Her Music Academia

Author: Lydia Bangura

What does it mean to be a music researcher? How does a musician use music as a medium to foster community? Featuring interviews with other musicians, scholars and artists, host Lydia Bangura seeks to ask interesting questions about music and execute important and relevant music research. Join Lydia as she reads, writes and chats her way through a music PhD program. Got questions or feedback? Interested in being a guest on the pod? Send inquiries to: hermusicacademia@gmail.com
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Feminist Music Theory in the Victorian Era (with Dr. Rachel Lumsden)
Monday, 25 March, 2024

In our last episode for Women's History Month, I chat with Dr. Rachel Lumsden (Florida State University) about her experiences as a flautist, her time in grad school at CUNY, and the music theory curriculum at FSU. We also discuss how she got into music theory and feminist studies, as well as her award winning MTO article "Music Theory for the 'Weaker Sex': Oliveria Prescott’s Columns for The Girl’s Own Paper." Thank you for tuning in this season! Stay tuned for the semester in review episode in May! Rachel's MTO article Rachel's chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory Robin James's "Why Is There No Music Analysis in Feminist Theory?" Denise Von Glahn's Circle of Winners Susanne Cusick's "Feminist Theory, Music Theory," and the Mind/Body Problem" Queering the Pitch Marc Hannaford's "Fugitive Music Theory and George Russell's Theory of Tonal Gravity" Stephen Lett's "Making a Home of The Society for Music Theory, Inc." Get in touch with me at: hermusicacademia@gmail.com