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The current issue of the Journal of Musicology hosts a forum on "Centering Discomfort in Global Music History." We asked contributors Daniel Castro Pantoja and Olivia Bloechl to talk a little more about the forum's genesis and the questions it asks.Daniel Castro PantojaOlivia Bloechl

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

By Lawrence Kramer, author of Music and the Forms of LifeThe concept of life has a long and complicated history, but its modern version can be said to date to the late seventeenth century. The science of the time launched a concerted effort to discover what made living bodies, particularly human

University of California Press (UC Press) is seeking individual and co-editor applications for the editorship of the Journal of Musicology. Applicant(s) appointed to this position will succeed current Co-Editors Andrew Hicks and Elaine Kelly when their editorial term ends in June 2023.Journal of

Although we are sorry that we cannot meet in person this year, UC Press is pleased to be attending the virtual conference of the American Musicological Society (AMS). We are proud to be the publisher of the AMS's official journal, the Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS), and, this y

We are pleased to be able to announce the publication of the first issue of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games, the world's first journal dedicated to the study of sound and music in games. We invite you to read the inaugural issue of JSMG for free for a limited time.The journal's objective

This Fall season we are pleased to be publishing paperback editions of three award-winning classic texts from leading scholars in the field, including explorations of Medieval literacy, 20th-century German opera, and choral compositions of the Renaissance.Medieval Music and the Art of Me

We are proud to announce that the 2019 Dent Medal has been awarded to Gundula Kreuzer, Associate Professor of Music at Yale University. Presented annually since 1961 by the Royal Musical Association to recipients selected for their outstanding contribution to musicology, each year the list of candid