"I am a Black, first-generation, Caribbean American woman from Brooklyn, New York. Below are candid thoughts on the state of music studies in the United States, addressing primarily issues in ethnomusicology and music education. These thoughts are my own, and are not meant to represent those of any other person, though I am sure many will be able to identify with my story."

Gaelynn Lea, violinist and songwriter from Minnesota and winner of NPR Music’s 2016 Tiny Desk Contest, explores barriers to entry in the music business for disabled musicians and introduces practical steps to make inclusion and access a reality.

"I wrote the following six blog posts after my plenary talk, “Music Theory’s White Racial Frame,” at the Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting in November 2019... It is my hope that they can instigate constructive dialog so that we can begin to make real antiracist/antisexist change in music theory."

"This article interrogates how the word decolonization has been used by ethnomusicologists in previous publications and argues that a discourse of decolonizing music studies and ethnomusicology should not propagate the term as a descriptive signifier while overlooking the issues mentioned above. We conclude by suggesting ten practical approaches and projects that begin to address what decolonization involves and how it can be done."

"Although musicological scholarship has expanded in recent decades to include critical theories and diverse repertoire, post-secondary music history curricula largely continue to disseminate a Eurocentric canon of composers and works presented within an evolutionary historical narrative. This article places questions of curricular revision in the current context of calls for educational reform through decolonization initiatives."