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Books Supported by the AMS
Every year the AMS spends about $100,000 on publication subventions for music studies titles. Browse the extraordinary range of books supported below.
Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration
Lisa Barg
Wesleyan University Press (2023). ISBN: 9780819500649. Supported by the General Fund.
Screening the Operatic Stage: Television and Beyond
Christopher Morris
University of Chicago Press (2024). ISBN: 9780226831299. Supported by the General Fund.
White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism
Edmund Mendelssohn
Stanford University Press (2023). ISBN: 9781503636637. Supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Fund.
Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter
Michael C. Heller
University of California Press (2023). ISBN: 9780520350786. Supported by the General Fund.
An Eternal Pitch: Bishop G. E. Patterson, Broadcast Religion, and the Afterlives of Ecstasy
Braxton E. Shelley
University of California Press (2023). ISBN: 9780520387140. Supported by the General Fund.
Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music
Holly Rogers
Bloomsbury (2023). ISBN: 9781501387340. Supported by the General Fund.
Kinetic Cultures: Modernism and Embodiment on the Belle Epoque Stage
Rachana Vajjhala
University of California Press (2023). ISBN: 9780520356276. Supported by the James R. Anthony Fund.
Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann's Paris
Jacek Blaszkiewicz
University of California Press (2023). ISBN: 9780819500182. Supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Fund.
Union Divided: Black Musicians’ Fight for Labor Equality
Leta E. Miller
University of Illinois Press (2024). ISBN: 9780252087677. Supported by the Joseph Kerman Fund.
Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s New York City
Maria Cristina Fava
University of Illinois Press (2024). ISBN: 9780252045714. Supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Fund.
Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson
Kristin M. Franseen
Clemson University Press (2023). ISBN: 9781638040583. Supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Fund.
Music in Profile: Twelve Performance Studies
John Rink
Oxford University Press (2023). ISBN: 9780197565391. Supported by the General Fund.
Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast
Andrew Eisenberg
Wesleyan University Press (2024). ISBN: 9780819501059. Supported by the General Fund.
Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria
Shayna Silverstein
Wesleyan University Press (2024). ISBN: 9780819501028. Supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Fund.
The Musician as Philosopher: New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978
Michael Gallope
University of Chicago Press (2024). ISBN: 9780226831763. Supported by the Claire and Barry Brook Fund.
Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders
Elizabeth Eva Leach
Cornell University Press (2023). ISBN: 9781501771873. Supported by the Kenneth Levy Fund.
How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race
Amy Coddington
University of California Press (2023). ISBN: 9780819500182. Supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Fund.
Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Andrew Snyder
Wesleyan University Press (2022). ISBN: 9780819500182. Supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Fund.