This conference explores the myriad of ways people from across the world and throughout history have thought about music and have used such thinking to make sense of their worlds. What insights emerge, we ask, when music theory is no longer treated as an insular and elite discipline of scholarship, but as culturally embedded ways of knowing, feeling, and world-making in both discursive and embodied forms? What methodological challenges must we confront in order to reconceptualize abstract notions of “music” and “ theory” in an expanded epistemic as well as cultural landscape

Organized by the Thinking Music research project at the Neubauer Collegium in partnership with the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany.

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SPEAKERS

Kwasi Ampene, Tufts University
Donna Buchanan, University of Illinois
Thomas Christensen, University of Chicago
David Cohen, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt, Germany)
Gabriela Currie, University of Minnesota
Chi Feng, Indiana University, Bloomington
Roger Grant, Wesleyan University
Andrew Hicks, Cornell University
Lester Hu, University of California, Berkeley
Liam Hynes-Tawa, Harvard University
David Irving, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)
Nathan Martin, University of Michigan
Caleb Mutch, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt, Germany)
Jacob Olley, Cambridge University
Carmel Raz, Cornell University
Alex Rehding, Harvard University
Martin Scherzinger, New York University
Henry Stobart, Royal Holloway University of London
Danny Walden, Yale University
Richard Widdess, SOAS

This in-person event is free and open to the public. A livestream will be available via Zoom.

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