We’re delighted to offer free access to select content from our music journals in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Musicological Association. Click on the covers below for free access through the end of the year to current and recent issues, including the Journal of Pop...
‘Tis the season for academic conferences when scholarly societies announce their annual awards. We are delighted to share the news that both Pacific Historical Review (PHR) and the Journal of Popular Music Studies (JPMS) have recently been honored with awards from the Western History Asso...
By John Howland, author of Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music
What do the soundtracks of the James Bond film franchise reveal about intersections between pop music and our mass-culture notions of glamour and class? Billie Eilish’s tit...
By Kimberly Hannon Teal, author of Jazz Places: How Performance Spaces Shape Jazz History
In some ways, it’s completely unremarkable that pianist Fred Hersch spent his 66th birthday earlier this October recording a live album at the Village Vanguard in New York City with guitarist Juli...
By Ross Cole, author of The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination
If you’ve ever watched Werner Herzog’s brilliant but harrowing film Grizzly Man, you might recall the closing song––‘Coyotes’ performed by Don Edwards. It emerges just after Herzog’s parting comment t...
By Lawrence Kramer, author of The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening
Sound in recent years has escaped its traditionally subordinate relationship to sight and become the object of widespread interest. Sound Studies is a flourishing field. But much of the work done under this r...