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Illuminating * Eric Drott, Journal of the Royal Musical Association * Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals. * A. J. Adam, CHOICE * After all my years and experiences leading institutions, Ask the Experts still gives me new insights in the art of grantmaking. As Uy notes, how we choose experts plays an incredibly important role in what we fund. Experts should broaden and even challenge our perspectives and starting assumptions rather than only reinforce them. * Jonathan Fanton, former President of the MacArthur Foundation, former President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences * Ask the Experts makes painfully vivid the practices of power and exclusion behind grantmaking decisions by white men invested in the Western art music tradition. Uy's meticulously researched and lively account illuminates the biased processes that determined which institutions would call the shots and what music should be validated. A book for our times. * Ellie M. Hisama, Professor of Music, Columbia University * Uy's disarming narrative propels the reader through a series of interwoven stories about cultural and social capital during the first decades of the Cold War and the illusion of democratic representation in arts grantmaking. With helpful charts, tables, and spotlights on influential experts, this book provides a useful guide with the ease of a textbook. * Naomi Andre, Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Department of Women's Studies, University of Michigan *

Illuminating * Eric Drott, Journal of the Royal Musical Association * Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals. * A. J. Adam, CHOICE * After all my years and experiences leading institutions, Ask the Experts still gives me new insights in the art of grantmaking. As Uy notes, how we choose experts plays an incredibly important role in what we fund. Experts should broaden and even challenge our perspectives and starting assumptions rather than only reinforce them. * Jonathan Fanton, former President of the MacArthur Foundation, former President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences * Ask the Experts makes painfully vivid the practices of power and exclusion behind grantmaking decisions by white men invested in the Western art music tradition. Uy's meticulously researched and lively account illuminates the biased processes that determined which institutions would call the shots and what music should be validated. A book for our times. * Ellie M. Hisama, Professor of Music, Columbia University * Uy's disarming narrative propels the reader through a series of interwoven stories about cultural and social capital during the first decades of the Cold War and the illusion of democratic representation in arts grantmaking. With helpful charts, tables, and spotlights on influential experts, this book provides a useful guide with the ease of a textbook. * Naomi André, Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Department of Women's Studies, University of Michigan * An illuminating figure in Ask the Experts shows how a handful of luminaries circulated through the panels assembled by Ford, Rockefeller and the NEA, including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and Isaac Stern. * Eric Drott, Journal of the Royal Musical Association *

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Michael Sy Uy is the Allston Burr Resident Dean of Dunster House, Assistant Dean of Harvard College, and a Lecturer in the Harvard University Department of Music. His main areas of scholarly research focus on philanthropy, arts education, cultural policy, and connoisseurship. In 2018, he was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award by the Harvard Foundation.

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