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An Exclusive Look at “Self-Realization Nation”

May 12 2026
An excerpt from John Kapusta's new book, "Self-Realization Nation."
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Chiptune in the Twenty-First Century: Memory Power

May 11 2026
Rooted in the emergence of video game audio technology, chiptune is a form of electronic music that blossomed into a means of self-expression and global phenomenon toward the end of the twentieth century.
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Rolling Stone Magazine and the Bay Area

Mar 23 2026
Author Peter Richardson presents the early history of "Rolling Stone" magazine in 1960s and 70s San Francisco.
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Timothée Chalamet May Not Care about Opera or Ballet . . . but UC Press Does

Mar 10 2026
Recent scholarship from UC Press journals shows why opera and ballet still matter.
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JAMS Author Interviews: Ruthie Abeliovich, Daniela Smolov Levy, Joanne Cormac, and Benjamin Ory

Feb 18 2026
"Journal of the American Musicological Society" editor Jake Johnson conducts video interviews with the contributors to the journal's Summer 2025 issue.
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Free Content from UC Press Journals during the 2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting

Nov 06 2025
Enjoy limited-time free access to current issues of UC Press's music journals during the joint American Musicological Society-Society for Music Theory Annual Conference.
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Knowing Through Atmospheres

Nov 04 2025
Authors Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr ask how can being affected by an atmosphere produce knowledge?
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Salvaging Indonesian Music from Missionary Archives

Oct 30 2025
Editors Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller explain what we can learn about Indonesian music from missionary archives.
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UC Press Launches New Journal "Music and Data": Meet the Editors

Aug 27 2025
Learn more about UC Press's new journal, "Music and Data," from the journal's editors.
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The "Journal of the American Musicological Society" Introduces an Author Interview Series

Aug 11 2025
"JAMS" editor Jake Johnson conducts video interviews with the contributors to the journal's Spring 2025 issue.
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