Musicologist and former opera singer Max Jefferson investigates the construction of the diva as a means to objectify the female singing body.
A Mosaic of Alternative Voices, A Movement of Artistic Conscience
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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.
Musician Mona Sangesland critiques the end-gaining mindset ubiquitous in music higher education that not only precludes musician fulfillment but denies music's power to enact social change.
In this precursor article, Ian Nutting proposes Žižekian non-doing as a response to politics-as-art-object — and as an antidote to the ceaseless hustle in which we live.
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.
Chloe Chung shares her experience of the second COVID-19 lockdown in Sydney, Australia through her drawings, screenshots, and reflective journal entries.
Ian Nutting muses poetically and philosophically on the potential of music in our current society.
