During the summer of 2020, the way we live our lives changed. Not only did we lose our ability to move around the world freely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the inequalities relating to other people’s ability to do so even in normal circumstances were, once again, brought to light. George Floyd’s murder at…
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DEI Talks: An Interview with Paula Maust on “Expanding the Music Theory Canon”
In my experience teaching core music theory classes, I’ve found that it’s only too easy to introduce harmonic concepts using the same musical examples I used the last time I taught, which are in turn the same examples that I studied as an undergraduate music student. This practice of recycling examples—usually pieces by white, male…
DEI Talks: An Interview with the Music Theory Examples by Women Project
I am a woman pursuing a PhD in music theory, and even in 2021, I am something of an anomaly. In my sophomore year, when I declared my music theory/composition major, four well-meaning professors warned me that my chances for success in the field were low because, as they put it, it’s just a masculine…