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| Matthew A. Somoroff, Musicology
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | | | Email Address: |   | Typical Courses Taught:
- Music 20s, SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSIC
Synopsis
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- 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 Bass Instructorship, 2010-2011.
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