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In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Charles Ives's birth, we have temporarily removed the paywall from a selection of articles about the composer.

The 21st biannual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and the annual meeting of its US branch, IASPM-US, is being held this week in Minneapolis from June 26-30, 2023. UC Press is proud to be the publisher of the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the offici

We're delighted to offer free access to select content from our music journals in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Musicological Association. Click on the covers below for free access through the end of the year to current and recent issues, including the Journal of Popular Music

By Dr. Joanne Cormac, guest-editor of 19th-Century Music's new special issue "Music and Biography."On the day the great piano virtuoso and composer Franz Liszt was born it was reported that gypsies camping nearby saw a comet in the sky. They interpreted it as a sign that a “great one” had be

Although we are sorry that we cannot meet in person this year, UC Press is pleased to be attending the virtual conference of the American Musicological Society (AMS). We are proud to be the publisher of the AMS's official journal, the Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS), and, this y

In conjunction with the Society for Ethnomusicology's 2020 virtual conference, we have temporarily removed the paywall from the Journal of Musicology's recent special issue on ethnomusicology:Table of Contents“We Are All Musicologists Now”; or, the End of Ethnomusicology Stephen Amic

In recognition of the impact of coronavirus on campus instruction and the rise of unplanned distance learning, University of California Press is pleased to make all of our online journals content free to all through June, 2020.