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In our last episode for Women's History Month, I chat with Dr. Rachel Lumsden (Florida State University) about her experiences as a flautist, her time in grad school at CUNY, and the music theory curriculum at FSU. We also discuss how she got into music theory and feminist studies, as well as her award winning MTO article "Music Theory for the 'Weaker Sex': Oliveria Prescott’s Columns for The Girl’s Own Paper."



Thank you for tuning in this season! Stay tuned for the semester in review episode in May!



Rachel's MTO article

Rachel's chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory

Robin James's "Why Is There No Music Analysis in Feminist Theory?"

Denise Von Glahn's Circle of Winners

Susanne Cusick's "Feminist Theory, Music Theory," and the Mind/Body Problem"

Queering the Pitch

Marc Hannaford's "Fugitive Music Theory and George Russell's Theory of Tonal Gravity"

Stephen Lett's "Making a Home of The Society for Music Theory, Inc."



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Our third episode for Women's History Month, in which I chat with Dr. Candace Bailey (North Carolina Central University) about her musical upbringing as a pianist, her path to historical musicology, and her time in graduate school at Duke. We also discuss her current music history curriculum at NCCU and her 2021 book Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the 19th Century South.



Unbinding Gentility

Candace's new article



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In our second episode for Women's History Month, I chat with Dr. Jan Miyake (Oberlin Conservatory) about her musical upbringing, her path to music theory, and her current tenure as the president of the Society for Music Theory. We also discuss her course "Questioning Genius," which challenges students to analyze a wide range of music and introduces "ungrading" into the classroom. Finally, we finish with a conversation about mentorship.



Running To The Noise podcast



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Our first episode for Women's History Month! I chat with Dr. Louise Toppin (University of Michigan) about her musical upbringing, her experience studying piano and voice, and her time as a graduate student at Michigan. We also discuss her current book project with the Humanities Collaboratory and her African American art song class.



Humanities Collaboratory

Our Florence Price radio episode



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For our last episode of Black History Month, I chat with Willard Jenkins about his early interest in record collecting, how he began writing reviews of jazz, and his time in festival management, specifically with the DC Jazz Festival. We also discuss his book project Ain't But A Few Of Us, which features several Black writers, critics, and music academics who write about Black music.



Ain't But A Few Of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story

Open Sky Jazz

DC Jazz Festival



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On our third episode for Black History Month, I chat with musician, entrepreneur, poet, and spoken word artist Aaron Dworkin (University of Michigan) all about his musical upbringing, his work in arts leadership, and his experience founding the Sphinx Organization. We also chat about his 2023 spoken word album The Poetjournalist, and explore the various intersections of art, storytelling, and Black history.



Stream The Poetjournalist

Aaron's website

Arts Engines



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