A century and three-quarters of a discipline taking shape, splintering, and re-arguing itself — with a deep dive on the 2019–2025 Schenker / Ewell affair.
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Deep Dive · 2019–2025
The Schenker / Ewell Affair
In November 2019, Philip Ewell delivered a plenary address that named music theory's reliance on Heinrich Schenker as one symptom of a "white racial frame." The fallout — a punitive symposium, lawsuits, settlements, and ongoing methodological reckoning — has reshaped the field.
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