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
Career Development Grants in American Music
The Career Development Grants in American Music program provides grants of $800 and complimentary AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting registration to students and educators who have a special interest in American music.
The purpose of the program is to support participation in Annual Meeting programming that deepens participants’ knowledge of American music and strengthens professional networks. Grant recipients will attend six sessions on the American music track and participate in relevant activities at the upcoming Joint Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Application is open to educators at all levels (K-12 and higher education) and students currently enrolled in a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral program who demonstrate an interest in American music. Applicants must be legal residents of the United States. The deadline to apply is 1 July 2025, 11:59pm ET.
Past Events
Check out these other events from the American Musicological Society’s Many Musics of America Project.
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