Music

Where language meets music

A guitarist-turned-associate professor explores the intersection of disciplines in 'cognitive musicology'.


Carrie Golus

Landmark festival celebrates French composer

Music lovers to converge on campus to hear and discuss musical pioneer Olivier Messiaen.


Josh Schonwald

Music, Movies, and the Mind

University of Chicago PhD student David Bashwiner's mind-expanding score reaches the big screen.


Michelle Rapaport

Politics of the hip-hop generation

Bakari Kitwana, the 2007-2008 Artist-in-Residence in the University’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, discusses hip hop.


Josh Schonwald

Going viral with a new music search engine Songza

A website developed by University of Chicago alumnus Aza Raskin, AB’05, allows users to listen to music for free.


Valerie Vedral

New, interdisciplinary arts center aims to nurture creativity

The Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts is scheduled to open in 2011.


Martha Feldman

Title: Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities

Expertise: Music, Opera

Departmental website: https://music.uchicago.edu/page/martha-feldman