Dissertation Digest — Timbeando en Nueva York: Cuban Dance Culture in Havana and New York City
By Sarah Town New York’s casineros come together in Central Park on a recent Saturday afternoon, their dance… Read More
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Earth Music
By Alexander Rehding and Daniel KL Chua Carl Sagan proudly exhibits the Golden Record. Exactly forty years ago, in… Read More
Balancing the Sound and Score: Sonic Storytelling in Wonder Woman
By Caitlan Truelove Wonder Woman is not your standard superhero film in many ways, the most important being the balance of sound and score. Read More
Reflections on the Nature of Evil or, Eichmann in Themyscira
By Naomi Graber[1] The creative team behind Wonder Woman faced no simple task: they had to create a stand-alone film that would still… Read More
A Woman’s Voice (Wonder Woman)
By Jessica Getman Despite Steve Trevor’s attempts to convince her otherwise, Diana continued to insist that Ares was behind The Great War. In the end… Read More
From Sex Object to God: A New World for Wonder Woman
By Grace Edgar In her first solo outing, Diana (Gal Gadot) faced the daunting task of defeating the very concept of war itself. Raised by… Read More
Quick Takes on Wonder Woman
Today, Musicology Now begins a series of Quick Takes on the summer blockbuster hit, Wonder Woman. Grace Edgar, Jessica Getman, Caitlan Truelove, and Naomi Graber will… Read More
Quick Takes: Chains of Nostalgia in The Guardians of the Galaxy
By Brooke McCorkle Among the many Marvel Cinematic Universe films to grace the summer screens over the last decade, The Guardians of the Galaxy stands out for… Read More
Quick Takes: Allegories of the Self in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
By James Buhler About two-thirds of the way into the film, Ego (Kurt Russell) is trying to persuade his son, Peter (Chris Pratt), that they… Read More
Quick Takes: Foreshadowing and Mirroring in Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
by Catrin Watts As I watched the beginning of Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, I was struck with a sense of déjà vu: the… Read More
Quick Takes: Diegetic Music, Mythmaking, and the Heroic Theme in Guardians of the Galaxy
By William O’Hara Before their cinematic debut in the summer of 2014, the Guardians of the Galaxy were one of Marvel’s lesser-known properties. While various… Read More
Summer Quick Takes
Musicology Now is pleased to present its first installment of summer Quick Takes, featuring analysis and commentary on music and sounds from some of this… Read More
Dissertation Digest — The Theatre of Politics and the Politics of Theatre: Music as Representational Culture in the Twilight of the Holy Roman Empire
By Austin Glatthorn A group of tourists learn about Regensburg’s imperial past in front of the old city hall. Read More
Double Bind Taste Test: On the Music in THAT Pepsi Ad
By Joanna Love Pepsi just did it again. Almost thirty years after sending shock waves through religious communities and leaving the advertising industry reeling from… Read More
Dissertation Digest: The Spanish Lamento: Discourses of Love, Power, and Gender in the Musical Theatre (1696–1718) by Maria Virginia Acuña
[Ed. Note: This “Dissertation Digest” is the first in an ongoing series aimed at drawing wider attention to in-progress and recently completed dissertations in musicology. Read More
Preview: Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music
by David Brackett [Author note: This excerpt contains excerpts from chapters one and nine.] Like many readers of this… Read More
Dissertation Digest: The Flute in Musical Life in Eighteenth-Century Scotland by Elizabeth Ford
[Ed. Note: This “Dissertation Digest” is the first in an ongoing series aimed at drawing wider attention to in-progress and recently completed dissertations in… Read More
Book Preview: Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania
by Nicholas Tochka There are shorthand ways for talking about popular music under repressive state orders,… Read More
Rethinking Music Theory, With Syrian Aid
By Gavin S.K. Lee There was a standing ovation when Kofi Agawu finished his keynote address at the 2015 meeting of the Society for Music… Read More
The Value of Collaboration
By Olivia Bloechl, Katherine Butler Schofield, and Gabriel Solis This is a jointly authored post, and we’ve opted to sign our contributions, because we’re speaking… Read More