by William Cheng Art by Jess Landau (2016) The following is an excerpt from the Introduction to the author’s Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (University of Michigan Press, 2016, foreword by Susan McClary), available both in print and Open… Read More
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 my own five year old stalked the halls of the music department hunting miniature pastel-colored avatars from Kyoto, Japan – aka Pokémon. For some reason… Read More
Schubertiade Music & Arts (a former employer of one of MN‘s curators) is offering a special collection of material about Florence Foster Jenkins on the occasion of the premiere of the… Read More
Ross Duffin discusses the types of musical arrangements featured in Shakespeare’s theater in a wonderful post featured on the Oxford University Press Blog. Click here for the link and for more information on his chapter “Music and the Stage in the Time of Shakespeare” in the forthcoming volume, … Read More
by Matthew Jones Since the Pulse Nightclub shootings on 12 June 2016, I’ve been thinking a lot about the roles of music and musicology in political activism. How can music soothe individual, collective, and national traumas? What can musicologists do in their work to bridge the yawning gaps between the… Read More
From AMS Member Michael Ochs, a post on his work to bring Di goldene kale back to the stage, from the the Digital Yiddish Theater Project. Read More
In case you haven’t already seen it, Alex Ross’s piece in the current New Yorker includes in its discussion research AMS Member Suzanne Cusick alongside other scholars. Read More
by Ronit Seter Kaija Saariaho was in an understandably anxious mood when I interviewed her on Saturday morning, 14 November 2015. It was the third day of the AMS Louisville meeting, which coincided with the University of Louisville New Music Festival, where Saariaho and composer and visual artist Jean-Baptiste Barrière… Read More
by Christopher Reynolds Photo Credit: Library of Congress, Digital Id cph.3c11094 Studies of cover songs have deservedly proliferated in the last decade. Singers and groups are understood to shape their musical identities in their treatment of an earlier song, indeed, even in their choices… Read More
by Victoria Cooper, Director, Cooper Digital Publishing Ltd ORA – “…a musical comet…” As many of my AMS colleagues know, in 2015 I retired from my position as Senior Commissioning Editor of music and theatre books at Cambridge University Press,… Read More