About Jordan Stokes

NBN Episodes hosted by Jordan:

Geoffrey Baker, "El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela's Youth" (Oxford UP, 2014)

March 2, 2016

El Sistema

Geoffrey Baker
Hosted by Jordan Stokes

El Sistema, the massive Venezuelan youth orchestra program, has been hailed in some quarters as the next big idea in music education (if not as the sa…

Jennifer Bain, "Hildegard of Bingen and Musical Reception: The Modern Revival of Medieval Composer" (Cambridge UP, 2015)

January 19, 2016

Hildegard of Bingen and Musical Reception

Jennifer Bain
Hosted by Jordan Stokes

Hildegard of Bingen was many things: a religious leader, a prolific letter-writer, a visionary prophet, possibly a compiler of medical lore, and certa…

Phil Ford, "Dig:  Sound and Music in Hip Culture" (Oxford UP, 2013)

December 10, 2015

Dig

Phil Ford
Hosted by Jordan Stokes

What is hip? Can a piece of music be hip? Or is hipness primarily a way of engaging with music which recognizes the hip potential of the music? Or pri…