Musicology and Repair with William Cheng
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...
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Sound Expertise
Conversations with scholars about music, hosted by musicologist Will Robin and produced by D. Edward Davis
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20 of 60 episodesSound 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 Edd...
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&apo...
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...
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-...
Engaging Black Opera with Naomi André
Naomi André is one of the most important scholars of opera today, best known for her landmark 2018 book Black Opera: History, Power, Engagem...
Taylor Swift Studies with Christa Bentley, Kate Galloway, and Paula Harper
Everybody's studying Taylor Swift these days, from Swifties decoding her vault to YouTubers decoding her harmonies to right-wing conspi...
Listening to the 2024 Election with Dana Gorzelany-Mostak
Election Day is approaching, and both presidential candidates have been foregrounding music, from Kamala Harris walking out Beyoncé's "...
Florence Price's Chicago with Samantha Ege
Florence Price was exceptional, but she was not singular. In the fascinating new book "South Side Impresarios," musicologist Samantha Ege si...
The Future of Opera with Yuval Sharon
Welcome to Season 4 of Sound Expertise! Opera is a four-hundred-year-old genre, and it often looks and sounds that way: despite opera's...
Season 4 Trailer!!
WE'RE SO BACK. Our fourth and final season begins October 15. Seeya then! soundexpertise.org
Music Theory's Racism Problem with Philip Ewell
Philip Ewell has, in recent years, become the most controversial music scholar on the planet. After his incisive work on music theory's...
The Science of Silence with Chaz Firestone
Do we hear silence? John Cage certainly thought so, and so does Chaz Firestone, a scientist whose laboratory's recent study revealed th...
Curating Black Musical History with Dwandalyn Reece
In curating music and the performing arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Dwandalyn Reece has...
Hip-Hop and Friendship on Death Row with Alim Braxton and Mark Katz
Mark Katz is John P. Barker Distinguished Professor of Music at UNC Chapel Hill; Alim Braxton is a rapper on death row, who has been incarce...
Reviving Julius Eastman with Mary Jane Leach
The revival of Julius Eastman's work has transformed the world of avant-garde music, and in many ways can be attributed to a single ind...
Doing Public Musicology with Douglas Shadle
In 2018, Douglas Shadle tweeted about systemic discrimination in American orchestral programming. His thread went viral, and he soon found h...
Bach Scandals, Jug Bands, and Vexations with Joshua Rifkin
In his long career as a scholar and conductor, Joshua Rifkin has done a lot: arranged for Judy Collins, performed in the first-ever marathon...
What Bossa Nova Means with Kaleb Goldschmitt
Bossa nova is everywhere –– from a dance craze in the '60s to elevator music today -- but it's also from somewhere . Kaleb Goldsch...
Appropriation and Indigenous Music with Dylan Robinson
When classical composers incorporate indigenous music into their work, it's more than just cultural appropriation, because indigenous s...