Tracy McMullen on Jazz and Justice

Tracy McMullen is a self-proclaimed maker-thinker. She’s a saxophonist, composer, and an academic. In this episode, Tracy discusses jazz as a moral practice and how she uses music—jazz in particular—to teach anti-racism and inclusivity. Tracy McMullen is associate professor of music at Bowdoin College, and ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow at the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice (through 2023). Her 2019 book, "Haunthenticity: Musical Replay and the Fear of the Real," examines musical performance and its relationship to conceptions of the past, history, and identity. She is currently researching her second book, "Jazz Humanism: Responsibility and Blur in the New Human."