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AMS Newsletter Highlight

AMS Newsletter Highlight

This year, three of the largest professional organizations for scholarly researchers in music – the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for Music Theory – are meeting jointly in New...

It’s a Boston University party in Rome

Next month, six scholars from Boston University will descend on Rome to present at the International Musicological Society Congress, which runs July 1-7, 2012. The complete conference program is available online; I myself will...

Summer of Hindi

Summer of Hindi

I spent this summer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI), studying Hindi with the legendary pedagogue Virendra Singh. Highly recommended!