Conference Agenda

Organized by the Committee on Career-Related Issues.

Publication plays a significant role in musicological careers on the tenure track, whether it functions as a criterion for hiring or a benchmark for tenure and promotion. Musicological publication venues serve not only to disseminate knowledge produced by AMS members, they actively shape the field through editorial processes that may or may not be transparent to contributing scholars.

The speakers work as current or outgoing editors for the Journal of the American Musicological Society, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Oxford University Press, A-R Editions, and Musicology Now.

Speakers will aim to demystify the publication process from the proposal to acceptance. Each of five panelists will give a five-minute lightning talk about how the route to publication works within their organization, discussing what happens behind the scenes and addressing common issues that can prevent publication (twenty-five minutes). The session chair will then moderate questions for the speakers from the audience members (twenty minutes). The remaining forty-five minutes will be set aside for audience members to address brief questions directly to individual editors.