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Her Music Academia Lydia Bangura
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What does it mean to be a music researcher? How does a musician use music as a medium to foster community? Featuring interviews with other musicians, scholars and artists, host Lydia Bangura seeks to ask interesting questions about music and execute important and relevant music research. Join Lydia as she reads, writes and chats her way through a music PhD program.
Got questions or feedback? Interested in being a guest on the pod? Send inquiries to: hermusicacademia@gmail.com
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Winter 2024 in Review
In this solo episode, I chat all about my last semester of classes, my final papers, and my experience teaching aural skills at the sophomore level. I also discuss embarking on my first archival trips and balancing my research with my various singing endeavors. Finally, I contemplate my yearly theme of imagination and give an update on the podcast's new release schedule.
"The Captive Maternal" by Joy James
bell hooks lecture
"When Malindy Sings" by Farah Jasmine Griffin
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Feminist Music Theory in the Victorian Era (with Dr. Rachel Lumsden)
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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Unbinding Gentility (with Dr. Candace Bailey)
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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Questioning Genius (with Dr. Jan Miyake)
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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African American Art Song (with Dr. Louise Toppin)
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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Writing About Black Music (with Willard Jenkins)
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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Customer Reviews
Consistently so superb
Lydia does just a stellar job of making music theory interesting to laypeople. And the guests she picks are lovely.
Joyful and educational
This podcast was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for the content and knowledge!