2026 AMS Annual Meeting - Online

14–15 November & 19–20 November 2026

About

The 92nd AMS Annual Meeting will be held online 14–15 November and 19–20 November 2026. The AMS Annual Meeting is a forum for the exploration of music as a branch of scholarship and learning. Organized with participation by members of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the support and voluntary service of AMS committee members, the 2026 online annual meeting will focus on forging and strengthening connections with the international community of music experts. With a mixture of streamed in-person programming from around the world and fully virtual session that maximize accessibility, the 2026 AMS Annual Meeting is a can’t-miss event for music studies professionals.

If you have any questions about the Annual Meeting, please contact the AMS Office at events [at] amsmusicology.org.

Registration

Early-bird registration for the AMS Annual Meeting is now open! AMS members enjoy sharply discounted rates. Register by 22 September 2026, 11:59 p.m. ET to save with our early-bird registration rates.

Post-Rumble Rumble

Post-Rumble Rumble: Inflection Points in Native American Music and Arts

The 2017 film Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World advanced arguments for Native American presence in multiple genres of American music and for previously underacknowledged Native influences on those genres. Now, seven years later—and in the wake of increased Native visibility in music, literature, art, and screen culture—how might we reevaluate arguments for Indigenous presence, agency, and influence? Can we historicize such arguments over a longer span of time? Might we develop new critical perspectives on what the Anishinaabe theorist Gerald Vizenor has called survivance, that canny mix of survival, resistance, courage, and ironic wit that characterizes so much Native American cultural production?

In this lecture, delivered at the 2024 AMS Annual Meeting in Chicago, Philip J. Deloria explores the meaning and impact of Rumble and suggests frames for understanding and interpreting both the film and the wider field of Native American cultural contributions.