Dr. Andrew Chung published an article entitled, "“Songs of the New World and the Breath of the Planet at the Orbis Spike, 1610: Toward a Decolonial Musicology of the Anthropocene," in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 76/1.

Dr. Noriko Manabe (Associate Professor of Music Theory, Temple University) will present a paper entitled "Intertextuality in Protest Music: Types and Sociopolitical Determinants," on Wednesday, April 12, 4:00-5:00pm in MU-321.

Dr. Justin Lavacek was elected to a three-year term on the executive board of the Texas Society for Music Theory (TSMT).

Dr. Andrew Chung published a review-essay entitled “Music Theory Splintered Up, Not Broken Down: The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory,” in Music Theory Spectrum. This is the first review-essay that Music Theory Spectrum has published in ten years.

Dr. Benjamin Dobbs (PhD, music theory, 2015) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music at Furman University. His research interests center broadly on the development of musical style and musical thought during the Protestant Reformation in Middle and North Germany. He also studies the relationships among students’ beliefs about learning, learning behaviors, and learning outcomes in music theory classes, for which he collaborates with Shana Southard-Dobbs (PhD, experimental psychology, UNT, 2016), Associate Professor of Psychology at Lander University. Benjamin joined the faculty at Furman in 2017 as Lecturer in Music, and he has been Visiting Assistant Professor of Music since 2019. He is delighted to continue serving Furman’s students and the University community in this new role.

Dr. David Heetderks published his article, "Norms of Textual Scansion and Rhyme in Beatles AABA Forms," in Music Theory Spectrum.

Dr. Stephen Slottow's article, "François Couperin's La Flore (Fifth Ordre): Structure, Motivic Replication, and Analytic Methodology," was published in Res Musica 13 (2021).

Dr. Frank Heidlberger co-edited the two-volume Lexikon des Orchesters (Encylopedia of the Orchestra) published by Laaber-Verlag in November of 2021.

Chelsea Burns is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Texas at Austin, and affiliate faculty at the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies. She received her Ph.D. in the theory and history of music from the University of Chicago, and prior to arriving at the University of Texas, she was on faculty at the Eastman School of Music and Harvard University. Her research interests include Latin American modernist concert music as well as American popular musics, with a focus on bluegrass and country. She is especially interested in the ways that contexts—economic, political, material—affect analytical interpretation. Her research suggests that such contextual understanding shapes analysis in critical ways, at times undermining or reversing prevailing musical interpretations. Her work touches on issues of race, postcoloniality, instrumental technologies, and expressions of privilege and class, among others. Professor Burns has presented papers at national conferences of the Society for Music Theory, American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, Society for Ethnomusicology, US chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and Latin American Studies Association. Recent and forthcoming publications address issues of exoticism and modernism in relation to Brazilian indigeneity, the pedal steel guitar in 1960s country music, genre and race in 1970s country music, pedagogical considerations for the undergraduate music- theory core curriculum, and the sound and shaping pressures of current bluegrass music. She is also an avid bluegrass player, and enjoys being part of the Austin bluegrass scene.