (and Why) to Write and Publish a Good Book Review

This one-hour online workshop will explore how the most successful reviews add value to the book and connect it with potential readers, rather than just evaluate.

Teaching Music History Conference

An annual conference on music pedagogy open to music educators at every level

Jun 20

Deadline: 20 Jun 2025

2025 Teaching Music History Conference

This conference will include a special workshop which will explore methods for teaching Asian American music history in the K-12 classroom.

Mar 08

Deadline: 08 Mar 2024

2024 AMS/NYU Lecture

This lecture delves into the rich history of classical music in colonial Saint Domingue

Critical Race Studies Lecture

An annual lecture on recent scholarship in critical race studies

Committee on Women & Gender Lecture

An annual lecture on recent scholarship in women's and gender studies

President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture

An annual lecture delivered by a speaker selected by the AMS President

Jul 27

Deadline: 27 Jul 2025

2025 Summer Institute

A residential institute on updating the stories we tell about American music

Nov 11

Deadline: 11 Nov 2027

2027 AMS Annual Meeting – Seattle

Nov 14

Deadline: 14 Nov 2026

2026 AMS Annual Meeting – Online

Nov 06

Deadline: 06 Nov 2025

2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting – Minneapolis

Nov 14

Deadline: 14 Nov 2024

2024 AMS Annual Meeting – Chicago

Members-Only Events

Informational and social events held throughout the year just for AMS members

Many Musics of America

A landmark event series spotlighting the richness of America's musical traditions

AMS Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) held since 1934

Lectures

A landing page for learning about all the Society's lecture series

AMS/NYU Lecture

A lecture series for the New York University (NYU) community and general public

AMS/Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Lecture

A public lecture series organized in partnership with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

AMS/Library of Congress Lecture

A public lecture series organized in partnership with the Library of Congress

Mar 26

Deadline: 26 Mar 2008

Ruth Crawford Seeger, Modernist Composer in the Folk Revival

In this lecture, Judith Tick discusses aspects of her work on composer Ruth Crawford Seeger.

Sep 18

Deadline: 18 Sep 2008

After Pearl Harbor: Music, War and the Library of Congress