Spring 2025 Publication Subventions Awarded

The Publications Committee of the American Musicological Society is pleased to announce that the following publications have been awarded publication subventions as part of the spring 2025 award cycle. Thank you to the AMS members who support the publication subventions program and donate funds to help with expenses involved in the publication of works of musical scholarship. Thank you to all the authors and publishers who applied to the program and congratulations to those awarded funding!

Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West

Author: Yuiko Asaba
Press: University of Hawai’i Press
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

Automatic Artistry: How Technological Anxiety Fuels Creativity

Author: Alyssa Michaud
Press: University of California Press
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

Haydn in Plain Sight: A Reception History of Matisse's The Music Lesson

Author: Sarah Day-O’Connell
Press: Cambridge University Press
Fund: Claire and Barry Brook Fund

Lyric Personhood: On the Aesthetics of Being Someone in the West

Author: Dan Wang
Press: The University of Chicago Press
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

Opera and the Built Environment

Author: Laura Vasilyeva
Press: The University of Chicago Press
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

Operatic Infrastructures: Materiality and Meaning in 1890s London, Paris, and New York

Author: Flora Willson
Press: The University of Chicago Press
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

Remixing Race After Apartheid: Kaapse Klopse and Coloured Identity in South Africa

Author: Francesca Inglese
Press: Wesleyan University Press
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

Romantic Voices: Listening to 19th Century Music

Author: Douglass Seaton
Press: SUNY Press
Funds: John Daverio Fund and General Fund

Sallie Martin, the Mother of Gospel Music

Author: Kay Norton
Press: University of Illinois Press
Funds: Joseph Kerman Fund and General Fund

Sikh Kirtan and Its Journeys

Author: Gurminder Bhogal
Press: The University of Chicago Press
Fund: General Fund

Singing Like Citizens: Opera and Race in American Popular Entertainment during the Ragtime Era

Author: Kristen M. Turner
Press: University of Illinois Press
Fund: General Fund

Televising Opera: Broadcasting and Performance in Anglo-American Culture, 1945–75

Author: Danielle Ward-Griffin
Press: Oxford University Press
Fund: General Fund

The Art of Musical Ciphers, Riddles and Sundry Curiosities

Authors: R. Larry Todd and Katharina Uhde
Press: Boydell & Brewer
Fund: Claire and Barry Brook Fund

The Chigi Codex: Sacred Music from Burgundy and France; Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Chigi C VIII 234

Authors: Edward Houghton and Herbert Kellman
Press: The University of Chicago Press
Fund: Martin Picker Fund

The Composer's Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America

Author: Theodore Gordon
Press: University of California Press
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

The Sounds of Aguante: Politics of Fandom in South American Football

Author: Luis Achondo
Press: Wesleyan University Press
Fund: Iberian and Latin American Music Fund

We're Having Much More Fun: Punk Archives for the Present from CBGB to Gilman and Beyond

Authors: Judith A. Peraino and Tom McEnaney
Press: Cornell University Press
Fund: General Fund