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Book Preview: Music After the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989 (University of California Press, 2017).          … Read More

Louis XIII Update: Further Thoughts on the Exaudiat te Dominus

by Peter Bennett In my Spring 2016 JAMS article, “Hearing King David in Early Modern France: Politics, Prayer, and Louis XIII’s Musique de la Chambre,”… Read More

Live Blog Event: Music and the Inauguration of Donald Trump

[Ed. Note: An incredible THANK YOU to our illustrious team of bloggers: Dan Blim, James Deaville, Dana… Read More

Inaugural Live Blog Preview

The curatorial team for Musicology Now is pleased to present its first-ever live-blog event: Music and the Inauguration of Donald Trump. We have a team of… Read More

Sound at the Inauguration: A Listener’s Guide

by James Deaville The inauguration events of 2017 afford… Read More

Donald Trump, Jackie Evancho, and the Performance of Embattled Whiteness

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[Ed. Note: This essay is the fourth in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January… Read More

The Band Plays On

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[Ed. Note: This essay is the third in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January… Read More

Another Counter-Inaugural Concert

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[Ed. Note: This essay is the second in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January… Read More

Lieder of the Free World: Music and Military at Barack Obama’s 2008 Inaugural Concert

[Ed. Note: This essay is the first in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January… Read More

Quick Takes on Rogue One: Putting the Opera Back in “Space Opera”

By Naomi Graber It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Star Wars saga is inherently Wagnerian (Kalinak, 1992;… Read More

Quick Takes on Rogue One: Requiem For Rogues

By Brooke McCorkle“We have hope. Rebellions are built on hope,” quips… Read More

Quick Takes on Rogue One: Leitmotivic Use vs. Mention

By Frank Lehman When approaching franchises that boast networks of leitmotifs, I find it helpful to bring in the use/mention distinction from the… Read More

Quick Takes on Rogue One: Michael Giacchino’s Sacrifice

By James Buhler 
Composing the music for Rogue One would inevitably be a thankless task. Though many composers have written Star Wars music for games,… Read More

Introducing “Quick Takes”

Musicology Now is pleased to present in the coming days the first in an ongoing series of “quick takes” to recently released music. Read More

George Michael’s Queer Masculinity: An Exploration and an Elegy

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Bubblegum pop poster boy. Sophisticated soul singer. Political critic. Reluctant gay icon. Covert philanthropist. These are some of the epithets attached to … Read More

Happy New Year from Musicology Now

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  (New Years fireworks over Pikes Peak, Lars Leber Photography)   As we all… Read More

Not Another Music History Blog! Public Musicology on the Internet

by Linda Shaver-Gleason It’s like looking into a mirror. It seems… Read More

Theodore Drury and the Dilemmas of Race, Class, and Music at the Opera House

by Kristen Turner picture of Drury as Faust taken from a program for the May 5, 1902 performance of… Read More

Thoughts on “The Thought of Music”

by Lawrence Kramer The Thought of Music (2016) is the third volume in a trilogy of books on musical… Read More

Politics Invades the Theater? It’s Always Been There

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By Elizabeth T. Craft [Ed Note.  A version of the following Op-Ed originally appeared in the Salt Lake City Tribune on… Read More