Welcome to the Center for Music of the Americas
Mission Statement and Strategies
The Center for Music of the Americas (CMA) was established in 1985 to create and enhance understanding among the peoples of North, South, and Central America, and the Caribbean through music (in the broadest sense of the word) and its related arts and folkways. It forms an integral part of the School of Music at The Florida State University. The Center's activities are multifaceted, including (but not limited to) the following:

• it is closely related to academic curricula leading to certificates, Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees in a number of specialized disciplines within the School of Music;
• it oversees the numerous world music performance groups within the School of Music;
• it seeks funding for projects involving or potentially involving any and all aspects of music within the Americas and the world; and
• it endeavors to support any and all activities that are related to music in the Americas and the world.

Although the Centers's active role is not confined to any specific research area, it is closely related to the disciplines of Ethnomusicology, Historical Musicology, and Multicultural Music Education and adopts as a part of its purpose the primary objectives of those disciplines: the scholarly study and research of music.

To that purpose, the Center adds another: the dissemination of the products of study and research through teaching and musical performance. The Center for Music of the Americas includes within its philosophy the study, research, teaching of, and performance of all musics of the world because America is like a microcosm of the world.