My article "Shaping the Past and Creating the Future: Music, Nationalism, and the Negotiation of Cultural Memory at Macedonia’s Celebration of Twenty Years of Independence" just came out in the journal Music & Politics. In the article I think through some of the ways that musicians strategically challenge and, to some extent, shape nationalist politics, ​even when those same musicians may seem to support the politically powerful. I give some background on Macedonian nationalism and politics for this particular case, but I argue that nationalisms anywhere are far from uniform and that the variety of nationalist ideologies in a given context are always negotiated in one way or another. Since Music & Politics is an online journal, videos of the performances from the 2011 celebration of Macedonian independence discussed in the article are embedded in the text. Here's one of them, "Makedonija": 

SLANT, my new album on tenor saxophone with pianist and new music specialist Richard Valitutto, is out now on pfMENTUM records. I love this project because it has given us the opportunity to engage with so many modes of improvisation, guided by concepts developed by some of our favorite composers and artists. Read the liner notes we wrote here. Listen here or here.

Earlier this year, Gateways to Understanding Music, the music appreciation textbook I co-authored with Timothy Rice, was published by Routledge. This week I had the pleasure of talking about the project at length on Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan at Radio New Zealand. Enjoy!
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I published an article called "Commoning in Sonic Ethnography (or, the Sound of Ethnography to Come)"  in the academic journal Commoning Ethnography, edited by a group of anthropologists. In it I write about making music together with people as a research methodology, and about what that has to do with ethnomusicology and putting knowledge and meaning into the world. The article ends with some comments on the CSPS Ensemble project and about what kinds of value these kinds of collaborative projects might have in different spheres. Click here to read.

or stream the whole album here:

In Passing is an oud and clarinet/bass clarinet duo project that explores the intersections of a number of jazz sensibilities and music cultures of the Middle East. It emerged from a dynamic year of collaborating with Gabe Lavin in 2015 and 2016, and we're so grateful that we had the opportunity to record the music that we spent so much time writing and performing together. We also had the honor of including incredible performances by Albert Agha on vocals and Pablo Infante-Amate on riqq. Here's a track from the album featuring Albert: 

and you can stream the whole album here: 

Here is a video of an interview we did with Dr. Newton and pianist Kiefer Shackelford for the local radio station, with my live English translation: