These essays trace important developments in performance art both in the Los Angeles and New York scenes, discuss artists including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Meredith Monk, and Lin Hixson...

Magnusson provides a sweeping overview of the tools and techniques of music-making both before and after the dawn of computing...

America’s most famous hymn was created in very unusual circumstances...

What is the relationship between inequality and classical music?

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Hara explores the collaboration between Hisaishi and Miyazaki Hayao, the film’s creator and director...

What does music tell us about society?

How does the world of book reviews work?

Musicologists have long tried to understand how cosmopolitanism and nationalism affected classical music...

What is the human and environmental cost of music?

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy program sponsored by the United States State Department,,,

Hatter shows that the repertory she studies reflects a musical culture that valued intergenerational connections between artists and compositional virtuosity...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Nineteenth-century composer Fanny Hensel is the subject of more published research than any other woman of the period, with the possible exception of Clara Schumann...

When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged...

1978 was the year that changed San Francisco forever..

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...

Gibbons examines the intersection between video games and classical music...

Powers explores the rich and, at times, unexpected intersections of love, sex, race, gender, sexuality, and American popular music...

Bailey uses a close reading of the music owned and performed by three prominent women in antebellum Charleston to demonstrate the varied experiences and perspectives of figures who also had much in common...

This book is a collective biography of the places that harbored beatniks, blabbermouths, hipsters, playboys, and partisans who altered the shape of postwar liberal politics and culture...

Rather than primarily trace historical events while touching on cultural matters as many of these books do, Bomberger follows the events in jazz and classical music during this crucial year while framing them within America’s entry into World War One....