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]

My core argument in this chapter is that Nairobi’s new recording industry has taken shape in large part through individual projects that are at once wholly musical and wholly entrepreneurial, involving moves and strategies in musical form geared as much toward generating new business models and organisations as they are toward particular a…[Read more]

A short consideration of the dueling dance parties at the Philadelphia Convention Center during the counting of votes for the 2020 presidential election. Analytical frameworks from popular music studies are used to consider the political implications of the uses of music on right and left.