Clik here to view.
Rob Walker on The Art of Noticing
Rob Walker has a new book out. I’m in it! You should buy and read it. Rob interviewed me about critical listening, that is, listening closely to music to try to mentally isolate the different...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sound writing with my New School students
I just completed the first week of Fundamentals of Western Music at the New School. We began the semester with critical listening. Before having the students analyze recorded music, I had them warm up...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My year in blogging
Two big things happened in my academic life this year: I wrote a dissertation proposal (which is not quite done yet), and I developed and taught a music theory course at the New School. Both of these...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hip-hop glossary
One of my dissertation readers suggested that I include a glossary for key hip-hop terms. My intended audience is music educators with a traditional classical background, so I can see how having all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Will Kuhn and I finished our book
For the past year or so, Will Kuhn and I have been writing a book for Oxford University Press called Electronic Music School: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity. Late last night, we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Toni Blackman interview remix – What is hip-hop education?
For my dissertation on hip-hop educators, I’m creating a mixtape of remixed interviews with my research participants. Here I talk through the process of remixing an interview with Toni Blackman that I...
View ArticleWhat is Hip-Hop Education, the remix
In my first official interview with each of my three dissertation research participants, I asked them to answer the question, “What is hip-hop education?” To analyze their responses, I edited their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Things I wrote this year
I wrote a tremendous amount this year, due to a combination of pandemic-induced academic underemployment and pandemic-induced confinement to quarters. The big headlines are that I published a book...
View ArticleI wrote another rap song to inspire my Pop Practicum students
I’m making my students in the NYU Popular Music Practicum write and perform original rap verses. To encourage them, I wrote one too, like I did last year. The samples are from Erroll Garner’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My year in writing
I wrote a lot of stuff this year! First, let’s talk about the big projects that I started in previous years but finished in 2022. The biggest one was my doctoral dissertation. Read the story of it...
View Article