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Musicology Now Welcomes Christopher J. Smith
Musicology Now is pleased to welcome Christopher J. Smith to our editorial team. Smith is Professor, Chair of Musicology, and director of the Vernacular Music Center at the Texas Tech University School...
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Global Perspectives—The Art of Derivation: Jo Kondo’s Paregmenon
By Anton Vishio“Paregmenon is a figure which of the word going before deriveth the word following.” So Henry Peacham defined the rhetorical device, in one of the word’s earliest English...
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Global Perspectives—The Story of Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concerto
By Jung-Min LeeUnsuk Chin, born in South Korea and now based in Germany, has only occasionally engaged with traditional Korean or Asian music. Among a handful of examples is the last movement of...
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The Sound of Empathy in George Lewis’s Afterword
By Alexander K. RothePremiered in 2015 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Afterword is a two-act opera composed by George Lewis to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Association for...
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"Will we remember the way we were?" The past and future tenses of Lauryn...
By Lauren Eldridge"Care for me, care for me, you said you care for meThere for me, there for me, said you'd be there for me"This couplet serves as the foundation for both the songs at #1 and #9 on the...
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Dissertation Digest: Race and Respectability in Early Country Music
By Sam ParlerWhen Beyoncé took the stage with the Dixie Chicks to perform “Daddy Lessons” at the 2016 CMA Awards, she reignited the long-simmering debate over country music’s racial identity. Reactions...
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Bottom Power Ballad: Troye Sivan’s #BobsBoutBottoming
By Matthew J. JonesSinger-songwriter, producer, and actor Troye Sivan first made a name for himself in the Land Down Under with a hugely successful YouTube channel. Sivan’s cherub-next-door charm,...
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“An Appropriate and Exemplary Literature”: The JAMS Special Issue on Music,...
Emily Dolan, a member of the JAMS Editorial Board, and George Lewis, co-chair of the AMS Committee on Race and Ethnicity, sat down recently for a discussion of how the recent JAMS Call for Papers for a...
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Harry Hay, the Mattachine Society, and Musicology’s Role in the early U.S....
By John GabrielJune is LGBTQ Pride Month, an ideal occasion to think about the intersections of musicology and the long, ongoing struggle for queer and trans liberation. We are used to thinking of...
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Teaching Music and Difference: Music, Culture, and Difference in Globalization
By Jesús A. Ramos-KittrellThe well-meaning comments I received this year from students and colleagues about Cinco de Mayo (which ranged from remarks celebrating Mexican “independence day” to inquiries...
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Six Easy Ways to Foster an Accessible and Inclusive Music History Classroom
By Kimberly Francis, Michael Accinno and Meagan TroopMany music educators today grapple with this daunting question: How do we create and foster accessible teaching and learning experiences? By...
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From the Archives: Finding the Unexpected
By James ParsonsAs anyone who has engaged in archival research can attest, what one discovers can be rewarding, but also, as the saying goes, not so much. Yet every once in a while what one uncovers...
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Teaching Music & Difference: Critical Awareness for a Global Music Industry
By Rebekah MooreNote: This essay is the second installment in Musicology Now's "Teaching Music & Difference" series, which features additional essays by Jesus Ramos-Kittrell, Amber R....
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Teaching Music & Difference: Thick Listening
By Angela GlarosNote: This essay is the third installment in Musicology Now's "Teaching Music & Difference" series, which features additional essays by Jesus Ramos-Kittrell, Rebekah Moore, and...
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Teaching Music & Difference—Let’s Get It On: Pedagogy, Sexuality, and Music
By Amber R. Clifford-NapoleoneNote: This essay is the final installment in Musicology Now's "Teaching Music & Difference" series, which features additional essays by Jesus Ramos-Kittrell, Rebekah...
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Dissertation Digest: Listening to a Liberated Paris: Pierre Schaeffer...
By Alexander StalarowDissertation Digest: Listening to a Liberated Paris: Pierre Schaeffer Experiments with RadioI first became interested in Pierre Schaeffer when I encountered his pair of...
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Book Preview: Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music:...
By Gavin LeeHow should music research approach different social formations and musical expressions of gender and sexuality—and the very concept of difference? What are the affordances and pitfalls of...
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Why Listen To Animals?
By Rachel MundyNote: This essay appears simultaneously in the blog of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, SLSA New Creations.Some readers may recognize my question “Why Listen to...
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El Tricentenario: The Music of San Antonio’s 300th Anniversary
By Stefan Greenfield-CasasSan Antonio, TX. Best known as the home of the Alamo, the Spurs, and some of (if not the) best breakfast tacos in the US.<1> (It is also, incidentally, the meeting place...
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Man/Myth/Music: Hearing the Life and Legacy of John McCain
By Dan Blim, James Deaville, Naomi Graber, and Dana Gorzelany-MostakOn August 25, 2018, John Sidney McCain III—naval aviator, war hero, senator, two-time presidential contender, and stalwart...
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Dissertation Digest: The Politics of Opera in French Provincial Cities,...
By Natasha RouleTitle-piece from an opera libretto printed in Lyon in 1706.Photo: Natasha Roule. From the author’s collection.In 2015, Canal+ aired the first episode of Versailles, a Franco-Canadian...
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Whither “Musicologist”?
By Jacques DupuisApple’s June 5, 2017 Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) keynote presentation was, by many measures, a fairly standard, very polished Apple production, full of the usual slick...
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Folk Music and Fascism: A Divisive History
By Ross ColeFolk music is near synonymous with the left. This union is so apparent and longstanding in the Anglophone world that we rarely ever think to question it. Haunting the revival of the 1960s,...
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Three Musical Works About “Old Paris”
By Jacek BlaszkiewiczMy first time in front of Notre Dame was in 2014. I had just passed my PhD qualifying exams and had flown to Leeds to attend a conference. A spur-of-the-moment decision—and cheap...
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The Memories of Music in Game of Thrones
By Alex LudwigThis year is certain to test the Ironborn assertion, “What is dead may never die,” as three pillars of popular culture attempt to bring about a satisfying conclusion to their stories. The...
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