The Eloquence of Noise: The Cacerolazo in Colombia Since 2019
For some readers, the word “protest” and the sounds of banging pots might call to mind Black Lives Matter protests of summer 2020, the attack… Read More
Articles
The Pathbreaker and the Mapmaker, or, Harry T. Burleigh and Me
By Louis Epstein
This is a story about ambition and struggle, success and failure, hubris and humility. It’s a story about the way a new pedagogy can change… Read More
Speaking and Singing in Beauty: Marianne Faithfull’s Vocal Authority
By Alexandra Apolloni
What makes a voice sound beautiful, or meaningful, or authoritative? And what is at stake for singers when the vocal sounds associated with authority originated… Read More
Sounding the Path to Dignity: Chile after October 2019
By Natalia Bieletto-Bueno
This essay is a contribution to the Musicology Now Roundtable, “Protest in Latin America: 2019 and Beyond.” “Si el río suena es porque agua lleva” (“If… Read More
Pandemic Piece
By Samantha Hark, Elizabeth Vargas, Benjamin Tausig
A note about Pandemic Piece (2020): Ethnography is a research method that involves deep human contact—studied, immersed involvement with communities over months, years, or even… Read More
The Language of The Coding
By Yvette Janine Jackson, Neil Verma
This recorded conversation is an audio contribution to Musicology Now’s Sounds of Social Justice Roundtable. Neil Verma speaks with Yvette Janine Jackson about… Read More
Be Heard: Acoustic Hailers as Technologies of Not Listening
By María Edurne Zuazu
Acoustic hailing devices (AHDs) are high-intensity directional sound systems that produce narrow sound beams with very loud, high sound pressure levels that can be aimed… Read More
Melodyne’s Nature
By Catherine Provenzano
When the German software company Celemony premiered the first market-ready version of Melodyne at the North American Music Merchants (NAMM) conference in Anaheim, California, in… Read More
Race and the American Musicological Society: Founding the Committee on Cultural Diversity
By Carol J. Oja
This essay began as part of a panel sponsored by the Committee on Cultural Diversity at the American Musicological Society’s 2019 conference in Boston, which… Read More
Welcome to (the New) Musicology Now
By Andrea Bohlman
A note from Executive Editor, Andrea F. Bohlman This is the new Musicology Now. Relaunched and reimagined, this Musicology Now is… Read More
Call & Response: The Works That Resonate (2021 NYU/AMS Lecture)
By NYU/AMS Lecture Committee, AMS Office
The 2021 NYU/AMS Lecture, Call & Response: The Works That Resonate, is being held online due to the status of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In… Read More
So You Need To Teach Online: Music History and Music Theory Edition
By Emily H. Green, Megan Lavengood
Update: The authors acknowledge that the work to migrate courses online might simply be impossible in this situation, given that many of us are or… Read More
Christmas is a Musical
By Jake Johnson
These days, you can’t bump the radio dial without… Read More
Harnessing the power of sound and music to inspire positive ecological action.
By Geoffrey Cox
In the summer 2011 edition of JAMS, Ralph P. Locke ruminates on what he describes as musicology’s… Read More
Lil Nas X, the “Old Town Road,” and the (f)utility of genre labels
By Jeremy Orosz
“Old Town Road,” a country-trap hit by 20-year-old rapper Lil Nas X, has become the unofficial soundtrack of 2019. The… Read More
Practical and Engaging Alternatives to the Music History Research Paper
By Esther M. Morgan-Ellis, Kristen Strandberg
When Erinn E. Knyt wrote about alternatives to the traditional research paper in… Read More
Theme as Easter Egg: Illusions of Organicism in Avengers: Endgame
By Grace Edgar
In one of the final scenes of Avengers: Endgame (Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, 2019), the camera sweeps around… Read More
Avengers Disassembled: Music and Unmaking in Endgame
By Bradley Spiers
Avengers: Endgame is an unapologetic love letter to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s ( MCU’s) past, celebrating the growth that… Read More
Kate Smith and Our Minstrel Past
By Andrew Berish
Recently I spoke to a reporter about the controversy over singer Kate Smith (1907–1986). Although I have… Read More
Musical Time Travel: Motivic Reuse in Avengers: Endgame
By Ryan Thompson
There is a lot to unpack in Avengers: Endgame, which serves as a means to tie a ribbon on… Read More