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Quincy Jones conducts an orchestra in Rome in May 2004. Frank Micelotta/Getty Images

December 13, 2024

Why Quincy Jones should be prominently featured in US music education − his absence reflects how racial segregation still shapes American classrooms

Philip Ewell, Hunter College

Composer Quincy Jones, who died in November 2024, was a titan of 20th-century American music. So why don’t music majors study his work?

Quincy Jones at his home studio in October 1974. AP Photo/George Brich, File

November 5, 2024

‘I can make a band play like a singer sings’: Quincy Jones shaped our listening for seven decades

Leigh Carriage, Southern Cross University

The legendary composer, musical arranger and producer Quincy Jones has died at 91.

Quincy Jones left his indelible touch on some of the 20th century’s most iconic albums. Arnold Turner/Getty Images for Netflix

November 4, 2024

Quincy Jones mastered the art of arrangement, transforming simple tunes into epic soundscapes

Jose Valentino Ruiz, University of Florida

The visionary arranger thought of himself as a storyteller, not just a sound engineer.

Two icons of the postwar sexual revolution have recently died. Left, Doris Day in 1955 London and right, Peggy Lipton in a promo photo from The Mod Squad, which first aired in 1968. Left: (AP/Bob Dear) / Right: The Mod Squad

May 15, 2019

Remembering Doris Day and Peggy Lipton: Icons of white femininity

Rebecca Sullivan, University of Calgary

Doris Day and Peggy Lipton, two very different icons of the postwar sexual revolution have recently died. What are their lasting legacies of white femininity?

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