Teaching Music History Conference
Connect with fellow music educators, learn, and share your work!
The Teaching Music History Conference brings together people who are interested in teaching and learning about music history.
The Teaching Music History Conference, hosted by the American Musicological Society (AMS), is an annual conference that explores issues of importance to music educators working at every level. The conference presents special opportunities to connect educators, researchers, and members of the public who are invested in music education across all grade levels.
The 2025 conference will feature a special workshop organized in partnership with the Music of Asian America Research Center on their resource “Asian America in 22 Songs.” Led by Dr. Elaine Andres, the workshop will provide hands-on experience with this resource as well as lesson plans for attendees to use in their own classrooms.
Event Details
20–22 June 2025
New York University
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
82 Washington Square E.
New York, NY 10003
K–12 Educators Grants in American Music
K–12 Educators Grants in American Music are grants of $500 to K–12 teachers and music educators who have a special interest in American music to attend the 2025 jAMS Teaching Music History Conference. Grantees will also receive complimentary registration for the conference.
The purpose of the grant is to support educator participation in AMS programming that engages with historical pedagogy and American musical traditions. Grants may be used to pay travel and conference attendance expenses. Grant recipients will participate in relevant activities at the Teaching Music History Conference in New York as part of a cohort of fifteen.
Application is open to teachers working in K-12 institutions or music education and to students planning to pursue a career in those fields. Applicants must be legal residents of the United States. Applicants need not be members of the American Musicological Society. The deadline to apply is 1 April 2025, 11:59pm ET.
Upcoming Events
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AMS/Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Lecture with Landon Palmer
Cleveland, Ohio
In the 1960s, there was no set answer to the question of how to capture a concert on film, or what to even do with such a product once it’s been made. Join Landon Palmer as he uncovers the curious story of The T.A.M.I. Show, one that involves William Shakespeare, strange television technologies, and a very short-lived charity organization. In this talk, he’ll explain how this movie came to exist and why there’s never been anything quite like it since. Tickets: Free
Re-Animating the Sound Archive with Brian Harnetty
Boone, North Carolina
In “Re-Animating the Sound Archive” Brian Harnetty will discuss strategies by which people in the present relate to recorded sounds that document the past. He will explore themes from several recording, performance, and installation projects that embed old audio in new contexts, playing illustrative examples from historic and present-day audio and video recordings. These projects document histories of extraction in Appalachia, social and environmental justice concerns, and contemplative practices. Tickets: Free