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Politics Invades the Theater? It’s Always Been There

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By Elizabeth T. Craft [Ed Note.  A version of the following Op-Ed originally appeared in the Salt Lake City Tribune on… Read More

The Queen is a Doctor of Musicology?

by Elina Hamilton After a long day of classes, preparing lectures, and grading assignments, I snuggled into my sofa with a glass of red wine… Read More

Nicht diese Töne: What If a Black Lives Matter Protest Had Silenced Vancouver’s AMS Business Meeting?

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Colloquy: Race, Ethnicity and the Profession (Part 4 of 4)

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[Ed. Note: The following paper was presented by Ellie Hisama of Columbia University as part of the special session on “Race,… Read More

Colloquy: Race, Ethnicity and the Profession (Part 3 of 4)

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[Ed. Note: The following paper was presented by Bonnie Gordon of the University of Virginia as part of the special session… Read More

Colloquy: Race Ethnicity and the Profession (Part 2 of 4)

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[Ed. Note: The following paper was presented by Mark Burford of Reed College as part of the special session on “Race Ethnicity, and the Profession”… Read More

Colloquy: Race, Ethnicity, and the Profession (Part 1 of 4)

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On Friday, November 4, 2016, the American Musicological Society held a special session on Race, Ethnicity and the Profession during its annual meeting. The panelists… Read More

Musicology Now and Later

Welcome to a new phase in the… Read More

Excerpt: “Stravinsky’s ‘Great Passacaglia'”

by Don Traut The following is partially excerpted from the author’s forthcoming book, Stravinsky’s ‘Great Passacaglia’: Recurring Elements in the Concerto for Piano and Wind… Read More

Audiovisual Returns

Excerpt adapted from Deirdre Loughridge, Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism (University of Chicago Press, 2016). by Deirdre… Read More

Thoughts on Dylan’s Nobel

by Steven Rings Close-up of portrait of Bob Dylan.  Richard Avedon, Copyright 1963. Of all the responses to Bob… Read More

Party Politics

by Simon Morrison Still from Robbie Williams’ “Party Like A Russian.” When English pop singer Robbie Williams released his… Read More

A Harmony/Counterpoint Teacher/Student dialogue

by John Halle This is an abridged version of a lengthier dialogue from John Halle’s blog. STUDENT: Why do I need… Read More

This Magic Moment

Introducing Cherubino’s Leap: In Search of the Enlightenment Moment (University of Chicago Press, 2016) by Richard Kramer Let me begin with the title. Read More

New Perspectives on Music Therapy

Four music therapy experts offer insightful assessments of the current field over at OUPblog – check it… Read More

Do Republicans and Democrats Hear Music Differently?

by Christopher Reynolds How do you hear this?  Fragment of Beethoven’s manuscript for String Quartet in… Read More

Fighting body shaming through burlesque: the NYC Hot Box Girls expansion to Vienna

by Chanda VanderHart The New York City Hot Box Girls, pet project of impresario Rebecca Greenstein, have become a New York institution in the five years since their… Read More

Care-Oriented Musicology

by William Cheng Art by Jess Landau (2016) The following is an excerpt from the Introduction to the… Read More

Pokémon GO: The Music

by Simon Morrison My office at Princeton University became a point of pilgrimage this summer. Tourists, pre-frosh campers, local teens, procrastinating grad students, and even… Read More

Florence Foster Jenkins Collection at Schubertiade Music & Arts

Schubertiade Music & Arts (a former employer of one of MN‘s curators) is offering a… Read More