Essays About AMS

Colloquy: Race, Ethnicity and the Profession (Part 3 of 4)

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[Ed. Note: The following paper was presented by Bonnie Gordon of the University of Virginia as part of the special session on “Race Ethnicity, and the Profession” at the AMS Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.  It is the second of three papers that form Musicology Now’s… Read More

Colloquy: Race, Ethnicity, and the Profession (Part 1 of 4)

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On Friday, November 4, 2016, the American Musicological Society held a special session on Race, Ethnicity and the Profession during its annual meeting. The panelists were members of a newly configured permanent Committee on the Status of Race and Ethnicity in the Profession, co-chaired (as was the panel) by Judy… Read More

Colloquy: Race Ethnicity and the Profession (Part 2 of 4)

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[Ed. Note: The following paper was presented by Mark Burford of Reed College as part of the special session on “Race Ethnicity, and the Profession” at the AMS Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.  It is the first of three papers that form Musicology Now‘s first “Colloquy.” … Read More

Putting Scholarship into (Art) Practice

NOTE: The third annual President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society will be delivered at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, 12 November 2015, in Lexington, Kentucy, at the Galt House Hotel (140 North Fourth Street). The public is invited. George E. Lewis has titled… Read More

AMS presidents ponder

by Richard Freedman Last week in New York City hundreds of members of the International Association for Music Libraries (IAML) and international Musicological Society (IMS) gathered for a week’s worth of presentations, meetings, and discussion to consider “Music Research in… Read More

Interview: Christopher Reynolds

We are pleased to present the first of several video interviews reflecting on American musicology. Christopher Reynolds, immediate past president of the American Musicological Society, considers initiatives undertaken during his term of office and what he sees as the state of the discipline today. Read More

Honors 2014

Each year, the American Musicological Society names as Honorary Members longstanding members who have made outstanding contributions to further the society’s objectives and the field of musical scholarship. This year there are four: Jane Bernstein, Austin Fletcher Professor of… Read More