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Happy New Year from Musicology Now
(New Years fireworks over Pikes Peak, Lars Leber Photography) As we all return to our musicological tasks at the outset of the new year, here are a few things to look forward to on Musicology Now...
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George Michael's Queer Masculinity: An Exploration and an Elegy
Bubblegum pop poster boy. Sophisticated soul singer. Political critic. Reluctant gay icon. Covert philanthropist. These are some of the epithets attached to George Michael, whose death on 25 December...
View ArticleIntroducing "Quick Takes"
Musicology Now is pleased to present in the coming days the first in an ongoing series of “quick takes” to recently released music. In our opening installment, a set of musicologists (James Buhler,...
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Quick Takes on Rogue One: Michael Giacchino's Sacrifice
By James Buhler Composing the music for Rogue One would inevitably be a thankless task. Though many composers have written Star Wars music for games, television, and animated features, this is the...
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Quick Takes on Rogue One: Leitmotivic Use vs. Mention
By Frank Lehman When approaching franchises that boast networks of leitmotifs, I find it helpful to bring in the use/mention distinctionfrom the philosophy of language. In everyday speech, the...
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Quick Takes on Rogue One: Requiem For Rogues
By Brooke McCorkle“We have hope. Rebellions are built on hope,” quips Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Yet audience members well-versed in Star Wars lore know that while there...
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Quick Takes on Rogue One: Putting the Opera Back in "Space Opera"
By Naomi GraberIt is a truth universally acknowledged that the Star Wars saga is inherently Wagnerian (Kalinak, 1992; Schroeder, 2002). Just how Wagnerian is up for debate (Paulin, 2000), but the...
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Lieder of the Free World: Music and Military at Barack Obama’s 2008 Inaugural...
[Ed. Note: This essay is the first in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2017. Each author of these essays will participate in a...
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Another Counter-Inaugural Concert
[Ed. Note: This essay is the second in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2017. Each author of these essays will participate in a...
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The Band Plays On
[Ed. Note: This essay is the third in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2017. Each author of these essays will participate in a...
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Donald Trump, Jackie Evancho, and the Performance of Embattled Whiteness
[Ed. Note: This essay is the fourth in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2017. Each author of these essays will participate in a...
View ArticleSound at the Inauguration: A Listener’s Guide
by James DeavilleThe inauguration events of 2017 afford the attentive listener an opportunity to attend to sounds that extend beyond the realm of what is traditionally considered music, but that are...
View ArticleInaugural Live Blog Preview
The curatorial team for Musicology Now is pleased to present its first-ever live-blog event: Music and the Inauguration of Donald Trump.We have a team of six dedicated scholars on hand, each of whom...
View ArticleLive-Blog Event: Music and the Inauguration of Donald Trump
Welcome to the first-ever "live-blog" event on Musicology Now. Please visit our "Preview" post for more information on the endeavor and our contributors. Here is a list of ways to watch. Refresh...
View ArticleLive Blog Event: Music and the Inauguration of Donald Trump
[Ed. Note: An incredible THANK YOU to our illustrious team of bloggers: Dan Blim, James Deaville, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Naomi Graber, Katherine Lynn Meizel, and Eric Smialek. We were thrilled to read...
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Louis XIII Update: Further Thoughts on the Exaudiat te Dominus
by Peter BennettIn my Spring 2016 JAMS article, “Hearing King David in Early Modern France: Politics, Prayer, and Louis XIII’s Musique de la Chambre,” I considered the role that psalms and the psalter...
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Book Preview: Music After the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989 (University of California Press, 2017).Modern composition since 1989 to … now?When describing my new book Music after the...
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Book Preview: Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Rao
by Nancy RaoIn my book Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (University of Illinois Press, 2017), I reconstruct the lost history of a vibrant “Golden Age” of Chinese opera theaters in the United...
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February Preview
Welcome to February, everyone!Robert Schumann statue in Zwickau, GermanyIt was on this day in 1840 that Robert Schumann officially began his Liederjahr, or year in song. And it is on this day in 2017...
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Book Preview: Lions of the North by Benjamin Teitelbaum
by Benjamin TeitelbaumMy book Lions of the North explores the ways music participated in the mainstreaming of radical nationalism (also referred to as "right-wing extremism,""far right populism," etc.)...
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