On September 27th, 2024, HISAM hosted “Critical Minded: A Celebration of 20 Years of Hip Hop Scholarship in CUNY” at […]
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“Becoming Ella Fitzgerald” a conversation with author Judith Tick
May 6th, 2024 On May 6th, 2024, we celebrated the publication of Judith Tick’s “Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Singer Who […]
Afro-Venezuelan Drumming Presentation and Workshop with Tambor y Caña
November 30th, 2023 Tambor y Caña, Escuela de Tambores Afrovenezolanos y Percusión Afrolatina (E.T.A.P.A.), and Afro-Codigos are Brooklyn-based Afro-Venezuelan drumming […]
Celebrating H. Wiley Hitchcock’s Birthday
September 28th, 2023 This centennial concert, thrown by Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, est. 1971, highlights and benefits […]
Catch us at the Society for American Music (SAM) national conference!
HISAM’s past and current directors, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton and Agustina Checa (respectively), will be participating in the panel “Potentials and Precarities […]
A Centennial Birthday Invitation
The Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music is entering an exciting new phase, with plans to support academic research […]
Women, Sound, Transformation: Claudia Acuña and Angela Piva on Survival and Success in the Music Industry
Wednesday, November 2, 202211 a.m.-12:15 p.m.Room 250, Leonard and Claire Tow Performing Arts Center In-Person and Virtual In 2022, the […]
Margaret Bonds and Black Radicalism with Malcolm J. Merriweather
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 10:30 a.m.Register via Zoom Last week, Dr. Malcolm J. Merriweather sat down with scholars Dr. Rollo […]