Season 2 (Spring 2023)
Season 2 Episodes
- Episode 2.1 (January 26, 2023) - Katrina Roush, “From Piece to Music: Analyzing Your Own Listening”
- Episode 2.2 (February 2, 2023) - Matthew Ferrandino & Frank Nawrot, “Tonal Polymodality in Tool's Ænima”
- Episode 2.3 (February 9, 2023) - Kimberly Soby, “A Gender-Analysis Approach to Settings of Chamisso’s Frauenliebe und -leben”
- Episode 2.4 (February 16, 2023) - Melissa Hoag, “Counterpoint Expanded: Integrating Music by Women and Composers of Color in the 18th-Century Counterpoint Classroom"
- Episode 2.5 (February 23, 2023) - Jenine Brown, “The Emotional Impact of the Double Upbeat”
- Episode 2.6 (March 2, 2023) - Rami Stucky, “What Green Book Got Wrong About Black Music”
- Episode 2.7 (March 9, 2023) - Philip Ewell, “Theorizing African American Music: Beginnings” (1/5)
- Episode 2.8 (March 16, 2023) - Christopher Jenkins, “Theorizing African American Music: The Concert” (2/5)
- Episode 2.9 (March 23, 2023) - Philip Ewell, "Theorizing African American Music: The Keynote" (3/5)
- Episode 2.10 (March 30, 2023) - Philip Ewell, "Theorizing African American Music" (4/5)
- Episode 2.11 (April 6, 2023) - Philip Ewell, "Theorizing African American Music: Black Women in Academic Music, and Final Thoughts" (5/5)
Supplemental Episode Information
2.1 - From Piece to Music: Analyzing Your Own Listening
Katrina Roush (UT-RGV)
Release Date: Thursday, January 26, 2023
Production Credits
Team Lead: Jennifer Weaver
Production Lead: Katrina Roush
Peer Reviewer: Joe Straus
Special Thanks: Rachel Short, Rachel Mann, Students from Shenandoah Conservatory's MUTC 225 Class, Jennifer Beavers, Megan Lyons, David Thurmaier
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Zhangcheng Lu
Closing Music: David Voss
Bio: Katrina Roush is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She earned a Ph.D. in music theory from Indiana University and an M.M. in music theory from Michigan State University. Katrina’s research interests include the analysis of individual listening experiences, applications of information literacy to music theory pedagogy, and issues of equity and diversity among students in the music theory classroom. She is a co-creator of the Keys to Success for Music Majors podcast and currently serves as chair of the Production Team for SMT-Pod.
Keywords: Listening, experience, mediation, analysis, Corelli
2.2 - Tonal Polymodality in Tool's AEnima
Frank Nawrot (Wichita State University) & Matthew Ferrandino (Oklahoma State University)
Release Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023
Author's Website (Nawrot)
Author's Website (Ferrandino)
Production Credits
Team Lead: Anna Rose Nelson
Production Lead: David Thurmaier
Peer Reviewer: Ciro Scotto
Special Thanks: Jennifer Beavers, Megan Lyons
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Zhangcheng Lu
Closing Music: David Voss
Bio: Dr. Frank Nawrot is a composer, guitarist, and music researcher. His original music is inspired by Kid Cudi, Julia Wolfe, Meshuggah, Julius Eastman, and Prince. The recording of Frank’s opera, Don Henry, about a Kansas student who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War, was released on all podcast platforms in August 2022. Frank’s research interests include popular music, composition pedagogy, and minimalism. His research has been presented by SMT and the Society for Minimal Music and his music has been performed across the globe from New York to Hong Kong. He also runs a short-story podcast, Tiny Tales.
Bio: Matthew Ferrandino is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Music Theory at Oklahoma State University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in music theory. Matthew holds a PhD in music theory from the University of Kansas where he completed his dissertation "A Narratology of Music Video in 2021." His research focuses on the analysis of popular music and has been published in Music Theory Online, SMT-V, and Intégral.
Keywords: Tool, polymodal, mode mixture, popular music, blues, metal
2.3 - A Gender-Analysis Approach to Settings of Chamisso’s Frauenliebe und -leben
Kimberly Soby (University of Connecticut)
Release Date: Thursday, February 9, 2023
Author's Website
Author's Social (Twitter/Instagram): @futuredrsoby
Production Credits
Team & Production Lead: Jennifer Beavers
Peer Reviewer: Amy Cimini
Recording Engineer: Aaron Cherry
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Zhangcheng Lu
Closing Music: David Voss
Other Performances:
Meredith Ziegler (voice), Kimberly Soby (piano/voice), and Elizabeth Austin (piano)
Other Original Compositions: Thomas Yee
Bio: Kim Soby is a PhD student studying Music Theory and History at the University of Connecticut, where she also earned her BM in Vocal Performance. In addition to her core curricular activities, she is working toward a Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies. Kim’s scholarship is informed by a national performing career, and she holds dual Masters degrees in Vocal Performance and Opera Studies from New England Conservatory. Research interests include the synthesis of performance and analysis and the feminist perspective to musical studies. Other interests include the beach, cats, and Oxford commas, and she is currently reading through all of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels.
Kim Soby's complete interview with Elizabeth Austin is available here (hosted on Google Drive).
Keywords: Gender, lieder, Robert Schumann, Carl Loewe, Elizabeth Austin, song cycle, feminism, interview
2.4 - Counterpoint Expanded: Integrating Music by Women and Composers of Color in the 18th-Century Counterpoint Classroom
Melissa Hoag (Oakland University)
Release Date: Thursday, February 16, 2023
Production Credits
Team Lead: Jennifer Weaver
Production Lead: Katrina Roush
Peer Reviewer: Cara Stroud
Interviewed Students: Olivia Friedenstab, Corrin Kliewer, Iyla Miller, Mahki Murray, Kaleigh Schott
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Zhangcheng Lu
Closing Music: David Voss
Other Original Compositions: Jonathan Bailey, Marion Bauer, Nadia Boulanger, Shande Ding, Nina Simone, and Ulysses Kay
Bio: Melissa Hoag is associate professor of music theory at Oakland University. Her writings on theory pedagogy and Brahms analysis have appeared in Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy (ed. VanHandel); Bach; Music Theory Online; Engaging Students; Dutch Journal of Music Theory; Gamut; Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and College Music Symposium. She is also the editor of Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom (Routledge, 2023). She has been involved with the Advanced Placement Exam in Music Theory since 2007, and chairs the Professional Development Committee for SMT. Currently, she is Reviews Editor for the Journal of Music Theory.
Keywords: Counterpoint, pedagogy, diversity, canon, analysis
2.5 - The Emotional Impact of the Double Upbeat
Jenine Brown (Peabody Conservatory of the John Hopkins University)
Release Date: Thursday, February 23, 2023
Production Credits
Team Lead: Anna Rose Nelson
Production Lead: David Thurmaier
Peer Reviewer: Nancy Murphy
Special Thanks: Jenny Beavers, Megan Lyons
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Zhangcheng Lu
Closing Music: David Voss
Other Original Compositions: Serge Bulat
Bio: Jenine Brown is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Coordinator of Ear Training at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Her research can be read in Music Theory Spectrum, Music Perception, the Journal of New Music Research, the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Engaging Students, and Empirical Musicology Review, among others. Brown currently serves as President of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic and is Associate Editor of Music Theory Online. She received a Ph.D. in music theory from the Eastman School of Music in 2014.
Keywords: Cover song, double upbeat, metric reinterpretation, Ellie Goulding, Elton John
2.6 - What Green Book Got Wrong About Black Music
Rami Stucky (Washington University, St. Louis)
Release Date: Thursday, March 2, 2023
Production Credits
Team Lead: Richard Desinord
Production Lead: Jenny Beavers
Peer Reviewer: Nichole Rustin
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Zhangcheng Lu
Closing Music: David Voss
Bio: Rami Toubia Stucky is a lecturer at Washington University, St. Louis where he teaches courses on American popular music, jazz, global music, and lo-fi hip hop. He is currently writing a book on the arrival of bossa nova to the United States in the early 1960s. His personal and professional website, songsmysisterlikes.com, contains recordings and scores of original compositions, videos of research presentations, and copies of course syllabi.
Keywords: Green Book, Don Shirley, labor, Black music, essentialism
2.7 - Theorizing African American Music: Beginnings (1/5)
Philip Ewell (Hunter College, CUNY)
with appearances by Christopher Jenkins, Lydia Bangura, and Susan McClary
Release Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023
2022 TAAM Conference Website
Author's Website
Production Credits
Team Leads: Megan Lyons, Lydia Bangura
Production Lead: Megan Lyons
Peer Reviewer: Theresa Reed
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Zhangcheng Lu
Closing Music: David Voss
Other Music Performances: Geoffrey Burleson
This is the first episode of a five-part series on the Theorizing African American Music Conference that will be released through the end of Season 2.
Bio: Philip Ewell is a Professor of Music Theory at Hunter College. His specialties include Russian music theory, Russian opera, modal theory, rap and hiphop, and race studies. His work has been featured in news outlets such as the BBC, Die Zeit, NPR, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and WQXR’s Aria Code. His monograph, On Music Theory, And Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone, will appear at the University of Michigan Press in April 2023. He is coauthoring a new music theory textbook, The Engaged Musician: Theory and Analysis for the Twenty-First Century, and he is the series editor for OUP’s Theorizing African American Music.
Keywords: African American music, music theory, music conferences, Susan McClary
2.8 - Theorizing African American Music: The Concert (2/5)
Christopher Jenkins (Oberlin Conservatory)
with appearances by Philip Ewell, Lydia Bangura, Khari Joyner, and Theron Brown
Release Date: Thursday, March 16, 2023
2022 TAAM Conference Website
Author's Website
Production Credits
Team Leads: Megan Lyons, Lydia Bangura
Production Lead: Megan Lyons
Peer Reviewer: Kevin Holt
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Zhangcheng Lu
Closing Music: David Voss
Other Music Performances: Geoffrey Burleson
This is the second episode of a five-part series on the Theorizing African American Music Conference that will be released through the end of Season 2.
Bio: Chris Jenkins is an Associate Dean at Oberlin Conservatory, Conservatory Liaison to the Office of DEI, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology. He teaches courses in hip hop and racial politics in music. He is currently earning a DMA in viola performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and a PhD in Musicology from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).
In 2022, Chris and Philip Ewell were co-founders and co-organizers of the Theorizing African American Music conference held at CWRU. In 2023, his book on diversity issues in music education will be released by Routledge Press and the College Music Society
Keywords: African American music, African diasporic music, music theory, jazz, Black classical music
2.9 - Theorizing African American Music: The Keynote (3/5)
Philip Ewell (Hunter College, CUNY)
with an appearance by Dwight Andrews
Release Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023
2022 TAAM Conference Website
Author's Website
Production Credits
Team Leads: Megan Lyons, Lydia Bangura
Production Lead: Megan Lyons
Peer Reviewer: Kwami Coleman
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Zhangcheng Lu
Closing Music: David Voss
Other Music Performances: Geoffrey Burleson
This is the third episode of a five-part series on the Theorizing African American Music Conference that will be released through the end of Season 2.
See author information from the first episode of the series.
Keywords: African American music, music theory, music conferences, Dwight Andrews, Yale University, Amiri Baraka
2.10 - Theorizing African American Music: The Participants (4/5)
Philip Ewell (Hunter College, CUNY)
with appearances by Marvin McNeil, Stephanie Doktor, Alan Reese, and Maya Cunningham
Release Date: Thursday, March 30, 2023
2022 TAAM Conference Website
Author's Website
Production Credits
Team Leads: Megan Lyons, Lydia Bangura
Production Lead: Megan Lyons
Peer Reviewer: Eileen Hayes
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Zhangcheng Lu
Closing Music: David Voss
Other Music Performances: Geoffrey Burleson
This is the fourth episode of a five-part series on the Theorizing African American Music Conference that will be released through the end of Season 2.
See author information from the first episode of the series.
Keywords: African American music, music theory, music conferences, Yusef Lateef, jazz, community music, Undine Smith Moore, HBCU bands
2.11 - Theorizing African American Music: Black Women in Academic Music, and Final Thoughts (5/5)
Philip Ewell (Hunter College, CUNY)
with appearances by Louise Toppin, Teresa Reed, Jewel Thompson, and Chris Jenkins
Release Date: Thursday, April 6, 2023
2022 TAAM Conference Website
Author's Website
New York Times Article on GA Runoff
Production Credits
Team Leads: Megan Lyons, Lydia Bangura
Production Lead: Megan Lyons
Peer Reviewer: Mark Pottinger
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Zhangcheng Lu
Closing Music: David Voss
Other Music Performances: Geoffrey Burleson
This is the last episode of a five-part series on the Theorizing African American Music Conference that was released through the end of Season 2.
See author information from the first episode of the series.
Keywords: African American music, music theory, music conferences, Yusef Lateef, jazz, community music, Undine Smith Moore, HBCU bands