Studying U.S. Music in the Twenty-First Century

Recognizing these shifts, Annegret Fauser, as Editor-in-Chief of this Journal, invited the two of us to head up a colloquy to explore the state of "Studying U.S. Music" at this particular historical moment. The project appealed to our shared sense of uncertainty about where the field might be heading. 3 We drafted a series of questions, seeking to reexamine critical issues and respond to today's key challenges, and we aimed for a diverse roster of 690 Journal of the American Musicological Society 1. McCorkle, "Finding a Place for American Studies in American Musicology," 74. (For full references, see the combined list of Works Cited at the end of the Colloquy.) 2. For an account of the history of MUSA, together with a perspective on the integration of American studies into musicology, see Crawford, "MUSA's Early Years: The Life and Times of a National Editing Project."