What I Do in Musicology
by Jason Hanley NOTE: The AMS Newsletter of the American Musicological Society features a series of reflections from musicologists who have pursued non-tenure-track careers. We… Read More
Articles
The Critical Karaoke Radio Project
by Ryan Raul Bañagale This past March witnessed the debut of a new public musicology endeavor called the Critical Karaoke Radio Project. Founded at… Read More
HIP, HIP . . .
From the front lines of historically informed performance… by Kate van Orden … Read More
Ethnomusicology’s Queer Silences
by William Cheng and Gregory Barz Reposted from OUPblog of 28 July 2015. The edited volume… Read More
Now We Are 2
This blog reckons its formal beginning (after some alpha- and beta-testing) as (variously) 1 August… Read More
Followup: Die goldene Kale
Our post of 6 June 2014 concerned the New York performance… Read More
Performing Musicology
by Ellen T. Harris There have been many calls recently to teach by doing, to show… Read More
A Black Drummer in the Seventeenth-Century Austrian Army
by Michael Lorenz We repost Dr. Lorenz’s fascinating study with his gracious permission and at the recommendation of John Rice. It appeared 22 July 2015… Read More
10 Years of OUPblog
Today is the tenth anniversary of the OUPblog, and Oxford is celebrating with a selection of posts it calls “The Best… Read More
The Great Dispute
We have reached the 50th anniversary of a memorable dialogue on the nature of American musicology. It began with Joseph Kerman’s “A Profile for American… Read More
Remembering Alan Curtis
by Davitt Moroney Alan’s death is a sad shock. For those who don’t know the details (which I received from Jennifer Curtis, his first wife—and… Read More
Alan Curtis
Alan Curtis died unexpectedly in Florence on Wednesday, 15 July 2015. He was 80. Wendy Heller writes from Princeton: Alan’s contributions to… Read More
Music & Diplomacy in Review
by Rebekah Ahrendt, Mark Ferraguto, and Damien Mahiet Musical diplomacy seems to be everywhere today. From US Department of State programs like… Read More
Moving to Louisville
The American Musicological Society meets in Louisville KY this upcoming 12–15 November. Louisville has a long and… Read More
“The Star-Spangled Banner” and “God Save the King”: Glenn Gould’s Quodlibet
by Benjamin Givan Some years ago, Sony Classical re-released both of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould’s recordings of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations (BWV 988)… Read More
Jimi Hendrix and “The Star-Spangled Banner”
by Mark Clague NOTE: The most recent lecture in the series co-sponsored by the American Musicological Society and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame… Read More
AMS presidents ponder
by Richard Freedman Last week in New York City hundreds of members of the International… Read More
“Eili, Eili” as a “Traditional Yiddish Melody”
by Joshua Walden In 1918 the renowned St. Petersburg-trained violinist Toscha Seidel published a work for violin and piano titled “Eïli, Eïli.” The phrase “Traditional… Read More
Attali in America
by Eric Drott NOTE: Professor Drott’s “Rereading Jacques Attali’s Bruits” appears in the current issue of Critical Inquiry (41/4 [Summer, 2015]: 721-56. Read More
Thoughts on Gunther Schuller
in memoriam Gunther Schuller 22 November 1925 – 21 June 2015 by Barry Kernfeld After suffering through… Read More