by Lydia Bangura
What does it mean to be a music researcher? How does a musician use music as a medium to foster community? Featuring interviews with other musicians, scholars and artists, host Lydia Bangura seeks to ask interesting questions about music and execute important and relevant music research. Join Lydia as she reads, writes and chats her way through a music PhD program. Got questions or feedback? Interested in being a guest on the pod? Send inquiries to: hermusicacademia@gmail.com
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June 29, 2026
<p>In this episode, I chat with Dr. Olivia Lucas (Louisiana State University) all about her musical upbringing as a vocalist, her time studying music theory at Harvard, and what she’s teaching at LSU. We also chat about how her early interest in metal music led to her current research on Lingua Ignota, who blends references to art music and classical vocal training with noise and extended techniques.</p><p><br></p><p>TW: domestic violence, religious trauma</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://smt-pod.org/episodes/season04/e4.5/ " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Olivia’s SMT-Pod Episode</a></p><p><a href="https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.18.24.3/mto.18.24.3.lucas.html " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Olivia’s 2018 Meshuggah article</a></p><p><a href="https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.21.27.4/mto.21.27.4.lucas.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Olivia’s 2021 Meshuggah article</a></p><p><a href="https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/84314/87805 " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Olivia’s 2014 article on experience of extreme loudness at a Sunn O))) concert</a></p><p><a href="https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/Teaching-Difficult-Topics3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">2024 Teaching Difficult Topics book </a></p><p><a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003489924-25/silencing-kim-lingua-ignota-transformation-eminem-kim-olivia-lucas?context=ubx&refId=2d0d6671-79ff-4b25-be91-523fcd74c52b"><u>Olivia’s forthcoming chapter on Lingua Ignota and Eminem</u></a></p><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/198053615"><u>“That He May Not Rise Again” by Lingua Ignota</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mts.2007.29.2.219?seq=1"><u>Jonathan Pieslak’s article on Meshuggah</u></a></p><p><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/assimilate-9780199832606?cc=us&lang=en&">Assimilate<u> by S. Alexander Reed</u></a><br><br></p>
April 27, 2026
<p>In this episode, I chat with Dr. Jennifer Ronyak (Institute of Music Aesthetics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz) about her musical upbringing as a pianist, her time studying musicology at Eastman, and the major differences between music graduate programs in different countries. We also discuss her 2017 performance and analysis article “Meeting Barthes at Fischer-Dieskau’s Mill: Co-Performance, Linguistic Identity, and a Lied.”</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/jm/article-abstract/34/1/32/93903/Meeting-Barthes-at-Fischer-Dieskau-s-MillCo?redirectedFrom=fulltext"><u>Jennifer’s article</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/boccherinis-body/hardcover"><u>Boccherini’s Body by Elizabeth LeGuin</u></a></p><p><a href="https://smt-pod.org/episodes/season04/e4.6/"><u>My episode of SMT-Pod</u></a></p><p><br><br></p>
March 30, 2026
<p>In this episode, I chat with Dr. Melissa Hoag (Oakland University) about her musical upbringing as a pianist, her path to music theory, her time as coeditor of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and her work as editor of Expanding The Canon and a forthcoming textbook. We also discuss the AP College Board Music Theory exam, the yearly grading session with over one hundred college professors and high school teachers, and <a href="https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/professional-learning/become-an-ap-reader"><u>how YOU can get involved as an AP reader</u></a>!</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://smt-pod.org/episodes/season02/e2.4/"><u>Melissa’s episode of </u>SMT-Pod</a></p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-music-academia/id1562909620?i=1000725507723"><u>My episode with Christine Boone</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Expanding-the-Canon-Black-Composers-in-the-Music-Theory-Classroom/Hoag/p/book/9781032068275">Expanding The Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom</a></p><p><a href="https://digitalcollections.lipscomb.edu/jmtp/">Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy</a></p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-music-academia/id1562909620?i=1000666764558"><u>My Summer in Review 2024</u></a></p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-music-academia/id1562909620?i=1000729050764"><u>My Summer in Review 2025</u></a></p><p><br></p><p><br><br></p>
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What does it mean to be a music researcher? How does a musician use music as a medium to foster community? Featuring interviews with other musicians, scholars and artists, host Lydia Bangura seeks to ask interesting questions about music and execute important and relevant music research. Join Lydia as she reads, writes and chats her way through a music PhD program.
Got questions or feedback? Interested in being a guest on the pod? Send inquiries to: hermusicacademia@gmail.com
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