This essay began as part of a panel sponsored by the Committee on Cultural Diversity at the American Musicological Society’s 2019 conference in Boston, which marked the committee’s thirtieth anniversary. Chaired by Michael Figueroa (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), the panel also included Johann Buis (Wheaton College), Imani… Read More
Since 2008, the number of tenured and tenure-track faculty at higher-education institutions has declined by 35%. The Delphi Project reports that contingent (adjunct) instructors now teach 73% of courses (AAUP Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, p. 3… Read More
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by Nancy Rao In my book Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (University of Illinois Press, 2017), I reconstruct the lost history of a vibrant “Golden Age” of Chinese opera theaters in the United States and Canada in the 1920s,… Read More
(New Years fireworks over Pikes Peak, Lars Leber Photography) As we all return to our musicological tasks at the outset of the new year, here are a few things to look forward to on Musicology Now during… Read More
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Ed. Note: The following paper was presented by Ellie Hisama of Columbia University as part of the special session on “Race, Ethnicity, and the Profession” at the AMS Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the third of three papers that form Musicology Now’s first “Colloquy.” An introduction… Read More
Ed. Note: The following paper was presented by Bonnie Gordon of the University of Virginia as part of the special session on “Race Ethnicity, and the Profession” at the AMS Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the second of three papers that form Musicology Now’s first “Colloquy.” An introduction… Read More
On Friday, November 4, 2016, the American Musicological Society held a special session on Race, Ethnicity and the Profession during its annual meeting. The panelists were members of a newly configured permanent Committee on the Status of Race and Ethnicity in the Profession, co-chaired (as was the panel) by Judy… Read More