by Michael Figueroa It isn’t often that musicology serves as a topic for feature-length films, but the artist Jumana Manna has turned her camera toward the research of Robert Lachmann in A Magical Substance Flows Into Me (66 min.; released September 2015 in the… Read More
In case you missed it, David Stowe recently wrote an interesting post about new contributions to the Sacred Harp at OUPBlog. Check it out!… Read More
AMS Member and Princeton Professor Simon Morrison recently published an article in TIME about this year’s presidential candidates and their playlists: http://time.com/4346962/trump-hillary-bernie-playlists/ Also, I’m going to start using the word snarkatariat as frequently as possible. Read More
by Georgiary Bledsoe Image Credit: http://www.bumpthetriangle.org/ When I successfully applied for the AMS Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship during graduate studies at Duke, I expressed the hope that my scholarship, at that time on Black sacred music, would serve as both a mirror of self-relevance and… Read More
Jennifer Fleeger has written a post over at OUPBlog about how the forthcoming film about Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep asks us to consider the unique confluence of age, passion, (lack of) ability,… Read More
By Julia Doe This spring the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a retrospective of the paintings of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842). One of the outstanding portraitists of the eighteenth century, Le Brun had a long and wide-ranging career, working both in her native France and in cultural capitals… Read More
We here at Musicology Now are proud to salute Caroline Potter, Eric Saylor, and Daniel Melamed for their submissions to the 2016 Grove Music Spoof Contest. If you haven’t already learned about the musical… Read More
By Ellen Exner Title page from Quantz’s Versuch…Image Credit: http://www.buechel-baur.de I recently took a voluntary leap off the university tenure track to begin teaching at a major conservatory, happy to be once more in the Northeast and surrounded by the working musicians who used… Read More
By Mia Gormandy Panoramais the largest steelband competition in the world held every year during the carnival season in Trinidad and Tobago. It features the steelpan, the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago,… Read More
By Sarah Gutsche-Miller Dance history has some deeply entrenched myths. One is that ballet has always been an aristocratic art form, created and performed for the elite in Europe’s foremost opera houses. Another is that ballet nearly disappeared in France at the turn of the twentieth century, saved only by… Read More