SAM Interest Groups

Interest Groups are formed by members to share common interests and organize special sessions at annual conferences. Presently active groups are listed below:

American Band History Research, Craig Parker

Connecting Outside the Academy, Joseph Horowitz

Dance, Renee Camus

Early American Music, Nicholas Butler

Music, Sound, and Media, James Wierzbicki and Mary Simonson, co-chairs

Folk and Traditional Music, Ron Pen

Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgendered, W. Anthony Sheppard

Gospel and Church Music, Tammy Kernodle, Emmett Price, and Horace Maxille, co-chairs

Historiography, Michael Pisani

Jewish Studies, Erica Argyropoulos

Music and Politics, James Deaville

Music Biography, Steve Swayne

Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, Jennifer Campbell and Christina Taylor Gibson, co-chairs

Music Theatre,
James Lovensheimer

Popular Music, Kristen Stauffer Todd and Philip A. Todd, co-chairs

Research on Gender in American Music, Melissa de Graaf

Research Resources, Alisa Rata Stutzbach

Transatlantic Relations, Marianne Betz

Twentieth-Century Music, Rob Haskins