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Hearing While Deaf: Beethoven, Helen Keller, and the Ninth Symphony

The story of Ludwig van Beethoven’s confronting his growing deafness as he continued to compose and conduct has always provided special inspiration for me that transcends his music. Whenever I listen to his compositions, I hear more than notes exquisitely written and performed. I hear the voice of a fellow human being who is overcoming trauma, adversity and fear through his art, whispering to me not to despair, but like him, to make the most of what I have while I can in my own way.
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Q&A with Matthew Morrison, author of Blacksound

Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy (the first original form of American popular music) and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept o
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Podcasts and Popular Music

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
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Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago

by Anna Maria Busse Berger (Editor), Henry Spiller (Editor)
Mar 2025
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How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race

by Amy Coddington (Author)
Jul 2024
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Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape

by Jim Sykes (Author), Julia Suzanne Byl (Author)
Aug 2023
Open Access