15 Best Musicology Blogs to Follow in 2026

1. Musicology Now

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Description Musicology Now is the digital publication of the American Musicological Society written for the general public. It seeks to engage educators, musicians, listeners, and colleagues with fresh research and ideas about music. The platform is invested in facilitating dialogue, cultivating communities, and making research accessible in diverse formats. The brief essays in words, sound, and moving images open up conversations within the scholarly study of music to interested publics beyond the North American academy.MORE Email ****@ams-net.org
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2. Ethnomusicology Review

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Description Ethnomusicology Review offers diverse scholarly approaches to musical practice in the form of articles, essays, and reviews. We invite you to explore a preview of Volume 22and past issues of our peer-reviewed annual journal as well as our Sounding Board, featuring seven columns of invited essays and reviews published weekly. Established as Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology in 1984, Ethnomusicology Review is the graduate student publication of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.MORE Email ****@ucla.edu
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3. RILM » Bibliolore

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Description Bibliolore is hosted by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), whose mission is to document and disseminate music research worldwide through its suite of digital resources. RILM editors have a unique perspective on music literature and we launched this blog to share our observations with people who might find them interesting and relevant to their work. Bibliolore includes subjects of practical interest to music researchers and librarians and writings on music that have piqued our curiosity or made us smile, along with original contributions from our team of musicologists.MORE Email ****@rilm.org
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4. IASPM

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Description The International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) is an international organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music. Founded in 1981, IASPM has grown into an international network. On national and international levels, the organization's activities include conferences, publications and research projects designed to advance an understanding of popular music. To build a large and diverse body of knowledge of popular music, IASPM is an organization that is both interprofessional and interdisciplinary.MORE Email ****@iaspm.net
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5. Sounding Out Blog

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Description Sounding Out! is a weekly online publication, a networked academic archive, and a dynamic group platform bringing together sound studies scholars, sound artists and professionals, and readers interested in the cultural politics of sound and listening. Every Monday, our writers offer well-researched, well-written, and accessible interventions in sound studies, directing the field's energy toward the social, cultural, and political aspects of sound and listening, particularly their differential construction of and material impacts on variously positioned bodies.MORE Email ****@binghamton.edu
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6. Teaching Music History Blog

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Description The AMS Pedagogy Study Group is a community of teacher-scholars who aim to think creatively and reflectively about all facets of teaching music history. AMS-PSG sponsors panel sessions and breakout discussions at each AMS meeting that focus on pedagogical issues of current importance to the discipline. It promotes further dialogue through the annual Teaching Music History Conference. Explore the research and resources through the blog articles.MORE Email ****@carleton.edu
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7. History of Music Theory Blog

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Description The SMT History of Theory Interest group / AMS Study Group aims to bring together scholars interested in the history of music theory, broadly construed. During annual meetings, the group fosters the development of new connections between scholars and facilitates the in-person exchange of ideas. It also presents a forum in its meetings and proposed evening panels for presenting new research and engaging with questions of pedagogy, methodology, and the like. Explore our research and articles on HIstory of music.MORE Email ****@uchicago.edu
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8. Sustainable Music

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Description Sustainable Music blog is an ecological approach to musical sustainability, cultural heritage, sound and the environment. In this research blog I theorize various ways that music can be thought about as a human biocultural resource. In a nutshell, I will critique the currently prevailing sustainability strategies aimed at encouraging musical diversity by embracing economies through commodified products. I am Emeritus professor of ethnomusicology at Brown University and fellow of the American Folklore Society.MORE Email ****@brown.edu
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9. Sociomusicology

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Description For a decade (since 2007), this website has offered musings on contemporary society and its music by David G. Hebert, PhD. He is a sociomusicologist specializing in global music education who has held academic positions with universities on five continents. Dr. Hebert is now a tenured full Professor with Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen. There he leads the Grieg Academy Music Education (GAME) research group and manages the multinational government-funded Nordic Network for Music Education.MORE Domain Authority 22 Get Email Contact Read Now

10. IU Jacobs School of Music Blog

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Description Get the latest news and updates on our events, collaborations and more! One of the leading musicology programs in the nation, the Department of Musicology offers individual attention with all the advantages of an acclaimed conservatory and top research university. We are a close and friendly community of scholars. Our department has a large and active faculty whose research and teaching cover a wide range of fields and a variety of scholarly approaches.MORE Email ****@indiana.edu
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11. Elizabeth Eva Leach Blog

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Description Elizabeth Eva Leach is a Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and is both a music theorist and musicologist, with wide-ranging interests in everything from the minutiae of musical structures and manuscripts to the broadest cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts for music. Her principal focus has been on music and poetry of the fourteenth century, although she has also written about songs from both earlier and later periods.MORE Email ****@music.ox.ac.uk
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12. Evan Tobias Blog

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Description As Associate Professor of Music Education and Director of the Consortium for Innovation and Transformation in Music Education at Arizona State University, I support people interested in music teaching and learning in varied contexts. My publications range from addressing issues around digitally mediated musical engagement and learning to pedagogical approaches such as inquiry and project-based learning and facilitating hybrid music learning contexts.MORE Twitter 2.9K Domain Authority 21 Get Email Contact Read Now

13. The Music Salon

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Description I've been a professional musician all my life, most of it as a classical guitarist. I studied with some great maestros of the guitar: Jose Tomas, Oscar Ghiglia and Pepe Romero. I also have composed my whole life, though not so much as a professional composer as just to get something out of my system. I also spent several years studying musicology which was enormously fascinating. This blog features my rants on classical music, popular culture, philosophy and anything else that catches my fancy.MORE Domain Authority 33 Get Email Contact Read Now

14. Musicology for Everyone

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Description Sharing fascinating facts about the music of the past - even if it was only yesterday. I look it up so you don't have to. Musicology for Everyone examines mostly 'classical' music, but also some kinds of 'popular' music.MORE Email ****@allpurposeguru.com
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