Music

07

Nov

Q&A with Jacek Blaskiewicz, UC Press author and FirstGen scholar

FirstGen scholar and author Jacek Blaskiewicz talks about his academic journey and new book “Fanfare for a City”

01

Nov

Telling the Forgotten Stories of Minimalism

By Kerry O’Brien and William Robin, co-authors of On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement “Thursday evening was a major moment for musical Minimalism,” the New York Times declared last month. The Chicago …

25

Jun

Free Access to UC Press Music Journals during the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Conference

The 21st biannual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and the annual meeting of its US branch, IASPM-US, is being held this week in Minneapolis from …

11

May

Introducing the Music Subject Collection

UC Press is pleased to offer our complete list of music journals packaged together as a collection. The “Music Subject Collection” includes: Journal of the American Musicological SocietyJournal of MusicologyMusic Perception19th-Century MusicJournal …

09

Feb

Meet LeKeisha Hughes, our new Associate Editor of Art History and Music

We’re pleased to announce that LeKeisha Hughes will be our new Associate Editor of Art History and Music! LeKeisha originally joined the UC Press team in 2021 as an editorial assistant. Prior …

01

Dec

When Music Came to Life

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 …

03

Nov

Q&A with Simon Morrison , author of Mirror In the Sky

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 …

05

Oct

The Revolutionary Power (and the Limits) of Music in the Muslim World

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 …

19

Aug

Call for Editor: Journal of Musicology

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 …

18

Jul

We’ll Play till We Die: A Playlist for the Revolution

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.