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Current Musicology is a leading journal for scholarly research on music. We publish articles and book reviews in the fields of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and philosophy of music. The journal was founded in 1965 by graduate students at Columbia University as a semiannual review. This archive contains articles published in the journal starting in 1980. https://currentmusicology.columbia.edu/

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1. Feeling Pain/Making Kin in the Brooklyn Noise Music Scene

Farrow, David
2020
Articles
MusicologyKinshipNoise musicQueer theoryEthnologyGentrification

2. Hearing and Feeling the Black Vampire: Queer Affects in the Film Soundtrack

Woolsey, Morgan
2020
Articles
MusicologyMotion picture musicQueer theoryAfrican Americans in motion picturesFeature films

3. Julius Eastman: The Sonority of Blackness Otherwise

Jean-Francois, Isaac
2020
Articles
African American musiciansMusic--Philosophy and aestheticsRacismState-sponsored terrorismEastman, Julius

4. Music and Queered Temporality in Slave Play

Wilson, Imogen
2020
Articles
MusicologyMusic in the theaterSpace and time in the theaterQueer theoryAfrican American artists

5. Queer Theory, Ethno/Musicology, and the Disorientation of the Field

Moon, Steven
2020
Articles
MusicologyQueer theoryMusic and anthropologyNationalism in musicEthnomusicology

6. A Reappraisal of the Relationship Between Benjamin Britten and Walter Greatorex

Coyle, Jim
2019
Articles
Music--Instruction and studyMusicologyTwentieth centuryMusic teachersInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--SourcesBritten, Benjamin, 1913-1976

7. Berton’s Ludic Pedagogy and the Subdominant Otherwise: Tension and Compromise in the Early Paris Conservatoire Curriculum

Blackmore, Callum
2019
Articles
MusicologyMusic--Instruction and studyOperaHarmonyChords (Music)Berton, H. (Henri), 1767-1844Catel, Charles-Simon, 1773-1830

8. Brahms, Autodidacticism, and the Curious Case of the Gavotte

Ennis, Martin
2019
Articles
MusicologyMusic--Instruction and studyGavottesNew German school (Group of composers)ComposersBrahms, Johannes, 1833-1897

9. Coelho, Victor and Keith Polk. 2016. Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture, 1420-1600: Players of Function and Fantasy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ligrani, Jonathan
2019
Reviews
MusicologyRenaissanceInstrumentalistsCourts and courtiersComposition (Music)

10. Dialectics of Debate: Reflections on Three Pedagogical Scenes in Chinese Music History

Lee, Gavin
2019
Articles
Music--Instruction and studyMusic and historyEducation and stateEducation--Study and teachingSelf-actualization (Psychology)Bhabha, Homi K., 1949-

11. Emcee Ethnographies: A Brief Sketch of U.S. Hip-Hop Ethnography

Holt, Kevin C.
2019
Articles
Hip-hopEthnologyEthnomusicologyEthnomusicology--MethodologyInterdisciplinary research

12. Empirical Explorations of Guitar Players’ Attitudes Towards Their Equipment and the Role of Distortion in Rock Music

Herbst, Jan-Peter
2019
Articles
MusicologyGuitaristsRock musicElectric distortionMusicians--Attitudes

13. From Idea to Institution: The Development and Dissemination of the Orff-Schulwerk from Germany to the United States

Spitz, Emily
2019
Articles
Music--Instruction and studyMusic and childrenMusicologyEducation--PhilosophyOrff, Carl, 1895-1982Orff-Schulwerk (Orff, Carl)

14. “It’s Awfully Important to Listen”: Ella Jenkins and Musical Multiculturalism

Wald, Gayle
2019
Articles
Music and childrenMusic--Effect of multiculturalism onFeminism and musicAfrican American women musiciansMusic--Study and teaching (Early childhood)Jenkins, Ella

15. Iverson, Jennifer. 2018. Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold-War Musical Avant Garde. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gordon, Ted
2019
Reviews
MusicologyElectronic musicCold War (1945-1989)Sound studiosGermans--Music

16. On Teaching the History of Nineteenth-Century Music

Frisch, Walter M.
2019
Articles
MusicologyRomanticism in musicMusic--Instruction and studyNineteenth centurySchumann, Clara, 1819-1896

17. Reflections on Teaching Music 17: Hip Hop

Chodos, Asher Tobin
2019
Articles
MusicologyRap (Music)Education, HigherMusic--Instruction and studyMusical canon

18. The Politics of Music: Women’s Music Education in the United States in the late 18th Century

Evans, Christa Pehl
2019
Articles
Music--Instruction and studyWomen musiciansEighteenth centuryWomen--EducationMusicology

19. Wagnerian Singing and the Limits of Vocal Pedagogy

Parr, Sean M.
2019
Articles
OperaSinging--Instruction and studySingersMusic--Instruction and studySinging--Breath controlWagner, Richard, 1813-1883

20. Wagnerian Singing and the Limits of Vocal Pedagogy

Parr, Sean M.
2019
Articles
OperaSinging--Instruction and studySingersMusic--Instruction and studySinging--Breath controlWagner, Richard, 1813-1883

21. Archival Nothing

Fiol-Matta, Licia
2018
Articles
MusicologyPuerto Rican womenQueer theoryGender identity in musicMusic and raceArchives

22. Awakening the Sensorium in Puerto Rico’s Colonial Modernity

Cruz-Malavé, Arnaldo M.
2018
Articles
MusicologyPuerto Ricans--MusicPopular music--Political aspectsImperialismPerformance

23. Chávez, Alex E. 2017. Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño. Durham, NC: Duke University Press

Banerjee-Datta, Nandini Rupa
2018
Reviews
EthnomusicologyAnthropologyMexican Americans--MusicEmigration and immigration--Songs and musicVoice--Social aspects

24. David Brackett. 2016. Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Berkeley: University of California Press

Johnson, Thomas
2018
Reviews
MusicologyPopular music genresMusic--HistoriographyTwentieth centuryMusic trade

25. Fink, Robert, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark (eds). 2018. The Relentless Pursuit of Tone. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lavengood, Megan L.
2018
Reviews
MusicologyTone color (Music)Music--Social aspectsSound recordings--Production and directionMusic and race

26. Kreuzer, Gundula. 2018. Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Rothe, Alexander Karl
2018
Reviews
MusicologyOperaMass media--Study and teachingTheater--Production and directionTechnology and the artsWagner, Richard, 1813-1883

27. Licia’s Lectures on Nothing

Moten, Fred
2018
Articles
MusicologyNationalismPuerto Ricans--MusicPopular music--Social aspectsNothing (Philosophy)Gender identity in music

28. Mary I. Ingraham, Joseph K. So, and Roy Moodley, eds. 2016. Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance. New York: Routledge

Forner, Jane
2018
Reviews
MusicologyOpera--Social aspectsMusic--Effect of multiculturalism onMusic and raceOperas--Performances

29. Ricardo Lorenz: A Post-Colonial/Modern Latin(o) American Composer

Hudde, Hermann
2018
Articles
Cross-cultural studiesEmigration and immigration--Songs and musicMusicologyHispanic Americans--MusicComposers

30. Seeing and Hearing the Thinking Voice

Gopinath, Gayatri
2018
Articles
MusicologyPuerto Ricans--MusicVisual perception in artArchivesQueer theoryNothing (Philosophy)

31. Steingo, Gavin. 2016. Kwaito’s Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Clark, Emily Hansell
2018
Reviews
EthnomusicologyKwaito (Music)Popular music--Political aspectsInterdisciplinary approach to knowledgeMusic--Philosophy and aestheticsRancière, Jacques

32. Telling Tales: A Survey of Narratological Approaches to Music

Millard, Russell
2018
Articles
MusicologyNarrative inquiry (Research method)Musical analysisMusic--Philosophy and aestheticsInterdisciplinary research

33. The Wonder of Delays

Vazquez, Alexandra T.
2018
Articles
MusicologyFeminist criticismFeminism and musicPuerto Ricans--MusicGender identity in music

34. Through the Fabric of My Own: Louise Alenius and Embodied Interrelationality

Buffington, Adam
2018
Articles
MusicologyPerformance artTheater audiencesIntersubjectivityIntimacy (Psychology) in art

35. Writing the City: The Cosmopolitan Realism of Offenbach’s La Vie parisienne

Blaszkiewicz, Jacek
2018
Articles
MusicologyOperettaCities and towns in musicVaudevilleCosmopolitanismRealism in musicOffenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880

36. Yasar, Kerim. 2018. Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945. New York: Columbia University Press.

Cressy, Thomas A.
2018
Reviews
MusicologyNation-buildingTechnology and the artsMusic--Social aspectsHistory, ModernSound--Study and teaching

37. African Afro-futurism: Allegories and Speculations

Steingo, Gavin
2017
Articles
Futurism (Art)African diasporaMusic--African American influencesHumanism in musicBlacks--MusicEshun, Kodwo

38. Andrey Smirnov. 2013. Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-Century Russia

Patteson, Thomas
2017
Reviews
Twentieth centuryMusique concrèteElectronic musicAvant-garde (Music)Social evolution

39. As Time Goes By: Car Radio and the Travel Experience in Twentieth-Century America

Messbauer, Sarah
2017
Articles
Space and time--Social aspectsAutomobiles--Radio equipmentTwentieth centuryAutomobile travelRadio programs

40. Black Labor and the Deep South in Hurston’s The Great Day and Ellington’s Black, Brown, and Beige

Kibbee, Brendan
2017
Articles
Plantation lifeHarlem RenaissanceMinstrel showsBlacks--Social life and customsEllington, Duke, 1899-1974Hurston, Zora NealeBlack, brown, and beige (Ellington, Duke)

41. Cosmopolitanism and Race in Percy Grainger’s American “Delius Campaign”

Kirby, Sarah
2017
Articles
Twentieth centuryCosmopolitanismRacismMusic and raceEugenicsDelius, Frederick, 1862-1934Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961

42. Eidsheim, Nina Sun. 2015. Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice

Vágnerová, Lucie
2017
Reviews
MusicologySenses and sensationListening--Study and teachingMusical textsSinging

43. Ethnography, Sound Studies and the Black Atlantic

Veal, Michael; Slaten, Whitney Jesse
2017
Articles
Sound--Study and teachingBlacks--MusicEthnologyMusic

44. From Coups that Silence Ezan-s to Ezan-s that Silence Coups!: Sonic Resistance to the 2016 Turkish Military Coup

Koymen, Erol
2017
Articles
Islam--Customs and practicesPublic spacesCoups d'étatSocial media--Political aspectsTwenty-first centuryAdhanErdoğan, Recep Tayyip

45. “Hear What You Want”: Sonic Politics, Blackness, and Racism-Canceling Headphones

Blue V, Alex
2017
Articles
HeadphonesActive noise and vibration controlMusic and technologyAfrican Americans--Race identityRacismAfrican Americans in advertisingDr. Dre, 1965-

46. Kajikawa, Loren. 2015. Sounding Race in Rap Songs. Oakland: University of California Press.

Tracy McMullen
2017
Reviews
Rap (Music)Sound recordings--Production and directionMusic--HistoriographyMusicologyMusic and race

47. Marie Sumner Lott. 2015. The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music

Ivanova, Velia
2017
Reviews
Nineteenth centuryChamber musicLeisure--Social aspectsMiddle class--Social life and customsMusic--Social aspects

48. Milton Babbitt’s Glosses on American Jewish Identity

Maggart, Alison
2017
Articles
Jews--IdentityJewish composersMusic by Jewish composersJews, AmericaBabbitt, Milton, 1916-2011

49. “Organic and Beautiful and Imperfect”: An Interview with Queer Pop Musician Be Steadwell

Mulliken, Seth
2017
Articles
Music and technologySound recordings--Production and directionIntersectionality (Sociology)Music and raceGender identity in musicAfrican American women singersPopular music--Writing and publishingMusicology

50. Pierrepont, Alexandre. 2015. La Nuée. L’AACM: Un Jeu de Société Musicale. Marseille: Éditions Parenthèses.

Citton, Yves
2017
Reviews
Musical analysisPhilosophy, FrenchAfrican Americans--MusicMusicologyMusic--Social aspectsAssociation for the Advancement of Creative Musicians

51. Prognosticating Echoes: Race, Sound, and Naturalizing Technology

Chude-Sokei, Louis
2017
Articles
Autonomous robotsRacism--Political aspectsPhonographSlaveryMusic

52. Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies

Weheliye, Alexander G.
2017
Articles
Music and technologyRhythm and blues musicCell phonesMobile communication systemsBlacks--Music

53. Sarah Hibbert and Richard Wrigley, eds. 2014. Art, Theatre, and Opera in Paris, 1750-1850: Exchanges and Tensions

Doe, Julia
2017
Reviews
Art, FrenchArt genresArt--AestheticsFrench RevolutionOperaTheater

54. “Sing About Me”: Social Media Memorial and Inventory Form

Redmond, Shana L.
2017
Articles
Social mediaCommunication in musicProtest movementsMemorial music

55. Tia DeNora. 2013. Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life

Still, Jonathan
2017
Reviews
Music, Influence ofWell-beingMusic--Social aspectsMusic therapy

56. Toward A Rupture in the Sensus Communis: On Sound Studies and the Politics of Knowledge Production

Kheshti, Roshanak
2017
Articles
Sound--Study and teachingCommon senseSynesthesia

57. Beat Hierarchy and Beat Patterns—From Aksak to Composite Meter

Vojcic, Aleksandra
2014
Articles
Musical meter and rhythmMusical analysisCohn, Richard Lawrence, 1955-Reich, Steve, 1936-

58. Daniel Albright. 2014. Panaesthetics: On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Ricketts, Matthew Jonathan
2014
Reviews
Comparative artsAesthetics, ComparativeArt--AestheticsPan (Greek deity)

59. Davies, J.Q. 2014. Romantic Anatomies of Performance. Berkeley: University Of California Press.

Pierce, J. Mackenzie
2014
Reviews
Music--PerformanceMusicologyHuman body in music

60. “Django’s Tiger”: From Jazz to Jazz Manouche

Givan, Ben
2014
Articles
JazzGuitar music (Jazz)Reinhardt, Django, 1910-1953

61. Editor’s Note

Fogg, Thomas
2014
Articles
MusicGratitudeEditors

62. Editor’s Note to Gesprochene Musik, 1. “O–a” and 2. “Ta–tam”

Caines, Christopher
2014
Articles
Orchestral music--ScoresScore reading and playingSingingMusic

63. Helbig, Adriana. 2014. Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Holt, Kevin C.
2014
Reviews
Hip-hopAfricans--MigrationsMusic and race

64. Images of Time and Timelessness: A Musical Reading of Death in Venice

De Munck, Marlies
2014
Articles
Composition (Music)TimeMusicVisconti, Luchino, 1906-1976

65. Morgan, Robert P. 2014. Becoming Heinrich Schenker: Music Theory and Ideology. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Parkhurst, Bryan
2014
Reviews
Music theorySchenkerian analysisIdeologyMorgan, Robert P.Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935

66. Noticing Musical Becomings: Deleuzian and Guattarian Approaches to Ethnographic Studies of Musicking

Moisala, Pirkko; Leppänen, Taru; Tiainen, Milla; Väätäinen, Hanna
2014
Articles
Musical analysisEthnologyEthnomusicologyDeleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995Guattari, Félix, 1930-1992Différence et répétition (Deleuze, Gilles)

67. Preface to Gesprochene Musik, 1. “O–a” and 2. “Ta–tam”

Caines, Christopher
2014
Articles
SpeechComposition (Music)MusicToch, Ernst, 1887-1964

68. The Historical Soundscape of Monophonic Hi–Fidelity

Dineen, Murray
2014
Articles
ImaginationTechnologySound recordingsMusic

69. The Lost Movements of Ernst Toch’s Gesprochene Musik

Raz, Carmel A.
2014
Articles
Electronic musicAvant-garde (Music)MusicToch, Ernst, 1887-1964

70. The Musical Work Reconsidered, In Hindsight

Steingo, Gavin
2014
Articles
Composition (Music)Art, MedievalMusicGoehr, Lydia

71. “A Disturbing Lack of Musical and Stylistic Continuity”? Elliott Carter, Charles Ives, and Musical Borrowing

Thurmaier, David
2013
Articles
MusicMusical criticismIves, Charles, 1874-1954Carter, Elliott, 1908-2012

72. Ambient Drone and Apocalypse

Demers, Joanna
2013
Articles
Music

73. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Road Maps as Analytical Tools

Alegant, Brian
2013
Articles
MusicRoad mapsMusical analysis

74. A Psychological Approach to Musical Form: The Habituation–Fluency Theory of Repetition

Huron, David
2013
Articles
MusicPsychology

75. A Timely Musical Discourse, or a Music Treatise from Lost Times, Part I

Bonus, Alexander
2013
Articles
Music

76. Breathtails: a Song Cycle in 13 Breaths Written for Anne LeBaron

Bernstein, Charles
2013
Articles
Music

77. Composing Breathtails (a Song Cycle in 21 Breaths)

LeBaron, Anne
2013
Articles
Music

78. Correspondences

Ouzounian, Gascia; Papalexandri–Alexandri, Marianthi
2013
Articles
Music

79. Cover To Cover

Varzi, Achille C.
2013
Articles
MusicIntellectual property

80. Editor's Note

Gutkin, David Jonas
2013
Articles
Music

81. Eleven Theses on Sound and Transcendence

Kane, Brian
2013
Articles
MusicPhilosophy

82. Excerpted from The Days and Nights of the Lotus Trio

Ives, Michael
2013
Articles
Music

83. Experiencing Alba Tressina’s Anima mea liquefacta est through Bodily Humors and the Sacred Erotic

Johnson, Lindsay
2013
Articles
Music

84. From Errata 5uite

Retallack, Joan
2013
Articles
Music

85. from From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, Volume Five

Mackey, Nathaniel
2013
Articles
Music

86. Igor’s Goriest Tune and selected text pieces

Barkin, Elaine R.
2013
Articles
Music

87. Improvising Compose Yourself

Gleason, Scott
2013
Articles
Music

88. In Memory, Theory: Concluding Unscientific Postludes

Gardiner, Michael; Sakata, Jon; Tulachan, Binu
2013
Articles
Music

89. Listening in Poppies

Czerner, Dorota
2013
Articles
Music

90. Memoirs of a Musical Object, Supposedly Written by Itself: It–Narrative and Eighteenth– Century Marketing

Green, Emily H.
2013
Articles
Music

91. Nigun Poems

Marmer, Jake
2013
Articles
Music

92. Nonsense and Unmusic

Albright, Daniel
2013
Articles
MusicLanguage and languages

93. To Astonish the Roses: 7 e–mails to Walter Branchi

Randall, J. K.
2013
Articles
Music

94. “Words for Music, Perhaps”? Texts, 1975-2013

Boretz, Benjamin
2013
Articles
Music

95. A Cross–Cultural Grammar for Temporal Harmony in Afro–Latin Musics: Clave, Partido– Alto and Other Timelines

Vurkac, Mehmet
2012
Articles
Music

96. An Account of Emotional Specificity in Classic-Romantic Music

Swinkin, Jeffrey
2012
Articles
Music

97. Come Out to Show the Split Subject: Steve Reich, Whiteness, and the Avant-Garde

Biareishyk, Siarhei
2012
Articles
Music

98. Contextualizing Hip Hop Sonic Cool Pose in Late Twentieth– and Twenty–first–century Rap Music

Bradley, Regina
2012
Articles
Music

99. Harriet Jacobs Gets a Hearing

Crawley, Ashon
2012
Articles
Music

100. Horses For Discourses?: The Transition from Oral to Broadside Narrative in “Skewball”

Ó Cadhla, Seán
2012
Articles
Music