Making a Home of The Society for Music Theory, Inc.

Abstract

Abstract This article studies the values animating the profession of music theory in the North American academy. Focusing on the creation and development of the field’s institutional home, the Society for Music Theory, Inc., I argue that professional music theory’s homemaking project was first built—and continues to operate—on exclusionary and assimilationist world-building practices. To conclude, I ask how we might pursue homemaking and world-building otherwise in coalition with contemporary abolitionist scholarship.

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