“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,
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
'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
John Vilanova and Kyle Cassidy’s article in the latest issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies,“‘I’m Not the Drummer’s Girlfriend’: Merch Girls, Tour’s Misogynist Mythos, and the Gendered Dynamics of Live Music’s Backline Labor,” began life during a brainstorming session between two colleagues