by William Cheng (Cross posted from http://time.com/4268325/history-calling-women-shrill/) In a 1926 survey about talk radio, a ratio of 100 to 1 respondents preferred male hosts to female hosts. Women, these respondents complained, sounded “shrill” and conveyed “too much” personality. Ninety years later, and the battle rages on, word for word. Many… Read More
by Rebekah Ahrendt Back in the summer of 2012, I was researching a French-language theater troupe that worked in The Hague at the turn of the eighteenth century. I ran across a short article written by the great theater historian Jan Fransen in the 1938 issue of the… Read More
OUP Blog has an interesting post by Noriko Manabe about how music has been used in protests following the Fukushima disaster. Check it out!… Read More
by Anne MacNeil Anne MacNeil and Molly Bourne during filming in Isabella d’Este’s Giardino Segreto, 11 May 2015. Courtesy of Daniela Ferrari. I would like to offer you a gift—not of madrigals and motets, but rather of frottole – in the form of a… Read More
by Ryan Bañagale Billy Joel in 2009. Photo Credit: David Shankbone The first-ever academic conference dedicated to the music and lyrics of Billy Joel takes place this fall at Colorado College. But this is not simply a… Read More
This is Part II of Bálint András Varga’s interview with virtuoso pianist Edward Kilenyi Jr. For Part I, please click here. Concert poster for Kilenyi’s performance with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. Courtesy of the Edward Kilenyi Archive at Flordia… Read More
We are pleased to be able to print for the first time in English another essay omitted for reasons of space from Bálint András Varga’s From Boulanger to Stockhausen (University of Rochester Press, 2013). This interview will be split over two posts. This week, Edward Kilenyi Jr. discusses musical life in… Read More
Our friends over at the OUP Blog have an interesting interview with David Conte about his studies with Nadia Boulanger, the renowned French pedagogue. Read More
Lily E. Hirsch writes to remind us that: In my book Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2012), I explored the historical and current connection between enduring though evolving ideas of music as enlightening and romantic ideas of prison as a… Read More
In case you missed it, there is an interesting interview with Jane Edwards about Arts Based research over at the Oxford University Press Blog. Check it out!… Read More