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E-News | 27 April 2020 | Issue 1.4
JAMS Spring 2020 Issue Now Available!
The spring 2020 (73:1) issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS) is now available! This issue features articles on Donizetti, country music, the Speculum musice and more. (JAMS, published by the UC Press, is the premier journal for the field of musicology.)
Check out the new issue of JAMS !
A Message From the President RE: COVID-19
The AMS President, Suzanne Cusick, has written a letter to the membership discussing the impact of COVID-19 on the AMS, summarizing work done at the most recent meeting of the Society's Board of Directors, and hinting at developments to come. Visit the AMS website to read her message .
News & Updates
Last Call for AMS Award Nominations: Due May 1
The AMS is calling for nominations for a wide variety of book and article awards, including the Cohen/RIPM, Early Music, Einstein, Jackson, Kinkeldey, Lockwood, Music in American Culture, Slim, Solie, Stevenson, and Tsou (Critical Race) awards. The AMS is also calling for nominations for the AMS Teaching Award. All are due 1 May 2020. Learn more....
Hiring: Communications & Programs Coordinator
The AMS is hiring! We are looking for a Communications and Programs Coordinator to help advance the Society's mission by strengthening communications and program support. The new hire will be a permanent, full-time AMS employee (unaffiliated with NYU) and will work remotely for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis. Learn more...

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2020 AMS Board Elections: Last Chance to Vote!
Officers and members of the AMS Board of Directors are elected each year in accordance with the Society's bylaws. The ballot for this year's board elections will close at 11:59pm on 1 May 2020. So, vote now and help select the Society's future leadership. You must be a member to vote.
New JMHP Issue Now Available!

The latest issue of the Journal of Music History Pedagogy (JMHP) is now available. A special issue focusing on issues of whiteness and Euro-American-centered perspectives in musicology, this issue features articles on decolonization and musical resilience. Learn more...
New MUSA Volume Published

AMS is pleased to announce that its Music of the United States (MUSA) project has published its 30th volume! Titled David Tudor: Solo Piano by John Cage, Second Realization (ed. John Holzaepfel), this latest volume is available for purchase on the A-R Editions website.
AMS Endorses ASA / MLA Statements on Academic Labor

In March 2020, the AMS joined with other scholarly societies to endorse two important statements on the status and special challenges faced by academic workers drafted by the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the Modern Language Association (MLA) . These endorsements are part of the Society's continuing commitment to advocate for tenure-track faculty, adjunct faculty, and gig workers.
Levy Application Deadline Extended to 15 May 2020

The ap plication deadline for the Janet Levy Fund for Those without Access to Employer-Based Research Funding has been extended. The new deadline is 15 May 2020, and the AMS continues to invite applications for this important program up until 11:59pm on 15 May. So, if you haven't submitted your application, please apply now on the AMS website.
Awards & Honors ( view all )
Patricia Huber
Patrick Huber (University of Missouri, Rolla) has received an NEH Summer Stipend to support the research and writing of a book on "Fiddlin’ Doc Roberts (1897–1978) and the Business of Hillbilly Music."
Alison Altstatt
Alison Altstatt (University of Northern Iowa) has received an NEH Summer Stipend to support the research and writing of a book project titled, "Wilton Abbey in Procession: Religious Women's Music and Ritual in the Thirteenth-Century Wilton Processional."
Minnita Daniel-Cox
Minnita Daniel-Cox (University of Dayton) has received an NEH Humanities Connections Implementation grant for "Paul Laurence Dunbar: Life, Works, and Legacy," a curricular implementation grant focused on the life, works, and legacy of writer Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Patricia Fumerton
Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara) has received an NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant for a project on "Early English Broadside Ballads: Local and Global."
David Seubert
David Seubert (University of California, Santa Barbara) has received an NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant for a project titled, "The American Discography Project-Victor and Bluebird Records Access Initiative."
Michael Kantor
Michael Kantor (WNET) has received an NEH Media Projects Production grant for "Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands," a documentary film about the singer Marian Anderson (1897 – 1993).
Upcoming Events
Sunday, 3 May 2020
Virtual meeting
In Memoriam ( view all )
Linda Shaver-Gleason, public musicologist, died on January 14, 2020, in hospice care at Serenity House in Santa Barbara, California. At the age of 36, she was, as she put it, “assassinated by cancer.” She is survived by her husband, Chris, and her six-year-old son, Linus.
Michael Pisani, Professor of Music on the Mary Conover Mellon Chair, at Vassar College, died on July 9, 2019 at his summer home in Rochester, New York. His sudden and unexpected death at the age of sixty-five came as a great shock to friends and colleagues.
The AMS is committed to doing everything it can to support you, your students, and your colleagues during this time of crisis and challenge. But we can always use help. So if you can, please help us to maintain our funding programs uninterrupted during this difficult time by joining or donating to the AMS.
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