“An Appropriate and Exemplary Literature”: The JAMS Special Issue on Music, Race, and Ethnicity
Emily Dolan, a member of the JAMS Editorial Board, and George Lewis, co-chair of the AMS Committee on Race… Read More
Articles
Bottom Power Ballad: Troye Sivan’s #BobsBoutBottoming
By Matthew J. Jones
Singer-songwriter, producer, and actor Troye Sivan first made a name for himself in the Land Down Under with a hugely successful YouTube channel. Read More
Dissertation Digest: Race and Respectability in Early Country Music
By Sam Parler
When Beyoncé took the stage with the Dixie Chicks to perform “Daddy Lessons” at the 2016 CMA… Read More
“Will we remember the way we were?” The past and future tenses of Lauryn Hill’s “Ex-Factor”
By Lauren Eldridge
“Care for me, care for me, you said you care for me There for me, there… Read More
The Sound of Empathy in George Lewis’s Afterword
By Alexander K. Rothe
Premiered in 2015 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Afterword is a… Read More
Global Perspectives—The Story of Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concerto
By Jung-Min Lee
Unsuk Chin, born in South Korea and now based in Germany, has only occasionally engaged with traditional Korean or… Read More
Global Perspectives—The Art of Derivation: Jo Kondo’s Paregmenon
By Anton Vishio
“Paregmenon is a figure which of the word going before deriveth the word following.” So Henry Peacham defined the… Read More
The Urban Busker and the Virtual Realm
By Nicole Vilkner
Anyone who has ever inhabited, visited, or commuted to a city has probably witnessed some variant of street performance,… Read More
Global Perspectives—The Music of Helena Tulve
By Amy Bauer
The only student of Erkki Sven-Tüür, Estonian composer Helena Tulve shares her former teacher’s eclecticism and love for nature. Read More
Voice and Silence in Student Protests Against Gun Violence
By Katherine Meizel
In Park City, Utah on March 24, 2018, a group of young protesters performed “Seasons of Love,” from the… Read More
Global Perspectives—Rock under the Red Flag: “A Piece of Red Cloth” by Cui Jian
By Ya-Hui Cheng
Cui Jian, Chinese writer and musician, has long been an iconic symbol representing the voice of Chinese youth in… Read More
Global Perspectives—Akemi Naito (Japan/NY): The Woman in the Dunes for Solo Percussionist (2012)
By Barry Wiener
The substance of sound is central to Japanese composer Akemi Naito’s compositional thinking. She asserts that the structure of… Read More
The Politics of “Oriental Syncopation”
By Fritz Schenker
In this final post exploring issues of musical labor in the age of machine-age imperialism (the subject of a… Read More
Talent Scouts, Drunk Musicians, and other Recording Adventures in the Acoustic Era
By Sergio Ospina-Romero
Between 1905 and 1926, recording scouts of the Victor Talking Machine Company established temporary recording studios across Latin America. Read More
Dissertation Digest: Interpretive Labor in Experimental Music
By Kirsten Speyer Carithers
My high school had strong band and choir programs, but no orchestra. Consequently, my first experience playing symphonic music came not… Read More
Mechanical Instruments and Taylorized Musical Labor
By Allison Wente
In this cartoon from John Philip Sousa’s… Read More
Musical Labor and Machine-Age Imperialism
By Allison Wente, Fritz Schenker, Sergio Ospina-Romero
The discussions about music, labor, and value that have long accompanied the history of popular music have recently seemed to bubble to the surface across… Read More
Dissertation Digest: Parisian Music Journalism and the Politics of the Piano
By Shaena Weitz
If you lived in France in September 1833, and you wanted to read a journal about music, you had… Read More
An Appropriately Late, Musicological Reaction to the Super Bowl Halftime Show
By Nathan Landes
As a longtime football fan, I am increasingly sure that history will not look kindly upon America’s favorite sport. Read More