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.
"Journal of the American Musicological Society" editor Jake Johnson conducts video interviews with the contributors to the journal's Summer 2025 issue.
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Charles Ives's birth, we have temporarily removed the paywall from a selection of articles about the composer.
Congratulations to Sergio Ospina-Romero and Braxton Shelley, whose articles published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, have been awarded prizes by the Society for Ethnomusicology.Sergio Ospina-Romero's "Ghosts in the Machine and Other Tales around a 'Marvelous Invention': Pl
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