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Music
Interviews with musicians and scholars of music about their new books.
October 19, 2024
Soul-Folk
Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-…
October 12, 2024
The Brass Band of the King
In 1924, the crown prince and future emperor of Ethiopia, Ras Täfäri, on a visit to Jerusalem, called on forty Armenian orphans who had survived the g…
October 7, 2024
For Some Odd Reason
Today’s guest, Kate Carr, is an accomplished sound artist and field recordist whose recent work grapples with issues of communication and longing—them…
October 5, 2024
The Sound of Difference
What is the future of classical music? In The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music (Manchester UP, 2024…
September 30, 2024
Voice of Yoko
Today, Phantom Power‘s Amy Skjerseth brings us the story of perhaps the most famous vocal performance artist and avant-garde musician whose actual wor…
September 29, 2024
Listenings
Listenings (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) is a collection of meditations on the art of experiencing sound. The writings reflect Jason Weiss's passion for illu…
September 24, 2024
Lost Music of the Holocaust
Scores sewn into coat linings, instruments hidden in suitcases, sheet music stashed among dirty laundry, concertos written on discarded food wrappers …
September 23, 2024
Forest Listening Rooms
What would happen if you took red state rural voters on a walk into the woods with left-wing environmental activists and experimental music fans? Our …
September 13, 2024
Paul Robeson's Voices
Paul Robeson's Voices (Oxford UP, 2023) is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist's life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage exami…
September 13, 2024
The Subject of Revolution
From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba (UNC Press, 202…
September 12, 2024
The Political Evolution of Taylor Swift
It’s the UConn Popcast, and today we offer a political science / popular culture studies view of Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris in the 20…
September 9, 2024
A Life Based on an Experiment
Episode 21 presents a portrait of Iranian experimental composer Siavash Amini. His music, which moves seamlessly between contemplative ambience, menac…
September 8, 2024
TikTok Broadway
Are you a musical theatre fan who loves TikTok? Or are you curious about how this social media app has changed musical theatre fandom - and even the c…
September 8, 2024
Religion Around Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday is one of the most iconic jazz performers of all time. Her voice is certainly unmistakable but for many her religious sensibilities may…
September 7, 2024
Modern Music Masters - Oasis
In the first book in the Modern Music Masters series, Tom Boniface-Webb examines the Manchester band Modern Music Masters-Oasis (MMM, 2020). Founded i…
September 7, 2024
It’s My Party
It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) is unique in focusing on just one b…
September 6, 2024
Dreams
An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac--the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures—Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood…
September 2, 2024
What is Radio Art?
What is radio art? It’s a rather unfamiliar term in the United States, but in other countries, it’s a something of an artistic tradition. Today’s gues…
September 1, 2024
Folksongs of Another America
Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946 (University of Wisconsin Press) first appeared in 2015 when it compri…
August 28, 2024
The Devil’s Music
I was immediately drawn to the book The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll (Harvard University Press, 2018) …