During this 250th anniversary year of the United States, Field Notes will showcase articles, interviews, and other media that engage with the breadth and diversity of music in the US. From the music of John Williams to Bad Bunny, Billie Holiday to Hamilton, contributors in these pieces interrogate the scope and complexity of American musical practices. Stay tuned for perspectives on the past, present, and future of music in the US as the semiquincentennial unfolds.
- Benjamin Givan
Take a look at what Gould discovered when he entered Columbia Records’ 30th St. studio
- John Gabriel
John Gabriel considers musicology in the early gay rights movement
- Allison Wente
Allison Wente discusses mechanical instruments, Taylorism, and musical labor
- Andrew Kuster
Jon Alan Conrad and Renee Norris discuss their new MUSA critical editions.
- Jessica Getman
Jessica Getman explores the music of Wonder Woman (2017)
- Kedrick Armstrong
Maestro Armstrong introduces the sonic and stylistic features of Irene Britton Smith’s and Julia Perry’s music.
- Lauren Eldridge Stewart
There is much to think through in regards to the past and future tenses of Hill's “Ex-Factor.”
- Dana Gorzelany-Mostak
Dr. Gorzelany-Mostak shares an initiative of the Society for American Music
- Carol A. Hess
How did musicology change to the point that we now feel compelled to distinguish “public musicology” from . . . what?
