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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.

Authors Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr ask how can being affected by an atmosphere produce knowledge?

Editors Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller explain what we can learn about Indonesian music from missionary archives.

Learn more about UC Press's new journal, "Music and Data," from the journal's editors.

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

UC Press has great news to share about FirstGen program growth and seeks your support for its continued success. Here’s how our program has benefitted first-gen authors so far.

Brian Fauteux, author of "Music in Orbit," writes about the legacy of satellite radio

Guthrie Ramsey, author of "Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop," announces his new album RACE MUSIC 21, based on the themes from his book.

Hattie Noel was a trailblazer of the stand-up comedy form. While the visual archive shows her constrained in the controlling images of Disney’s hippo and Hollywood’s maid, her comedy albums tell a different story of Black representation.

UC Press is pleased to offer our complete list of music journals packaged together as a collection.