Matthew A. Somoroff, Musicology
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Typical Courses Taught:
- Music 20s, SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSIC
Synopsis
- Education:
MA Queens College, CUNY 2005 BA New York University 2002
- Specialties:
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Ethnomusicology
Musicology
- Research Interests: Jazz; Sound Recordings; 21st century music; listening practices; aesthetics
I'm currently doing dissertation fieldwork in New York City. My dissertation is an ethnographic study of a small community that coalesces around and is largely defined by a shared interest in witnessing and listening to performances and recordings of a subgenre of improvised music carrying a varied nomenclature that includes the designations: "free jazz," "avant garde jazz," "out jazz," "creative music." In studying this community, I pay special attention to how members conceive of listening in theory and how they carry it out in practice.
- Keywords:
- Jazz • Listening • Sound Recordings • African American Music • Aesthetics • Urban Ethnography • Fans
- Recent Publications
- M.A. Somoroff, Media Review Essay, Jazz Perspectives, vol. 3 no. 2 (August, 2009), pp. 183-187
- Review of Hamilton, Andy, Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art, Popular Music and Society, vol. 32 no. 1 (February, 2009), pp. 139-141
- Review of Solis, Gabriel, Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making, Ethnomusicology, vol. 52 no. 3 (Fall, 2008), pp. 466-468
- Review of: Alexander Weheliye, Phonographies, Popular Music & Society, vol. 30 no. 2 (May, 2007), pp. 292-294
- Review of: Kyra Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play, Popular Music & Society, vol. 30 no. 2 (May, 2007), pp. 298-300
- Selected Grant Support
- Duke University Summer Research Grant, 2009.