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Book Preview: Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul’s...
by Eliot BatesDigital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul’s Recording Studio Culture (Oxford University Press, 2016), a book supported in part by an AMS subvention grant, is the culmination of...
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making lemonade out of strange fruit
by Imani Mosley black-ish television logo, ABC The year 2016 has been lauded as a turning point in the age of television. With cable networks and content creators like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon...
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The Art World's Day Off
Caitlin SchmidThe New York Avant Garde Festival (1963-1980) was never a critical darling – not in the mid-1960s when it was obviously a music festival featuring composers and musicians, and not in its...
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Don’t Call it a Synthesizer: Remembering Donald Buchla’s Modular Electronic...
By Ted GordonDon Buchla (1937-2016) was an instrument designer, musician, and engineer who developed his first musical instruments at the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the mid-1960s. He was also...
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The Archives of Dispute
Patrick NicklesonMinimalism has a long tradition of disputes between authors. Branden Joseph first noted this trend in his book on Tony Conrad, singling out in particular those between Conrad and La...
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Teaching Under Trump Series
By Louis EpsteinImage via CUIndependent This set of posts was inspired by a series of Facebook-facilitated conversations among musicologists following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The...
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Music History Pedagogy and the Political Present - Teaching Under Trump Series
[Ed. Note: This is the first of five posts in a series where teacher/scholars reflect on the challenges and opportunities of teaching music after following the election of Donald Trump.]By Louis...
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A View from the Ivory Cornfields: Ethical Teaching at a Public University...
[Ed. Note: This is the second of five posts in a series where teacher/scholars reflect on the challenges and opportunities of teaching music after following the election of Donald Trump.]By Christopher...
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Social Resilience, Curricular Design, and the Liberal Arts - Teaching Under...
[Ed. Note: This is the third of five posts in a series where teacher/scholars reflect on the challenges and opportunities of teaching music after following the election of Donald Trump.]By Dale Chapman...
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Teaching Citizenship: The 2016 Election in the Classroom - Teaching Under...
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By James DeavilleMy response to the Trump campaign, and in particular to his mocking a disabled reporter in November, 2015, took a pedagogical form, specifically an upper-level seminar on music and...
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This week, Musicology Now marks the beginning of what will be a recurring series dealing with the experiences of musicologists working in a range of institutions.We are doing this for several reasons....
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A Very Modern, Major Generalist (at the Conservatory)
(Ed. note: This is the first of three posts this week that launch a recurring series on teaching in a range of institutions.)Kristi Brown-MontesanoWhen the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles opened...
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Music History for Engineers
(Ed. note: This is the second of three posts this week that launch a recurring series on teaching in a range of institutions.)David Chapman, Jr.“He was an engineer! A mathematician!! What the devil!...
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Community College Calling
Christine GengaroMy last year in graduate school at the University of California was my third year teaching at community colleges. I taught at three different community colleges that year (Pasadena,...
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New “Work in Progress” Series
The editorial team at Musicology Now is excited to launch a new interactive feature, which we're calling Work in Progress. Given the long gestation time of academic writing, and the deliberate rhythms...
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Can We Sound Good? (Or, What is Musicology’s Purpose while Teaching under...
By Kelly HiserUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students face police while protesting a Donald Trump campaign rally. Photo credit: Joe BruskyAs I read the contributions to Musicology Now’s “Teaching...
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The Value of Collaboration
By Olivia Bloechl, Katherine Butler Schofield, and Gabriel SolisThis is a jointly authored post, and we’ve opted to sign our contributions, because we’re speaking from our different disciplinary and...
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Rethinking Music Theory, With Syrian Aid
By Gavin LeeThere was a standing ovation when Kofi Agawu finished his keynote address at the 2015 meeting of the Society for Music Theory, “Rethinking Music Theory, With African Aid.” The premise of...
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Book Preview: Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania
by Nicholas TochkaThere are shorthand ways for talking about popular music under repressive state orders, and we’re getting a refresher on them right now.After November 8, we began hearing that Donald...
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