Reflection on Music & Activism in the Wake of Orlando
by Matthew Jones Since the Pulse Nightclub shootings on 12 June 2016, I’ve been thinking a lot about the roles of music and musicology in… Read More
Articles
Michael Ochs on Di Goldene Kale
From AMS Member Michael Ochs, a post on his work to bring Di goldene kale back… Read More
Alex Ross on Music & Violence
In case you haven’t already seen it, Alex Ross’s piece in the current New Yorker includes in… Read More
Saariaho’s L’amour de loin: First Woman Composer in a Century at the Metropolitan Opera
by Ronit Seter Kaija Saariaho was in an understandably anxious mood when I interviewed her on Saturday morning, 14 November 2015. It was the third… Read More
What do All These Beatles Covers Tell Us?
by Christopher Reynolds Photo Credit: Library of Congress, Digital Id cph.3c11094 Studies of cover songs have deservedly proliferated in… Read More
Launch of New Professional Choral Group: Ora
by Victoria Cooper, Director, Cooper Digital Publishing Ltd ORA – “…a musical comet…” As many… Read More
A Magical Substance Flows Into Me: Recording the Limits of Public Musicology
by Michael Figueroa It isn’t often that musicology serves as a topic for feature-length films, but the artist Jumana… Read More
David Stowe on the Sacred Harp at OUP Blog
In case you missed it, David Stowe recently wrote an interesting post about new contributions to the… Read More
AMS Member Simon Morrison on Music During an Election Season
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/… Read More
Bump the Triangle: Empowering Urban Youth Through African Diasporic Music and Mentoring
by Georgiary Bledsoe Image Credit: http://www.bumpthetriangle.org/ When I successfully applied for the AMS Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship during graduate studies… Read More
Florence Foster Jenkins: a user’s guide to aging the female voice
Jennifer Fleeger has written a post over at OUPBlog about how the forthcoming film about… Read More
Exhibition Review: Vigée Le Brun, Woman Artist in Revolutionary France (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, through May 15)
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… Read More
MN Salutes the 2016 Grove Spoof Article Winners
We here at Musicology Now are proud to salute Caroline Potter, Eric Saylor, and… Read More
“…Those Who Would Dedicate Themselves to Music”: A Dispatch from the Front Lines
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… Read More
Musicology Research Takes an Unexpected Turn After the Death of Japanese Pannist Asami Nagakiya
By Mia Gormandy Panoramais the largest steelband competition… Read More
Ballerinas, Acrobats, and Dancing Dogs: Parisian Ballet at the Fin de Siècle
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… Read More
The Long, Sexist History of ‘Shrill’ Women
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… Read More
On Letters, “Discovery,” and Cooperation
by Rebekah Ahrendt Back in the summer of 2012, I was researching a French-language theater troupe that worked in The Hague at the… Read More
The legacy of the Japanese anti-nuclear movement
OUP Blog has an interesting post by Noriko Manabe about how music has… Read More
A Gift of Frottole
by Anne MacNeil Anne MacNeil and Molly Bourne during filming in Isabella d’Este’s Giardino Segreto, 11 May 2015. Courtesy… Read More