Project Spectrum
Project Spectrum is a graduate student-led coalition of music theorists, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists with a two-fold mission. One part of the mission is to shift the large-scale culture of U.S. American and Canadian music academia toward equity by confronting racism, sexism, ableism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, settler-colonialism, and other forms of discrimination and injustice. The other is to bolster community, share resources, and hold space for those academics who are marginalized by the academy. These missions are fundamentally intertwined, and taken together, they serve to diversify and strengthen music academia.
Institute for Composer Diversity
The Institute for Composer Diversity, winner of the 2018 ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Media/Internet Award and housed at the State University of New York at Fredonia, is dedicated to the celebration, education, and advocacy of music created by composers from historically underrepresented groups through online tools, research-based resources, and sponsored initiatives. The website has databases of over 4,000 composers from underrepresented groups, and around 14,000 notated musical works in diverse genres.
The Grant Hagan Society
Our cousin at Yale! The Grant Hagan Society is a graduate-student led affinity group to support people of color in the Yale Department of Music. We are deeply invested in the racial and ethnic diversity of the students and faculty of the department, as well as diversity broadly construed (gender, sexuality, [dis]ability, class, religion, etc.). The Grant Hagan Society strives to help foster a sense of camaraderie among people of color within the field of music studies, as we believe that belonging to an inclusive community contributes in important ways to a successful career path after graduate school, whether in the academy or beyond.