Ethnographer Michael B. Silvers confronts choral Christianity and exclusion in American school music through discussion of Jewish musicality and "meaningful musical experiences."
Musicologist and former opera singer Max Jefferson investigates the construction of the diva as a means to objectify the female singing body.
Harpist and pedagogue Noël Wan confronts objectivity and authority in academic Western classical music and posits a new dynamic for the mentor-pupil studio model.
Composer Brandon K. Smith traces representation of black artists in music genres throughout American history and its continued relevance today for POC identity.
Lauryn Gould discusses the meaning and importance of collective effervescence and how we might need it now, more than ever
Historian Andrew Schumacher Bethke examines colonial hybridity in David Lowery's The Green Knight (2021).
Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena explores reflexive improvisation and confronts cultural contradictions through his musical and dance duo, ghOstMiSt.
Writer and filmmaker Vijay M. Rajan grapples with ideas of “soul” in Eastern and Western moral philosophy to access the flow necessary for ideal artistic expression.
Jill Burlingame Tsekouras dissects how the Alexander Technique can help us create change in ourselves, our lives, and our worldviews.
