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.

Black Music, in Theory, volume 1, issue 1, 2025

  1. Editors' Introduction
  2. Horace J. Maxile, Jr., "An Interlude, Before the Next Movement"
  3. Tammy L. Kernodle, "Walk Together Children, Don’t You Get Weary: Black Music Journals and the Legacy of Black Intellectual Activism"
  4. Fredara Mareva Hadley, "I’m Buildin’ Me a Home: Hearing Ritual and Performance at Historically Black Colleges and Universities"
  5. Philip Ewell, An Interview with Jewel Thompson
  6. Dwight Andrews, "Theorizing Theory, Theorizing Blackness"