Ethnographer Michael B. Silvers confronts choral Christianity and exclusion in American school music through discussion of Jewish musicality and "meaningful musical experiences."
Performer-scholar Noël Wan goes on an epistemological playdate with an AI chatbot.
Musicologist Nolan Vallier
addresses fatherhood in academia through the lack of current scholarship and lens of his own experience.
Folklorist Sarah Craycraft examines how "turns to folklore” in contemporary Bulgarian culture and art help us to process the use of the past in our daily lives.
As she explores her post-2020 artistry, musicologist and trombonist Kathleen McGowan searches for new modes of expression in historical repertoire
Ethnomusicologists Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena and Elizabeth McLean Macy critique the shortcomings of Balinese cultural consultation in the film Ticket to Paradise and how this perpetuates damaging global tourism industries
Ethnomusicologist Lei X Ouyang considers how informed and intentional care for Asian America(ns) within and beyond institutions can create space for communities to survive and thrive.
Conductor Isaac Brinberg presents "Classical Revolution" as one means of reconnecting to audiences through shifts in venue, questioning the elitism of the "concert hall."
Exposing the aristocratic elitism of the academic class, scholar Andrew Bethke urges young academics to "go to war."
In this essay, ethnomusicologist Elizabeth McLean Macy describes her work to decenter whiteness in her university music department: an invigorating performance program that has created stronger and more inclusive communities.
In her analysis of “Wesley’s Theory” from Kendrick Lamar’s album "To Pimp a Butterfly," Tori Tyler explores the expression of Black masculinity in Hip-hop and Rap and argues for the validity of these genres in academic study.
