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

WE'RE SO BACK. Our fourth and final season begins October 15. Seeya then!soundexpertise.org

Philip Ewell has, in recent years, become the most controversial music scholar on the planet. After his incisive work on... more

Do we hear silence? John Cage certainly thought so, and so does Chaz Firestone, a scientist whose laboratory's recent study... more

In curating music and the performing arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Dwandalyn Reece... more

Mark Katz is John P. Barker Distinguished Professor of Music at UNC Chapel Hill; Alim Braxton is a rapper... more