Music making is an embodied, cultural practice, but as recently as 2001, music scholars such as Philip Bohlman and Ronald Radano levied critiques about music scholarship's lack of attention to issues of race. Building on Radano and Bohlman's important volume, Music and the Racial Imagination, this seminar will survey key scholarship that takes up questions of race and ethnicity in music making. In addition to reading key writings on the subject by music scholars such as Guthrie Ramsey, Samuel Floyd, and Deborah Wong, we will also read work by cultural theorists such as Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, George Lipsitz, Ronald Takaki, etc. who have written about race and ethnicity from a number of perspectives including literary criticism, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and ethnic studies.