By Ryan Blakeley
In January 2019, Warner Music Group signed a twenty-album contract with the artist Endel. And then in May 2023, Endel came to… Read More
By Stefan Greenfield-Casas, James Denis Mc Glynn
Relatively recently, in a galaxy quite close to home, literary scholar Gerry Canavan vividly captured the ambiguity that shrouded the release of Rogue One: A… Read More
By Heeseung Lee
“Y Volver, Volver~, Volver!” (And Come Back, Come Back~, Come Back!): as the explosive chorus of his signature song still mourns, Vicente Fernández… Read More
By Michael Gallope
Consider five variations on music’s ineffability: Disjunction. Music can be magnetic—attracting very specific meanings and affects in one moment in ways that seem so right… Read More
By Allison Jerzak, Nick Seaver
In this conversation, Allison Jerzak spoke with cultural anthropologist Nick Seaver, who studies the intersection of people, technology, and culture. His 2022 book, Computing… Read More
By Anne Monique Pace
Reflections on the Errant Voices Conference, April 2022 Consider the adjective “errant.” The word might describe a misbehaving child careening through the galleries of the… Read More
By Alejandro L. Madrid
On the evening of August 8, 2008, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater of Bloomington, Indiana, opened its doors for the premiere of ¡Únicamente la verdad! (Only the… Read More
By Cana F. McGhee
Conferences are inflection points: moments where energies come together and reflect outward in new directions. The following is a report of the May 2022 “Ruptures… Read More
By David Miller, Joshua Rifkin
In this conversation, the first of a multi-part interview series with performers, scholars, and pedagogues of early music, historically informed performance, and related topics, David… Read More
By Nadine Hubbs
The phrase “quintessentially American” arises frequently with reference to country music. In Ken Burns’s 2019 Country Music documentary series and many other instances, it… Read More
By Leah Batstone
The international attention Ukraine has received in the 270 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its sovereign neighbor is unprecedented. The world has never before… Read More
By Tomie Hahn
Ed. note: This essay is an offshoot from a lecture originally presented as the AMS Committee on Women and Gender Annual Endowed Lecture. Fred Maus… Read More
By Ralph P. Locke, Jürgen Thym
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… Read More
By Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Three days after the July 4th mass shooting in Chicago I woke up to a piece of news on the homepage of the World Journal,… Read More
By Oksana Nesterenko
On February 24, 2022, after Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, award-winning curator Sasha Andrusyk posted on social media: “I’ve lived a very happy, very… Read More
By Jaime O. Bofill Calero
Protesters chanting “Ricky Renuncia” outside the Governor’s Mansion during summer protests of 2019 in Puerto Rico. Photo courtesy of Ricardo Alcaraz. On July 24,… Read More
By Adriana Helbig
On May 14, 2017, while waiting to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin was filmed playing two Soviet-era popular tunes on… Read More
By Loren Kajikawa, Daniel Martinez HoSang
The story has become so familiar it can now write itself: Professor shares racially charged material in class. Some of the most vocal and outraged… Read More
By The Collective on Music from Ukraine
What of music in the time of war? It is not a new question, but a question whose answers unfold along complex and specific paths. Read More
By Victoria Lindsay Levine
I have this theory about Indians. Actually, the theory is not really about Indians, it’s about everyone else. Here’s the… Read More