Books
Sound Play
Just Vibrations
Loving Music Till It Hurts
Queering the Field
Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age
Gaslight of the Gods
The Revolution Will Be Deafening
Touching Pitch
Articles
The Improvised Concerto
Dyslexic Ways of Thinking
Everything Is Song
Stories We Hope to Share
Black Noise, White Ears
Coming Through Loud and Queer
So You've Been Musically Shamed
Taking back the Laugh
Staging Overcoming
Toadofsky's Music Lessons
Sound Studies Review
Acoustemologies of the Closet
Pleasure's Discontents
Musical Economies of Fear
Lord of the Rings Online
Korngold’s Die tote Stadt
The French Romance
Talks
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Teaching
Current
Past
Media
Select Videos
Interviews | Press
Opinion
Op-eds | Features
Home
William Cheng
Books
Sound Play
Just Vibrations
Loving Music Till It Hurts
Queering the Field
Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age
Gaslight of the Gods
The Revolution Will Be Deafening
Touching Pitch
Articles
The Improvised Concerto
Dyslexic Ways of Thinking
Everything Is Song
Stories We Hope to Share
Black Noise, White Ears
Coming Through Loud and Queer
So You've Been Musically Shamed
Taking back the Laugh
Staging Overcoming
Toadofsky's Music Lessons
Sound Studies Review
Acoustemologies of the Closet
Pleasure's Discontents
Musical Economies of Fear
Lord of the Rings Online
Korngold’s Die tote Stadt
The French Romance
Talks
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Teaching
Current
Past
Media
Select Videos
Interviews | Press
Opinion
Op-eds | Features
Home
Media
Select Videos
Interviews | Press
Rachmaninoff 3rd
Sound Expertise (pod interview)
Literary Fiction
Feeling Hope for Our Planet
WDR
Alumni Magazine
Financial Times (2024)
Harvard Crimson
Improvisation
JAG
Radcliffe Fellowship
WalletHub
VAN
France Musique
Response
Spectator (UK)
Financial Times (2020)
Music Library (R)
Music Library (D)
El Universal
Spectator (AUS)
De Volkskrant
Scherzo
Spectator (UK)
Video Games & the Meaning of Life
Goldstein Award
Interview | Junction Magazine
Interview | Alumni Magazine
Interview | Philip Brett Award
Interview | JPMS
Interview | Social Justice Series
Interview | Just Vibrations
Susan B. Anthony Institute
Wetterhahn Award
2016 Books of the Year
Loud Music Trial
University of Georgia
ISA Conference
