About
Field Notes is an online magazine hosted on the AMS Career Center site. It curates and aggregates content of interest to music studies professionals and to those in adjacent fields of music administration, education, law, performance, business, production, and more. Readers will find practical resources for skill development, research, and teaching; interviews with authors and practitioners about their work; reflections from academic and nonacademic music professionals about their career journeys; and roundups of music news in the wider world affecting music studies. The magazine posts both new content and past articles and videos from the AMS archive. The curation and editing of Field Notes are facilitated directly by the AMS office.
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If you would like to submit an article idea to Field Notes for possible publication or development, you may do so using this proposal submission form. We are particularly interested in content that appeals to music studies professionals both inside and outside higher education. Written posts are welcome as are pieces that engage multimedia and other formats (recordings, syllabi, compilations of resources, etc.).
What If You Just Want a Nice Life?
This Field Notes post by Stacy Hartman, Program Officer for Higher Education Initiatives with the American Council of Learned Societies, reflects on career diversity and the problem of “acceptable” career alternatives.
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