Quick Takes Meets Ludomusicology
Today, Musicology Now's "Quick Takes" series explores the sonic world of gaming with a series of four essays on the role-playing video game, Final Fantasy XII. The series opens with today's post by...
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Playing with Time in The Zodiac Age
By Stefan Greenfield-CasasWhen playing a Final Fantasy game, there are a few things that generally remain consistent between games: a character named Cid, a spectacular world with a crystal-centric...
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Quick Takes — The Sonic Makeover in Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
By Kate ManceyFinal Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is the latest HD remaster from Square Enix, and with it comes an extensive remastering of the original soundtrack. In contrast to previous Square Enix HD...
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Quick Takes — A Double-Edged Sword: How FFXII: The Zodiac Age’s score keeps...
By Lee HartmanIn Final Fantasy XII’s original 2006 PlayStation 2 release, the game’s endearing cast of six party members battled its way through the world of Ivalice using an innovative Gambit battle...
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Review: The (R)Evolution of Steve Jobs
By Matthew DirstIs there drama in bytes? Or poetry in the smart phone? Only a Luddite would reject out of hand such tantalizing prospects for Santa Fe Opera’s 2017 premiere, a co-production with San...
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Lessons from the Archive: On Creativity, Process, and the Working Life of...
By Alice Miller CotterJohn Adams. Photo Credit: Margaretta MitchellNone of us is entirely sure what lures us to the creative act—or to studying it, for that matter. For some, it’s the quiet of being...
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In the Aftermath of Charlottesville
By Bonnie GordonThe "Unite the Right" Rally on UVa Campus. Photo Courtesy of Richmond Times-Dispatch.As the church service in Charlottesville ended on the night of August 11, cell phones vibrated. A...
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Does "Music Trump Politics"? Dennis Prager and the Santa Monica Symphony...
By Ted GordonDennis Prager in 2013. Photo Credit: Michael Robinson Chavez, LA Times (via Getty Images)In March of this year, Guido Lamell, the music director of the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra...
View ArticleOpen Letter to AMS Members on the State of the Academic Job Market
To the members of the AMS,Many of us in the discipline are alarmed by the ways recent hiring practices have affected the membership of our professional societies. We believe that we have a...
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Musicology Now Welcomes New Editors
We are excited to announce that two new editors are joining the team at Musicology Now!Brandi Neal is a reformed band nerd and originally from Sumter, SC. She received her BA in music from the...
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Quick Takes — Trailers for Coming Attractions (2018), or: The Trailer and the...
The trailer is one of the few forms of mediated advertising that the public actively seeks out, and, on occasion, even enjoys. When effectively constructed, trailers create anticipation of and desire...
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Quick Takes — Run The Jewels and Roll The Credits: Borrowed Music in the...
By Loren KajikawaThe trailer for Marvel’s Black Panther, scheduled for release in February of 2018, makes use of a “trailerized” version of “Legend Has It,” the third track on rap duo Run The Jewels’...
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Quick Takes — Proud Mary: Musicalizing the Hitwoman
By Jacqueline AvilaSony Pictures Entertainment’s trailer for Proud Mary (2018, dir. Babak Najafi) begins with a stationary shot of the sun rising quickly over the beautiful Boston skyline. This...
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Quick Takes — A Wrinkle in Sound? Teasing Madeleine L’Engle and Ava Duvernay
By James DeavilleThe teaser trailer to “A Wrinkle in Time” dropped eight months before cinematic release to high expectations and apprehensions: Madeleine L’Engle’s eponymous science fantasy novel has...
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Quick Takes — “Still Playing Games”: Considering Musical Meaning in an...
By Will GibbonsIn the years since Gary Jules’s cover of “Mad World” graced an influential 2006teaser, covers or edited versions of popular songs have become de rigeur in video game trailers. That’s...
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Announcing Music and Social Justice, a New Series from University of...
By William Cheng and Andrew Dell’AntonioFrom Plato to Public Enemy, people have debated the relationship between music and justice, rarely arriving at much consensus over the art form’s ethics and...
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Book Preview: Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of...
By J. Griffith RollefsonIn my new book, Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality(University of Chicago Press, Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology, 2017), I examine how the...
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Book Preview: Ferruccio Busoni and His Legacy
By Erinn KnytUltimately it is always in a man’s impact and not in his successes that his value is determined. And the influence that Busoni has had on our generation, not just as a pianist as most...
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Quick Takes — Sonic Footprints of Doom in Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!
By Danijela Kulezic-WilsonIt’s been said that Darren Aronofsky’s style has the subtlety of a chainsaw, which is not entirely undeserved and can pose a big problem for an artist with a taste for “big...
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Quick Takes — The Apocalypse “Through a Glass Darkly”
By Mark DurrandWithout knowing from the outset that Darren Aronofsky originally conceived Mother! as a critical intervention into the increasingly fraught relationship between humans and the...
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