Guest Blog by Ralph Locke: Refreshing the Discourse–and Reaching Out

Professor Ralph Locke graciously agreed to expand a recently submitted comment on our “Musicology in the Blogosphere” post into a full-length entry about his own musicological blogging experiences.

Musicology in the Blogosphere

The full text of Ryan & Drew’s recent piece in the August 2010 AMS newsletter (VOLUME XL, NUMBER 2), which appeared shortened therein due to space considerations.

Guest Post by Lincoln Ballard: And Your Pope Can Sing

Guest Blogger Lincoln Ballard shares his thoughts on the Vatican’s recently announced choices for the ten best albums in pop music history.

Ryan & Drew in JSAM

Volume 3/1 of the Journal of the Society for American Music is a special issue on Leonard Bernstein in Boston.  Both Drew and I have articles in there–so does our friend and colleage Sheryl Kaskowitz–which we think you will enjoy–though perhaps not as much as these nifty little word clouds.

Ryan Raul Bañagale — “‘Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves”: Bernstein’s Formative Relationship with Rhapsody in Blue

Drew Massey — Leonard Bernstein and the Harvard Student Union: In Search of Political Origins

Sheryl Kaskowitz — All in the Family: Brandeis University and Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Jewish Boston’

Zoe Lang’s Guest Blog: Laying Down the Ground Rules

Kate van Orden, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and the asterisk.

Why doesn’t anyone write in to JAMS anymore?

Drew Massey looks at the phenomenon of letters to the editor in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and speculates on the causes for its relative dwindling in the past decade.