GUEST SPOTLIGHT: PROFESSOR WHITNEY SLATEN

Whitney Slaten researches how the social positions of musicians and audiences shift, in moments when sound becomes music. This analysis of time and resonance in music and society contributes to the discourses of ethnomusicology, jazz studies, technology studies, the philosophy of music, and the sociology of art. A ten year participation in jazz festivals throughout Harlem inform Slaten’s ethnographic analysis entitled, Doing Sound: An Ethnography of Fidelity, Temporality, and Labor among Live Sound Engineers. His scholarship appears in Current Musicology, Ethnomusicology Review, and Souls. He has presented his research at Columbia, MIT, Cornell, and the International Musicology Society at Lincoln Center. Slaten previously served as an assistant professor at Seton Hall University and The New School, and is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Bard College. LEARN MORE

GUEST SPOTLIGHT: PROFESSOR PHILIP BULLOCK

Philip Bullock is Professor of Russian Literature and Music at the University of Oxford, as well as a Fellow and Tutor in Russian at Wadham College. His most recent book is a critical life of Tchaikovsky that explores the composer’s life within the context of nineteenth-century Russia’s evolving musical institutions (conservatoires, publishing, performance, and patronage). He is currently working on an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between words and music in Russian culture from the late eighteenth century to the present day, with a specific focus on the literary, musical and cultural history of the art-song repertoire, as well as on aspects of opera. He particularly enjoys communicating academic ideas to a broader public, and has written and presented a number of talks and features on Russian literature and music that have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, as well as contributing to a recent award-winning film documentary about Tchaikovsky. LEARN MORE