Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the United States, the Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS) has released the supplemental issue, “Touching Music, Making Musicology.” In this first of two colloquy collections published in 2026, authors reflect on objects that speak to aspects of American music, followed by more substantial considerations of American musicology.
Introduction to “Touching Music, Making Musicology”
Jake Johnson
Touching Music
Benjamin Barson, Chelsea Burns, Alex E. Chávez, Andrew J. Chung, J. Martin Daughtry, Jonathan De Souza, Joanna Demers, Ryan Dohoney, Sophia M. Enríquez, Andrew Flory, Anna Beatrice Gatdula, Paula Clare Harper, Charissa Noble, Maria Ryan, Christi Jay Wells, Maxwell Yamane
Making Musicology
Siv B. Lie, Melissa Hoag, Arved Ashby
This issue is free to read on the University of California Press website: https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/issue/79/Supplement%201
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