Musicologist Nolan Vallier
addresses fatherhood in academia through the lack of current scholarship and lens of his own experience.
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.
Orchestral trombonist and music educator Jett Walker surveys the DEI work of leading institutions in the US classical music scene.
Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena questions the non-presence of Southeast Asian death sounds in Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon.
Ethnographer Michael B. Silvers confronts choral Christianity and exclusion in American school music through discussion of Jewish musicality and "meaningful musical experiences."
Composer Brandon K. Smith traces representation of black artists in music genres throughout American history and its continued relevance today for POC identity.