“Y Volver, Volver~, Volver!” (And Come Back, Come Back~, Come Back!): as the explosive chorus of his signature song still mourns, Vicente Fernández Gómez, known as Chente, died on 12 December 2021 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, after 60 prolific years as a singer, actor, and film producer. The… Read More
Three days after the July 4th mass shooting in Chicago I woke up to a piece of news on the homepage of the World Journal, the largest Chinese-language newspaper in the United States. An elderly Korean American man in Flushing, Queens, was approached and shoved at a gas station by… Read More
The story has become so familiar it can now write itself: Professor shares racially charged material in class. Some of the most vocal and outraged students testify to their injuries and offer their indictments. Viral stories on conservative websites follow, mourning the death of free speech and the… Read More
This is a story about ambition and struggle, success and failure, hubris and humility. It’s a story about the way a new pedagogy can change the teacher as much as the students. It starts with a song. I can’t remember where I first encountered Harry T. Burleigh’s 1917 arrangement… Read More
Update: The authors acknowledge that the work to migrate courses online might simply be impossible in this situation, given that many of us are or have family in risk groups and/or have children now off from school. The semester may simply be over. If it’s not, we hope these strategies… Read More
When Erinn E. Knyt wrote about alternatives to the traditional research paper in her 2013 article for the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, she observed that she was “certainly not the first to address problems surrounding… Read More
Note: This essay is the final installment in Musicology Now‘s “Teaching Music & Difference” series, which features additional essays by Jesus Ramos-Kittrell, Rebekah Moore, and Angela Glaros. Music… Read More
By Angela Glaros Note: This essay is the third installment in Musicology Now‘s “Teaching Music & Difference” series, which features additional essays by Jesus Ramos-Kittrell, Rebekah Moore, and Amber… Read More
By Rebekah Moore Note: This essay is the second installment in Musicology Now‘s “Teaching Music & Difference” series, which features additional essays by Jesus Ramos-Kittrell, Angela Glaros, and Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone. Read More
Many music educators today grapple with this daunting question: How do we create and foster accessible teaching and learning experiences? By “accessible” we are referring to approaches that address learner variability by providing multiple opportunities and options for those with sensory, mobility, cognitive, and… Read More