Essays About whiteness

Can We Sound Good? (Or, What is Musicology’s Purpose while Teaching under Trump?)

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By Kelly Hiser University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students face police while protesting a Donald Trump campaign rally. Photo credit: Joe Brusky As I read the contributions to Musicology Now’s “Teaching Under Trump” I kept coming back to a story… Read More

Donald Trump, Jackie Evancho, and the Performance of Embattled Whiteness

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[Ed. Note: This essay is the fourth in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2017.  Each author of these essays will participate in a “live-blog” event during the course of inauguration day itself here on Musicology Now. Read More