UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners December 2022. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing …
Read More >UC Press is pleased to share that five of our titles have been designated Outstanding Academic Titles for 2022 by CHOICE. CHOICE editors consider several factors in their decisions, including: More information about the list of …
Read More >By Lawrence Kramer, author of Music and the Forms of Life The concept of life has a long and complicated history, but its modern version can be said to date to the late …
Read More >By Guthrie Ramsey, author of Who Hears Here? On Black Music Pasts and Present Who Hears Here? is part of the UC Press Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination series I …
Read More >A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar. Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the …
Read More >By Mark Levine, author of We’ll Play Till We Die and Heavy Metal Islam The video, posted anonymously on Facebook, had only 300 views when I first saw it. The singer wasn’t …
Read More >University of California Press (UC Press) is seeking applicants for editor of the journal Music Perception. The new editorship will begin July 1, 2023 following the end of Editor Kate Stevens’s term. …
Read More >University of California Press (UC Press) is seeking individual and co-editor applications for the editorship of the Journal of Musicology. Applicant(s) appointed to this position will succeed current Co-Editors Andrew Hicks and …
Read More >From metal and hip hop, to emo in Baghdad, mahraganat in Egypt, techno in Beirut, listen to the revolutionary music of the Middle East with this playlist curated by author Mark LeVine.
Read More >With news of Richard Taruskin’s passing, UC Press Music, Film, and Media Studies Editor Raina Polivka shares a tribute to his work. Richard Taruskin, who died on July 1st, was a longtime …
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