“De aquí como el coquí” es un refrán popular entre puertorriqueñes que se usa para afirmar la identidad local y sentido de pertenencia. El refrán tiene sentido porque el coquí (Eleutherodactylus coqui) es endémico del archipiélago, y su nombre es una onomatopeya del canto que los machos utilizan para… Read More
https://doi.org/10.63473/WBQO6729 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… Read More
By John Spilker At the 2017 Teaching Music History Conference, colleagues discussed two potential trends in teaching music history courses: a content-oriented music history survey approach and… Read More
Ecomusicology, writes Aaron S. Allen “considers the relationships of music, culture, and nature; … it is the study of musical and sonic issues, both textual and performative, as they relate to ecology and the environment.” A colloquy on Ecocriticism and Musicology was published in the Journal of the American… Read More