Editor’s NoteThe Common Reader looks at the different ways we think about money.

I now think about my mother every day. I did not do this before she came to St. Louis to live. There was, in fact, a stretch of years when I did not think about her much at all …

Theories of mistakes in jazz scholarship helps us understand the ways in which mistakes in jazz performance are valued by audiences and performers—and the ways in which they are not.

What happens when different musical genres and their associated connotations—as represented in musicians, styles of music, and surroundings—collide?