Abstract
This essay offers a sympathetic Marxist commentary on Stephen Lett's “Making a Home of The Society for Music Theory, Inc.” (2023). I explore questions of colonization and coloniality, which are viewed in literal, rather than metaphorical, terms; provide hypotheses about the political economy of contemporary US-American academic music theory, which seems to be inseparable from conflicts with composition; and meditate on theory's political futures in both practical and broader utopian-political ways.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 125-131 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Music Theory Spectrum |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2023 |
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Keywords
- Marxism
- colonialism
- composition
- music theory
- neoliberalism
- the academy
- unionization