Now We Listen!

By: Early Music America Inc.
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  • Summary

  • 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.
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  • Confronting the Establishment

    Confronting the Establishment
    Oct 5 2022

    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.”
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    58 mins
  • Antisemitism and Early Music

    Antisemitism and Early Music
    Oct 5 2022

    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.
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    46 mins
  • The Colonialization of Music in Theory and Practice

    The Colonialization of Music in Theory and Practice
    Oct 5 2022

    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.
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    59 mins

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