Season 4, Episode 8

Musicology today could not exist without feminist musicology, and feminist musicology could not exist without Suzanne Cusick. Dr. Cusick’s revolutionary work has scrutinized gender and sexuality in musical life for decades, and is foundational to musicology as we know it today. In this profound conversation, she reflects on her arc through the field, and what still needs to change.

Suzanne Cusick is Professor Emerita at New York University.

If you’re interested in learning more about Dr. Cusick’s work, check out:

• The book Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court
• The article “‘Thinking from Women’s Lives’: Francesca Caccini after 1627” in Musical Quarterly
• The essay “On a Lesbian Relationship with Music”
• The article “You are in a place that is out of the world. . .”: Music in the Detention Camps of the “Global War on Terror” in the Journal of the Society for American Music
• This post on Spotify and DNA in Sounding Out!
• This post on music and ethics on the Sonic Circulations site

Sound Expertise is hosted by Will Robin (@seatedovation), and produced by D. Edward Davis (@warmsilence). Please subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and/or Spotify. Questions or comments? Email soundexpertise00 @ gmail

A written transcript of this episode is available here; thanks to Andrew Dell’Antonio for volunteering to prepare transcripts for the show!