Program v1.4

This chapter discusses music theory’s neglect of EDM as it relates to the dominant methodologies of the field and Philip Ewell’s concept of the white racial frame, arguing that EDM is overlooked due to implicit biases against racial Otherness and against technological mediation, biases that runs deep enough in US culture to have impacted the tra…[Read more]

This chapter provides a detailed study of /r/musictheory, a large forum (“subreddit”) for music theory discussion hosted on the platform Reddit.com. Writing as two of the subreddit’s moderators, the authors outline the culture and structure of this public forum and examine the mixed realities of conducting music-theoretical discourse in such a spa…[Read more]