Articles

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

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

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

By Allison Wente

In this cartoon from John Philip Sousa’s… Read More

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

By Shaena Weitz

If you lived in France in September 1833, and you wanted to read a journal about music, you had… Read More

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

By Naomi Graber

Like it or not, one facet of the Star Wars universe is absolutely… Read More

By Brooke McCorkle

When it comes to sound and Star Wars, most people immediately think of… Read More

By James Buhler

A general interpretive maxim for Star Wars is that, with the exception of the Ewok Victory Celebration, John Williams… Read More

By Frank Lehman

If there is a thematic through-line in the score for Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi, it is… Read More

By Tomoko Deguchi

This essay contemplates one of the underlying Japanese cultural tendencies, an emphasis on the significance of individual parts (as… Read More

By Gavin S.K. Lee

In the past few years, the Society for Music Theory (SMT) has seen the emergence of a global consciousness… Read More

By David Font-Navarrete

The place of linguistic translation in the musicological enterprise is a topic that attracted a great deal of attention among members of the American Musicological… Read More

By Susan Thomas

The place of linguistic translation in the musicological enterprise is a topic that attracted a great deal of attention among members of the American Musicological… Read More

By David Garcia

The place of linguistic translation in the musicological enterprise is a topic that attracted a great deal of attention among members of the American Musicological… Read More

By Robin Moore

The place of linguistic translation in the musicological enterprise is a topic that attracted a great deal of attention among members of the American Musicological… Read More

By Guadalupe Caro Cocotle

I resisted as… Read More

By Martín Vega Olmedo, Matthew J. Jones

Is Miguel Musical? Philip Brett once winkingly… Read More

The Politics of “Oriental Syncopation”

Talent Scouts, Drunk Musicians, and other Recording Adventures in the Acoustic Era

Dissertation Digest: Interpretive Labor in Experimental Music

Mechanical Instruments and Taylorized Musical Labor

Musical Labor and Machine-Age Imperialism

Dissertation Digest: Parisian Music Journalism and the Politics of the Piano

An Appropriately Late, Musicological Reaction to the Super Bowl Halftime Show

Quick Take — A Rose by Any Other Theme

Quick Take — Voice, Laughter, and Letting Go in The Last Jedi

Quick Take — Democratizing Star Wars

Quick Take — Motives, Modulations, and “The March of the Resistance” in The Last Jedi

Global Perspectives—Significance of the Parts in Music of Tōru Takemitsu

Global Perspectives—Global New Music: From Avant-Garde to Rock, Korea to Estonia

Inside, Outside, and Between: On Translation and the Study of Afro-Cuban Music

Rewriting Translation: Interpreting Ortiz

The Directionality of Time and Sound in the Work of Fernando Ortiz

Translation and the Musicologist: A Case Study in Four Parts

An Introduction to Fernando Ortiz on Music

Quick Take —The Future of the Souls is the Present: Sounds and Cultural Memory

Quick Take — “I am not like the rest of my family”: Miguel Rivera as Queer-Musical Figure