Ethnographer Michael B. Silvers confronts choral Christianity and exclusion in American school music through discussion of Jewish musicality and "meaningful musical experiences."
Doctoral student Ian Nutting discusses the scars that so many academics carry from the relentless, résumé-building mad scientist laboratory that is academia.
Orchestral trombonist and music educator Jett Walker surveys the DEI work of leading institutions in the US classical music scene.
Harpist Noël Wan conducts a séance with the ghosts of Adrienne Rich, Jacques Derrida, and the Angel in the House to explore the nuances of being a female artist in our time.
Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena questions the non-presence of Southeast Asian death sounds in Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon.
In critiquing art's power to enact historical change, Ian Nutting finds messianic hope in a radical re-conceptualization of art itself.
Ethnographer Michael B. Silvers confronts choral Christianity and exclusion in American school music through discussion of Jewish musicality and "meaningful musical experiences."
Confronting the status quo of jazz historiography, multi-instrumentalist and musicianer Lauryn Gould traces the connection between Cuban danzón and New Orleans jazz.
In this insufferable, sardonic jaunt through ethnography and speculative phenomenology, Ian Nutting critiques our modern understanding of selfhood and ponders art's power to transform our selves and our context.
In this robust and dynamic listicle, conductor Allegra Martin confronts the gap between “thought" and “action" in efforts to diversify Western art music.
Trumpeter Melissa Muñoz bridges music and children's literature to advocate for critical representation in Western art music pedagogy
