music

How Music Helped England Find Its Identity in a Time of Religious Upheaval

Reforming Community, by Anne Heminger, examines the key role religious music played in the formation of English identity in the nation’s capital as the governments of Edward VI and Mary I imposed competing religious agendas on a populace whose members held a plurality of views about reform.  In his capacity as churchwarden of the London parish … Continue reading

Journals, Liverpool Interest, music, open access

The Journal of Beatles Studies: Call for Editorial Board members

The Journal of Beatles Studies invites applications for Editorial Board members. We welcome applications from academics and researchers globally, particularly encouraging those from under-represented groups and those who might aid in reaching beyond the Anglophone world.

Ancient History & Classics, books, Enlightenment, Film studies, Journals, Literature, music, open access

Pride Month 2024 Reading List

This Pride Month, we've put together a selection of books and journal articles which can help us learn about queerness and queer representation - from Trans-ing the enlightenment to new translations of classic Latin American Literature.

History, music

“However little he or we may now understand it”: Historicizing Queer Musical Gossip

New from Clemson University Press, Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson  explores the complicated archive of sources, interpretations, and people present in queer writings on opera and symphonic music from ca. 1880–1935. In this blog post, author Kristin M. Franseen introduces her book's serious use of … Continue reading