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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让音乐理论协会成为家

本文研究了激励北美学院音乐理论专业的价值观。专注于该领域的机构之家——音乐理论协会 (Society for Music Theory, Inc.) 的创建和发展，我认为专业音乐理论的家庭建设项目最初是建立在排他性和同化主义世界建设实践之上的，并将继续运作。最后，我想问我们如何与当代废奴主义学术联合起来追求家庭建设和世界建设。