by Linda Shaver-Gleason It’s like looking into a mirror. It seems like one of the favorite things for musicologists to do on social media is to point out when someone is wrong on the internet,… Read More
by Kristen Turner picture of Drury as Faust taken from a program for the May 5, 1902 performance of Faust by the Theodore Drury Grand Opera Company, Harvard Theatre Collection Few African-American operatic singers had the opportunity to perform in… Read More
by Lawrence Kramer The Thought of Music (2016) is the third volume in a trilogy of books on musical understanding that began with Interpreting Music (2010) and continued with Expression and Truth: On the Music of Knowledge (2012), all published by University of California… Read More
By Elizabeth T. Craft [Ed Note. A version of the following Op-Ed originally appeared in the Salt Lake City Tribune on December 3, 2016. It is presented here for the readers of Musicology Now with permission of the author.]… Read More
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 in one hand and turned to the newest Netflix series, The Crown. Indulging in the beautiful costumes and exquisite acting by Claire Foy, whose… Read More
By Naomi André and William Cheng … Read More
Ed. Note: The following paper was presented by Ellie Hisama of Columbia University as part of the special session on “Race, Ethnicity, and the Profession” at the AMS Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the third of three papers that form Musicology Now’s first “Colloquy.” An introduction… Read More
Ed. Note: The following paper was presented by Bonnie Gordon of the University of Virginia as part of the special session on “Race Ethnicity, and the Profession” at the AMS Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the second of three papers that form Musicology Now’s first “Colloquy.” An introduction… Read More
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” at the AMS Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the first of three papers that form Musicology Now‘s first “Colloquy.” An introduction to the… Read More
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 were members of a newly configured permanent Committee on the Status of Race and Ethnicity in the Profession, co-chaired (as was the panel) by Judy… Read More