UC Press Blog

Music and Data's guest editors Bob L. T. Sturm and Elin Kanhov discuss how AI Music Studies began, how the AI music landscape is changing, and what questions this emerging field must address.

Preview the new Fall 2026 issue of Pacific Historical Review.

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our October 2026 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!

A new series of short videos from the American Musicological Society offers a closer look at "Touching Music, Making Musicology," the first supplemental colloquy from the Journal of the American Musicological Society.

A comprehensive glossary of common publishing terms that will hopefully help demystify each stage of the publishing process.

Author Lawrence Kramer on how Christopher Nolans' depiction of Odysseus forms a useful starting point for understanding the nature of experience.

Author Susanne YP Choi discusses her book and explains how queer lives have changed amid limited legal protections and intensified state restrictions in China.

Author Benjamin Olin discusses his book and pays homage to the undersung influence of public-access media.

Author Jallicia Jolly discusses her book and how Jamaican women are redefining care, autonomy, and resistance.

Scott Gleason, author of Composing Modernism, takes us through a selection of pieces that demonstrate how the post-World War II music composition practiced at and around Princeton University defined musical modernism in the Cold War United States.