Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS) – New issue now available Publication Notice

The American Musicological Society (AMS) is delighted to announce the release of the newest issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society (volume 79, number 2). Articles and reviews focus on Broadway’s racial casting practices, the Marx Brothers’ A Night at the Opera (1935), Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels, the history of Martinican organs, and more. Read now! https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/issue/79/2

Journal of the American Musicological Society, summer 2026; volume 79, number 2

Articles

Racial Casting Practices in the Broadway Musical, 1900–2020
Todd Decker

Falling off the Roof and into the Opera House: Jewish Opera Going, Humor, and Anxiety in American Popular Culture
Samantha M. Cooper

Debussy’s Pelléas and Symbolist Childhood
T. F. Coombes

Frank Zappa’s Music Designs in 200 Motels
James Grier

The Organ as Colonial Infrastructure: Sound, Imperialism, and Religion in Martinique (1848–1911)
Fanny Gribenski

Reviews: Books

Messa da requiem: The Requiem Mass at St. Mark’s, Venice, in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Jonathan R. J. Drennan; Requiems by Giovanni Agostino Perotti and Nicolò Coccon: The Requiem Mass at St. Mark’s, Venice, in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Jonathan R. J. Drennan
Jane Schatkin Hettrick

Interpretive Labor: Experimental Music at Work, by Kirsten L. Speyer Carithers
Patrick Nickleson

Transforming Noise: A History of Its Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900–1955, by Chen-Pang Yeang
Melle Jan Kromhout

Heading to the Fleadh: Festival, Cultural Revival and Irish Traditional Music, 1951–1969, by Méabh Ní Fhuartháin
Tigerlily Keoghan

Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music, by Anabel Maler
Cecilia Hiros

Reviews: Digital and Multimedia Scholarship

Creating a Community-Engaged Archive of Sacred Vernacular Song: The Sounding Spirit Digital Library and Collaborative
Sarah Eyerly

Canon and Curiosity: The New Muses Project
Alisha Nypaver

Sounding the Platform: Black Musicking on TikTok
Anita Danielle Ingram