16 Facts About Philip Ewell

Philip Adrian Ewell was born on February 16,1966 and is an American professor of music theory at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Philip Ewell specializes in Russian and twentieth century music, as well as rap and hip hop.

Phillip Adrian Ewell was born on February 16,1966, and grew up in DeKalb, Illinois.

Philip Ewell's father was an African American intellectual who had attended Morehouse College with Martin Luther King Jr.

Philip Ewell received a BA in music from Stanford University, an MA in cello performance from Queens College, and a PhD in music theory from Yale University.

Philip Ewell's published works include a number of articles on Russian music theory.

Philip Ewell has translated Russian writings of and interviews with Russian theorists, such as Yuri Kholopov, and musicians, such as Vasya Oblomov.

Philip Ewell has written about Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina as well as Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly.

Philip Ewell's 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.

Philip Ewell founded the music theory journal, Gamut, for the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic.

In March 2021, Philip Ewell contributed to RILM's blog in which he wrote about his Twitter project "Erasing colorasure in American music theory" and delivered a public colloquium at Columbia University entitled "On Confronting Music Theory's Antiblackness: Three Case Studies".

On November 9,2019, at the 42nd annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Philip 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".

Philip Ewell presented a talk entitled "Music Theory's White Racial Frame".

Philip Ewell's talk sparked the 2020 publication of fifteen responses in volume 12 of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies.

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".

Philip 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:.