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Help Us Grow Our FirstGen Program!

UC Press has great news to share about FirstGen program growth and seeks your support for its continued success. Here’s how our program has benefitted first-gen authors so far.
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The Satellites Behind Subscription Listening

Brian Fauteux, author of "Music in Orbit," writes about the legacy of satellite radio
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RACE MUSIC 21: ETUDES/GROOVES/INTERLUDES

Guthrie Ramsey, author of "Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop," announces his new album RACE MUSIC 21, based on the themes from his book.
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Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi

by Christina Schwenkel (Author)
Nov 2025
Open Access

Music Streaming around the World

by David Hesmondhalgh (Author)
Oct 2025
Open Access

Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality

by Birgit Abels (Author), Patrick Eisenlohr (Author)
Sep 2025
Open Access

Values That Pay: Complicity, Sincerity, and Hip Hop in Contemporary Moroccan Life

by Kendra Salois (Author)
Apr 2025
Open Access

Nairobi Hip Hop Flow: Diasporic Blackness and Embodied Performance in the Underground

by RaShelle R. Peck (Author)
Mar 2025
Open Access

Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago

by Anna Maria Busse Berger (Editor), Henry Spiller (Editor)
Mar 2025
Open Access

How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race

by Amy Coddington (Author)
Jul 2024
Open Access

Golden Ages: Hasidic Singers and Cantorial Revival in the Digital Era

by Jeremiah Lockwood (Author)
Feb 2024
Open Access