Students had similar reactions to Monon's arrival.
"I think its great," Sarah C. Darling '03, a music concentrator said. "The premise of the class I took with her as a visiting professor was fascinating."
Monson's said her plans also include helping to build up the library research collection and expanding the materials available on Afro-Am music.
"It is a mandate to bring this music front and center," Monson said of her new position.
Monson plans to teach courses that look at the way that music interacts with race, culture, and politics. These types of courses would cover topics such as jazz history, music politics and popular music.
"It will make a clear statement to the world," Levin said. "To offer these types of courses on an ongoing sustained basis by one of the most prominent and vibrant members of the field."
The CEO of Time Warner Inc., announced in April of last year that the corporation would endow a professorship for the study of black music.
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