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 …
Read More >Looking for inspiration in the fight for social change? Author Bryonn Bain shares a playlist of artists and hip-hop heroes who fought for change and who inspired his own activism.
Read More >Resonance is delighted to be welcoming three new associate editors to the journal’s editorial team. This is the first of a series of blog interviews with the new associate editors. In this …
Read More >California History is pleased to announce that Amanda Marie Martinez’s “Suburban Cowboy: Country Music, Punk, and the Struggle over Space in Orange County, 1978–1981” (California History, vol. 98, no. 1, 83-97) has …
Read More >We’re delighted to offer free access to select content from our music journals in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Musicological Association. Click on the covers below for free access …
Read More >‘Tis the season for academic conferences when scholarly societies announce their annual awards. We are delighted to share the news that both Pacific Historical Review (PHR) and the Journal of Popular Music …
Read More >What do the soundtracks of the James Bond film franchise reveal about intersections between pop music and our mass-culture notions of glamour and class? Billie Eilish’s title song to No Time to Die, the latest Bond movie released September 2021, offers a perfect illustration.
Read More >By Kimberly Hannon Teal, author of Jazz Places: How Performance Spaces Shape Jazz History In some ways, it’s completely unremarkable that pianist Fred Hersch spent his 66th birthday earlier this October recording …
Read More >By Ross Cole, author of The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination If you’ve ever watched Werner Herzog’s brilliant but harrowing film Grizzly Man, you might recall the closing song––‘Coyotes’ performed …
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