The American Musicological Society was founded in 1934 to advance "research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship." The Society has annual meetings, in addition to the meetings of the 15 regional chapters, where presentations, symposia and concerts are given. Musicology is reasoned discourse concerning music (Greek: μουσικη = music and λογος = word or reason). In other words: the whole body of systematized knowledge about music which results from the application of a scientific method of investigation or research, or of philosophical speculation and rational systematization to the facts, the processes and the... Originally, the term symposium referred to a drinking party; the Greek verb sympotein means to drink together. The term has since come to refer to any academic conference, irrespective of drinking. ...
The Society dedicates most of its resources to publications, notably the Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS), published three times a year since 1948. Academic publishing describes a system of publishing that is necessary in order for academic scholars to review work and make it available for a wider audience. ...
She is past-president of the Society for American Music and former director of the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College.
A past editor of the journal American Music, and former member of the Board of Directors of the AmericanMusicologicalSociety and the Society of American Music, she currently sits on the editorial boards for the journals of both organizations.
She was co-author with Eileen Southern of African American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, l600s–l920: An Annotated, Classified Bibliography of Literature (1990) and Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture, 1770s–1920s (2000), and principal editor (with Samuel A. Floyd) of New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern (1992).
The AmericanMusicologicalSociety was founded in 1934 as a non-profit organization to advance "research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship." In 1951 the Society became a constituent member of the American Council of Learned Societies.
At present, 3,300 individual members and 1,200 institutional subscribers from forty nations are on the rolls of the Society.
Concurrent sessions to accommodate the reading of about 145 papers form the core of the meetings, which also include study sessions, panel discussions and forums on a variety of topics.
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