Has Music Theory Become More Diverse Since 2019?
Chair(s): Christopher Endrinal (Florida Gulf Coast University), Rachel Lumsden (Florida State University, United States of America)
This session examines the current state of our discipline, five years after the plenary session at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory. At that session, Yayoi Uno Everett, Philip Ewell, Ellie M. Hisama, and Joseph N. Straus presented papers that called for us to re-examine our field by reconsidering its biases and methodological approaches. A few months later, three founding members of Project Spectrum (Clifton Boyd, Catrina Kim, and Lissa Reed) co-delivered the keynote of the 2020 MTSNYS conference, entitled: “After ‘Reframing Music Theory’: Doing the Work.”
Our session revisits this important work, and centers on the following questions: What substantive changes have happened since 2019? What changes still need to be made? What (new) issues have surfaced and what is being done to address them? How can we work together effectively to make music theory more equitable and diverse?
Name of sponsoring group
Committee on Race and Ethnicity
Presentations of the Symposium
What is Music Theory? SMT Conference Presentations Then and Now
Joseph Straus, Hang Ki Choi
CUNY Graduate Center
Interculturality in the Global Age
Yayoi Uno Everett
CUNY Graduate Center
Music Theory Pedagogy: Beyond the Three Bs
Elizabeth Marvin
Eastman School of Music
Five Years On and I’m Still Conflicted
Philip Ewell
CUNY Graduate Center
Diversity Solutions and Non-Solutions
Catrina Kim
University of Massachusetts Amherst
SMT Membership Demographics and the Leaky Pipeline
Clifton Boyd
New York University
Five Lessons from my First Five Years in Music Theory
Hanisha Kulothparan
Eastman School of Music
Personal Reflections on the Recent SMT Student Social Climate Survey
Gerardo Lopez
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
