The University of Washington Music History program hosts a talk by Sumanth Gopinath, Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Minnesota.
Biography
Sumanth Gopinath is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form (MIT Press, 2013). He co-edited, with Jason Stanyek, The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Rethinking Reich with Pwyll ap Siôn (Oxford University Press, 2019). His writings on Steve Reich, musical minimalism, Marxism and music scholarship, sound and digital media, and post-WWII concert and popular musics have appeared in various scholarly journals and edited collections. He is currently working on a book project on musical minimalism and on additional projects on Prince and country music. He is the leader of the independent Americana band The Gated Community.