I’m pleased to announce "Black Music, in Theory," an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of UM journals. We encourage all interested parties to submit work to our journal, and we hope you enjoy this inaugural issue. Welcome to "Black Music, in Theory"!

journals.publishing.umich.edu/bmit/

For those French speakers out there, here’s a recent interview I did published in France.

chmg.fr/2025/09/09/m...

Check out this new pod: Note Doctors: The Music Theory and Pedagogy Podcast, “A Conversation with Philip Ewell,” October 21, 2025: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Here are the first 3 titles in OUP’s Theorizing African American Music:
A.D. Carson, Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory through Mixtape Memoir; K. Coleman, Change: The New Thing and Modern Jazz; H. Lewis, Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap “Crisis."
global.oup.com/academic/con...

Happy Norwegian Constitution Day! Gratulerer med dagen!

Here's a new pod, with Simeon Morrow and Julio Mendívil: open.spotify.com/show/7w5bY1V...

If interested, see me on Vienna Live, from Austria (in English...I hope), April 23, 1pm New York time. Deets here: simeonmorrow.com/vienna-live/...

Registration for Theorizing African American Music, Emory Univ, June 5–7, is now open. Visit the TAAM website for more info. Registration includes opening reception and concert, 42 papers, two panels, and Horace Maxile keynote. See www.theorizingaamusic.com

Thanks to David Lescalleet for this great conversation on his pod, Artisan Parlor. I especially liked the opportunity to talk about my time in Russia in the 1990s, which I'm not often asked about. Cheers David...
youtu.be/3W1YhxGzfpE?...