S. Alexander Reed, Ph.D.
music • writing • the future

TEACHING

Ithaca College (current) • NYU Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music • University of Florida • William and Mary

SPECIALTIES

musicology, music theory, timbre, antifascism, futurism, noise, popular music studies, composition, songwriting, production, remix, technoculture, the gothic, the avant-garde, subculture, zines, hip-hop, nonsense

BOOKS

Laurie Anderson's Big Science (Oxford University Press)
Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music (Oxford University Press)
They Might Be Giants' Flood (with Elizabeth Sandifer, Bloomsbury 33 1/3 series)

MORE WRITING

Slate, The Quietus, Popmatters, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Uproxx, Interface, Perspectives of New Music, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Popular Music and Society, Music Theory Spectrum, Contemporary Music Review, Journal of Popular Music Education, ImageTexT, Journal of Musicological Research, Music Theory Online, liner notes, zines, various collections and anthologies of musicology, fiction, and poetry

SELECTED RECORDINGS

The World
The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity
SOL: A Self-Banishment Ritual
Madness & Extinction
Land Dispute
The White Beyond

APPEARANCES + INTERVIEWS

CNN, MTV, NPR, Vox.com, History.com, Boston Globe, Toronto Sun, Radio Sweden, Contemporary Arts International, 40+ conference and colloquium appearances, Gossip Girl

LINKS

The Aegis Archive • Seeming • ThouShaltNot • Patreon • IG

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s.alexander.reed (at) gmail.com

photo by Benjamin Torrey