Andrew Dell'Antonio

Andrew Dell’Antonio (he/him/his) specializes in musical repertories of early modern Europe, with a focus on seventeenth-century Italy. His research interests include musical historiography, reception history, and disability studies. Partly spurred by his personal experience of neurodivergence, he has recently turned his focus to Universal Design for Learning and related critical approaches to anti-racism, anti-ableism, and intersectional equity / inclusion in higher education music pedagogy.   

He is co-author of the textbook The Enjoyment of Music, and co-editor of the Michigan University Press series Music and Social Justice.  His monograph Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy (University of California Press, 2011) addresses musical styles and aesthetics in early seventeenth century Italy, with particular focus on the spiritual and gender implications of changing listening practices. Earlier publications included investigations of contemporary popular music and the fashioning of a postmodern critical stance, resulting in his editing and contributing to the collection of essays Beyond Structural Listening? Postmodern Modes of Hearing (University of California Press, 2004). He has also published widely in leading music and interdisciplinary journals, encyclopedias, and scholarly collections, and contributed to public scholarship on pedagogy; please see his professional site for details.