by Professor Mark Katz MAILED FROM CENTRAL PRISON was printed in large capital letters across the top of the envelope. That was the first thing I noticed when I pulled the letter out of my faculty mailbox. I read it … Continued

Andrea Bohlman is an associate professor in the Department of Music within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences and a recipient of the 2020 Hettleman Award for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. She explores the diverse music that permeates past … Continued

by Audrey Ladele The UNC Department of Music is very excited to announce that for the first time this semester, we will be having a live concert, the Jazz Faculty Concert, made possible by the new low-latency technology that was … Continued

by Lecturer Robert Buxton The world is changing dramatically from the COVID-19 pandemic, and many old ways of thinking are being challenged. The flawed system of meritocracy, at the heart of US culture, must be reconsidered. In this system, the … Continued

by Associate Professor Nicholas DiEugenio The Sphinx Organization, founded in 1997 by Aaron Dworkin, is a social justice organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Violinists Elena Urioste and Melissa White, both first-place laureates … Continued

This year the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass festival has gone virtual! And the IBMA Foundation is making two of the festival events free and open to the public, “Go to Bluegrass U” and “New Research in Bluegrass.” … Continued

by Catherine Zachary, B.Mus. ’10 On our Anti-Racism Music Resources page, ‘Music Catalogs’ is featured as one of the six categories of resources and it is this week’s DWW feature. This list is by no means exhaustive. We hope that … Continued

by Associate Professor Clara Yang Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins was a virtuosic pianist, gifted composer, and one of the most in-demand musicians of his time in America in the late 19th century. Born in 1849 into slavery in Columbus, Georgia, … Continued

by Madeline Pace for The Well, Friday, August 28th, 2020 All the world’s a stage, but what happens when the world is in lockdown? A masked statue of Caesar from PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of “Julius Caesar” sits outside the … Continued

This week’s installment centers on Loren Kajikawa’s book chapter “The Possessive Investment in Classical Music: Confronting Legacies of White Supremacy in U.S. Schools and Departments of Music” from the volume Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines, edited by … Continued