My courses: descriptions, discographies, etc.

Music of the Americas

Music 400/Afro Am 400
Spring 2011. Undergraduate/graduate course offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Music, Aesthetics, and War after 9/11

Music 497
Fall 2010. Undergraduate/graduate seminar offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Course description
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History of Punk Rock: 1967-1984

This was a three-day mini course offered through UW-Madison's student union.

Course description
Discography

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Jazz Sounds: Bop and Beyond

This was a five week mini course offered through UW-Madison's student union. Although I can't find the course description at the moment, I've uploaded the discography, which provides a general listening guide to all periods of jazz although it is heavily geared towards later developments.

Discography

Music Reviews

The following are published reviews.

All About Jazz:

• David S. Ware Quartet — Renunciation
• Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton — Zafiro
• Drumheller — Wives

One Final Note:

• Muhal Richard Abrams — "The Visibility of Thought"
• Braxton / Szabados / Tarasov — "Tritone"
• Anthony Braxton — "Solo (Milano) 1979, Vol. 2"
• John Butcher & Gino Robair — "New Oakland Burr"
• Jerome Cooper — "In Concert: From There To Hear"
• Whit Dickey Quartet — "Coalescence"
• Dominic Duval / Joe McPhee — "Rules Of Engagement, Vol. 2"
• The Exciting Trio — "In Chicago There Is Willy"
• James Finn — "Opening the Gates"
• James Finn Trio — "Faith in A Seed"
• Fonda / McPhee / White / Karetnick — "Heat Suite"
• Masashi Harada Condanction Ensemble — "Enterprising Mass Of Cilia"
• Elvin Jones — "The Truth: Heard Live At The Blue Note + Someday My Prince Will Come"
• Koch-Schütz-Studer — "Life Tied"
• Natasza Kurek Group — "Incantation"
• Joëlle Léandre / Mark Nauseef — "Evident"
• Léandre / Maneri / Marguet / Ryan — "For Flowers"
• Lukas Ligeti — "Mystery System"
• Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre & The Light meet Adam Lane — "Paths to Glory"
• Roscoe Mitchell — "Solo 3"
• Jemeel Moondoc — "Live At The Glenn Miller Café, Vol. 1 + Live At The Vision Festival"
• Simon Nabatov Trio — "Autumn Music"
• Kevin Norton — "Ocean Of Earth + Intuitive Structures"
• Parker / Schlippenbach / Lytton — "America 2003"
• Pauline Oliveros & Reynols — "The Minexcio Connection : Live! At The Rosendale Café"
• Evelyn Petrova — "Year's Cycle"
• Phillips / Léandre / Parker / Saitoh — "After You Gone"
• Plunge — "Plunge"
• Sawai / Doneda / Imai / Lê Quan / Saitoh — "Une chance pour l'ombre"
• Sirone Bang Ensemble — "Configuration"
• Soft Machine — "Live in Paris: May 2, 1972"
• Sun Ra Arkestra — "Music For The 21st Century"
• Cecil Taylor — "Algonquin"
• Cecil Taylor — "Almeda + All The Notes"
• Tigersmilk — "From the Bottle"
• Assif Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani — "Come Sunday"
• Bertram & Nancy Turetzky — "Music For Flute(s) And Contrabass, I"
• Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts — "Wake Up! (To What's Happening)"

Trouser Press:

• Sonny Sharrock

Publications

The following publications are organized chronologically.

Academic Publications

• War's Audiovisions: Music, Affect, and the Representation of Contemporary Conflict. 2013. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "Understanding the Pleasures of War's Audiovison." 2013. In The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media, Claudia Gorbman, John Richardson, and Carol Vernallis, eds.
• "The Soundtrack to War." 2013. In Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing, Neil Whitehead and Sverker Finnstrom, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Review of Jonathan Pieslak's Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War. Forthcoming. Asian Music.
• "Madison." Forthcoming. The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition. Oxford University Press.
• "Music, Aesthetics, and the Technologies of Online War." 2011. In War, Technology, Anthropology, ed. Koen Stroeken. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
• "Black Rage, White Noise: The Jazz/Punk Connection." 2010. New Horizons in Jazz Research, ed. Michael Molasky. Tokyo: Artes.
• Hearing War, Seeing Music: Violence, Aesthetics, and Technology in Online War Music Videos. 2008. M.A. Thesis. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Liner Notes

• Notes to Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers. 2012.
• Notes to Harris Eisenstadt's The Soul and Gone. 2005.

Music Journalism

• What's that sound? — Feature story about the University of Minnesota's annual Spark festival. (Winter 2009)
• Wadada Leo Smith: The OFN Interview [part 2] — Second part of hour-long interview with Smith.
• Dropping Acid And Speaking Esperanto, Man!: The Return Of ESP-Disk — Review of the legendary label's not so triumphant return.
• Wadada Leo Smith : The OFN Interview [part 1] — Part one of an hour-long interview with trumpeter, improviser, composer Smith.
• Penguin Guide to Jazz, Seventh Edition — Book review of the now standard jazz guide.
• Albert Ayler: Holy Ghost — Box set review, co-written with Scott Hreha of One Final Note.
• Harris Eisenstadt: The Next Wave — Profile of drummer, improviser, composer Eisenstadt.
• 11th Annual Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium — Review of 2004 season.
• The Completist Syndrome, Part 2 : Bootlegs — An off the cuff look into the nature of unofficial recordings.
• The Completist Syndrome, Part 1: Official Recordings — A turn towards the fetishism of music collecting.
• Red Toucan : Then And Now — Red Toucan Records label retrospective.
• The Roaring Silence: In Memory of Elvin Jones — Threnody for the late Elvin Jones.
• Greetings: Poetry Journal — Essay review of poetry/music journal.
• Mixing it up at Northrop — Feature story about the 10th anniversary of the Northrop Jazz Season. (Winter 2004)
• The Healing Power of Music — Reflections on the power of Jazz as embodied by the music of Elvin Jones. Originally published in Modern Drummer magazine.