JAMS Releases Vol. 79 Issue Supplement: Touching Music, Making Musicology

Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the “Declaration of Independence,” the Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS) has published a special supplemental issue titled, “Touching Music, Making Musicology.” In this supplemental issue, the first of two special colloquies to be published in 2026, authors reflect on objects that speak to aspects of American music, followed by more substantial considerations of American musicology.

This issue is free to read on the University of California Press website.

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Introduction to “Touching Music, Making Musicology”
Jake Johnson

Touching Music
Benjamin Barson, Chelsea Burns, Alex E. Chávez, Andrew J. Chung, J. Martin Daughtry, Jonathan De Souza, Joanna Demers, Ryan Dohoney, Sophia M. Enríquez, Andrew Flory, Anna Beatrice Gatdula, Paula Clare Harper, Charissa Noble, Maria Ryan, Christi Jay Wells, Maxwell Yamane

Making Musicology
Siv B. Lie, Melissa Hoag, Arved Ashby