Project Grant HD22878315

This $204,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the "Music of the United States of America" (MUSA) scholarly edition series. The MUSA project, operated by the American Musicological Society (AMS), involves the publication of 40 volumes of critical editions featuring historically significant and artistically excellent American musical works. This comprehensive series aims...

The American Musicological Society, Inc. (AMS) was awarded a $334,140 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support a public program series called "Many Musics of America." This series will explore the role of music in the history and evolution of the United States and its diverse peoples through 20 engaging public events nationwide and online from November 2023 to October 2025. The grant will...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) provides $1.4 million to support the "Toward an Ecosystem of Artificial Intelligence-Powered Music Production (TeamUp)" project under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The University of Rochester leads the effort to build foundations for a new ecosystem empowering musicians to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) tools in music creation, performance, and distribution. Key...

This $386,139 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of an ecosystem to empower musicians through artificial intelligence-enabled music production tools. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the four-year award to Northwestern University will create an open-source software framework and initiatives allowing musicians and AI researchers to collaborate on improving AI music creation tools. The framework will facilitate deployment of new AI models...

This is a $232,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at the University of Maryland, College Park to elucidate the computational and neural mechanisms underlying music enculturation, or how people spontaneously engage with and learn unfamiliar musical cultures. The research combines computational...

This $598,703 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant aims to elucidate the computational and neural mechanisms underlying musical enculturation - how people spontaneously engage with and learn the musical structures of unfamiliar cultures. The research involves implementing a series of behavioral, neuroimaging, and neurophysiology...

The National Science Foundation awarded Northwestern University a $848,950 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to support the development of a collaborative platform at the intersection of music and code. The three-year award running from September 2021 through August 2024 will fund Northwestern University's efforts to design the TunePad online learning platform to support computational literacy through creative music composition using Python...

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...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to the University of Southern California (USC) Brain and Creativity Institute. The grant will support a research agenda and associated studies to be designed and implemented by USC's Brain and Music Lab. The grant term runs from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025. Through this award, the Brain and Music Lab at USC will conduct...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) program provides $762,448 in funding to Found Sound Nation, Inc. to support the FY 2025 American Music Mentorship Program. The award period runs from September 26, 2025 to December 30, 2027. This program leverages music as a transformative medium for cross-cultural understanding and reconciliation...