Musics of the united states: telling our stories [the american musicological society proposes a new, two-week residential institute for higher education faculty entitled musics of the united states:…

This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $174,088 to the American Musicological Society, Inc. (AMS) to host a two-week residential institute at the University of Maryland from July 14-26, 2025. The institute, titled "Musics of the United States: Telling Our Stories," will convene thirty higher education faculty participants to engage with new scholarship in musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and related fields. The goal is to explore how the narratives and content of college-level instruction about music in the United States are changing, and to provide participants with opportunities to reshape their curricula accordingly. This award supports the AMS's expertise in humanities-based research, publication, and public programming focused on American music history and cultural studies.

Musics of the united states: telling our stories [the american musicological society proposes a new, two-week residential institute for higher education faculty entitled musics of the united states: telling our stories, to be held at the university of maryland, 14-26 july 2025. This institute will apply insights from innovative scholarship in humanistic music studies (musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory) and related fields (e.g. american studies, folklore). Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholar-teachers, IT will explore how the stories we tell about american music are changing and how this changing curriculum might be taught. The institute will provide thirty (30) participants with opportunities to engage with new scholarship and to explore ways of reshaping the narratives and content of college-level instruction about music in the united states.]