by Guthrie P. Ramsey, series editor for Music of the African Diaspora Sam Floyd, a prolific scholar and founding director of the Center for Black Music Research, passed away on July 11, 2016 …
Read More >We listen to music for pleasure: that seems obvious. But what does it mean? I devote some pages to that deceptively simple question in my book The Thought of Music. The book …
Read More >In honor of the 2016 annual conference for the Society for American Music, we are showcasing UC Press’ list of music journals, which together explore all types of musical genres, subjects, composers, …
Read More >We are very pleased to announce that Raina Polivka will be joining the University of California Press as our new acquisitions editor in Music and Cinema & Media Studies. Raina is currently an acquisitions editor at …
Read More >University of California Press welcomes music scholars and enthusiasts to the 2015 American Musicological Society Annual Meeting. The meeting convenes November 12-15 in Louisville, Kentucky. Please visit us at booth 202 in …
Read More >UC Press is proud to have published many books by women whose lives and convictions made the world a better place—Grace Lee Boggs and Jody Williams, among others. Ronnie Gilbert, who died …
Read More >To conclude our celebration of National Poetry Month, we asked Andrew Joron, one of the co-editors of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, to reflect on Lamantia’s poetic development and the sources of …
Read More >UC Santa Cruz recently interviewed Eric Porter, Professor of History and American Studies, and Lewis Watts, professor of Art, about their new book, New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition. Using both visual evidence and …
Read More >In the newest Acquiring Eye feature, Humanities Publisher Mary Francis gives us her take on the music and cinema titles and journals coming out this spring. Starting with one of the flagship …
Read More >The magnitude of last week’s earthquake in Haiti measured 7.0, but the full scope of the tragedy continues to unfold. Each day brings new challenges, from reports of looting, lack of adequate …
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