Well, it's our final episode, and we have the exact right guest to help say goodbye to a podcast that focuses on music scholarship, and why it matters: William Cheng, whose work fundamentally reconsiders what musicology can be, by laying out a philosophy of care and repair. This conversation covers a large swath of Dr. Cheng's scholarship, including his foundational writing on music and video games, his public-oriented social justice advocacy, and his scrutiny of ethical questions around musical taste. It's a rumination on the present and future of the field. And it's our finale.Show notes and more over at soundexpertise.org!Questions? Thoughts? Email [email protected] or tag Will on Instagram/Twitter @seatedovation
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Sound Expertise Reflections with Will Robin and D. Edward Davis
Well, we're almost done: this is the penultimate episode of our fourth and final season. In our final weeks, host Will and producer Eddie take some time to reflect back on what it's meant: the origins of the podcast, the community we've built, and the legacy of Sound Expertise.Show notes and more over at soundexpertise.org!Questions? Thoughts? Email [email protected] or tag Will on Instagram/Twitter @seatedovation
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A Feminist Musicological Life with Suzanne Cusick
Musicology today could not exist without feminist musicology, and feminist musicology could not exist without Suzanne Cusick. Dr. Cusick's revolutionary work has scrutinized gender and sexuality in musical life for decades, and is foundational to musicology as we know it today. In this profound conversation, she reflects on her arc through the field, and what still needs to change.Show notes and more over at soundexpertise.org!Questions? Thoughts? Email [email protected] or tag Will on Instagram/Twitter @seatedovation
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Music and Eugenics with Alexander Cowan
From its beginnings, the eugenics movement has looked to music: for foundational figures like Francis Galton and contemporaries like Charles Murray, the child-prodigy composer or violinist could serve to demonstrate that talent was innate and inherited, and thus could be bred. The horrendously racist implications of such a vision have long been understood, but the relationship between music and eugenicist thought has received scant attention. In this dark but important conversation, musicologist Alexander Cowan reveals the central role of music to eugenicist philosophy, and how myths of musical talent have undergirded myths of racial supremacy.Show notes and more over at soundexpertise.org!Questions? Thoughts? Email [email protected] or tag Will on Instagram/Twitter @seatedovation
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Sound Expertise LIVE with Jonathan Bailey Holland
We did it! Sound Expertise recorded its first-ever live episode at the American Musicological Society conference in Chicago. It was a super-fun event with a raucous crowd. Please enjoy this thoughtful conversation with Jonathan Bailey Holland, dean of Northwestern's Bienen School of Music, about his path as a composer and what it means to oversee a music school at a transformative moment.Show notes and more over at soundexpertise.org!Questions? Thoughts? Email [email protected] or tag Will on Instagram/Twitter @seatedovation
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