E-News | 18 July 2020 | Issue 1.6
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2020 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting Goes Virtual
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2020 AMS Council Elections: Time to Vote!
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It is time to vote in the AMS Council elections! The AMS Council is a forum for AMS member representatives to consider matters of policy and make recommendations to the Board of Directors. The Council includes forty-five at-large representatives, thirty student representatives (elected or appointed by chapters), and fifteen chapter representatives. All current AMS members are eligible and strongly urged to vote. Help influence the future direction of the AMS. Review the
2020 slate of Council candidates
and
vote now!
Voting closes 22 July 2020.
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Call for Nominations: AMS Treasurer
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The Board of Directors is calling for nominations or volunteers to serve as the next Treasurer of the American Musicological Society. The Treasurer is an officer and
ex officio
member of the Board of Directors, and works with the Executive Director to monitor and guide the Society's long-term financial planning.
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MUSA 31 on
Appalachian Spring
Published
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Copland: Appalachian Spring, is now available! Volume 31 of the Society's
Music in the United States (MUSA) series, this edition presents the first completed, original engraving of Copland's
Appalachian Spring, an introductory essay exploring the work, as well as stills, background information, and appendices. The volume is available from
A-R Editions.
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AMS Awards 127 Emergency Relief Grants!
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Every eligible applicant who applied for an AMS COVID-19 Emergency Relief Grant has been funded! AMS has approved 127 grants in total, 97 for Emergency Income Support and 30 for Emergency Material Support. Each award includes $500 and a free, one-year membership in the Society. If you applied for a grant and have not yet received a decision notice, please contact the
AMS office.
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Hampson Award Deadline: 15 August
Applications for Thomas Hampson Fund publication awards are due 15 August 2020. The Hampson Fund is dedicated to fostering editions and scholarship on classic song in all its contexts. Applicants may submit proposals for any stage of research.
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Greenberg Award Deadline: 15 August
Applications for the Noah Greenberg Award are due 15 August 2020. The award is intended as a grant-in-aid to stimulate active cooperation between scholars and performers by recognizing and fostering outstanding historical performing practices. The award comes with $2000 and a certificate of recognition.
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AMS Executive Director Appointed
The Board of Directors of the American Musicological Society is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Siovahn Walker as the Society's full-time Executive Director. Dr. Walker is an experienced nonprofit professional and has served the Society with great distinction as part-time Interim Executive Director since November 2019.
Read the full announcement...
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Call Extended: Associate Editor,
JAMS
The AMS has extended its call for applications for the position of Associate Editor (AE) for the Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS). The AE will assist the Editor-In-Chief (EIC) for twenty-two months, beginning 1 March 2021, with an honorarium of $500 per issue and then succeed as EIC for a two-year term, with an honorarium of $1,500 per issue.
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Stephen Armstrong
Stephen Armstrong (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester) has been awarded an AMS Holmes/D'Accone Dissertation Fellowship in Opera for the dissertation “Operatic Mobilities: Italian Opera as Tourist Exchange, 1770–1830.”
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Gurminder K. Bhogal
Gurminder K. Bhogal has been awarded the Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music (2017) for her article, “Listening to Female Voices in Sikh Kirtan,” Sikh Formations 13/1–2 (2017): 48–77.
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Clifton Boyd
Clifton Boyd (Yale University) has been awarded an AMS Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship for the dissertation “The Role of Vernacular Music Theory in the Institution of Barbershop Music.”
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Qingfan Jiang
Qingfan Jiang (Columbia University) has been awarded an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship for “Toward a Global Enlightenment: Music, Missionaries, and the Construction of a Universal History in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China and Europe.”
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Matthew Pessar Joseph
Matthew Pessar Joseph (Columbia University) has been awarded an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship for the doctoral dissertation "Syncopating Segregation: Musical Cross-Pollination in Post-World War II New York City."
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Warren Kirkendale
Warren Kirkendale has received the medal of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI for his life work; an award for career achievement (along with his wife Ursula Kirkendale) from the Centro Studi e Ricerche G. Marescotti; and the Order of the Medici from Prince Ottaviano, head of the Medici family.
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Nathaniel Mitchell
Nathaniel Mitchell (Princeton University) has been awarded an AMS Holmes/D'Accone Dissertation Fellowship in Opera Studies for the dissertation “The ‘Se cerca’ Script: Conventions and Creativity in an Eighteenth-Century Aria Tradition.”
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Maria Ryan
Maria Ryan (University of Pennsylvania) has been awa
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ed an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship for the dissertation "Hearing Power, Sounding Freedom: Black Practices of Listening, Ear-Training, and Music-Making in the British Colonial Caribbean."
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Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit
Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit (University of California, Berkeley) has been awarded an AMS Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship for the dissertation “Sounding Civilization: Race and Sovereignty in the Imperial Opera of Siam, 1870
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1910.”
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The AMS is committed to doing everything it can to support you and your colleagues during this time of crisis and challenge. But we need your help! So please contribute to sustaining our programs and services during this difficult time.
Become a member of the AMS!
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