Writings & Readings
What I’m writing:
(These essays are posted on my blog. Please visit and leave comments.)
I’m interested in various music-related topics, especially music and its relationship to culture, technology, and issues with music in higher education.
The MP3 Fiesta: Party like it’s $9.99!
An essay on file-sharing and its impact on the music industry.
(Click on the title, and a PDF will open in your browser.)
An essay on the phenomenon of “Alternative Music”--its history and usage, as well as an explanation of what I think it actually means.
(Click on the title, and a PDF will open in your browser.)
Jazz In Crisis (working title)
----coming soon-----
What I’m reading:
Fall/Winter 2009
Music & Culture
The Glenn Gould Reader ed. by Tim Page
The Culture Industry by Theodor Adorno
History/Politics
From Plato to Nato: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents by David Gress
The Defeat of the Mind by Alain Finkielkraut
Fiction
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
Spring 2010
Music, Culture, and Aesthetics
Who Needs Classical Music? by Julian Johnson
The Beautiful in Music by Eduard Hanslick (re-reading this one)
Essays on Music by Theodor Adorno, ed. by Richard Leppert (re-reading this one)
History/Politics
The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
Summer 2010
Music, Culture, and Aesthetics
Philosophy in a New Key by Susanne K. Langer
Philosophy of New Music by Theodor Adorno, ed. by Robert Hullot-Kentor
The Function of Reason by Alfred North Whitehead
Why Classical Music Still Matters by Lawrence Kramer
Music After Modernism by Samuel Lipman (re-reading this one)
Conversations with Glenn Gould by Jonathan Cott
Metal, Rock, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience by Harris M. Berger
