Now We Listen!

Early Music America, Inc.

A podcast celebrating traditionally underrepresented performers, scholars, and research topics in early music and historically informed performance. Now We Listen! is curated and produced by members of EMA’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Task Force. NWL is the only early-music podcast written, and hosted, by diverse individuals in the HIP community. One further aim of the podcast is to highlight performances or texts that seek to deconstruct cultural and personal biases within a range of communities. read less
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Confronting the Establishment
Oct 5 2022
Confronting the Establishment
African-American oboist and Principal Oboe of the Nashville Symphony Titus Underwood discusses historically ingrained biases and prejudices when hiring and managing orchestras which have largely grown out of a place of extreme discriminatory privilege. We will also examine Matthew Morrison’s article “Race, Blacksound, and the (Re)Making of Musical Discourse.”

Episodes

Confronting the Establishment
Oct 5 2022
Confronting the Establishment
African-American oboist and Principal Oboe of the Nashville Symphony Titus Underwood discusses historically ingrained biases and prejudices when hiring and managing orchestras which have largely grown out of a place of extreme discriminatory privilege. We will also examine Matthew Morrison’s article “Race, Blacksound, and the (Re)Making of Musical Discourse.”
Antisemitism and Early Music
Oct 5 2022
Antisemitism and Early Music
Pianist Byron Schenkman centers the conversation in this episode around the pitfalls of overlooking historically antisemitic and discriminatory texts and composers of the “canonized” previous centuries when programming in the 21st century. As a starting point, they’ll use Jeffrey Sposato’s book The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the 19th Century Anti-Semitic Tradition.
The Colonialization of Music in Theory and Practice
Oct 5 2022
The Colonialization of Music in Theory and Practice
Music theory professor Phillip Ewell joins us in a conversation about his own text Music Theory and the White Racial Frame and his upcoming monograph On Music Theory, And Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone, available Spring 2023 from the University of Michigan Press.
Female Representation in Entrepreneurship and Education
Oct 5 2022
Female Representation in Entrepreneurship and Education
Costa Rican baroque bassoonist and arts entrepreneur Catalina Klein leads a discussion about creating spaces for hopeful resistance in educational projects and supporting female empowerment while referring to essays from the book edited by Wayne Wu, Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice.
Hungry Listening: Indigenous Music and Early Music
Oct 5 2022
Hungry Listening: Indigenous Music and Early Music
Diné pianist and scholar Renata Yazzie and Karuk baroque violist and ethnomusicologist Breana McCullough discuss ways in which to bring Indigenous perspectives into the interpretation of art music and pedagogy, using Dylan Robinson’s book Hungry Listening as a starting point.