Libraries are *awesome* chapter 834. Look at all the cool things you can check out from my hometown library, everything from scanners to zoo passes to traffic cones.

Congratulations to author James O’Leary (and editor @normhirschy.bsky.social) on the publication of The Middle Brow Musical @oupacademic.bsky.social!

Along with @buddytwo.bsky.social I wrote a white paper on digital impact in publishing on music. Many really good takeaways for researchers.

Who writes fake classical music? What do forgeries tell us about what we want to believe about musical value? A fascinating conversation very much worth your time: newbooksnetwork.com/forgery-in-m...

Join OUP in celebrating pride month! These 10 must-read titles are just the tip of the iceberg: blog.oup.com/2025/06/10-b...

How do arts & humanities impact collaborative research? Join us on June 18th to learn more! events.oup.com/oup-academic...

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Worth your time: 10 ways to see Elton John. It's fun to see the intersections between them. blog.oup.com/2025/03/ten-...

If you're like me, wintertime music education conferences put a spring in your step. So, a quick plug for our latest titles in music education - and our TMEA discount! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Calling all #muscians, #musiceducators, #musicologists, music #researchers / #professors, & anyone who uses books on music: please consider filling out OUP's survey so we can better understand how to deliver print and digital resources that meet your needs! survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90717498/...

Are you a #musician, #musiceducator, #musicologist, or a music #researcher or #professor? We are eager to hear from you in this brief survey about how we can deliver print and digital resources that meet your needs. survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90717498/...

Highlights from AMS! You may spot yourself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnkA...

What the literary agency did not hear on the phone call just now was the handyman repairing the freezer seemingly using a revolutionary war era canon and the cat wanting to be part of it. #workfromhome

Attn Beatles fans: www.salon.com/2024/09/30/g...

Marriage of Figaro on Little Island. So good!

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Read a manuscript, will you?

The Bette Midler playlist we all need. blog.oup.com/2024/07/but-...

Jury duty frivolity crocheted by yours truly.

Fab article - free! - on transgender punk musicians and what their memoires tell us: Jayne County, Laura Jane Grace, and the HerStory of Transgender Punks in America | Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

How did music stump Charles Darwin? Miriam Piilonen explains in this fascinating NPR piece: www.wamc.org/show/the-bes...

OUP quilt made by coworkers more talented than I.

Editor Focus: Alejandro Madrid on Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music and exciting new directions for the series www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wN_...

You're going to love ON BETTE MIDLER: www.publishersweekly.com/9780197668320

"...humanities majors have much better employment experience than those w/o college degrees, that their compensation is similar to other college graduates (w/ exception of engineering), and that their unemployment rate is comparable to other majors..." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/12/14/h...

Nice review of BACH AGAINST MODERNITY in the Wall Street Journal. Congratulations to Michael Marissen: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

If you enjoyed THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE, you'll love RHYTHM MAN: CHICK WEBB AND THE BEAT THAT CHANGED AMERICA: blog.oup.com/2023/12/chic...

Congratulations to Stephanie Crease on RHYTHMN MAN: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023.

Have you read BROADWAY BODIES: A CRITICAL HISTORY OF CONFORMITY yet? A 2023 NPR Book We Love: apps.npr.org/best-books/?...

Writing a book proposal? Try reframing "This book fulfills a need for writing on X..." as "This book answers [scholarly] demand for writing that answers the question(s)..."

A preview of our AMS-SMT videos: twitter.com/OUPMusic/sta...

Hearing the Great Lakes vowel shift in the announcements at the Denver airport. Instead of /æ/ in [æt] gate 37 we get /æə/, and instead of /ɔ:/ as in [ɔ:l] passengers on board, we get /ɑ/. My hypothesis is that these migrate from airport hubs. This sounds very much like O'Hare.

Looking for good reading on your travels? Download an OUP Open Access publication like _Mario Lavista: Mirrors of Sounds_ and _Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain_. No sign-ups required. Check out www.oup.com/us for details.

What is that sudden chill in the air? Whence these mysterious icicles? I am about to check a bag.

Getting ready for the AMS-SMT conference? OUP authors: stop by the OUP media hub and share about your recently published book in a brief video interview. Contact your editor for details.

our boy @zachschonfeld.bsky.social at the Strand talking about his new 📕 on early Nic Cage global.oup.com/academic/pro...