Musics of the United States: Telling Our Stories
In summer 2025, the American Musicological Society (AMS) will host a two-week residential Institute for Higher Education Faculty entitled Musics of the United States: Telling Our Stories. To be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, 27 July to 9 August 2025, this institute will apply insights from innovative humanistic scholarship to explore how the stories we tell about American music are changing, and how we might further refine and share them.
Musics of the United States: Telling Our Stories will introduce thirty (30) participants to recent research on many facets of American music, and invite them to think deeply about how higher education faculty teach the complex and interwoven stories of American musical cultures and communities. Each participant will receive a stipend of $2,200 to support attendance and travel, as well as access to reduced-rate dorm accommodations for the duration.
The institute will consist primarily of practitioner workshops and visits to cultural institutions and centers of music research and teaching in Washington, DC. Participants will grapple with the challenges of curriculum development and learn how other knowledge professionals, like museum curators, are presenting these new, more broadly representative narratives to the public.
Musics of the United States: Telling Our Stories will be directed by Tammy Kernodle (Institute Co-director) and Danielle Fosler-Lussier (Institute Co-director). This institute will feature workshops and seminars facilitated by Matthew D. Morrison, Katie Graber, Deborah Wong, Louis K. Epstein, Kristen Myers Turner, and Marcus Pyle.
The Musics of the United States: Telling Our Stories Summer Institute has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
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