Conversations with scholars about music, hosted by musicologist Will Robin and produced by D. Edward Davis
Well, it's our final episode, and we have the exact right guest to help say goodbye to a podcast that... more
Well, we're almost done: this is the penultimate episode of our fourth and final season. In our final weeks, host... more
Musicology today could not exist without feminist musicology, and feminist musicology could not exist without Suzanne Cusick. Dr. Cusick's revolutionary... more
From its beginnings, the eugenics movement has looked to music: for foundational figures like Francis Galton and contemporaries like Charles... more
We did it! Sound Expertise recorded its first-ever live episode at the American Musicological Society conference in Chicago. It was... more
Naomi André is one of the most important scholars of opera today, best known for her landmark 2018 book Black... more
Everybody's studying Taylor Swift these days, from Swifties decoding her vault to YouTubers decoding her harmonies to right-wing conspiracists decoding... more
Election Day is approaching, and both presidential candidates have been foregrounding music, from Kamala Harris walking out Beyoncé's "Freedom" to... more
Florence Price was exceptional, but she was not singular. In the fascinating new book "South Side Impresarios," musicologist Samantha Ege... more
Welcome to Season 4 of Sound Expertise! Opera is a four-hundred-year-old genre, and it often looks and sounds that way:... more