Submission Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 1 May 2024

Call for Proposals

The AMS Committee on the Annual Meeting and Public Events (CAMPE) invites AMS study groups, chapters, and committees to submit proposals for members-only events to be held in academic year 2024-2025.  The Committee particularly seeks online-only events, but will also consider proposals for in-person and hybrid events.

These events will form part of a year-long  program of networking and professional development events that will strengthen support for and ties among AMS members outside of the context of the AMS Annual Meeting.

Events covered by this call are intended to enhance and diversify the membership experience while also attracting new audiences to the Society and its work. They will provide a complement to the Annual Meeting, the AMS Public Lecture series in partnership with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, NYU, and the Library of Congress, the Many Musics of America series, and other existing chapter and study group events, such as regular chapter meetings. The focus on online-only formats is intended to maximize inclusivity. The program that results from this call will prioritize content designed to be a ‘must-see’ for specific audience groups, especially those who find it difficult to attend in-person events, such as the Annual Meeting.

In service of this goal, CAMPE is calling for proposals from AMS study groups, chapters, and committees for events. Proposals are due 1 May 2024, 11:59pm EDT.  

Members-only event types: Members-only events include but are not restricted to: community-building initiatives at all levels; sub-disciplinary discussions tied to special journal issues, important intellectual debates, and conferences; themed mentoring events (e.g. specialist methods and approaches seminars); events tailored to the needs of particular constituencies, such as new AMS members or contingent faculty; or discussions of prize-winning member publications via interviews or one-on-one conversations, etc. 

Limited funding is available for some events. To apply for funding, please upload a proposed budget of expenses.

Eligibility

This CAMPE Special Call is limited and may be answered only by the designated leaders or representatives of existing AMS study groups, chapters, and committees submitting on behalf of their group. Individuals wishing to submit proposals must join and work with (and within) one of these affiliate groups to propose. Proposals accepted in answer to this call will be designated in AMS publicity as "organized by" the submitting study group, chapter, or committee. 

Proposals will not be accepted for events taking place at the AMS Annual Meeting, events that have already been scheduled, or events that happened in the past.

Please note the committee reserves the right to make revisions to any event proposals to fit AMS strategic goals, calendar availability, or other considerations. If the committee wishes to accept a proposal contingent on specific revisions, this will be communicated at the time of acceptance.

Submission Procedure and Decisions Schedule

Proposals must be submitted using the proposal submission form. Proposals received via email will not be considered. To avoid technical problems, please submit at least twenty-four hours before the deadline. 

Decision notifications will be sent in late June. The selected event(s) will be scheduled in coordination with the American Musicological Society.

Important Notes:

1. Start your application early. You may save an incomplete form and continue later.
2. You may add collaborators to this application by clicking the "Manage Collaborators" link located on the top right of the form below. For more information about adding collaborators, please click here.
3. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your application. Applications not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
4. Upon submission of your application form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your application by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
5. If you have any questions about your application, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 1 May 2024

Application Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 August 2024

OVERVIEW:

Through funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the generous contributions of many individual donors, the Publications Committee of the American Musicological Society makes available funds to help with expenses involved in the publication of works of musical scholarship, including books, essay collections, articles, chapters in essay collections, special issues of journals, and works in non-print media. Subventions are granted for any topic of musicological research.

For additional information about the AMS subvention program, please visit the AMS website.

ELIGIBILITY

Subventions are awarded only for work written by current members of the AMS. Applications for any amount up to $2500 will receive consideration. No individual can receive a subvention more than once in a three-year period. Applications that are not complete will not be considered. Individual authors or editors, or their sponsoring organization, society, or department, may apply for assistance to defray costs not normally covered by publishers. Examples include costs related to illustrations, musical examples, facsimiles, accompanying audio or video examples, permissions, and in exceptional cases copy-editing. Subventions are not given to defray costs associated with indexing or translations. Author subventions required by publishers are not eligible for reimbursement. Proposals from scholars at all stages of their career are welcome. Projects that make use of newer technologies are also encouraged. In addition to the standard subvention funds, works by early career professionals may also be eligible for funding from the AMS 75 PAYS subvention fund, which provides support for the publication of first books by professionals in the early stages of their musicology research or teaching career. Click here for complete eligibility criteria and information on eligibility appeals regarding the AMS 75 PAYS subvention fund.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES

The following materials are required:  

1. A short written abstract (1,000 words maximum) that describes the project and its contribution to musical scholarship.
2. A copy of the article or full and complete book draft. Please identify the date of the manuscript you submit. If submitting an application for a non-print project, submit the equivalent or consult the AMS office for guidance.
3. A copy of a contract or letter of agreement that demonstrates final acceptance for publication and includes the clauses that stipulate the author's assumption of the expenses for which the subvention is requested.
4. A budget (itemized list of expenses) for which the subvention would be applied.
5. (Optional): copies of invoices or receipts to support the proposed budget.
6. Copies of the readers' reports and authors' responses (with names redacted). Includes the dates the reports were written.

Application deadlines are mid-February and mid-August each year.

NOTIFICATION AND USE OF FUNDS

Decisions will be announced no later than five months after each deadline. Recipients of subventions are requested to forward a copy of the final product (book, article, resource) upon publication. All awards must be claimed (with submission of receipts) within thirty-six months of the granting of the subvention.

Important Notes:

1. Start your application early. You may save an incomplete form and continue later.
2. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your application. Applications not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
3. Upon submission of your application form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your application by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
4. If you have any questions about your application, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 August 2024

Application Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 August 2024

OVERVIEW:

Through funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the generous contributions of many individual donors, the Publications Committee of the American Musicological Society makes available funds to help with expenses involved in the publication of works of musical scholarship, including books, essay collections, articles, chapters in essay collections, special issues of journals, and works in non-print media. Subventions are granted for any topic of musicological research.

For additional information about the AMS subvention program, please visit the AMS website.

ELIGIBILITY

Subventions are awarded only for work written by current members of the AMS. Applications for any amount up to $2500 will receive consideration. Applications that are not complete will not be considered. Publisher subventions are intended to reduce the retail price of the book or resource and make it more accessible to readers. In addition to the standard subvention funds, works by early career professionals may also be eligible for funding from the AMS 75 PAYS subvention fund, which provides support for the publication of first books by professionals in the early stages of their musicology research or teaching career. Click here for complete eligibility criteria and information on eligibility appeals (to be submitted by the author) regarding the AMS 75 PAYS subvention fund.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES

To apply for a Publisher's subvention, the following materials are required:
 

1. The entire manuscript, including its date
2. Copies of the readers’ reports and authors’ responses (including dates; names should be redacted)
3. A detailed financial statement, indicating: 1) a breakdown of the costs of publication, including details such as projected print run, licensing expenses, and other expenses associated with the project; 2) the amount requested from the AMS as a subvention; 3) the impact the subvention will have on the retail price of the book or resource.

Subvention application deadlines are mid-February and mid-August each year.

NOTIFICATION AND USE OF FUNDS

Decisions will be announced no later than five months after the application deadline. Recipients of subventions are requested to forward a copy of the final product (book, article, resource) upon publication. All awards must be claimed (with submission of receipts) within thirty-six months of the granting of the subvention.

Important Notes:

1. Start your application early. You may save an incomplete form and continue later.
2. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your application. Applications not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
3. Upon submission of your application form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your application by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
4. If you have any questions about your application, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 August 2024

Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET, 31 May 2024

Overview:

The Eileen Southern Travel Fund (ESTF) grant program provides travel grants to the AMS Annual Meeting for minority undergraduates and terminal master’s degree candidates interested in exploring careers in musicology. As part of each Eileen Southern Travel Fund grant recipients receive travel, lodging, complimentary registration, and a one-year complimentary membership in the AMS. They are also hosted at the annual meeting by the Eileen Southern Travel Fund Committee, which organizes cohort and mentorship activities, including introductions to representatives of graduate programs in musicology from across the country, future colleagues and mentors, exposure to the Society’s many interest groups, and opportunities to attend various annual meeting sessions and programs.

Eligibility:

Application is open to minority undergraduates and terminal master’s degree candidates (Black/African, Asian, Hispanic, Native Americans/Indigenous, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders). International students who are in the aforementioned minority groups and who are enrolled at U.S. or Canadian universities at the time of the conference are eligible to apply for the award. Funding is available to recipients to assist with travel and lodging expenses. Please note that AMS does not provide airfare from outside the U.S. or Canada.

Letter of Support:

One letter of support from your department chair, advisor, or a faculty member is required in order to complete the application. The application form will ask you to submit a reference request for the letter of support so that the individual writing your letter can submit it via this submission platform. The form will ask you to input the email address of the letter writer.

Notification:

Applicants will receive a decision notification in early-mid July.

Important Notes:

1. Start your application early. You may save an incomplete form and continue later.
2. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your application. Applications not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
3. Upon submission of your application form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your application by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
4. If you have any questions about your application, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET, 31 May 2024

Application Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 1 July 2024
Overview and Eligibility:
The AMS offers Professional Development Travel Grants to AMS members who have little or no financial support for travel to participate in the Annual Meeting of the Society. The purpose of this grant is to aid non-affiliated scholars and those with institutional appointments but little or no financial support for conference travel.
Grants of up to $500 (applicants outside North America) and $350 (North American applicants) (subject to funding availability) are available to those who are presenting papers or performances, chairing sessions, or serving on an AMS Committee. Graduate students presenting papers at the Annual Meeting of the Society are also eligible for Professional Development Travel Grants, if the home institution is unable to provide sufficient support.
As a general rule, scholars will not be funded two years in a row.
Notification and Use of Funds:
Applicants will receive a decision notification in early-mid August.
Application Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 1 July 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED: 11:59pm EDT, 1 May 2024

The Roland Jackson Award recognizes an article in the English language of exceptional merit in the field of music analysis by a scholar who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States.

The award will be made according to three separate subject categories, in successive years, as follows:

• music from circa 1800 to the present
• music circa 1600 to 1800
• music before 1600

In the current year of the award (2024), articles on music before 1600 published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible. (To inaugurate the award in 2016, articles on music from 1800 to the present that were published in 2014 and 2015 were eligible. In the second year of the award (2017), articles on music from 1600 to 1800 published in 2014, 2015, and 2016 were eligible. In the third year of the award (2018), articles on music before 1600 published in 2015, 2016, and 2017 were eligible.)

The award will be made in each subject category once every three years and articles published during the previous three years will be eligible.

The committee, consisting of five scholars, chooses a single winner from among all the candidates. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the Jackson Award only once. An article may receive only one AMS award. 

Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 1 May 2024.
 

Nominations and Review Copies:

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 1 May 2024

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 11:59pm EDT, 1 May 2024
The AMS Teaching Award will honor an exceptional pedagogical resource for musicology by an AMS member or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States published during the previous two years (2022 or 2023). Publication year may refer to the copyright year as found on the copyright page of the book or journal; online and non-traditional sources must make clear the year of publication. By “resource” is meant a published article, book (including textbook), digital medium, online material, other scholarly endeavor, or non-traditional source (e.g. white paper, curriculum, blog, etc.). This resource should best exemplify the highest qualities of originality, theory, application, and communication for teaching and pedagogy in any of the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship.
The committee, consisting of three scholars, will choose a single winner from among all of the candidates. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the Teaching Award only once. A work of scholarship may receive only one AMS award.
Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2024. Additionally, the award committee may solicit the curriculum vitae of each nominee.

Nominations and Review Copies:
 

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:
 

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 11:59pm EDT, 1 May 2024