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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.

Vol. 1, No. 1 - Coming Soon!

Contents:

Editors' Introduction

Dwight Andrews, "Theorizing Theory, Theorizing Blackness"

Philip Ewell, An Interview with Jewel Thompson

Fredara Mareva Hadley, "I’m Buildin’ Me a Home: Hearing Ritual and Performance at Historically Black Colleges and Universities"

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

Horace J. Maxile, Jr., "An Interlude, Before the Next Movement"