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Conversations with scholars about music, hosted by musicologist Will Robin and produced by D. Edward Davis
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...
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...
Musicology today could not exist without feminist musicology, and feminist musicology could not exist without Suzanne Cusick. Dr. Cusick&apo...
From its beginnings, the eugenics movement has looked to music: for foundational figures like Francis Galton and contemporaries like Charles...
We did it! Sound Expertise recorded its first-ever live episode at the American Musicological Society conference in Chicago. It was a super-...
Naomi André is one of the most important scholars of opera today, best known for her landmark 2018 book Black Opera: History, Power, Engagem...
Everybody's studying Taylor Swift these days, from Swifties decoding her vault to YouTubers decoding her harmonies to right-wing conspi...
Election Day is approaching, and both presidential candidates have been foregrounding music, from Kamala Harris walking out Beyoncé's "...
Florence Price was exceptional, but she was not singular. In the fascinating new book "South Side Impresarios," musicologist Samantha Ege si...
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...
WE'RE SO BACK. Our fourth and final season begins October 15. Seeya then! soundexpertise.org
Philip Ewell has, in recent years, become the most controversial music scholar on the planet. After his incisive work on music theory's...
Do we hear silence? John Cage certainly thought so, and so does Chaz Firestone, a scientist whose laboratory's recent study revealed th...
In curating music and the performing arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Dwandalyn Reece has...
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...
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...
In 2018, Douglas Shadle tweeted about systemic discrimination in American orchestral programming. His thread went viral, and he soon found h...
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...
Bossa nova is everywhere –– from a dance craze in the '60s to elevator music today -- but it's also from somewhere . Kaleb Goldsch...
When classical composers incorporate indigenous music into their work, it's more than just cultural appropriation, because indigenous s...
"Music and philosophy" is often about Nietzsche and Wagner, or Kant and Mozart. But, in Robin James's work, it can also be about pop, a...
There are approximately one bajillion biographies of Beethoven: do we need really another one? In fact, we do, because Laura Tunbridge has w...
What does it mean to search for music-making in the archives of slavery? Maria Ryan studies African-descended musicians and listeners in the...
What does it mean to be a scholar when the culture you study is under attack? Maria Sonevytsky and Oksana Nesterenko work on Ukrainian music...
The story of music in the Soviet Union isn't just about Shostakovich and Stalin -- sometimes, it's not about composers at all. Gab...
The African-American pianist Hazel Harrison played with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1904, and was promptly forgotten. But Kira Thurman rememb...
Writing a biography isn't easy, especially when it's of a living person, and especially when that living person is an epochal, oft...
Finally, Sound Expertise returns! Season 3 begins on May 16, and it's our biggest and most ambitious to date: a full summer of intervie...
We're almost back -- Season 3 will debut in just a few weeks! Before then, one final bonus episode: our great producer D. Edward Davis...
Another bonus episode! A conversation with composer Matthew Aucoin , whose opera Euridice had a run at the Met last month, and who just wrot...
Check out this episode of the great podcast Phantom Power , on the life and work of composer R. Murray Schafer. You can check out more info...
Eighteen music scholars describe their experiences of the pandemic. "On the Banks of the Wabash" was arranged and performed by D. Edward Dav...
For our Season 2 finale, a wide-ranging conversation with the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin. We talk about his trajectory, from play...
How did Cold War money shape the musical avant-garde? What were the roles of experts, elites, and the Rockefeller Foundation in shaping the...
How does one come to study a topic that is on the margins of an academic discipline? What does it mean to do ethnographic fieldwork amidst t...
Algorithms run our lives these days, from Netflix binges to predictive policing. And that includes algorithmic recommenders––like Spotify&ap...
When a modern opera debuts, normally the stakes aren't very high. But when it's composed by Benjamin Britten and premieres in Engl...
Since pretty much the beginnings of our field, musicologists have gone digging for lost music, bringing old pieces back into the world after...
In 2013, the music librarian David Hunter found the name George Frideric Handel in a printed list of investors in one of Britain's offi...
Way back in 2011, Rebecca Black's music video "Friday" went viral because it was widely considered to be one of the worst songs of all...
Though often overlooked in mainstream histories, the voices of Black women were central to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in A...
When we think about music and deafness, it's often through the lens of Beethoven: the mythological figure who overcomes his hearing los...
Maybe you teach music history, and maybe you don't, but pedagogy is a part of your life: we have all been teachers, and we have all bee...
Music theory has long been a space in which white male scholars analyze music by white male composers. But many music theorists are actively...
What happens, musically and spiritually, when a congregation sings gospel ? How can we analyze music that moves not just the mind, but also...
We're back! The first episode of Season 2 features Susan McClary: one of the most influential, and controversial, musicologists of our...
We're back next week! Season 2 of Sound Expertise begins on Tuesday, March 23. Host Will Robin will interview fellow music scholars abo...
And we're back! Well, kind of. Season 2 of Sound Expertise launches on March 23, but for now here's a bonus preseason episode. Our...
What does it mean to create music that is valued as a national emblem, but also be part of a community that is marginalized within that nati...
How can ethnomusicology help us understand the value of music in a capitalist society? When we view music as a commodity, what might it reve...