{"title":"Podcasts, Partnerships, and Laboratories for American Music","authors":"Nathan Platte","doi":"10.5406/19452349.40.4.20","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"I might not have gotten involved with podcasts, were it not for two colleagues, an undergraduate student, and Dolly Parton. For the past two and a half years, I have studied, produced, and taught from podcasts. They have changed my relationship to American music and those who care for its many streams. In this essay, I will share some observations on how podcasts may help us reflect differently on the values that propel our work as scholars and teachers. In my case, a variety of circumstances led me to the format, which in turn facilitated forms of connection and collaboration that I had not originally envisioned. As a disclaimer and invitation, I do not offer these thoughts from a position of podcasterly prestige or authority. There are other music scholars whose work in this medium is more widely known and explicitly anchored to American music studies. But I share my account as a podcast dabbler in the hope that it may offer some reassurance: yes, you can do this too. Whether you are a podcast aficionado or simply hoping to explore alternative methods of research and teaching, the following may offer some encouragement. It helped that I have a friend who has a podcast. Trevor Harvey, my colleague at the University of Iowa, hosts Ethnomusicology Today, a podcast for the Society for Ethnomusicology in which he speaks with scholars","PeriodicalId":43462,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AMERICAN MUSIC","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5406/19452349.40.4.20","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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I might not have gotten involved with podcasts, were it not for two colleagues, an undergraduate student, and Dolly Parton. For the past two and a half years, I have studied, produced, and taught from podcasts. They have changed my relationship to American music and those who care for its many streams. In this essay, I will share some observations on how podcasts may help us reflect differently on the values that propel our work as scholars and teachers. In my case, a variety of circumstances led me to the format, which in turn facilitated forms of connection and collaboration that I had not originally envisioned. As a disclaimer and invitation, I do not offer these thoughts from a position of podcasterly prestige or authority. There are other music scholars whose work in this medium is more widely known and explicitly anchored to American music studies. But I share my account as a podcast dabbler in the hope that it may offer some reassurance: yes, you can do this too. Whether you are a podcast aficionado or simply hoping to explore alternative methods of research and teaching, the following may offer some encouragement. It helped that I have a friend who has a podcast. Trevor Harvey, my colleague at the University of Iowa, hosts Ethnomusicology Today, a podcast for the Society for Ethnomusicology in which he speaks with scholars
期刊介绍:
Now in its 28th year, American Music publishes articles on American composers, performers, publishers, institutions, events, and the music industry, as well as book and recording reviews, bibliographies, and discographies.