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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
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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
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A Tribute to the Influential Music Historian Richard Taruskin

Jul 05 2022
With news of Richard Taruskin's passing, UC Press Music, Film, and Media Studies Editor Raina Polivka shares a tribute to his work.Richard Taruskin, who died on July 1st, was a longtime author at University of California Press and Series Editor for the prestigious California Studies in Twent
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