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Book reviews provide an important service to the field, but are also a valuable opportunity for graduate students and early-career scholars to build their brand and get experience with publication. This one-hour online workshop will explore how the most successful reviews add value to the book and connect it with potential readers, rather than just evaluate. But how can your review add value to a book, and establish you as a rising voice in the field?

We answer this question as well as suggesting best practices for the process of arranging for, writing, and publishing a book review, including: How do I pick a journal to publish my review? How do I pick a book to review? How and when should I approach the journal? How do I read the book in preparation for the review? What should a book review contain? What should I expect from the editorial process?

Presenters

Stephen Hudson
Assistant Professor of Music, Occidental College

Dr. Stephen S. Hudson is an Assistant Professor of Music at Occidental College. He studies embodied cognition and listeners’ subjective construction of musical experience in metal music. His first book titled Heaviness in Metal Music is currently under contract with Oxford University Press, and his second book, under contract with the open-access consortium Lever Press, studies groove in rhythmically complex riffs by the Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah. Dr. Hudson recent or forthcoming articles and book reviews in a range of musicological journals, including Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online, Current Musicology, Journal of Music Theory, and Metal Music Studies.

John Koegel
Professor of Music, California State University, Fullerton

Dr. John Koegel is Professor of Musicology at California State University, Fullerton. His research interests include U.S., Mexican, and Latin American musical topics from the 18th century to the present, particularly musical theater and music in the context of ethnicity and immigration. His book Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940 was given the Irving Lowens Book Award of the Society for American Music. He is currently working on the extensive musical edition Mexican American Music from California and the Southwest, circa 1830-1930: The Lummis Wax Cylinder Collection and Other Sources for the Music of the United States of America series (for A-R Editions and the American Musicological Society). Koegel has published numerous reviews and peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Society for American Music, American Music, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Revista de Musicología, Heterofonía, Historia Mexicana, and others. His peer-reviewed book chapters appear in essay collections published by Oxford, Cambridge, California, Chicago, Rochester, and Routledge, among others. Koegel’s research work has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, and other organizations.