Musics of the United States: Telling Our Stories

FAIN: EH-301382-24

American Musicological Society, Inc. (New York, NY 10012-1502)
Petra Siovahn Amanda Walker (Project Director: February 2024 to November 2024)
Tammy Kernodle (Project Director: November 2024 to present)
Danielle Fosler-Lussier (Co Project Director: July 2024 to present)
Tammy Kernodle (Co Project Director: July 2024 to November 2024)

A two-week in-person institute for 30 higher education faculty to develop new ways to teach the history of American music.

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.