This presentation summarizes and evaluates the American Musicological Society\u27s website as a reference tool for music scholars. Evaluation methods used come from Laurie Sampsel (2012) and Holly Gardinier (2015)

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Gardinier, Holly

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Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Faculty Papers and Conference Presentations with CGU Graduate Co-authors CGU Student Scholarship Fall 9-15-2015 Report On AMS Kenneth M. Cotich Claremont Graduate University Holly Gardinier Claremont University Consortium Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgustudent_faculty-co-authors  Part of the Musicology Commons, and the Other Music Commons Recommended Citation Cotich, Kenneth M. and Gardinier, Holly, "Report On AMS" (2015). Faculty Papers and Conference Presentations with CGU Graduate Co-authors. 1. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgustudent_faculty-co-authors/1 This Open Education Resource is brought to you for free and open access by the CGU Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Papers and Conference Presentations with CGU Graduate Co-authors by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact scholarship@cuc.claremont.edu. Kenneth Cotich Dr. Holly Gardinier  9/15/15Report On AMSAMS: the American Musicological Society, www.ams-net.org, founded in 1934.• Non-Profit• 3,500 individual members, and 1,000 institutional subscribers from forty nations.(i) 15 regional chapters encompass the U.S. and Canada.(ii) Other countries subscribe to the society and contribute, but chapters and annualmeetings are mostly held in the U.S. and Canada.Mission:• “To advance research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship,including teaching and learning about music.”1• Emphasis on transdisciplinary studies.• Constituent member of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1951.• Affiliated with numerous other societies:- International Musicological Society, the Music Library Association, the Society forMusic Theory, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Society for American Music, andthe College Music Society.• Publish an online index of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology.• Hold annual meetings.• Chapters hold their own meetings throughout the year, the national AMS meeting happensonce a year in November.Conferences:• AMS holds an annual conference/meeting once a year in November.I. The next AMS conference is in Louisville, KT, Nov 12-15.II. Over 200 papers on various topics: Blackface lagacies, gender studies, film music.III. Chapters hold their own conferences:a. The American Musicological Society Southwest Chapter will hold a conference atTexas State University, San Marcos, on October 10, 2015.IV. Many opportunities every year to attend conferences.Grants and Awards:1. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities2. Travel/Research Grants: Multiple. M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Endowment. 2,500 research inFrance. No AMS membership.3. Awards: Alfred Einstein (not Albert) membership required. More money.4. AMS 75 Pays Subvention: 5,000 to publish first book, unpublished recent PhD.5. List of ongoing awards outside of AMS: Guggenheim foundation award link. American Musicological Society, “About the AMS,” The American Musicological Society, Inc., 12003-2015, accessed September 6, 2015, http://www.ams-net.org/aboutams.php. Related Jobs:• Link on the website to various job providers, listings, websites, etc.Publications:1. Journal of American Musicological Society2. The Choral Works of William Billings: 4 vols.3. Journal of Music History Pedagogy: Open, awesome, easy to read.4. AMS Studies in Music: Opportunity to submit book proposal, AMS committee andeditorial board approved, and published by Oxford University Press. Subsidiary received.5. AMS Newsletter6. Musicology Now blog.Thoughts:1. Easy to use.2. So much information for publishing, awards, and conference opportunities.3. Gives an aspiring music writer hope.4. Membership is easy to achieve and only $45 for students, 7 years. 65 for international.5. Gives away 2.2 million each year in awards.

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