The North American British Music Studies Association
North American British Music Studies Association
NABMSA Capital Campaign: Building Our Future
NABMSA is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its first conference in 2024. As part of our year-long celebration, we are looking to our future. NABMSA’s ability to support our scholarly community depends on you. Help NABMSA support the future of British music studies by giving a multi-year, recurring, or one-time gift to NABMSA today!
In 2024, NABMSA celebrates the 20th anniversary of its first conference by looking to our future. NABMSA’s ability to support our scholarly community depends on you. Tell us what NABMSA means to you by giving a multi-year, recurring, or one-time gift to NABMSA today!
About the Campaign
At the Nineteenth-Century Music in Britain Conference in Leeds in 2003, several recent American Ph.D.s congregated outside during a break. We talked about how we wished we had known about each other while writing our dissertations and wondered how we could remedy that for the next generation. By the end of the break, the foundations of NABMSA had been laid.
Since then, much to our surprise and delight, NABMSA has
- Held 11 biennial conferences
- Established 6 named awards, grants, or prizes (and given away 33 of these)
- Held 2 biennial online symposia and 4 online colloquia
- Published 18 issues of Book Reviews
- Awarded 10 Honorary Memberships
- Established a book series with Clemson University Press with six titles so far
With twenty successful years behind us, we are excited to see what the next twenty will hold for NABMSA. As we move into the future, we hope NABMSA will
- Embrace the breadth of music and musical cultures in Britain, Ireland, and beyond
- Connect with the global community of scholars of British music
- Continue to develop activities and programming to support our members
To do this, we need your support. To that end, we’re excited to announce the NABMSA 2024: Building Our Future capital campaign. We aim to raise $27,000, with pledges counting towards our goal. $27,000 will enable:
- Continuing and expanding Scholar Support
- Funding and growing programming, including conferences, symposia, colloquia
- Updating our website
- Refreshing our logo
- Increasing our financial stability for the long term
Ways to give:
- Monthly/subscription-style donations (coming soon on the website)
- Multi-year donations
- Donations via PayPal, Venmo, checks, stock donations, IRA payouts, and donor-advised funds
Email Ruth Thomas at treasurer@nabmsa.org with questions or for help.
With your help, NABMSA can look forward to another twenty years of growth supporting scholarship on any aspect of music in the British Isles and beyond.
Click here to donate!
2024 Conference Video
Launch Video
Our Purpose
The North American British Music Studies Association (NABMSA) aims to promote the study of British Music from all time periods on the North American Continent; to provide a collegial and supportive forum for discussion through electronic and other means; to provide a clearinghouse of information on the study of such music; and to foster regular meetings to discuss the same.
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