Lil Nas X, the “Old Town Road,” and the (f)utility of genre labels
“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
Articles
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
The Beginning of the End(game): Promoting Avengers: Endgame
By James Deaville
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and directors Anthony Russo and Joseph V. Russo (collectively the Russo Brothers) have been notorious for their reluctance to give… Read More
Musicology Now Avengers: Endgame Quick Takes
By James Deaville
When Susan Thomas recently suggested the opportunity for a new Quick Takes blog series, I immediately thought of the… Read More
“What can the AMS do?”: The Scholarly Society and the Academic Jobs Crisis
By Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Since 2008, the number of tenured and tenure-track faculty at higher-education institutions has declined by 35%. The Delphi Project… Read More
The Memories of Music in Game of Thrones
By Alex Ludwig
This year is certain to test the Ironborn… Read More
Three Musical Works About “Old Paris”
By Jacek Blaszkiewicz
My first time in front of Notre Dame was in 2014. I had just passed my PhD qualifying exams and had flown to Leeds to… Read More
Folk Music and Fascism: A Divisive History
By Ross Cole
Folk music is near synonymous with the left. This union is so apparent and longstanding in the Anglophone world… Read More
Whither “Musicologist”?
By Jacques Dupuis
Apple’s June 5, 2017 Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) keynote presentation was, by many measures, a fairly standard, very polished… Read More
Dissertation Digest: The Politics of Opera in French Provincial Cities, 1685-1750
By Natasha Roule
Title-piece from an opera libretto printed in Lyon in 1706. Photo: Natasha Roule. From the… Read More
Man/Myth/Music: Hearing the Life and Legacy of John McCain
By Dan Blim, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, James Deaville, Naomi Graber
On August 25, 2018, John Sidney McCain III—naval aviator, war hero, senator, two-time presidential contender, and stalwart Republican—succumbed to… Read More
El Tricentenario: The Music of San Antonio’s 300th Anniversary
By Stefan Greenfield-Casas
San Antonio, TX. Best known as the home of the Alamo, the Spurs, and some of (if not the)… Read More
Why Listen To Animals?
By Rachel Mundy
Note: This essay appears simultaneously in the blog of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, SLSA New Creations. Some readers may… Read More
Book Preview: Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music: Theory and Politics of Ambiguity
By Gavin S.K. Lee
How should music research approach different social formations and musical expressions of gender and sexuality—and the very concept of… Read More
Dissertation Digest: Listening to a Liberated Paris: Pierre Schaeffer Experiments with Radio
By Alexander Stalarow
Dissertation Digest: Listening to a Liberated Paris: Pierre Schaeffer Experiments with Radio I first became interested in Pierre Schaeffer when… Read More
Teaching Music & Difference—Let’s Get It On: Pedagogy, Sexuality, and Music
By Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
Note: This essay is the final installment in Musicology Now‘s “Teaching Music & Difference” series, which features additional essays by … Read More