William Cheng
A new series from University of Michigan Press, Music and Social Justice is actively seeking projects engaging with the dynamic roles of music, sound, artists, and activists within and across agendas of social justice, past and present. We are interested in how music and musicians make and unmake worlds, nations, communities, and bodies. We welcome monographs, edited volumes, graphic novels, multimedia formats, and alternative modes of scholarly-creative endeavors. And we are open to prospective authors who
William Cheng ( @willxcheng ) is Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College. He is author of Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good , Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination , and Loving Music Till It Hurts . His writings have appeared in Current Musicology , Critical Inquiry , Cambridge Opera Journal , Ethnomusicology , 19th-Century Music , Journal of the American Musicological Society , Washington Post , Slate , TIME , Huffington Post , and The Chronicle of Higher Education . He
Andrew Dell’Antonio ( @dellantonio ) is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Musicology-Ethnomusicology Division of the Butler School of Music and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is a former Mellon Fellow at the Harvard- Villa I Tatti Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. His research explores how different modes of listening—from 1500s to present—influence music's social uses and cultural meanings. His publica
William Cheng