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

“Twerking” is now part of the national vocabulary, but is largely misunderstood, especially its distinctly queer iterations. JPMS author Lauron J. Kehrer discusses the origins of New Orleans bounce and suggests a playlist.

A conversation with Morgan Bimm, Kate Galloway, and Amy Skjerseth, Guest Editors of the Journal of Popular Music Studies Special Issue “Recast, Podcast, Broadcast: Podcasting Popular Music”Morgan BimmKate Galloway Amy SkjersethJPMS's current issue is devoted to a discussion of podc

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 Symphony had played a new Philip Glass work at Carnegie Hall while, nine blocks uptown,

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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 June 26-30, 2023. UC Press is proud to be the publisher of the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the offici

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 of Popular Music StudiesJournal of Sound and Music

We're delighted to offer free access to select content from our music journals in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Musicological Association. Click on the covers below for free access through the end of the year to current and recent issues, including the Journal of Popular Music

'Tis the season for academic conferences when scholarly societies announce their annual awards. We are delighted to share the news that both Pacific Historical Review (PHR) and the Journal of Popular Music Studies (JPMS) have recently been honored with awards from the Western History Association (WH

As we convene virtually for this year's conference of the American Studies Association, we invite you to read the current issues of the following journals for free from the comfort of your own home. Click on the journal covers below to access the free issues.