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Recent Guests

Andrea Zarafshon Moore
Author of Audible Loss, New Music and the Crisis of Memory
Fordham University Press
Episode: Andrea Zarafshon Moore, "Audible Loss: New Music and the Crisis of Memory" (Fordham UP, 2025)
Dr. Shane Breaux
Author of Reverberations of Culture, Racialized Performance in Early 20th Century Musical Variety by Just a Bunch of Clowns (Routledge, 2026)
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Episode: Shane Breaux, "Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns" (Routledge, 2026)
Henry T. Drummond
Author of The Cantigas de Santa Maria, Power and Persuasion at the Alfonsine Court
Keio Lovén (postdoctoral researcher); Alamira Foundation; visiting professor at Sapienza University Rome
Episode: Henry T. Drummond, "The Cantigas de Santa Maria: Power and Persuasion at the Alfonsine Court" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mary Lucia
Radio host and author
Radio K / University of Minnesota
Episode: Mary Lucia, " What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Nicholas Tochka
Ethnomusicologist and author of The Musical Lives of Charles Manson, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and the Invention of the Sixties
Bloomsbury
Episode: Nicholas Tochka, "The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Invention of the Sixties" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Thomas Patteson
Music researcher/author
Independent scholar
Episode: Deirdre Loughridge & Thomas Patteson, "The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments" (Reaktion, 2026)
Deirdre Loughridge
Music professor, Northeastern University
Northeastern University
Episode: Deirdre Loughridge & Thomas Patteson, "The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments" (Reaktion, 2026)
Henry Sapoznik
Award-winning record and radio producer, ethnomusicologist; expert on Yiddish and American music
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Episode: The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915–1953
Brook Flagg
Author of I Go There With You, The U2 Sites of Southern California, From Significant to Sacred
Episode: Brook Flagg, "I Go There with You: The U2 Sites of Southern California, from Significant to Sacred" (Nine Criteria, 2025)

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Dr. Miranda Melcher
Host on The New Books Network and New Books in Music; guides discussions on musicology topics
Bradley Morgan
Host of The New Books Network; frequently hosts music-related scholarly conversations

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Shane Breaux, "Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns" (Routledge, 2026)
Q: How did you decide which groups to study, and what surprised you about their similarities or differences?
He describes selecting four groups with rich archival material—Black US Americans, Asian Americans (Chop Suey Circuit), Mexican and Latin Americans, and white country Americans—and notes surprising alignments among them, such as shared forms of humor, audience engagement, and backstage management.
Shane Breaux, "Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns" (Routledge, 2026)
Q: What interventions are you making with this book to shake up traditional narratives of musical variety?
Breaux explains that the book broadens the field beyond white-centered histories, foregrounding Black, Asian, Mexican American, and rural white comedians, and treats performance in its social and economic contexts to reveal shared patterns and causal links across circuits.
The 50th Anniversary Tour of Patti Smith's Horses: A Conversation with Caryn Rose
Q: What surprised you most about the audience experiences across different cities?
Audiences varied in makeup and engagement, with some cities producing particularly strong resonance while others had distractions; the energy and crowd behavior can significantly influence how the performance unfolds for both performers and attendees.
The 50th Anniversary Tour of Patti Smith's Horses: A Conversation with Caryn Rose
Q: What makes the 50th anniversary Horses tour different from earlier runs, and how does the lineup contribute to that?
The tour emphasizes a lineage—Lenny Kaye and others have been part of Patti's band for decades, with family members like Jackson Smith joining, which adds a multi-generational texture to the performances and strengthens the sense of legacy on stage.
The 50th Anniversary Tour of Patti Smith's Horses: A Conversation with Caryn Rose
Q: Why did you decide to publish the chat book Three Chords and Blessed Noise now?
The project grew out of a desire to capture Patti Smith's live performances and the urgency of documenting them before they disappear, especially given the touring schedule and the realization that traditional publishing timelines may not serve timely reportage.

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What is New Books in Music about and what kind of topics does it cover?

This show features scholarly conversations with researchers, authors, and editors who discuss recently published work in musicology, ethnomusicology, and related fields. Episodes repeatedly explore how music intersects memory, culture, politics, race, and technology, often grounding discussions in historical case studies, archival work, and critical theory. A standout pattern is the balance between rigorous scholarly context and accessible storytelling, with guests ranging from monographs on medieval Iberian rhetoric to explorations of popular music's role in social movements. The format tends to be interview-driven, guided by a knowledgeable host, and typically invites listeners who want expert perspectives on music's cultural meanings, co... more

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