We are perhaps the only musicologists to have made it onto the front page of the National Enquirer, a newspaper that was the nation’s most renowned scandal-sheet for many decades. The story of our extended research trip in the late 1970s that led, in part, to that brief moment of… Read More
Many of us have probably had “the talk.” No, not the birds and the bees, the talk on how to bring women and people of color into the overwhelmingly white, male world of the art music history survey class that is the bedrock of so many music curriculums in the… Read More
by Nancy Rao In my book Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (University of Illinois Press, 2017), I reconstruct the lost history of a vibrant “Golden Age” of Chinese opera theaters in the United States and Canada in the 1920s,… Read More
by Rebekah Ahrendt Back in the summer of 2012, I was researching a French-language theater troupe that worked in The Hague at the turn of the eighteenth century. I ran across a short article written by the great theater historian Jan Fransen in the 1938 issue of the… Read More
by Jason Hanley NOTE: The AMS Newsletter of the American Musicological Society features a series of reflections from musicologists who have pursued non-tenure-track careers. We are pleased to co-publish this essay from the August 2015 Newsletter. Earlier essays in this series HERE… Read More
NOTE: “‘A program not greatly to their credit’: Finding New Perspectives on the Germania Musical Society through the American Memory Sheet Music Collection” was the title of Nancy Newman’s Library of Congress lecture on 22 April 2014, cosponsored by the American Musicological Society. Library of Congress webcast page… Read More
by William F. Prizer James Pruett (1932–2014) Chief, Music Division, Library of Congress Professor of Music, UNC Chapel Hill Photo: Arthur Feller NOTE: I post this essay, adapted from the August 2014 Newsletter of the American Musicological Society, p. Read More
Note: The next installment of the AMS-Library of Congress Lecture Series will be on 7 October in the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium. Carol Hess’s lecture is titled “Copland as Good Neighbor: Cultural Diplomacy in Latin America during World II.” Prof. Hess writes: Scholars and the… Read More
Kendra Preston Leonard: “Meaning and Myth in Louise Talma’s First Period Works” The American Musicological Society and the Music Division of the Library of Congress present lectures highlighting musicological research conducted in the Division’s collections. In the most recent,… Read More