Blind Auditions, Meritocracy, and the American Dream

American musicologist Will Cheng has published an interesting think piece in the Huffington Post, to which we refer our readership:

William Cheng is Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth (website HERE), where is also a Public Voices Fellow. Additionally Cheng is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellow. His first book is titled Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Oxford UP, 2014; see blogpost of 21 September 2014), published with the support of the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment. Cheng’s degrees are from Stanford (B.A., 2007) and Harvard (Ph.D., 2013).