Photographer Glenn Rand’s (b. 1944, USA) Nevada 1979 features a passing car on Interstate 80, an industrial site, and the Humboldt River Valley in Eureka County. This place appears through laconic title to be at once particular to a settler nation, history, and poetic imagination, as
well as revelatory of no place at all. Rand’s random wes…[Read more]

In this essay, I grapple with the ethics and practices of working on Black composers as a White scholar, and consider how to try to create an anti-racist practice of music scholarship.