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