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.

Dates: Friday-Saturday, March 21-22, 2025
Location: Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
Submission Deadline: 11:55pm MST, January 10, 2025

The chapter invites paper submissions on any topic related to musicology, broadly defined. Each presentation will be twenty minutes, plus ten-minute discussions.

• Individual papers: Submit by email (single Word or PDF attachment): title and abstract (up to 250 words).

• Sessions on a single topic: Submit by email (single sender): proposed session title, along with all abstracts for the session (individually titled Word or PDF attachments, up to 250 words per abstract).

• Roundtable discussions: Submit by email (single Word or PDF attachment): session title and abstract (up to 450 words).

For all submissions, please do not include names or affiliations in Word/PDF attachments. Include in the email body only presenter name(s), along with institutional affiliation(s), if applicable.

Papers will be chosen by the selection committee through a blind-review process. According to Chapter bylaws, papers submitted by undergraduate or master’s students must be accompanied by faculty letters of endorsement (not to be shared with the selection committee).

A prize for best student paper will be announced at the conference’s end. If you would like to be considered for this prize, please indicate this additionally in the email body.

Additional information about conference format and registration will be posted at https://arts.unco.edu/music/american-musicological-society-rocky-mountain/.

Please email proposals or inquiries to Hannah McLaughlin: hannah_mclaughlin - at - byu.edu.