Philip Ewell

Phillip Adrian Ewell was born on February 16, 1966,"Philip A. Ewell" in U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2 available on Ancestry.com. and grew up in DeKalb, Illinois.{{cite web|url=https://niuarts.com/2021/02/dr-philip-ewell-to-discuss-music-theorys-white-racial-frame-at-school-of-music-convocation/|title=Dr. Philip Ewell to discuss 'Music Theory's White Racial Frame' at School of Music Convocation|date=February 16, 2021|website=NIU College of Visual and Performing Arts|access-date=June 3, 2021|archive-date=February 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217063403/https://niuarts.com/2021/02/dr-philip-ewell-to-discuss-music-theorys-white-racial-frame-at-school-of-music-convocation/|url-status=live}} His father was an African American intellectual who had attended Morehouse College with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1948.{{cite web | url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/11/11/profile-philip-ewell-01-the-cellist-shaping-music-theorys-racial-reckoning/ | title=PROFILE: Philip Ewell '01, the cellist shaping music theory's racial reckoning | date=November 11, 2022 }} Ewell received a BA in music from Stanford University, an MA in cello performance from Queens College (City University of New York), and a PhD in music theory from Yale University. His dissertation, Analytical Approaches to Large-Scale Structure in the Music of Alexander Scriabin, was advised by Allen Forte.{{sfn|Ewell|2001}}

Ewell's published works include a number of articles on Russian music theory. He has translated Russian writings of and interviews with Russian theorists, such as Yuri Kholopov,{{Cite journal|last=Ewell|first=Philip A.|date=1 June 2013|title="On the System of Stravinsky's Harmony" by Yuri Kholopov: Translation and Commentary|url=https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.13.19.2/mto.13.19.2.ewell.php|journal=Music Theory Online|volume=19|issue=2|doi=10.30535/mto.19.2.1|doi-access=free|access-date=May 21, 2021|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521155833/https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.13.19.2/mto.13.19.2.ewell.php|url-status=live}} and musicians, such as Vasya Oblomov.{{Cite web|title="I Can't Be Quiet": An Interview with Vasya Oblomov Moscow, Russia; February 27, 2013|url=https://www.echo.ucla.edu/cant-quiet-interview-vasya-oblomov-moscow-russia-february-27-2013/|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=Echo: A Music-Centered Journal|language=en-US|archive-date=July 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719142054/https://www.echo.ucla.edu/cant-quiet-interview-vasya-oblomov-moscow-russia-february-27-2013/|url-status=live}} He has written about Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina{{Cite journal|last=Ewell|first=Philip A.|date=September 1, 2013|title=The Parameter Complex in the Music of Sofia Gubaidulina|url=https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.14.20.3/mto.14.20.3.ewell.php|journal=Music Theory Online|volume=20|issue=3|access-date=May 21, 2021|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521174641/https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.14.20.3/mto.14.20.3.ewell.php|url-status=live}} as well as Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly.{{Cite journal|last=Ewell|first=Philip A.|date=March 1, 2019|title=Introduction to the Symposium on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly|url=https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.19.25.1/mto.19.25.1.ewell.html|journal=Music Theory Online|volume=25|issue=1|doi=10.30535/mto.25.1.7|doi-access=free|access-date=May 21, 2021|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521175112/https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.19.25.1/mto.19.25.1.ewell.html|url-status=live}} His forthcoming works include a new undergraduate music theory textbook under contract with Norton and a book entitled On Music Theory under contract with the University of Michigan Press's Music and Social Justice series.{{Cite web|title=Selected Publications {{!}} Philip Ewell|url=https://philipewell.com/publications/|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=philipewell.com|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521183003/https://philipewell.com/publications/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=Music & Social Justice|url=https://www.musicandjustice.com/|url-status=live|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=musicandjustice.com|language=en-US|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521183004/https://www.musicandjustice.com/}} He founded the music theory journal, Gamut, for the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic.{{Cite web |title=Philip Ewell {{!}} Научный вестник Московской консерватории |url=https://nv.mosconsv.ru/en/persons/philip-ewell |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=nv.mosconsv.ru}}

His public intellectual work has included appearances on BBC{{Cite web|date=November 24, 2019|title=Sunday Feature – A Racist Music – BBC Sounds|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000bmrr|url-status=live|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=www.bbc.co.uk|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521181601/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000bmrr}} and Adam Neely's YouTube channel.{{Cite web|date=September 7, 2020|title=Music Theory and White Supremacy|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA|url-status=live|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=YouTube|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521183241/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA}} In March 2021, Ewell contributed to RILM's blog in which he wrote about his Twitter project "Erasing colorasure in American music theory"{{Cite web|last=Ewell|first=Philip|date=March 25, 2021|title=Philip Ewell: Erasing colorasure in American music theory, and confronting demons from our past|url=https://bibliolore.org/2021/03/25/philip-ewell-erasing-colorasure-in-american-music-theory-and-confronting-demons-from-our-past/|url-status=live|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=Bibliolore|language=en-US|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521183452/https://bibliolore.org/2021/03/25/philip-ewell-erasing-colorasure-in-american-music-theory-and-confronting-demons-from-our-past/}} and delivered a public colloquium at Columbia University entitled "On Confronting Music Theory's Antiblackness: Three Case Studies".{{Cite web|date=March 11, 2021|title=Colloquium with Prof. Philip Ewell (Hunter College of the City University of New York)|url=https://music.columbia.edu/events/colloquium-with-prof-philip-ewell-hunter-college-of-the-city-university-of-new-york|access-date=June 2, 2021|website=Columbia University Department of Music|language=en|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602220226/https://music.columbia.edu/events/colloquium-with-prof-philip-ewell-hunter-college-of-the-city-university-of-new-york|url-status=live}} As a result of Ewell's work with African American music culture, he became the editor of the newly launched Oxford University Press book series, Theorizing African American Music.

On November 9, 2019, at the 42nd annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Ewell participated in a plenary session entitled "Reframing Music Theory" which sought to "critique the confining frames within which [music theory] has been operating and explore ways in which to reframe what constitutes music theory".. [https://societymusictheory.org/sites/default/files/events/programs/2019-program.pdf Program of the ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515212701/https://societymusictheory.org/sites/default/files/events/programs/2019-program.pdf |date=May 15, 2021 }}. November 7–10. p. 141.{{Cite web|date=10 November 2019|title=SMT 2019 Columbus, 42nd Annual Meeting|page=141|url=https://societymusictheory.org/sites/default/files/events/programs/2019-program.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108012710/https://societymusictheory.org/sites/default/files/events/programs/2019-program.pdf|archive-date=8 January 2022|access-date=17 February 2022}} He presented a talk entitled "Music Theory's White Racial Frame".{{Citation|last=Ewell|first=Philip|title=Ewell-SMT-Plenary|date=November 12, 2019|url=https://vimeo.com/372726003|access-date=May 21, 2021|archive-date=April 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427114341/https://vimeo.com/372726003|url-status=live}} In his talk and in subsequent publications, Ewell argues that the "white racial frame" – a term coined by sociologist Joe Feagin – shapes knowledge practices in Western music theory and its institutions.{{Cite journal|last=Ewell|first=Philip A.|date=September 1, 2020|title=Music Theory and the White Racial Frame|url=https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.ewell.html|journal=Music Theory Online|volume=26|issue=2|doi=10.30535/mto.26.2.4|doi-access=free|access-date=May 21, 2021|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521143943/https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.ewell.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite journal|last=Ewell|first=Philip|date=March 11, 2021|title=Music Theory's White Racial Frame|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtaa031|journal=Music Theory Spectrum|volume=43|issue=mtaa031|pages=324–329|doi=10.1093/mts/mtaa031|issn=0195-6167|access-date=May 21, 2021|archive-date=February 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217063405/https://academic.oup.com/mts/article-abstract/43/2/324/6168471?redirectedFrom=fulltext|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}} Feagin defines the "white racial frame" as,

an overarching white worldview that encompasses a broad and persisting set of racial stereotypes, prejudices, ideologies, images, interpretations and narratives, emotions, and reactions to language accents, as well as racialized inclinations to discriminate.{{Cite book|last=Feagin|first=Joe|title=The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=9780415657617|edition=2nd|location=New York|pages=3}}

Ewell's talk sparked the 2020 publication of fifteen responses in volume 12 of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies.{{Cite web|title=The symposium of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, vol. 12|url=https://dentonrc.com/the-symposium-of-the-journal-of-schenkerian-studies-vol-12/pdf_878c0227-527d-5457-abe9-2912a2023c2b.html|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=Denton Record-Chronicle|date=February 7, 2021 |archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521205704/https://dentonrc.com/the-symposium-of-the-journal-of-schenkerian-studies-vol-12/pdf_878c0227-527d-5457-abe9-2912a2023c2b.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=Journal of Shenkerian Studies, Volume 12|url=https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/dentonrc.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/78/878c0227-527d-5457-abe9-2912a2023c2b/6020374fd3a80.pdf.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=May 21, 2021|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521183004/https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/dentonrc.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/78/878c0227-527d-5457-abe9-2912a2023c2b/6020374fd3a80.pdf.pdf}}{{Cite web|title=Journal of Schenkerian Studies', issues|url=https://mhte.music.unt.edu/issues|url-status=live|website=University of North Texas College of Music|access-date=May 21, 2021|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521183012/https://mhte.music.unt.edu/issues}} The volume's contributing authors included the journal's co-founders Timothy L. Jackson and Stephen Slottow,{{Cite web|title=Journal of Schenkerian Studies''|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/JSCS/|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=UNT Digital Library|archive-date=May 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520224855/https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/JSCS/|url-status=live}} as well as Charles Burkhart, Richard Beaudoin (Dartmouth College, assistant professor of music),{{Cite web|title=Richard Beaudoin {{!}} Faculty Directory|url=https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/richard-beaudoin|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu|date=September 11, 2017 |archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521203955/https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/richard-beaudoin|url-status=live}} Suzannah Clark, Nicholas Cook, and Jack Boss (University of Oregon, professor of music theory and composition),{{Cite web|title=Jack Boss {{!}} UO School of Music and Dance|url=https://music.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/jboss|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=music.uoregon.edu|language=en|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521203947/https://music.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/jboss|url-status=live}} as well as "An Anonymous Response to Philip Ewell", which itself drew criticism.{{r|smtresponse}}

Ewell's work on music theory's white racial frame—and the ensuing controversy from the 2020 publication of Journal of Schenkerian Studies{{'}} twelfth volume—has received wide-ranging media attention from Alex Ross at The New Yorker,{{Cite magazine|last=Ross|first=Alex|author-link=Alex Ross (music critic)|date=September 14, 2020|title=Black Scholars Confront White Supremacy in Classical Music|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/black-scholars-confront-white-supremacy-in-classical-music|url-status=live|access-date=May 21, 2021|magazine=The New Yorker|archive-date=April 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417023118/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/black-scholars-confront-white-supremacy-in-classical-music}} The New York Times,{{Cite news|last=Powell|first=Michael|date=February 14, 2021|title=Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles Over Race and Free Speech|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/arts/musicology-journal-race-free-speech.html|access-date=May 21, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521180735/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/arts/musicology-journal-race-free-speech.html|url-status=live}} NPR,{{Cite web|title=Classical Music Tries to Reckon with Racism – On Social Media|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/07/29/896200557/classical-music-tries-to-reckon-with-racism-on-social-media|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=NPR|date=July 29, 2020|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521180720/https://www.npr.org/2020/07/29/896200557/classical-music-tries-to-reckon-with-racism-on-social-media|url-status=live|last1=Tsioulcas|first1=Anastasia}} and Inside Higher Ed.{{Cite web|title=Music theory journal criticized for symposium on supposed white supremacist theorist|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/07/music-theory-journal-criticized-symposium-supposed-white-supremacist-theorist|access-date=May 21, 2021|work=Inside Higher Ed|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521180730/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/07/music-theory-journal-criticized-symposium-supposed-white-supremacist-theorist|url-status=live}} The Society for Music Theory's executive board stated that it "condemns the anti-Black statements and personal ad hominem attacks on Philip Ewell perpetuated in several essays included in the 'Symposium on Philip Ewell's 2019 SMT Plenary Paper' published by the Journal of Schenkerian Studies".{{Cite web|title=Executive Board response to essays in the Journal of Schenkerian Studies vol. 12 {{!}} SMT|url=https://societymusictheory.org/announcement/executive-board-response-journal-schenkerian-studies-vol-12-2020-07|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=societymusictheory.org|archive-date=May 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519202710/https://societymusictheory.org/announcement/executive-board-response-journal-schenkerian-studies-vol-12-2020-07|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Breeding|first=Lucinda|date=August 2, 2020|title=A UNT professor challenged claims of racism in music theory, and now he's facing the music|url=https://dentonrc.com/education/higher_education/a-unt-professor-challenged-claims-of-racism-in-music-theory-and-now-hes-facing-the/article_e7cdab75-c6cb-5972-878d-fea7e2fb8b9d.html|url-status=live|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=Denton Record-Chronicle|language=en|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521180742/https://dentonrc.com/education/higher_education/a-unt-professor-challenged-claims-of-racism-in-music-theory-and-now-hes-facing-the/article_e7cdab75-c6cb-5972-878d-fea7e2fb8b9d.html}}

Ewell's publication has been criticized by black linguist and instructor of music history at Columbia University John McWhorter, who published the following in Substack:

"If Ewell's claim is that music is racist when involving hierarchical relationships between elements, then we must ask where that puts a great deal of music created by non-white people. Perhaps more important, the question is: just what do these hierarchical relationships in music structure have to do with human suffering?"{{cite journal |first1=John |last1=McWhorter |title=Is Music Theory Really #SoWhite |url=https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/is-music-theory-really-sowhite |journal=Substack |date=February 16, 2021 |access-date=October 5, 2021 |archive-date=October 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005182623/https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/is-music-theory-really-sowhite |url-status=live }}

Ewell's recent book On Music Theory And Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone was also criticized by John McWhorter in The New York Times{{cite news|author=John McWhorter|title=Is Musicology Racist?|work=The New York Times|date=May 16, 2023|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/opinion/musicology-racism.html}} and by Don Baton in the City Journal.{{cite news|author=Don Baton|title=Ewelldämmerung: Music theory's woke emperor has no clothes|work=City Journal|date=May 2, 2023|url=https://www.city-journal.org/article/ewelldammerung}} In Clifton Boyd and Jade Conlee's 2023 review, they argued that his book was less about Whiteness than about challenging the normative and canonical ways music theory has historically operated, offering the alternative subtitle, "How the Many Mythologies of the Western White-Male Musical Canon Have Created Hostile Environments for Those Who Do Not Identify as White Cisgender Men."{{Cite journal |last=Boyd |first=Clifton |last2=Conlee |first2=Jade |date=2023-12-01 |title=Review of Philip Ewell, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023) |url=https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.23.29.4/mto.23.29.4.boyd_conlee.php |journal=Music Theory Online |language=en |volume=29 |issue=4}}

• The Engaged Musician: Theory and Analysis for the Twenty-First Century (forthcoming, 2026) W. W. Norton Publishers.
• American Antiblackness (forthcoming, 2025) New York: Routledge.
• On Music Theory And Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (2023) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• Kaleidoscope of Cultures: A Celebration of Multicultural Research and Practice (2010) New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

• "Scriabin's Seventh Piano Sonata: [https://philipewell.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ITR-Article.pdf Three Analytical Approaches]." Indiana Theory Review 23: 23–67. (2002)
• "[https://philipewell.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/05/JSS-Article.pdf Scriabin's Dominant: The Evolution of a Harmonic Style]." Journal of Schenkerian Studies 1: 118–48. (2006)
• "[https://philipewell.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/05/Germano-Slavica-Art.pdf Anton Rubinstein, Alexander Serov, and Vladimir Stasov: The Struggle for a National Musical Identity in Nineteenth-Century Russia]." Germano-Slavica XVI: 41–55. (2007)
• "[https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.12.18.4/mto.12.18.4.ewell.php Rethinking Octatonicism: Views from Stravinsky's Homeland]." Music Theory Online 18 (4). ISSN [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27188803 1067-3040]. (2012)
• "'[https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.13.19.2/mto.13.19.2.ewell.php On the System of Stravinsky's Harmony,' by Yuri Kholopov: Translation and Commentary]." Music Theory Online 19 (2). ISSN [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27188803 1067-3040]. (2013)
• "'[https://www.echo.ucla.edu/cant-quiet-interview-vasya-oblomov-moscow-russia-february-27-2013/ I Can't Be Quiet': An Interview with Vasya Oblomov]." Echo: A Music-Centered Journal 11 (1). (2013)
• "[https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=gamut Russian Pitch-Class Set Analysis and the Music of Webern]." Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic 6 (1). (2013)
• "[https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.14.20.3/mto.14.20.3.ewell.php The Parameter Complex in the Music of Sofia Gubaidulina]." Music Theory Online 20 (3). (2014)
• "[https://philipewell.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/FINAL-Ewell-Amerikanskaia-Teoriia.pdf Amerikanskaia teoriia riadov v perspektive]" (American set theory in perspective). Muzykal'naia Akademiia (Music Academy) : 148–55. (2015)
• "[https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.19.25.1/mto.19.25.1.ewell.pdf Introduction to the Symposium on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly]." Music Theory Online 25 (1). doi:[https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.19.25.1/mto.19.25.1.ewell.html 10.30535/mto.25.1.7]. (2019)
• "[https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.ewell.pdf Music Theory and the White Racial Frame]". Music Theory Online. 26 (2). doi:[https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.ewell.html 10.30535/mto.26.2.4]. ISSN [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27188803 1067-3040]. (2020)
• "Music Theory's White Racial Frame". Music Theory Spectrum. 43. doi:[https://academic.oup.com/mts/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mts/mtaa031/6168471?redirectedFrom=fulltext 10.1093/mts/mtaa031]. ISSN [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1098715875 0195-6167]. (2021)

• {{cite thesis |last=Ewell |first=Phillip |year=2001 |title=Analytical Approaches to Large-Scale Structure in the Music of Alexander Scriabin |type=PhD diss. |publisher=Yale University |oclc=49527723 |author-mask=-}}

• "[https://philipewell.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Russian-Rap-Putin.pdf Russian Rap in the Era of Vladimir Putin]." In Hip-hop at Europe's Edge. Edited by Milosz Miszczynski and Adriana Helbig, 45–62. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (2017)
• "Stravinsky Reception in the USSR". In Stravinsky in Context. Edited by Graham Griffiths. Cambridge University Press. pp. 270–78. doi:[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/stravinsky-in-context/stravinsky-reception-in-the-ussr/F860A5C7939869BA2E8C9F8985036235# 10.1017/9781108381086.037]. ISBN [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1232086933 978-1-108-38108-6]. (2020)

• Kaleidoscope of Cultures: A Celebration of Multicultural Research and Practice. (2010). Edited by Marvelene C. Moore and Philip Ewell. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. OCLC [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/405107620 405107620].

• PROSE Award, Association of American Publishers: “Music and Performing Arts” Category.
• 2022: Yale University's Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal
• 2019-2020: City University of New York Presidential Award for Excellence in Creative Work.

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