American Musicological Society

The society consists of approximately 3000 individual members divided among fifteen regional chapters across the United States, Canada, and elsewhere, as well as 60 committees and subcommittees. It was admitted to the American Council of Learned Societies in 1951, and participates in the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale.

The society's annual meetings consist of paper presentations, panels, and lecture-concerts, as well as more-or-less informal meetings of numerous related musical societies. Many of the society's awards, prizes and fellowships are announced at these meetings.

Fifteen regional chapters are associated with the AMS, and these chapters’ activities are supported by the AMS Chapter Fund.

Most of the society's resources are dedicated to musicological publications: the triannual Journal of the American Musicological Society (1948-present) published by the University of California Press. The journal publishes scholarship related to historical musicology, critical theory, music analysis, ethnomusicology, gender and sexuality, popular music, aesthetics and more. JAMS was preceded by the annual Bulletin (1936–1947) and the annual Papers (1936–1941). Online versions of these publications are available at JSTOR and the University of California Press. With Oxford University Press, the society sponsors the series AMS Studies in Music.

Other items published by the society include the series Music of the United States of America (1993–present),[1] and the blog Musicology Now. MUSA is a forty-volume scholarly series that addresses American musical styles, including jazz, psalmody, popular song, art song, and experimental music. Musicology Now publishes essays written for the general public. It seeks to engage educators, musicians, listeners, and colleagues with fresh research and ideas about music. The Journal of Music History Pedagogy (JMHP) covers any aspect of the teaching and learning of music history at both the undergraduate and graduate level, for all audiences (majors, non-majors, and the public), and all genres of music.

Additionally, the AMS underwrites expenses involved in the publication of works of musical scholarship, providing between $75,000 and $100,000 of publication subventions each year.

The AMS awards three fellowships to graduate students in musicology, with a deadline for applications typically in early January. They include the Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation-year Fellowships, Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship, and the Holmes/D'Accone Dissertation Fellowship in Opera Studies.

Members of the AMS can participate in new and growing mentoring, networking, and professional development programs, as well as events hosted at the Annual Meeting.

• The Sustainable Mentorship Program (SMP) provides robust, year-long mentorship, professional development, and networking support to those with graduate training in musicology and related fields.
• The Suzanne G. Cusick Professional Development Fund provides professional development and career support for scholars of music, sound studies, and musical performance.

• Music history of the United States
• American Institute of Musicology

• Oliver Strunk: State and Resources of Musicology in the United States, ACLS Bulletin 19 (1932)
• Arthur Mendel, Curt Sachs, and Carroll C. Pratt: Some Aspects of Musicology (New York, 1957)
• B. S. Brook, ed.: American Musicological Society, Greater New York Chapter: a Programmatic History 1935-1965 (New York, c1965)
• W. J. Mitchell: "A Hitherto Unknown--or a Recently Discovered...," Musicology and the Computer, ed. B. S. Brook (New York, 1970), 1-8
• Richard Crawford: The American Musicological Society 1934-1984. An Anniversary Essay (Philadelphia, 1984)
• Celebrating the American Musicological Society at Seventy-Five

Wikimedia Commons has media related to American Musicological Society.

• Official website
• American Musicological Society oral history collection, 1996-present, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
• American Musicological Society supplementary records, 1950-2003 (bulk 1980-2003), Ms. Coll. 645, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
• Journal of the American Musicological Society records, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania