Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.

Nina Sun Eidsheim (she/her) is Professor of Musicology, at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. She is also a vocalist and the founder and director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology Research (PEER) Lab, an experimental research Lab dedicated to decolonializing data, methodology, and analysis, in and through multisensory creative practices.

She writes about voice, race, and materiality, including the books Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music. Publications include The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (Duke University Press, 2019); Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (Duke University Press, 2015); Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies (co-editor, OUP, 2019); and she is co-editor of the Refiguring American Music book series for Duke University Press.

Her work has been recognized in many ways, including by the Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Cornell University Society of the Humanities Fellowship, the UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship and the ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship. She received her bachelor of music from the voice program at the Agder Conservatory (Norway); MFA in vocal performance from the California Institute of the Arts; and Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, San Diego.

VOICE CHOICE Listen to Nina’s favourite vocal performance ‘This Love Of Mine' by Jimmy Scott on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0%E2%81%A0

The Race of Sound is part of an open source program and free here, if you’re interested: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sn4k8dr

If you want to purchase the paper back copy with a 30% discount code (no expiration date) for both Sensing Sound and The Race of Sound: E24EIDSH

https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-race-of-sound

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