Brian Moon is a musicologist and performing musician from the University of Arizona, where he is an Associate Professor of Practice, and the Coordinator for Music in General Education. This position allows him to enhance student learning and teach musicians and non-musicians to listen to music like they were performers. Moon’s diverse research ranges from the black spiritual’s reception among white southerners, Harry Burleigh, record stores, Frank Sinatra and the history of American popular music. More recently, Brian collaborated with Dan Kruse to launch the podcast Lifetimes of Listening and the Arizona Musical Memory Archive. This work symbolizes Brian’s approach to teaching and talking about music. Lifetimes of Listening celebrates music’s power to unite people, validates individual experiences and connects them with broader musical trends. Moon attempts to employ these kinds of experiences in the classroom by guiding students through the musical past to illustrate its relationship to the present.