About this Journal

Black Music, in Theory offers a space for thoughtful scholarship on Black music to incubate and flourish. Our goal is to publish topnotch pieces that treat Black music and musical genres with the dignity, humanity, and care that they deserve.

Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2025

Special Issue

Editors' Introduction

Philip Ewell

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An Interlude, Before the Next Movement

Horace J. Maxile Jr.

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Walk Together Children, Don’t You Get Weary: Black Music Journals and the Legacy of Black Intellectual Activism

Tammy L. Kernodle

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I’m Buildin’ Me a Home: Hearing Ritual and Performance at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Fredara Mareva Hadley

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Interview with Jewel Thompson

Philip Ewell

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Theorizing Theory, Theorizing Blackness

Dwight D. Andrews

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