Emily Dolan, a member of the JAMS Editorial Board, and George Lewis, co-chair of the AMS Committee on Race and Ethnicity, sat down recently for a discussion of how the recent JAMS Call for Papers for a special issue on music, race, and ethnicity… Read More
by Ralph Locke I have long been intrigued by the problem of how music relates to what is widely called “the exotic.” By “the exotic” I mean the various qualities that people in a given locale associate with some faraway place and the people who live there. Until very recently,… Read More
We are perhaps the only musicologists to have made it onto the front page of the National Enquirer, a newspaper that was the nation’s most renowned scandal-sheet for many decades. The story of our extended research trip in the late 1970s that led, in part, to that brief moment of… Read More
In the summer 2011 edition of JAMS, Ralph P. Locke ruminates on what he describes as musicology’s recent concern with the idea that music exists ”in and for a ‘community’ of practitioners and listeners.” As an example, the journal dedicates its discussion… Read More
by Ralph P. Locke A recent post on this blog mentioned “the staggeringly weighty displays of recent books” at the annual meeting of the American Musical Society (Milwaukee, 6–9 November 2014). Throughout the Milwaukee conference I kept hearing praise for one such exhibit: that of the University of Rochester… Read More