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Current Issue
- Volume 15.1 (2019)
- Article | Mandela’s Inaugural 46664 Mega-concert – A Second Long Walk to Freedom – Sounding Out Narratives of Empowerment, Religion and Public Health at Queen, Bono, and Nelson Mandela’s Campaign Launch Concert to Combat HIV/AIDS, by Jeffrey W. Cupchik
- Article| Back in the Day: Underground Hip Hop Aesthetics and the Nostalgia of the Golden Age by Ediz Ozelkan
- Review | Sylvia Angelique Alajaji – Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for Home in Exile
- Review | Ricciarda Belgiojoso – Constructing Urban Space with Sounds and Music
- Review | Jennifer Fleeger – Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz
- Review | Ray Hitchins – Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music
- Review | Mitchell Morris – The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s
- Review | Douglas W. Shadle – Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise
Previous Issues
- Volume 14.1 (2016)
- Article | “Breastmilk, Exposed Bodies, & the Politics of the Indecent”
- Article | “The Sounds of Transgressive Geographies”
- Review | Carol Potter – Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and his World
- Review | David J. Haskins – Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick and Benediction
- Review | Rafael Reina – Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music.
- Volume 13.1
- Article | “I Forbid You To Like It:” The Smiths, David Cameron, and the Politics of (Mis)appropriating Popular Culture
- Review | Alexander J. Fisher – Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria
- Review | Jennifer Saltzstein – The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry
- Review | J.Q. Davies – Romantic Anatomies of Performance
- Review | Martha Feldman – The Castrato
- Review | William Cheng – Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination
- Review | Thomas Forrest Kelly – Capturing Music: The Story of Notation
- Volume 12.1 (2014)
- Article | “How Gilles Apap’s New Cadenza Illuminates Mozart, via Bakhtin,” by Maiko Kawabata
- Article | “Extermination Music Nights: Reanimating Toronto’s Lost Geographies in Sound and Art,” by Jeremy Strachan
- Primary Sources | “Two Studies of Harry Partch: Conversations with Danlee Mitchell and Betty Freeman,” by Jake Johnson
- Review | Music, Politics, and Violence – edited by Susan Fast and Kip Pegley
- Review | Carol Vernallis – Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema
- Review | Matthew Rahaim – Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music
- Review | Sterling E. Murray – The Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister: The Life and Music of Antonio Rosetti
- Review | Renee Levine Packer – This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music in Buffalo
- Volume 11.1 (Spring 2013)
- Volume 10.1 (Spring 2012)
- How a thrown shooe became a tragedy and other funny stories: A Study of the Three Burlesque Cantatas (1741) by Henry Carey (1689–1743)
- Music and Memorializaton at the Canadian War Museum.
- Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music, by Marcel Cobussen. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. [171 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6482-6, $39.95 paperback.]
- I’m Ugly But Trendy (Sou feia mas tô na moda), directed by Denise Garcia
- Volume 9.1 (Fall 2009)
- Volume 8.1 (Fall 2006)
- Article | On Janacek and Obsession, by Paul Christiansen
- Article | From the Fantastic to the Dangerously Real: Reading John Zorn’s Artwork, by John Brackett
- Roundtable | Music and the Public Sphere, “Introduction,” by Philip Gentry
- Roundtable | Music and the Public Sphere, “Caught in the Great Divide: Musicology and the Public Sphere at the Beginning of the 20th Century,” by Sanna Penderson
- Roundtable | Music and the Public Sphere, “Selling War: Television News Music and the Shaping of American Public Opinion,” by James Deaville
- Roundtable | Music and the Public Sphere, “Globalizing the Periphery: Transnational Extensions and Local Tensions in a Global/Underground Music Scene in Brazil,” by Ivan Paolo de Paris Fontanari
- Roundtable | Music and the Public Sphere, “Coming-Of-Age in Wartime: American Propaganda and Patriotic Nationalism in Yankee Doodle Dandy,” by Holley Replogle-Wong
- Review | The Queer Composition of America’s Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity, by Nadine Hubbs
- Review | Istvan Anhalt: Pathways and Memory, Robin Elliott and Gordon E. Smith, eds.
- Volume 7.1 (Fall 2005)
- Article | Echoes in the Valleys: A Social History of Nepali Pop in Nepal’s Urban Youth Culture, 1985-2000, by Yubakar Raj Rajkarnikar and Paul Greene
- Article | That Loving Feeling Meets the Danger Zone: Men, Sex, and Music in Top Gun, by Raphael Atlas
- Review | Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music, by Michael P. Steinberg; Music in the Culture of Polish Galicia, 1772-1914, by Jolanta T. Pekacz
- Review | Alan Lomax: Selected Writings 1934-1997, Ronald D. Cohen, ed.
- Review | Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music, by Mark Katz
- Volume 6.2 (Fall 2004)
- Article | Representing the Authentic: Tak Shindo’s “Exotic Sound” and Japanese American History By W. Anthony Sheppard
- Article | Metal, Punk, and Motorhead: Generic Crossover in the Heart of the Punk Explosion by Steve Waksman
- Roundtable | Teaching Controversial Topics in American Music
- Roundtable | Engaging Students
- Roundtable | Academic Freedom in the Post-Secondary Classroom?
- Roundtable | A Historical Perspective on Teaching Controversial Aspects of African-American Music
- Roundtable | A Question of Class? Teaching Mountain Music at Virginia Tech
- Roundtable | Diverse Musical Traditions, Diverse Students
- Roundtable | Response by Richard Crawford
- Roundtable | Response by Judith Tick
- Roundtable | Response by Ruth A. Solie
- Review Essay | The Music of Louis Andriessen, edited by Maja Trochimczyk and Louis Andriessen: De Staat by Robert Adlington
- Review | The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris 1917-1929 by Roger Nichols
- Review | Death Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde by Roger Scruton
- Review | Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, Dir. Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
- Volume 6.1 (Spring 2004)
- Article | What Fun? Whose Fun? Cyndi Lauper (Re)Covers “Girls Just Want To Have fun” by Wayne Heisler
- Article | Hildegard on 34th Street: Chant in the Marketplace by Jennifer Bain
- Interview | Producing Depth of Field: An Interview with Daniel Lanois
- Review Essay | Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation, by Marta Elena Savigliano
- Review | Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop by Guthrie P. Ramsey
- Review | The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style by W. Dean Sutcliffe
- Review | Prince, Musicology.
- Volume 5.2 (Fall 2003)
- Article | Music and Advertising in Early Radio by Timothy Taylor
- Article | Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Paranoia and the Technological Sublime in Drum and Bass Music by Dale Chapman
- Review Essay | Translating and Editing “Lesbian and Gay Music” by Elizabeth Wood and Philip Brett
- Review | Dispatches from the Culture Wars: How the Left Lost Teen Spirit by Danny Goldberg.
- Review | Music Dances: Balanchine Choreographs Stravinsky. Conceived, written, and narrated by Stephanie Jordan.
- Review | Manuel de Falla and Modernism in Spain, 1898-1936 by Carol A. Hess.
- Volume 5.1 (Spring 2003)
- Article | “It may Look Like a Living Room…:The Musical Number and the Sitcom,” by Robynn Stilwell
- Article | “Running with the Rebels: Politics, Identity, and Sexual Narrative in Algerian Rai” by Nasser Al-Taee*
- Interview | Dissections and Intersections of the Jazz Scene: An Interview with Aaron Goldberg by Andrew Berish
- Review Essay | John Adams and a Certain Counterpoint of Contemporary Reasoning: The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s El Niño, March 2003
- Review Essay | The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music. Edited by Harry Belafonte. New York, NY: Buddha Records, distributed by BMG, 2001. 5 Compact discs; DVD; book.
- Review | “Opera’s Second Death” by Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar. New York: Routledge, 2001.[ix, 320 p. ISBN 0415930170. $22.95. (pbk.).]
- Review | “Movie Music: The Film Reader.” Ed. Kay Dickinson. London: Routledge, 2003. [viii, 224 p. ISBN 0415281598. $22.95. (pbk.).]
- Review | Songs for Freedom: Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony by Marie Jorritsma
- Conference Report | “Isn’t it a Pity?” Criss Cross: Conversations about America’s Music by Charles Hiroshi Garrett
- Volume 4.2 (Fall 2002)
- Article | A Context for Eminem’s “Murder Ballads”, by Elizabeth L. Keathley
- Article | Creativity and Ethics in Deconstruction in Music by Geraldine Finn and Marcel Cobussen
- Roundtable | O Brother, Why Now? A Folk-Revival Symposium
- Roundtable | Petrified Roots: American Roots Music by William Hogeland
- Roundtable | Constant Sorrow: Traditional Music and Fandom by Rachel Howard
- Roundtable | Everything Old is New Again: Songcatcher and the “Old-Time Music” Revival by Walter Nelson
- Roundtable | Reflections on Anthologied Recordings: The Alan Lomax Collection on Rounder Records and the John A. and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip on the Library of Congress American Memory Website by Anthony Seeger
- Roundtable | “Been Drowning Me Out”: Sonic Aesthetics, Neo-New Traditionalists, and the Performance of Process by Alan Williams
- Roundtable | Revivals, Authenticity, Ralph Stanley, and the O Brother Phenomenon by Jeff Todd Titon
- Review | Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer by Bruce Holsinger
- Review | 8 Mile: Rap, Rabbit, Rap
- Review | Ladies’ Night: Review of Ladyfest Los Angeles
- Volume 4.1 (Spring 2002)
- Article | Paradise, Nature, and Reconciliation, or, a Tentative Conversation with Wagner, Puccini, Adorno, and The Ronettes, by Richard Leppert
- Article | Keep Going!: The Use of Classical Music Samples in Mono’s “Hello Cleveland!”, by Sara Nicholson
- Interview | The Audible World: An Interview with Yatrika Shah-Rais, by Gordon Haramaki
- Review |Bill C. Malone, Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’: Country Music and the Southern Working Class
- Review | All Tomorrow’s Parties, by Caroline O’Meara
- Review | Paul Robeson, Jr., The Undiscovered Paul Robeson
- Volume 3.2 (Fall 2001)
- Article | “In the Footsteps of Eurydice: Gluck’s Orpheus und Eurydice in Hellerau 1913” by Tamara Levitz
- Article | “Ubisub: Ubiquitous Listening and Networked Subjectivity” by Anahid Kassabian
- Article | “Gustav Mahler and the Crisis of Jewish Identity” by Francesca Draughon and Raymond Knapp
- Roundtable | Building Culture: Reflections on September 11 from Amman, Jordan
- Review | Burning Man: 2000 & 2001: A Photo Essay by Sheila Masson
- Review | Brain in a Box: The Science Fiction Collection. Rhino Records, 79936, July, 2000. By Kay Dickinson.
- Book Review | Allen Forte, Listening to Classic American Popular Songs
- Sound Review | The Complete Johannes Ockeghem Masses
- Volume 3.1 (Spring 2001)
- Article | Folk Grooves and Tabla Tal-s by James Kippen
- Article | “We thank the Technology Goddess for giving us the ability to rave”: gamelan, techno-primitivism, and the San Francisco rave scene by Gina Fastone
- Article | What I Hear is Thinking Too: Deleuze and Guattari Go Pop, by Timothy S. Murphy and Daniel W. Smith
- Article | Beginning Credits and Beyond: Music and the Cinematic Imagination, Giorgio Biancorosso
- Review | Knitting Factory Reissue Series of Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society, Review by Jeff Eldredge
- Review| Minor Earth Major Sky, Reviewed by Mark J Blair
- Review| Five Window into Africa, Review by J. Martin Daughtry
- Volume 2.2 (Fall 2000)
- Article | Temporality and Ideology: Qualities of Motion in Seventeenth-Century French Music, by Susan McClary
- Article | Making Old Machines Speak: Images of Technology in Recent Music, by Joseph Auner
- Roundtable | Music as Object?: A Napster Roundtable featuring Robert Fink, Reebee Garofalo, Becky Gebhardt, and Casper Partovi
- Interview | Schoenberg at UCLA: Reminiscences from Leonard Stein, with Maiko Kawabata
- Review | “The Art of Piano: Great Pianists of the 20th Century.” Great Performances, PBS
- Review | Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City, by Mike Davis
- Review | James Joyce’s “The Dead,” by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey
- Review | Boston Lyric Opera, Akhnaten, Die Zauberflöte, and Aida
- Review | The House that Jimi Built: Seattle’s Experience Music Project
- Volume 2.1 (Spring 2000)
- Article | Orchestral Corporate by Robert Fink
- Article| West Side Story and the Hispanic by Elizabeth Wells
- Article | Concerto con amore, by Ivan Raykoff
- Interview | Enlighten the Spirit: Billy Higgins, the World Stage, and Transforming Society through Jazz, with Dale Chapman and Andrew Berish
- Review | Vocal Authority: Singing Style and Ideology, by John Potter
- Review | Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture, by Eric Zolov
- Review | The Voice in Cinema, by Michel Chion
- Review | Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles (1921-1956), various artists
- Review | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night, Stereolab
- Volume 1.1 (Fall 1999)
- Article| “Cello-and-Bow Thinking”: Baccherini’s Cello Sonata in Eb Minor “faouri catalogo” by Elisabeth Le Guin
- Article | Heroin Use, Gender, and Affect in Rock Subcultures by Jason Middleton
- Article | “Blue Horizon”: Creole Culture and Early New Orleans Jazz
- Interview | Composing the Pacific: Interviews with Lou Harrison
- Review | Salman Rushdie- The Ground Beneath Her Feet; Vikram Seth- An Equal Music
- Review | Harris Berger, Rock, Metal, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience
- Review |Marc Schade- Poulsen-Men and Popular Music in Algeria; Robert G. O’Meally- The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
- Review | Los Lobos, This Time
- Review | Los Zafiros, Bossa Cubana; Moby, Play