Academic Musicology and Its Revolutions

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Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024

a review of Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades that Changed the Country & Its Sounds by Michael Broyles. Norton 2024 in his 1955 book, America’s Music, Gilbert Chase raised a question that has remained of central concern to academic …

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On Fascists & Microfascists

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Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023

a review of On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death by Jack Z. Bratich. Common Notions, 2022

Anthropologists & the People They Study

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Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022

a review ofThe New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity by Marshall Sahlins. Princeton University Press, 2022 The late anthropologist Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021) is best known for his claim, first published in 1968, that people …

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