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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 current issue of the Journal of Musicology hosts a forum on "Centering Discomfort in Global Music History." We asked contributors Daniel Castro Pantoja and Olivia Bloechl to talk a little more about the forum's genesis and the questions it asks.Daniel Castro PantojaOlivia Bloechl

University of California Press (UC Press) is seeking individual and co-editor applications for the editorship of the Journal of Musicology. Applicant(s) appointed to this position will succeed current Co-Editors Andrew Hicks and Elaine Kelly when their editorial term ends in June 2023.Journal of

Judith PerainoJudith Peraino's "I'll Be Your Mixtape: Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, and the Queer Intimacies of Cassettes," published in the Journal of Musicology, has been honored with two awards by the American Musicological Society. The article received both the H. Colin Slim Award for a musicol

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

From the discovery of a mixtape made by Lou Reed for Andy Warhol (featured in a New York Times article published October 30th), to the tape aesthetics of the Cuban revolution, Judith Peraino and Tom McEnaney discuss the intimacies and ontologies of magnetic tape and the stories behind their articles