The Future of Music Theory (with Dr. Philip Ewell)

Continuing our series of conversations with Black musicians for Black History Month, today Dr. Phil Ewell (Hunter College of City University of New York) joins me on the show to discuss his background as a cellist, his time studying music theory at Yale University, and our shared investment in public music theory. We also examine the whiteness and maleness of music theory through the lens of other scholarship throughout the humanities, in order to explore what anti-racist work in music theory could actually look like. Finally, Phil shares a little about his new book, forthcoming through the University of Michigan press!

Thanks to Natalie Krafft for editing the written transcript of this episode!

Phil's Music Theory Online article
Our podcast episode about Phil's article
My time in Phil's residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts
Phil's blog posts
SMT-Pod
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Baptism of Early Virginia by Rebecca Anne Goetz
Moral Man and Immoral Society by Reinhold Niebuhr
Preorder Phil's book: On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming For Everyone

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