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 projects featured heavily on this blog. Here are some high points.
Posts pertaining to my dissertation proposal, to hip-hop education, and to hip-hop as a musicological method:
- Mr Ethan, I want to hear you rap
- Remixing Monk vs covering Monk
- The Rockit rhizome
- Toni Blackman on the wisdom of the cypher
- Remixing Ben Shapiro
- Lil Nas X and the racial politics of country music
Posts pertaining to Fundamentals of Western Music at the New School:
- Developing an intro-level music theory course
- Why can’t you tune your guitar?
- Jacob Collier’s four magical chords
- The theory aQWERTYon
- Live scoring with No Country for Old Men
