In the summer of 2020, following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd in the United States and the ensuing global protests against anti-Black racism led by the Black Lives Matter movement, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial ine
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The 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) is being held this week from August 24-28, 2023, at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. In honor of the 2023 conference, we have removed the paywall from select issues of Music Perception. Click on the covers below to access t
University of California Press (UC Press) is seeking applicants for editor of the journal Music Perception. The new editorship will begin July 1, 2023 following the end of Editor Kate Stevens’s term. Music Perception (MP) is a journal whose scope concerns the perception and cognition of music in
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As the joint conference of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music gets underway this week, we invite you to read the latest issue of Music Perception for free online for a limited time.Interested in contribu
By Valory Mitchell, co-author of Women on the River of Life: A Fifty-Year Study of Adult DevelopmentThere is something about the long-term study of lives that is breathtaking. Perhaps it is that, by making the whole life the “unit of study” we allow ourselves to touch on the mystery of life.
