Last week, in the lead-up to the joint meeting of the American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory, and Society for Ethnomusicology, Professor August Sheehy (Critical Music Studies) organized a pre-conference at Loyola University (New Orleans) entitled “Identity in Music Theory and History. As the organizers put it, “Building on recent interrogations of the ways in which race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, dis/ability, and class have shaped disciplinary agendas; on histories that extend or decenter Europe and the global North; and on historicizations of music theory’s fundamental concepts, this conference will address the role(s) identity does, might, or ought to play in histories of music theory.” You can browse the program here, and view Professor Sheehy’s opening remarks at the following link: https://youtu.be/Lh1RAkuVDl4?t=930 . 