Supplemental Information: Episode 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