My year in blogging

Two big things happened in my academic life this year: I wrote a dissertation proposal (which is not quite done yet), and I developed and taught a music theory course at the New School. Both of these projects featured heavily on this blog. Here are some high points.

Posts pertaining to my dissertation proposal, to hip-hop education, and to hip-hop as a musicological method:

• Mr Ethan, I want to hear you rap

• Remixing Monk vs covering Monk

• The Rockit rhizome

• Toni Blackman on the wisdom of the cypher

• Remixing Ben Shapiro

• Lil Nas X and the racial politics of country music

Posts pertaining to Fundamentals of Western Music at the New School:

• Developing an intro-level music theory course

• Why can't you tune your guitar?

• Jacob Collier's four magical chords

• The theory aQWERTYon

• Live scoring with No Country for Old Men