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From Harmonicas to Fiddles: JAMS Contributors Explore the History of American Musical Objects
Oct 30 2026
A new series of short videos from the American Musicological Society offers a closer look at "Touching Music, Making Musicology," the first supplemental colloquy from the Journal of the American Musicological Society.
The "Journal of the American Musicological Society" Publishes Colloquy for 250th Anniversary of the United States
Jul 08 2026
From a country music legend's sewing machine to the US–Mexico border, a new special issue of the "Journal of the American Musicological Society" uses everyday and extraordinary objects to reveal the many histories of American music.
Q&A with Jacek Blaszkiewicz, UC Press author and FirstGen scholar
Nov 07 2023
FirstGen scholar and author Jacek Blaskiewicz talks about his academic journey and new book "Fanfare for a City"
Reflecting on My Thirty Years of Research on Black Music
Nov 07 2022
By Guthrie Ramsey, author of Who Hears Here? On Black Music Pasts and PresentWho Hears Here? is part of the UC Press Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination seriesI wrote the essays in my new book Who Hears Here? On Black Music Pasts and Present over twenty-five years. These writings s
Q&A with Simon Morrison , author of Mirror In the Sky
Nov 03 2022
A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar.Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the finest songwriters of the twentieth century.This biography from distinguished music historian Simon Morris
UC Press Journals Win Society Awards
Nov 20 2021
'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
Journal of Musicology Wins American Musicological Society Awards
Dec 10 2020
Judith PerainoJudith Peraino's "I'll Be Your Mixtape: Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, and the Queer Intimacies of Cassettes," published in the Journal of Musicology, has been honored with two awards by the American Musicological Society. The article received both the H. Colin Slim Award for a musicol
In Memoriam: Robert F. Judd
Aug 28 2019
We are saddened to learn of the death of Robert F. Judd (b. 1956), Executive Director of the American Musicological Society since 1996. As proud publishers of the society’s flagship journal, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, as well as a large stable of award-winning books in the fi