Moving to Louisville
The American Musicological Society meets in Louisville KY this upcoming 12–15 November. Louisville has a long and impressive commitment to music (see our previous post on the Grawemeyer Award for Music...
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Music & Diplomacy in Review
by Rebekah Ahrendt, Mark Ferraguto, and Damien MahietMusical diplomacy seems to be everywhere today. From US Department of State programs like Next Level or OneBeat, to concert diplomacy in India and...
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Alan Curtis died unexpectedly in Florence on Wednesday, 15 July 2015. He was 80.Wendy Heller writes from Princeton: Alan's contributions to our discipline have been so numerous, it is hard to even...
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Remembering Alan Curtis
by Davitt MoroneyAlan's death is a sad shock. For those who don't know the details (which I received from Jennifer Curtis, his first wife—and daughter of the Charles Cushing, legendary professor in our...
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The Great Dispute
We have reached the 50th anniversary of a memorable dialogue on the nature of American musicology. It began with Joseph Kerman's “A Profile for American Musicology” as delivered at the annual meeting...
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10 Years of OUPblog
Today is the tenth anniversary of the OUPblog, and Oxford is celebrating with a selection of posts it calls "The Best of the Decade.”Among these bests is Ryan Bañagale's “United Airlines and Rhapsody...
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A Black Drummer in the Seventeenth-Century Austrian Army
by Michael LorenzWe repost Dr. Lorenz's fascinating study with his gracious permission and at the recommendation of John Rice. It appeared 22 July 2015 on Lorenz's blog, Musicological Trifles and...
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Performing Musicology
by Ellen T. Harris There have been many calls recently to teach by doing, to show the research process rather than merely recite results. It is difficult to open a copy of The Chronicle without finding...
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Followup: Die goldene Kale
Our post of 6 June 2014 concerned the New York performance of Joseph Rumshinsky's Di goldene kale (The Golden Bride), a 1923 Yiddish-American operetta. The performance, with piano accompaniment, was...
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Now We Are 2
This blog reckons its formal beginning (after some alpha- and beta-testing) as (variously) 1 August 2013 and/or the beginning of the academic year 2013–14. Right now you're within a couple of clicks of...
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Ethnomusicology's Queer Silences
by William Cheng and Gregory BarzReposted from OUPblog of 28 July 2015. The edited volumeQueering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicologyis forthcoming from Oxford University Press. An audible silence...
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HIP, HIP . . .
From the front lines of historically informed performance…by Kate van Orden 5 August, 2015 For the...
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The Critical Karaoke Radio Project
by Ryan Raul BañagaleThis past March witnessed the debut of a new public musicology endeavor called the Critical Karaoke Radio Project. Founded at Colorado College by playwright and hip-hop professor...
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What I Do in Musicology
by Jason HanleyNOTE: The AMS Newsletter of the American Musicological Society features a series of reflections from musicologists who have pursued non-tenure-track careers. We are pleased to co-publish...
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Transforming Musicology
A Report from Britainby Carolin RindfleischAs a three-year project funded under the British Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Digital Transformations scheme, Transforming Musicology is part of a...
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Boulez Turns 90, Scholarship on Boulez Turns 60
by Jonathan GoldmanLast March 26th was not only the 188th anniversary of Beethoven’s death but also the 90th birthday of that most influential of 20th-century musicians, Pierre Boulez. Like Elliott...
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Hildegard's Cosmos, cont'd.
Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, presented the AMS President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture on 6 November 2014 at the American...
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Mariah Carey in Vegas: Going for the High
by William ChengThis essay first appeared in Ryot, 29 July 2015, and was reposted by the Huffington Post, 30 July 2015.As Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj work through their bad blood, there’s no better...
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Putting Scholarship into (Art) Practice
NOTE: The third annual President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society will be delivered at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, 12 November 2015, in Lexington,...
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Losses
by D. Kern HolomanRobert Commanday(1922-2015)San Francisco ConservatoryTo ponder the successive losses of Andrew Porter last April and, this week, of Bob Commanday is, necessarily, also to mourn their...
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