According to a recent article by Alex Ross in the New Yorker, the once defunct art of classical improvisation is in revival mode; his emphasis was not the...
Read MoreThe fundamental project of Renée Levine Packer’s book is to offer a history of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts, an institution for the performance and...
Read MoreIt is a fortunate coincidence that I am writing this review of Sterling E. Murray’s The Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister: The Life and Music of Antonio Rosetti during...
Read MoreAre physical gestures made by vocalists during performance meaningful? Are they musically meaningful? What can the study of gesture add to our understanding of a tradition? The answers...
Read MoreCarol Vernallis’ Unruly Media expands significantly on her earlier groundbreaking work in Experiencing Music Video (2004), providing a set of tools for understanding how sound and visuals work together in new kinds...
Read MoreRecent ethnomusicology publications offer compelling case studies about the intersections between music and conflict. Noteworthy examples include Music, Politics and War: Views from Croatia (1998) by Svanibor Pettan; Singing Our...
Read MoreDanlee Mitchell (b. 1936) was Harry Partch’s confidant, assistant, and close friend for a number of years, and he played an especially pronounced role in Partch’s last...
Read MoreIn May 2006, the newly elected leader of the British Conservative Party, David Cameron, appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Disks, where guests are asked to choose...
Read MoreMany medieval musicologists are familiar with the peculiar feeling that accompanies attending a conference, talk, or seminar outside of musicology and announcing oneself as a musicologist. As...
Read MoreWhat elements do video games and music performance share? Why do they lend themselves to each other so well? These questions lie at the center of William...
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