MUSA (Music of the United States of America) is a 41-volume series of critical editions of American music, representing the full range of genres and idioms that have contributed to American musical culture.
[1] It was established by the American Musicological Society in 1988[2] and is hosted by the University of Michigan at its American Music Institute.
The criteria used in developing MUSA volumes are: MUSA receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is published by A-R Editions of Madison, Wisconsin.
[4] The founding editor-in-chief of MUSA is Richard Crawford, and the current editors-in-chief are Mark Clague (University of Michigan) and Gayle Magee (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).