| CH-50421-07 | Challenge Programs: Challenge Grants | American Musicological Society, Inc. | Publishing Musicologal Research in the 21st Century | 12/1/2005 - 7/31/2011 | $240,000.00 | Anne | W. | Robertson | | | | American Musicological Society, Inc. | New York | NY | 10012-1502 | USA | 2006 | Music History and Criticism | Challenge Grants | Challenge Programs | 0 | 240000 | 0 | 240000 | Endowment for publication subventions and an award program in musicology as well as fund-raising costs.
The American Musicological Society seeks an NEH challenge grant of $240,000, which with a 4:1 match will yield $1,200,000. These funds will endow four publication-related initiatives of the Society. The bulk of the funds ($900,000) will create a new subvention supporting the publication of first books by young scholars, whose work often represents the cutting edge of scholarly research, but whose careers are often at their most fragile or challenging point. The remainder will go primarily to existing publication subvention programs, supporting musicological books more generally ($125,000) as well as a monograph series sponsored by the Society ($100,000). These subventions aim to optimize the quality of the best scholarly books on music while keeping their prices affordable. Finally, we propose a new award for books on music in American culture ($50,000), a vital area of musical research that appeals to the broadest literary and musical public. |