Music Scholars Series: Dr. Trevor Reed

What is "our music"? As an institution in the intermountain West, USU is located in a
place associated with many different kinds of music. The decisions we make about
which of these we foreground have profound implications. What do our students
deserve to learn? Which faculty have the responsibility—or the right—to teach each
repertoire? And how, as a university, do we define the collective “us” we seek to serve?
Dr. Trevor Reed (Arizona Sate University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law) is the
first visiting scholar on the series. Dr. Reed’s research broadly explores the social
impacts of intellectual property law on individuals and their communities. His current
scholarship focuses on the linkages between creative production and Native American
sovereignty. Dr. Reed is currently advancing community-partnered projects to assist
Indigenous peoples as they protect and promote their cultural heritage, traditional
knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, and other intellectual properties by
strategically drawing on tribal, federal, and international law.