Abstract
This issue of Musical Quarterly (MQ) will appear after what may unfortunately be a watershed moment in modern history: the inauguration of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the United States. It is hoped that Trump’s 2016 election and his presidency will remain objects of contest and controversy. If so, the debate will likely be on political grounds, narrowly defined. The terms of the conflict will be legitimacy (the contrast between the popular vote which Trump lost by nearly three million votes and the victory in the Electoral College), and the values that mirror the split in the electorate between college-educated and noncollege-educated voters, between rural and urban voters, white and nonwhite voters, blue and red states, younger and older voters, as well as the startling persistence of passivity and nonparticipation in voting (much of it the consequence of local barriers to full and fair access to the polls), and the competing constructs of the American nation and its core principles that surfaced in the election.
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