"The Power of Song: A Response"
William Cheng is Chair and Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Oxford, 2014), Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (Michigan, 2016), and Loving Music Till It Hurts (Oxford, 2019); and the coeditor of Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology (Oxford, 2019), A Cultural History of Music in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury Academic, in progress), and the Music & Social Justice Series from the University of Michigan Press. His writings have appeared in Washington Post, Slate, Huffington Post, TIME, Pacific Standard, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the recipient of Dartmouth’s 2020 Jerome Goldstein Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2020 Irving Lowens Article Award (Society for American Music), 2020 Marcia Herndon Award (Society for Ethnomusicology), 2019 Richard Waterman Prize (SEM), and the 2016 and 2011 Philip Brett Award (American Musicological Society).