Sumanth Gopinath

Publications

• The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, vols. 1 and 2, co-edited with Jason Stanyek, Oxford University Press, 2014. More information:The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 1 and The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 2
• The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form, MIT Press, 2013. Supplemental website at theringtonedialectic.com.
• “Tuning the Human Race: Athletic Capitalism and the Nike+ Sport Kit,” co-authored with Jason Stanyek, in Music, Sound, and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience, ed. Georgina Born (Cambridge University Press, 2013), 128–148.
• “Britten’s Serenade and the Politico-Moral Crises of the Wartime Conjuncture: Hermeneutic and Narrative Notes on the ‘Nocturne,'” in Musical Narrative since 1900, ed. Michael Klein and Nicholas Reyland (Indiana University Press, 2012), 234–253.
• “Reich in Blackface: Oh Dem Watermelons and Radical Minstrelsy in the 1960s,“ Journal of the Society for American Music 5/2 (May 2011), 139–193.
• “Diversity, Music Theory, and the Neoliberal Academy,“ Gamut 2/1 (2009), 62–88, available online
• “The Problem of the Political in Steve Reich’s Come Out (1966),“ in Sound Commitments: Avant-Garde Music and The Sixties (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 121–144.
• ““˜Somewhere Down in the United States’: The Art of Bob Dylan’s Ventriloquism,“ co-authored with Michael Cherlin, in Highway 61 Revisited: Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), 225–236.
• “The Social Movement in the New Musicology and Marxist Music Studies,“ in M. Jablonksi (Ed.), Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology 5, “New Musicology“ (Poznan: Poznan University Press, 2006), 73–96.
• “Ringtones, or, the Auditory Logic of Globalization,“ First Monday 10/12 (December 2005), available online
• ““˜A Composer Looks East’: Steve Reich and Discourse on Non-Western Music,“ Glendora Review 3/3–4 (2004), 134–145.
• Book Review: Review of Robert Carl, Terry Riley’s In C, in American Music 28/3 (Fall 2011), 388–391.
• Book Review: Review of Music and Marx, ed. Regula Qureshi, in Music Theory Spectrum 27/2 (Fall 2005), 308–318.
• “Sentimental Remembrance and the Amusements of Forgetting in Karl and Harty’s ‘Kentucky,’” co-authored with Anna Schultz, Journal of the American Musicological Society 69/2 (Summer 2016), 477–524.
• “Researching the Mobile Phone Ringtone: Towards and Beyond The Ringtone Dialectic,” in Richard Purcell and Richard Randall, eds., Listening Spaces: 21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 182–194.
• Rethinking Reich, co-edited with Pwyll ap Siôn, Oxford University Press, 2019. More information here.
• “Technologies of the Musical Selfie,” coauthored with Jason Stanyek, in Nicholas Cook and David Trippett, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2019), 89–118.

Activities

Courses

• Foundations of Music Theory: Analysis and Ear-Training
• Sonata Theory
• Theory and Analysis of American Popular Music
• Music and Meaning
• Musical Minimalisms
• Sociologies of Music
• Marx for Today
• Theory and Analysis of 20th Century Music