Open Letter on Antiracist Actions Within SMT

In the first 10 days after publishing on July 29, 2020, this letter received more than 900 signatures. Since the rate of signing has lowered, we are no longer updating the letter as of August 20, 2020. Thank you for your support!

At the Plenary Session of the Society for Music Theory’s 2019 meeting, Philip Ewell, Yayoi Uno Everett, Ellie Hisama, and Joseph Straus powerfully demonstrated how systemic racism, sexism, and ableism animate musical discourse. They spoke not only with candor and wisdom, but also with exceptional courage. The Journal of Schenkerian Studies, in Volume 12, has just published a number of vitriolic responses to a single aspect of one presentation—under the pretense of scholarly debate, no less—and the ensuing scandal has diverted our field’s focus from the structural critiques made in the plenary. The journal’s violation of academic standards of peer review, its singling out of Prof. Ewell while denying him a chance to respond, and the language of many of its essays constitute anti-Black racism. These actions provide further evidence of the structural force of white supremacy in our discipline. While this episode is the most recent, and perhaps the most illustrative, the treatment Prof. Ewell received from the Journal of Schenkerian Studies is only the latest instance of systemic racism that marginalized Society members have faced for many years.

We applaud the recent statement of the Executive Board of the Society for Music Theory. To aid the Executive Board in their aim to “determine further actions,” we the undersigned advocate for the following:

A public statement from the President, authorized by the Executive Board and in accordance with the Policy on Public Statements, that SMT acknowledges the following three points: (a) that American music theory is historically rooted in white supremacy, the racist idea that whites are superior to nonwhites, (b) that these white supremacist roots have resulted in racist policies that have benefitted whites and whiteness while disadvantaging nonwhites and nonwhiteness, and (c) that these racist policies have resulted in injustices suffered by BIPOC at all stages of their careers. Further, we call upon the President, with the authorization of the Executive Board, to apologize to all BIPOC who have suffered such injustices, without equivocation.
A demonstration of support by the Society for the graduate students of the University of North Texas Department of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology in their call for accountability. We recommend that this support take the form of a letter to UNT Press demanding a full and truthful account of recent editorial processes at the Journal of Schenkerian Studies. This account should include information pertaining to which authors submitted works through the call for responses and which were invited to participate individually, a description of the peer review process, details of which members of the editorial board, advisory board, and journal staff viewed submissions before publication, and an explanation of how certain authors were able to separate their roles as academic advisors to the editorial staff from their roles as authors.
The establishment of an Ombudsperson position or committee that advocates on behalf of those disadvantaged by imbalances of power in cases of conflict and misconduct related to journal editing, publications, conferences, governance, and teaching, since SMT has a role to play in promoting its policies for all members in all professional situations.
A statement that calls upon Society members to resign from the editorial board of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, as the journal’s recent comportment is incompatible with the SMT Policy on Ethics.
An amendment to the SMT Policy on Harassment, as it pertains to publication, to apply to members’ behavior in all their scholarly endeavors, not only in SMT publications, discussion groups, and interest group interactions.
A censure of the advisory board of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, pursuant to relevant portions of the SMT Mission Statement, Policy on Ethics, and Policy on Harassment, as the Society’s policies have no meaning if violations do not invite censure. In particular, the Policy on Harassment states that “cases of proven offenses” will result in “revocation of membership and honors.”
That all members of the society, as individuals, confront the ways we ourselves have sustained systems of racism and sexism through our own scholarship and pedagogy. The adoption of the above points is not a substitute for this self-reflection. That self-reflection will be aided by recent studies and works on antiracism, such as those Harvard has compiled and those in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Members affiliated with an institution of higher learning can likely contact staff members dedicated to antiracist training and pedagogy. Project Spectrum’s keynote address at the 2020 MTSNYS conference also outlines important steps that individual theorists can take toward enacting change in our field.

It is only through acknowledgment and sustained, careful reflection that we can truly begin to address these issues as an academic community. As a starting point, each music theorist must ask themselves: What books and articles do I read? What scholars do I cite in my own research? What music do I analyze in my research and in my classes? What readings do I assign in my classes? What interest groups am I involved with? What committees do I serve on and what is the racial and gender makeup of those committees? What students do I mentor? In short, we all need to ask ourselves: What have I done as an individual to perpetuate existing white supremacist systems of power and inequity in our field? Probing these questions in our work individually is essential to our collective reckoning.

This document was collaboratively authored by eight music theorists who identify as white: Edward Klorman, Stephen Lett, Rachel Lumsden, Mitch Ohriner, Cora S. Palfy, Nathan Pell, Chris Segall, and Daniel Shanahan. As is too often the case, white racial activism relies on uncredited labor by BIPOC. This document has benefitted from criticism, editing, and authorship by Philip Ewell, Anna Gawboy, Jennifer Iverson, Vivian Luong, and Toru Momii. Its failings rest with the initial authors.

We also believe that there is broad support within the music theory community and beyond for the views expressed in this letter. If you would like to show your solidarity, please add your name by filling out the form found at the following link [no longer active].

Signed,

Damien Abner, Riverside City College

Rosa Abrahams, Ursinus College

Ruard Absaroka, University of Salzburg

Giulia Accornero, Harvard University

Stefanie Acevedo, University of Dayton

Byron Adams, University of California, Riverside

George Adams, University of Chicago

Byron Adams, UC Riverside

Kyle Adams, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University

Elisa Corona Aguilar, NYU Student

Aisha Ahmad-Post, Colorado Springs, CO

Brian Alegant, Oberlin College Conservatory

Makulumy Alexander-Hills, Columbia University

Khyam Allami, Doctoral Researcher, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, UK

Michael Allemana, University of Chicago

Emily Ruth Allen, Florida State University

Esme Allen-Creighton, North York Suzuki School of Music

Penrose Allphin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Andrés R. Amado, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Matt Ambrosio, Lawrence University

Drake Andersen, Vassar College

Clovis de Andre, Faculdade Cantareira (São Paulo, Brazil)

Christopher Antila, RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)

Spencer Arias, Michigan State University

Daniel Arthurs, University of Tulsa

Sean Atkinson, Texas Christian University

Robin Attas, Queen's University

Jacqueline Avila, University of Tennessee

William R. Ayers, University of Central Florida

Andrew Aziz, San Diego State University

Michael Baker, University of Kentucky

Ben Baker, Eastman School of Music

David John Baker, London, UK

Sara Bakker, Utah State University

Twila Bakker, Edmonton, Alberta

Ellen Bakulina, University of North Texas

Lara Safinaz Balikci, McGill University

Doug Balliett, The Juilliard School

Brad Balliett, New York, NY

Marcos Balter, University of California, San Diego

Sam Baltimore, Retired

Lisa Barg, McGill University

Alyssa Barna, University of Minnesota

Jessica Barnett, SUNY Fredonia

Matthew Barnson, SUNY Stony Brook

Daniel Barolsky, Beloit College

Christopher Bartlette, Binghamton University

Samantha Bassler, New York University, Steinhardt Dept of Music and Performing Arts Professions

Eliot Bates, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Inessa Bazayev, Louisiana State University

Melinda Beasi, Easthampton, MA

Richard Beaudoin, Dartmouth College

Jennifer Beavers, University of Texas at San Antonio

Rachel Becker, Boise State University

Adam Behan, University of Cambridge

Owen Belcher, University of Missouri Kansas City

Matthew Bell, Tallahassee, FL

Vincent Pérez Benítez, Penn State University

Lauren Bennati, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Michael Bennett, Graduate student, Stony Brook University

William Bennett, Harvard University

Linda Berna, Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University

Zachary Bernstein, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

Michael Berry, University of Washington

David Carson Berry, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music

Nilanjana Bhattacharjya , Arizona State University

Nicole Biamonte, McGill University

Ian Biddle, Newcastle University, UK

Benjamin Bierman, John Jay College, CUNY

Stefanie Bilidas, University of Texas at Austin

Sebastian Bisciglia, University of Toronto

Wendelin Bitzan, Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, Germany

Nicolas Bizub, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Andrew Blake, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

Damian Blättler, Rice University

Dan Blim, Denison University

Morgan Block, University of Arizona

Chandler Blount, Florida State University

Michael S. Boerner, Stony Brook University

Breighan Boeskool , Granger, IN

Claire Boge, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)

Jacob Bohan, Charlotte, North Carolina

Christine Boone, University of North Carolina Asheville

David Borgo, UC San Diego

Jack Boss, University of Oregon

Mauro Botelho, Davidson College

Beau Bothwell, Kalamazoo College

Janet Bourne, University of California, Santa Barbara

Sara Bowden, Northwestern University

Lynette Bowring, Yale University

Douglas Boyce, George Washington University

Clifton Boyd, Yale University

Michael Boyd, Chatham University

Matthew Boyle, University of Alabama

Antares Boyle, Portland State University

Penny Brandt , University of Texas at Austin

Andre Bregegere, William Paterson University

Matt Brennan, University of Glasgow

Zachary Bresler, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

David Bretherton, University of Southampton

Amelia Brey, The Juilliard School

Seth Brodsky, University of Chicago

Christopher Brody, University of Louisville

Per Broman, Bowling Green State University

Erin M. Brooks, State University of New York-Potsdam

Eliza Brown, DePauw University

Jenine Brown, Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins Univ.

Matthew Brown, Eastman School of Music

Andrea Brown, University of Maryland

Michael Bruschi, Yale University

Michael Buchler, Florida State University

James Buhler, University of Texas at Austin

Carl Burdick, University of Cincinnati

Samantha Burgess, Ohio State University

Geoffrey Burleson, Hunter College-CUNY

Cheslea Burns, University of Texas at Austin

L. Poundie Burstein, CUNY

Patricia Burt, University of Delaware

Mark J. Butler, Northwestern University

David Byrne, University of Manitoba

Thomas Cabaniss, The Juilliard School, New York, NY

Stephen Cabell, Occidental College

Ian Calhoun, University of North Texas

Andrea Calilhanna, Western Sydney University, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development

Michael Callahan, Michigan State University

Clifton Callender, Florida State University

Melissa Camp, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Lee Cannon-Brown, Harvard University

Ellon D Carpenter, Arizona State University, Emerita

Daphne GA Carr, NYU FAS Music

Carolyn Carrier, Philadelphia, PA

Rebecca Carroll, Rutgers University

James Carroll, Springfield, MA

Daniel Carsello, Temple University

Antonio Cascelli, Maynooth University

James P Cassaro , University of Pittsburgh

Zosha Di Castri, Columbia University

Devin Chaloux, New Hampshire

Samuel Chan, New York University

Aditya Chander, Yale University

Varun Chandrasekhar, The University of Minnesota

Dustin Chau, University of Chicago

Damian Cheek, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith

Timothy K. Chenette, Utah State University

William Cheng, Dartmouth College

Hon Ki Cheung, University of Minnesota

Adrian P. Childs, University of Georgia

Matt Chiu, Eastman School of Music

Hiroaki Cho, Brown University

Andrew Chung, University of North Texas

Yoon Chung, Brown University, Providence College

Amy Cimini, UC San Diego

Alice Clark, Loyola University New Orleans

Caryl Clark, University of Toronto

Timothy Clarkson , Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney University

Seth Cluett, Columbia University

Jacob A. Cohen, Oberlin College

Sara Jo Cohen, University of Michigan Press

Christa Cole, Indiana University

Akil Cole, Georgetown University

Carla Colletti, Webster University

Adam Collins, University of Montana

Henri Colombat, McGill University

John Combs, Florida State University

Jade Conlee, Yale University

Corrina Connor , Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Karen M. Cook, University of Hartford

Robert C. Cook, Louisville CO (University of Iowa, emeritus)

Margaret Cormier, McGill University

David Cortello, Catawba Valley Community College, Hickory, North Carolina

Evan Cortens, Mount Royal University

Nicole Cosme, Yale University

Alyssa Cottle, Harvard University

Benjamin Court, UCLA

Alexander Cowan, Harvard University

Georgia Cowart, Cleveland

Arnie Cox, Oberlin College & Conservatory

Daniel Cox, Yale

Maxe Crandall, Stanford University

Hannah N. Crider, Florida State University

Stephen A. Crist, Emory University

Luis Cruz, Rutgers University

Diego Cubero, University of North Texas

Alejandro Cueto, University of Texas at Austin

Nick Curry, Harvard Law School

David Damschroder, University of Minnesota

Joe Davies, University of Oxford

Joe Davies , University of Oxford

James Q. Davies, UC Berkeley

Stacey Davis, University of Texas at San Antonio

Angharad Davis, Yale University

Hannah Davis-Abraham, University of Toronto

Laina Dawes, Columbia University

Greg Decker, Bowling Green State University (Ohio)

Kyle DeCoste, Columbia University

Rob Deemer, State University of New York at Fredonia

Galen DeGraf, Columbia University

Tomoko Deguchi, Winthrop University

Michael Dekovich, University of Oregon

Hayden Denesha, Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra

Jay Derderian, Composer - Portland, Oregon

Johanna Devaney, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center

Dana DeVlieger, University of Delaware

Joshua DeVries, University of Michigan

David Dewar, University of Bristol, UK

Emily DeWoolfson, Temple University

Thomas Dickinson, South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities

Brittni Leigh Dixon, Florida State University

Kendall Durelle Briggs, DMA, Professor of Music, The Juilliard School

Benjamin Dobbs, Furman University

Julia Doe, Columbia University

Brianne Dolce, Institute of Historical Research

James Donaldson, McGill University

Sahara Donna, University of North Texas

Luka Douridas, RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)

Eric Drott, University of Texas at Austin

Aleksandra (Sasha) Drozzina, Toronto, ON

Daniel Nicolae Dubei, New York City, NY

Michèle Duguay, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Ben Duinker, University of Toronto

Craig Duke, Indiana University

Philip Duker, University of Delaware

Melissa Dunphy, Rutgers University

Jonathan Dunsby, Eastman School of Music

Jacques Dupuis, Brandeis University

Dave Easley, Oklahoma City University

Michael Ebie, Michigan State University

Ryan Ebright, Bowling Green State University

Lindsey Eckenroth, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Ethan Edl, Yale University

Lolita Emmanuel, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney

Laura Emmery, Emory University

Neal Endicott, Michigan State University

Christopher Endrinal, Florida Gulf Coast University

Clare Sher Ling Eng, Belmont University

Nora Engebretsen, Bowling Green State University

Tom Erbe, UC San Diego

Walter Everett, University of Michigan

Sara Everson, Florida State University

Philip Ewell, Hunter College

Samuel Falotico, University of Colorado Boulder

David Falterman, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

Tobias Fasshauer, Berlin University of the Arts

Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University

Fred Fehleisen, The Juilliard School

Brent Ferguson, Washburn University and MidAmerica Nazarene University

Matthew Ferrandino, University of Kansas

Abigail Fine, University of Oregon

Stanley Ralph Fink, Florida State University

Aaron Flagg, The Juilliard School

Amy Fleming, Baylor University

Nathan Fleshner, University of Tennessee

J. Wesley Flinn, University of Minnesota Morris

Rebecca Flore, University of Chicago

David Walter Floyd, Champaign, IL

Gretchen Foley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Mike Ford, Columbia University

Jane Forner, Columbia University

Karen Fournier , University of Michigan @ Ann Arbor

Elizabeth Fox, University of Toronto

Aaron Andrew Fox, Dept. of Music, Columbia University

Kelly Francis, Kennesaw State University

Peter Franck, Western University

Kristin M. Franseen, Carleton University and University of Ottawa

Walter Frisch, Columbia University

Simon Frisch, The Juilliard School

Louise Fristensky, The University of North Texas

Jeremy Frusco, University of Florida

Johanna Frymoyer, University of Notre Dame

Dr Sophie Fuller, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, UK

Anna Fulton, Grand Valley State University

Alison Furlong, Columbus, OH

Joshua Gailey, Seattle, WA

Rachel Gain, University of North Texas

Michael Gallope, University of Minnesota

Bronwen Garand-Sheridan , Yale

Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Florida International University

Sarah Gates, Northwestern University

Leslie Gay, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

David Geary, Wake Forest University

Molly Gebrian, University of Arizona

Robin Gebrian, West Hartford CT

Hilary Geddes, Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumna

William van Geest, University of Michigan

Ian Gerg, Southeastern Oklahoma State University

Sarah Gerk, Binghamton University

Emily Gertsch , University of Georgia

Elaine Fitz Gibbon, Harvard University

Jeffrey L. Gillespie , Butler University

Mylene Gioffredo, Universite de Metz

Irene Girton, Occidental College

Jon-Tomas Godin, Brandon University

Keir GoGwilt, UC San Diego

Daniel Goldberg, University of Connecticut

Halina Goldberg, Indiana University, Bloomington

Rachel May Golden, University of Tennessee

K. E. Goldschmitt, Wellesley College

Grace Gollmar, University of Texas at Austin

Stephen Gomez-Peck, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Juan Gonzalez, Alumni

Sumanth Gopinath, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Stephen Gosden, University of North Florida

Gillian L. Gower, University of Denver/University of Edinburgh

Naomi Graber, University of Georgia

Thomas Gracy, Boston University

Benjamin Graf, University of North Texas

Aaron Grant, Missouri Western State University

Roger Mathew Grant, Wesleyan University

Julianne Grasso, University of Texas at Austin

Ashley A. Greathouse , PhD Candidate, University of Cincinnati

Andrew Green, University of Glasgow

Laura Gayle Green, Florida State University

Hannah Greene, Yale College (alum)

Stefan Greenfield-Casas, Northwestern University

phillip greenlief, oakland, ca

Jess Griggs, Austin, TX

Michelle L Grosser, University of Toronto

Bree Kathleen Guerra, University of Texas at Austin

Jeannie Ma. Guerrero, Rochester, NY

Massimo Guida, Toronto

Massimiliano Guido, Pavia University, Italy

Stephanie Gunst, independent scholar, Charlottesville, VA

Toni Haastrup, UK

Sara Haefeli, Ithaca College, Editor of the Journal of Music History Pedagogy

Zaki Hagins, Conservatorium Maastricht

Lauren Halsey, University of Washington

Elizabeth Hambleton, UCSB

Chelsey hamm, Christopher Newport University

Scott Hanenberg, Virginia Tech

Mena Mark Hanna, Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin

Marc Hannaford, University of Michigan

Calder Hannan, Columbia University

Kristi Hardman, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Matthew Harikian, University of Minnesota

J. Tanner Harrod, Graduate Student, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lauren Hartburg, Florida State University

Dr. Daniel Hartley, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance

Robert Hasegawa, McGill University

Amy Hatch, University of North Texas/University of Texas at Arlington

Stan Hawkins, University of Oslo and University of Agder, Norway

Midavi Hayden, Independent Artist-Scholar; Cincinnati, OH

Martin Hebel, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Garrett Hecker, Santa Fe College (Gainesville, FL)

Nicola Leonard Hein, Columbia University New York

Haley Heinricks, Harvard University

David Heinsen, University of Texas at Austin

Bill Heinze, University of Minnesota

Salvador Hernandez, University of North Texas

Matthias Heyman, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Laura Hibbard, University of Connecticut

Andrew Hicks, Cornell University

Orit Hilewicz, Eastman School of Music

Ann Hiloski-Fowler , West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Ellie M. Hisama, Columbia University

Jocelyn Ho, UCLA

Hubert Ho, Northeastern University

Trevor Hofelich, Florida State University

John Hollenbeck, Schulich School of Music, McGill University

Kevin Holm-Hudson, University of Kentucky

Julian Bennett Holmes, Manhattan School of Music; Columbia University

Heather Holmquest, Nazareth College

Knut Holtstraeter, University of Freiburg, Germany

Tanya Honerman, University of Kansas

Erika Supria Honisch, Stony Brook University

Jason Hooper, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Fred Hosken, Northwestern University

Rachel Hottle, McGill University

Blake Howe, Louisiana State University

Alison Howell, Rutgers University

Madeleine Howey, Indiana University

Amanda Hsieh, University of Toronto

Charles Hsueh, Stony Brook University

Daniel Huang, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Stephen S. Hudson, University of Richmond

Bryn Hughes, The University of Lethbridge

Tim Hughes, The London College of Music

James Humberstone, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney

Eric Hung, Music of Asian America Research Center

Kyle Hutchinson,

Liam Hynes-Tawa, Yale University

Brendan Ige, Eastern Michigan University

Sarah Iker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mark Inchoco, University of California, Riverside

Tom Ingram, Winnipeg, MB

Lauren Irschick, Eastman School of Music

Thomas Irvine, University of Southampton

Eric Isaacson, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Velia Ivanova, Columbia University

Roman Ivanovitch, Indiana University

Jennifer Iverson, University of Chicago

Joseph R Jakubowski , Harvard University

Joseph Jakubowski, Harvard University

Donald James, Boston College

Mark Janello, Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University

Freya Jarman, University of Liverpool, UK

Jason Jedlicka, Cleveland Institute of Music

J. Daniel Jenkins, University of South Carolina

Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Emily John, Special Music School, NYC, Queens College - CUNY

James A. John, Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College-CUNY

Tom Johnson, contingent faculty

Lindsay Johnson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Erin Johnson-Williams, Durham University

Blair Johnston, Indiana University

Erin Johnston, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Evan Jones, Florida State University

Alexandrea Jonker, McGill University

Tamyka Jordon, Louisiana State University

Patricia Julien, University of Vermont

Sylvia Kahan, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, CUNY

Elyse Kahler, University of Texas at Arlington

Noah Kahrs, Eastman School of Music

Peter Kaminsky, University of Connecticut - Storrs

Seth Keele, University of North Texas

Robert T. Kelley, Lander University

Laura L. Kelly, University of Texas at San Antonio

Matthew Kennedy, University of South Florida

Colin Kennedy, Washington, DC

Emily Kenyon, South Country Central School District

Marissa Kerbel, University of Cincinnati

Linda Kernohan, The Ohio State University, Otterbein University

Daniel Ketter, Daniel Ketter

Dr. Ildar D. Khannanov, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University

Wes Khurana, University of Toronto

Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, Indiana University

Marina Kifferstein, CUNY Graduate Center

Catrina Kim, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Jesse Kinne, Louisiana Tech University

Jesse Kiser, University at Buffalo

Michael L. Klein, Temple University

Joshua Klopfenstein , University of Chicago

Edward Klorman, McGill University

Andrew J Kluth, Case Western Reserve University

Corissa Knecht, University of Arizona

Douglas Knehans, College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, OH

Andrew Knight-Hill, University of Greenwich, UK

Kristina Knowles, Arizona State University

Melinda Knowling, Univeristy of North Texas

Jon Kochavi, Swarthmore College

Emily Koh, University of Georgia

Tatiana Koike, Yale University

Adam J. Kolek, Rowan University

Robert Komaniecki, University of Iowa

Kevin Korsyn, University of Michigan

Ryan Kosseff-Jones, Geneva, NY

Stephen M. Kovaciny, Madison, WI

Sarah Koval, Harvard University

Mariusz Kozak, Columbia University

Reiner Krämer, University of Northern Colorado

Joseph Kraus, Florida State University

Hanisha Kulothparan, Michigan State University

Jonathan Kulp , University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Anita Kumar, Georgia State University

Jaclyn Noel Kurtz, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Darren A. LaCour, Lindenwood University

Eric Lai, Baylor University

Hei-Yeung John Lai, University of British Columbia

steven laitz, the Juilliard School

Nathan Lam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

George Tsz-Kwan Lam, Hong Kong Baptist University

Wing Lau, University of Arkansas

Heather Laurel, Independent Scholar (Mannes/CUNY Alum)

Justin Lavacek, University of North Texas

Megan Lavengood, George Mason University

TJ Laws-Nicola , University of Kansas

Kara Yoo Leaman, Oberlin College & Conservatory

Gavin Lee, Soochow University

Dickie Lee, University of Georgia

Christina Lee, Mannes College - The New School, The Juilliard School, CUNY Graduate Center

Frank Lehman, Tufts University

Marc LeMay, Georgia State University

Jordan Lenchitz , Florida State University

Chris Lennard, The University of Texas at Austin

Rebecca Lentjes, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Kendra Preston Leonard, Silent Film Sound and Music Archive

Stephen Lett, University of Saskatchewan

Anne Levitsky, Dixie State University

Tamara Levitz, UCLA

Benjamin R. Levy, University of California, Santa Barbara

Michael Lewanski, Depaul University, School of Music

Edwin Li, Harvard University

Pengcheng Li, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Siv B. Lie, University of Maryland

Stephen F. Lilly, Minneapolis, MN

Stephanie Lind, Queen's University (Canada)

Sarah Allison Lindmark, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Peng Liu, University of Texas at Austin

Kerrith Livengood, University of Illinois

Zachary Lloyd, Florida State University

Judy Lochhead, Stony Brook University

Charity Lofthouse, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY

Paul Lombardi, University of South Dakota

Megan Long, Oberlin College

James A. Long, Oakland University

Rebecca J. Long, University of Louisville

Gerardo (Gerry) Lopez, Michigan State University

Eduardo López-Dabdoub, Florida State University

Ralph Lorenz, Syracuse University

Sarah Louden, New York University Steinhardt

Gabriel Lubell, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Ann E Lucas, Associate Professor of Music, Boston College

Olivia R. Lucas, Louisiana State University

Nicholas Luciano, Greensboro, NC

Rachel Lumsden, Florida State University

Justin Lundberg, Chicago

Siriana Lundgren, Harvard University

Vivian Luong, University of Saskatchewan

Matthew Lyons, University of Texas at Austin

Megan Lyons, University of Connecticut

Yiqing Ma, University of Michigan

James MacKay, Loyola University New Orleans

Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, RILM, Brook Center, CUNY Graduate Center

Julian Maddox, Cleveland Institute of Music

Alejandro L. Madrid, Cornell University

Andrus Madsen, Newton Baroque

Erin K. Maher, Delaware Valley University

Su Yin Mak, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Victoria Malawey, Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)

Anabel Maler, University of Iowa

Noriko Manabe, Temple University

Kate Mancey, Harvard University

Rachel Mann, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Dr. Nicole Marchesseau, McMaster University

Elizabeth Margulis, Princeton University

Sarah Marlowe, Eastman School of Music

Jennifer Martin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Caitlin Martinkus, Virginia Tech

David Marvel, University of Oklahoma

William Marvin, Eastman School of Music

Elizabeth Marvin, Eastman School of Music

Will Mason, Wheaton College

Steven D. Mathews, University of Cincinnati

T.J. Mattson, University of North Texas

Fred Everett Maus, Department of Music, University of Virginia

Paula Maust, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Panayotis Mavromatis, New York University

Horace Maxile, Baylor University

Braden Maxwell, Eastman School of Music

Susan McClary, Case Western Reserve University

Ryan McClelland, University of Toronto

Michael McClimon, Philadelphia, PA

Sarah McConnell , University of Alaska Fairbanks

Patrick McCreless, Yale University

Stephen McFall, Indiana University

Cana F. McGhee, Harvard University

Claire McGinn, University of York

Eric McKee, Penn State University

Tim McKinney, Baylor University

Elizabeth McLain, Virginia Tech

Myles McLean, University of North Texas

Ken McLeod, University of Toronto

Andrew Mead, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University

Andrew Mead, Indiana University

Elizabeth Medina-Gray, Ithaca College

Sarah Mendes, University of Texas at Austin

Sadie Menicanin, University of Toronto

Lila Meretzky, Yale University

Kathryn Renae Metcalf, Japan

Mark Micchelli, University of Pittsburgh

Garrett Michaelsen, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Jason Louis Mile, London, ON

Emily Milius, University of Oregon

Natalie Miller, Princeton University

McKensie Miller, Chapman University

Brian A. Miller, Yale University

Connor Milstead, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Helen Julia Minors, Kingston University, London

Nathaniel Mitchell, Princeton University

Toru Momii, Columbia University

Peter Mondelli, University of North Texas

Dayna Mondelli, Independent Proofreader and Copyeditor

Eugene Montague, George Washington University

Luiz Felipe Stellfeld Monteiro, Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná (EMBAP), Curitiba, Brazil

Steven Moon, University of Pittsburgh

Steven Vande Moortele, University of Toronto

Rebecca Moranis, University of Toronto

Kacie Morgan, UCLA

Alexander Morgan, New York

Landon Morrison, Harvard University

Brian Moseley, SUNY Buffalo

Imani Danielle Mosley, University of Florida

Tahirih Motazedian, Vassar College

Andre Mount, Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam

Reinaldo Moya , Augsburg University, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dorian Mueller, University of Michigan

Stephen Muir, University of Leeds, UK

Scott Murphy, University of Kansas

Alana Murphy, CUNY Graduate Center/ RILM

Barbara Murphy, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Nancy Murphy, University of Houston

Estelle Murphy, Maynooth University, Ireland

Derek J. Myler, Eastman School of Music

Robert Nance, University of North Texas

Jessica Narum, Baldwin Wallace University

Meghan Naxer, Oregon State University

Jocelyn Neal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Severine Neff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Emeritus

Dr. Lisa Neher, Portland, OR

Christoph Neidhöfer, McGill University

Trevor R. Nelson, Eastman School of Music--University of Rochester

Anna Rose Nelson, University of Michigan

Joshua Neumann , University of Florida

Bryce Newcomer, Xavier University

Neil Newton, Los Angeles, CA

Patrick Nickleson, Queen's University

Demi Nicks, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Maggie Nicks, Florida State University

Jack Haig Nighan, Indiana University

Drew Nobile, University of Oregon

Michael Norris, Victoria University of Wellington

Felipe Ledesma Núñez, Harvard University

Shaugn O'Donnell, The City College, CUNY

William O'Hara, Gettysburg College

Russell O'Rourke, Columbia University

Jennifer Oates, Queens College, CUNY

Chelsea Oden, University of Oregon

Judith Ofcarcik, Fort Hays State University

Mitch Ohriner, University of Denver

Hideaki Onishi, Singapore

Dani Van Oort, University of North Texas

Michael Oravitz, University of Northern Colorado

Jeremy Orosz, University of Memphis

David Orvek, Indiana University

Mariam Osman, Indiana University

Anna-Elena Pääkkölä, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Kirsten Paige, Stanford University

Cora S. Palfy, Elon University

James Palmer, Vancouver, Canada

Jinny Park, Indiana University

Hyeonjin Park, UCLA

Joon Park, University of Arkansas

Sarah Parkin, London, UK

Laurel Parsons, University of Alberta

Daniel Partridge, Portland State University

Morgan Patrick, Northwestern University

Andrew Pau, Oberlin College & Conservatory

William Pearson, DePauw University

Robert D. Pearson, Emory University

Jacy Pedersen, University of Cincinnati

Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, University of Ottawa

Crystal Peebles, Ithaca College

Nathan Pell, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Rich Pellegrin, University of Florida

Anna C. Peloso, Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music

Naomi Perley, RILM

Jeffrey Perry, Louisiana State University

Lukas Perry, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

Becky Perry, Lawrence University

V Spike Peterson, University of Arizona

Marie-Ève Piché, McGill University

Marcelle Pierson, University of Pittsburgh

Miriam Piilonen, Northwestern University

John R. Pippen, Colorado State University

Chad Polk, Cleveland Institute of Music

Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, University of Oxford

Mariana Poole, Elon University

Ève Poudrier, University of British Columbia

Andrew S. Powell, Independent Scholar (University of Kansas alum)

Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey, Independent scholar, Akron, OH

Roxane Prevost, University of Ottawa

Simon Prosser, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University

Joel Puckett, Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University

Katherine Pukinskis, Amherst College

Michael Puri, University of Virginia

Ian Quinn, Yale University

Steven Rahn, University of Texas at Austin

Shanika Ranasinghe, Royal Holloway, University of London

Richard Randall, Carnegie Mellon University

Jacob Reed, University of Chicago

S. Alexander Reed, Associate Professor, Ithaca College

John S. Reef, Nazareth College

Sam Reenan, Eastman School of Music

Alan Reese, Cleveland Institute of Music

Alex Rehding, Harvard University

Samuel Reich, Denison University/University of Cincinnati

Molly Reid, Appalachian State University

Connor Reinman, Indiana University

Christopher Reynolds, UC Davis

Anne-Marie Reynolds, Juilliard School

Adam Ricci, UNC Greensboro

Mark Richardson, East Carolina University

Melanie Richter-Montpetit, University of Sussex

Deborah Rifkin, Ithaca College

Steven Rings, University of Chicago

Marianna Ritchey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Blake Ritchie, Rutgers University

S R I Rizvi, Sahibganj College, Sahibganj, Jharkhand, India

Malia Jade Roberson, California State University, Channel Islands

Brian Robison, Northeastern University

Theresa Rochowski , University of West Georgia

Joti Rockwell, Pomona College

Stephen Rodgers, University of Oregon

Lynne Rogers, Mannes School of Music at The New School

Jillian C. Rogers, Indiana University

Allyson Rogers, McGill University

J. Griffith Rollefson, University College Cork

Ashley Rolon-Marlowe, Hunter College, CUNY

Jena Root, Youngstown State University (Ohio)

Adam Rosado, Iona College

Rachel Rosenman, Harvard University

Joshua Rosner, McGill University

Martin Ross, Western University

Jade Roth, McGill University

Paul N Roth, University of San Diego California

Katrina Roush, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Charles Roush, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Toby W. Rush, University of Dayton

Declan Ryan, DePaul University School of Music

Eron F. S. , Eastman School of Music

Siavash Sabetrohani, University of Chicago

Siavash Sabetrohani , University of Chicago

Alex Sallade, The Ohio State University

Keith Salley, Shenandoah University

Mark Sallmen, University of Toronto

Cristina Saltos , University of Texas at Austin

Frank Samarotto , Indiana University Bloomington

Lanier Sammons, California State University, Monterey Bay

Alexander Sanchez-Behar, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska, University of Chicago

Felicia Sandler, New England Conservatory

Giorgio Sanguinetti, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

Matthew Leslie Santana, UC San Diego

Matthew C. Saunders, Lakeland Community College (Kirtland, Ohio)

Isaac Schankler, Cal Poly Pomona

Andrew Schartmann, New England Conservatory

James Schippers, Michigan State University

Alexandria Schneider, University of Kansas

Katherine Schofield, King's College London

Peter Schubert, McGill University

Matthew D. M. Schullman, University of Oklahoma (Norman)

Scott Schumann, Central Michigan University

Emily Schwitzgebel, Northwestern University

Travis Scott, Xavier University of Louisiana

Jo Collinson Scott, Reader in Music, University of the West of Scotland

Derek B. Scott, University of Leeds, UK

Tyler M. Secor, University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music

Chris Segall, University of Cincinnati

Kate Sekula, University of Science and Arts of Education

Ian Sewell, Columbia University

Douglas Shadle, Vanderbilt University

Kayla Shaeffer, Florida State University

Jennifer Shafer, University of Delaware

Daniel Shanahan, The Ohio State University

August A. Sheehy, Stony Brook University

Jack Sheinbaum, University of Denver

Braxton D. Shelley, Harvard University

Joel T. Shelton, Elon University

Lauren Shepherd, Columbia University

Christopher Sherwood-Gabrielson, University of Michigan

Julissa Shinsky, University of Texas at Austin

Rachel Short, Shenandoah Conservatory

Tessa Shune , Chapman University

Abigail D. Shupe, Colorado State University

Max Silva, University of Chicago

Rebecca Simpson-Litke, University of Manitoba

Peter Sloan, UC San Diego

Jeremy W. Smith, University of Louisville

Stephen Decatur Smith, Stony Brook University

Kelli Smith-Biwer, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Sean R. Smither, The Juilliard School

Peter Smucker, Stetson University

Jennifer Snodgrass, Appalachian State University

Alexandra Sobrino, Miami, Florida

Danielle Sofer, LGBTQ+ Music Study Group

Emma Soldaat, University of Toronto

Jason Solomon, Agnes Scott College

Jessica Sommer, Ball State University

Jonathan De Souza, University of Western Ontario

Stephen Spencer, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Mark Spicer, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Scott Spiegelberg, DePauw University

Martha Sprigge, University of California, Santa Barbara

Ron Squibbs, University of Connecticut

Alexander Stalarow, San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Jonathan Arthur Stallings, University of California San Diego

Justin Stanley, University of Oregon

Deborah Stein, New England Conservatory of Music

Anna Stephan-Robinson, West Liberty University

Jonathan Sterne, McGill University

Daniel Stevens, University of Delaware

Bryan Stevens, University of North Texas

Joseph Stiefel, Indiana University

Philip Stoecker, Hofstra University

Nicholas Stoia, Duke University

Jordan Carmalt Stokes, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Chris Stover, University of Oslo

Eva-Maria van Straaten, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany

Jeremy Strachan, Queen's University

Joseph Straus, CUNY Graduate Center

Ofir Stroh, Blair School of Music

Cara Stroud, Michigan State University

Greg Stuart, University of South Carolina

Jacob David Sudol, Florida International University

Rina Sugawara, University of Chicago

James Sullivan, Michigan State University

Peter M. Susser, Columbia University

Kaitlyn Swaim, University of North Texas

Kevin Swinden, Wilfrid Laurier University

Kelly Symons, Ottawa

Victor Szabo, Hampden-Sydney College

Kristin Taavola, University of Denver

Lina Sofia Tabak, CUNY Graduate Center

Carlos Pérez Tabares, University of Michigan

Ivan Tan, Brown University

Daphne Tan, University of Toronto

Nicholas Ivan Tapia, St. Mary’s University (Music Education)

Jeremy Tatar, McGill University

Benjamin Tausig, SUNY Stony Brook

Ryan Taycher, Roosevelt University

Timothy D. Taylor, UCLA

Charles Taylor, University of New Orleans

Blake Taylor, University of Connecticut

Emma Taylor, The Hartt School at the University of Hartford

Samuel Teeple, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Wilfrido Terrazas, University of California, San Diego

Loretta Terrigno, The Juilliard School

Bryan Terry, McGill University

Florian Thalmann, Kyoto University

Robert Gross, Board Certified Music Therapist, Denton, TX

Midge Thomas, Connecticut College

Sean Emmett Thompson, San Francisco State University

Alexis Millares Thomson, University of Toronto

Emmi Tinajero, University of North Texas

Spencer Topel, Brooklyn, New York

Peter van Tour, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo

Sylvie Tran, University of Michigan

Emily Lamb Truell, Indiana University

Caitlan Truelove, Graduate Student, University of Cincinnati

Dale Trumbore, Los Angeles, CA

Tobias Tschiedl, McGill University

Cynthia Johnston Turner, University of Georgia

Isabel Tweraser, Florida State University

Kristian Twombly, Chair, St Cloud State University

Dr. Finn Upham, McGill University, Schulich School of Music

Elizabeth Randell Upton , UCLA

Diane Urista, Cleveland Institute of Music

Stephanie Venturino, Eastman School of Music

Vivek Virani, University of North Texas

Samantha Waddell, Michigan State University

Ben Wadsworth, Kennesaw State University

Steve Waksman, Smith College

Daniel K.S. Walden, University of Oxford

Kristen Wallentinsen, Rutgers University

Zachary Wallmark, University of Oregon

Levi Walls, University of North Texas

Robert Walser, Case Western Reserve University

Jordan Walsh, University of Texas at Austin

Aleisha Ward, National Library of New Zealand

Evan Ware, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Lindsay Warrenburg, Boston, MA

Hannah Waterman, Stony Brook University

Laura Watson , Maynooth University, Ireland

Andrew H. Weaver, The Catholic University of America

Miriam Brack Webber, Bemidji State University

Katelin Webster, The Ohio State University

Joelle Welling, University of Calgary

Robert Wells, University of Mary Washington

Allison Wente, Elon University

Marianne Wheeldon, University of Texas at Austin

Andrew Malilay White, University of Chicago

Christopher White, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jason White, Wilfrid Laurier University

Juliet White-Smith, The Ohio State University

Ryan Whittington, Florida State University

Anya Wilkening, Columbia University

Ann Marie Willer, (formerly) University of North Texas

Matthew Williams, University at Buffalo

Dr. Natalie Williams, (formerly) North Park University

Justin Williams , University of Bristol (UK)

Jeff Williams, Harvard University

Ruthie Williamson, Indiana University Kelley School of Business

Julianna Willson, Eastman School of Music

Lauren Wilson, Eastman School of Music

Imogen Wilson, Columbia University

Christopher Witulski , Bowling Green State University

Elizabeth L. Wollman, Baruch College, CUNY

Kathryn Woodard, Philadelphia, PA

Chelsea N Wright, University of Oregon

Robert B. Wrigley, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Alice Xue, CUNY

Jessica Findley Yang, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Rachel Yoder, DigiPen Institute of Technology

Michelle Yom, CUNY Graduate Center

Anna Yu Wang, Harvard University

Jeff Yunek, Kennesaw State University

Jason Yust, Boston University

Anna Zayaruznaya, Yale University

Emily Zazulia, University of California, Berkeley

Lawrence Zbikowski, University of Chicago Department of Music

Kamil zeglen, Chapman university

Spencer Zembrodt, Florence, KY (SUNY Fredonia, 2018)

Xieyi (Abby) Zhang, Georgia State University

Rosalind Zhang, Toronto

Shelley Zhang , University of Pennsylvania

Zhuo Zhao, Rutgers University

Julie Zhu, Stanford University