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Of people, phenomenologies, art forms, and lifeways. Deconstructing canons, systems, and norms. Growing and broadening perspectives as a way of life and a way of art-making.

Diversity/Academic-ish

On being a father and an early career academic

Musicologist Nolan Vallier
addresses fatherhood in academia through the lack of current scholarship and lens of his own experience.

May 16, 2023
Diversity/Personal Reflection

Composing les femmes

Composer Kä Neunhoffer fights back against women’s treatment in the film music industry through the creation of all-women composer-performer ensemble, Les Femmes Cinq.

November 16, 2022
Diversity/Academic-ish

DEI initiatives in American orchestral organizations

Orchestral trombonist and music educator Jett Walker surveys the DEI work of leading institutions in the US classical music scene.

May 24, 2022
Diversity/Academic-ish

If a dragon dies in the forest, do humans hear a sound?

Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena questions the non-presence of Southeast Asian death sounds in Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon.

March 24, 2022
Diversity/Academic-ish

A derasha on school choir by a gay American Jew

Ethnographer Michael B. Silvers confronts choral Christianity and exclusion in American school music through discussion of Jewish musicality and "meaningful musical experiences."

January 24, 2022
Diversity/Academic-ish

Race, identity, and music: How artists of color reconcile imposter syndrome in an ever-changing industry

Composer Brandon K. Smith traces representation of black artists in music genres throughout American history and its continued relevance today for POC identity.

November 24, 2021

Writers

  • Editors

    Winter 2024: Media mélange
  • Ian Nutting

    “It already has”: Speed Racer and impossible hope
  • Noël Wan

    ChatGPT & me
  • Mona Sangesland

    Mapping the Nueva Canción Chilena
  • Andrew Bethke

    Vulgar academia: Why knowledge production needs a class war
  • Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena

    Passing the mic from white middle-aged spiritual liberation to post-college travel utopia
  • Brandon Smith

    Living burnout in retrospect
  • Vijay Rajan

    Decolonizing myself, The Jungle Book, and Rudy, too

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