In January 2019, Warner Music Group signed a twenty-album contract with the artist Endel. And then in May 2023, Endel came to an agreement with Universal Music Group to collaborate with the label’s artists. These major record label deals would be impressive under any circumstances, but what’s… Read More
In this conversation, Allison Jerzak spoke with cultural anthropologist Nick Seaver, who studies the intersection of people, technology, and culture. His 2022 book, Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation, draws on several years of ethnographic fieldwork at music recommendation companies in the United States. A … Read More
Conferences are inflection points: moments where energies come together and reflect outward in new directions. The following is a report of the May 2022 “Ruptures and Convergences” Conference, hosted by the Music Studies and the Anthropocene Research Network. In the following recap of conference proceedings, I frame the comings and… Read More
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 the teacher as much as the students. It starts with a song. I can’t remember where I first encountered Harry T. Burleigh’s 1917 arrangement… Read More
by Christopher Reynolds Two years ago I published an article in Notes (69 [2013]: 671-87): “Documenting the Zenith of Women Song Composers: A Database of Songs Published in the United States and the British Commonwealth, ca. 1890-1930.” My intention was to call attention to my database of women song composers… Read More
Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, presented the AMS President’s Endowed Plenary Lecture on 6 November 2014 at the American Musicological Society’s annual meeting in Milwaukee. The talk was entitled “Hildegard’s Cosmos and Its Music: Making a Digital Model for the… Read More
A Report from Britain by Carolin Rindfleisch As a three-year project funded under the British Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Digital Transformations scheme, Transforming Musicology is part of a broader effort to understand how digital technologies and digital… Read More
by Ryan Raul Bañagale This past March witnessed the debut of a new public musicology endeavor called the Critical Karaoke Radio Project. Founded at Colorado College by playwright and hip-hop professor Idris Goodwin, novelist and literary critic Steven… Read More
by Richard Freedman Last week in New York City hundreds of members of the International Association for Music Libraries (IAML) and international Musicological Society (IMS) gathered for a week’s worth of presentations, meetings, and discussion to consider “Music Research in… Read More
A joint congress of the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML) and the International Musicological Society (IMS) is underway at the Juilliard School in New York City. It lasts just short of a full week, with a packed agenda. … Read More