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From Harmonicas to Fiddles: JAMS Contributors Explore the History of American Musical Objects

A new series of short videos from the American Musicological Society offers a closer look at "Touching Music, Making Musicology," the first supplemental colloquy from the Journal of the American Musicological Society.
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Nobody’s Life: The World Before Experience

Author Lawrence Kramer on how Christopher Nolans' depiction of Odysseus forms a useful starting point for understanding the nature of experience.
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Listening to Musical Modernism in the Princeton School

Scott Gleason, author of Composing Modernism, takes us through a selection of pieces that demonstrate how the post-World War II music composition practiced at and around Princeton University defined musical modernism in the Cold War United States.
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Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi

by Christina Schwenkel (Author)
Nov 2025
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Music Streaming around the World

by David Hesmondhalgh (Author)
Oct 2025
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Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality

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