PHIL EWELL in conversation with ELLEN BAKULINA and JOE STRAUS

The past is now under great scrutiny in music studies. How do we teach music to our students? How do we examine music in analysis, and how do we choose the music we consider worthy of attention? In this talk I consider our past so that we might chart a path for the future.

Only through an exhaustive study of the past can we truly understand why the academic study of music is what it is today: an exclusionist field of study centered around whiteness

and maleness. In coming to terms with our difficult past, we—white, black, and everyone in between—can create a new, rich, and inclusive academic study of music.