A brief retrospective ethnography of my work as a production editor at a university press, focused on the social and material organization of work on book manuscripts.

Composer Julia Perry (1924-79) is often mentioned in discussions of Black American musicians active in the middle of the twentieth century, but because of the relative lack of access to her music, her works are rarely performed, much less taught in the classroom. Her 1960 chamber work Homunculus C. F. for percussion and harp, however, has been…[Read more]