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 >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 Lawrence Kramer, author of The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening Sound in recent years has escaped its traditionally subordinate relationship to sight and become the object of widespread …
Read More >By Lawrence Kramer, author of Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History In his classic study of perception, the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes the experience of listening to a classical sonata, which …
Read More >By J. T. Way, author of Agrotropolis: Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala As a scholar whose research applies directly as testimony in asylum cases, I am well-versed in …
Read More >For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month—celebrated in May to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7, 1843 and to mark the anniversary of the …
Read More >A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an iconic Asian American artist and activist. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American “without a song …
Read More >Although we are sorry that we cannot meet in person this year, UC Press is pleased to be attending the virtual conference of the American Musicological Society (AMS). We are proud to …
Read More >This post is part of our AMS 2020 conference blog series. Check out our virtual exhibit page for more. By Axel Englund, author of Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage The camera …
Read More >This post is part of our AMS 2020 conference blog series. Check out our virtual exhibit page for more. As a conductor of Beethoven’s music, what draws you to this composer’s life and works? …
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