Socially Engaged Art

My colleague Dr. H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams and I are working on a book entitled Making Revolution Irresistible in Socially Engaged Art, to be published by Routledge in 2025. (Here’s the Call for Proposals if you are interested in contributing.)

I’ve also published “Ordinary Situations and Artworld Declarations” on the definition and evaluation of socially engaged art in Open Philosophy (2023), and have presented the papers “Socially Engaged Art as Pedagogical Praxis” at ARTs + Change (Rochester NY 2022) and “Futurism and the Prefigurative Politics of Sound” at the American Musicological Society (Boston MA, 2019).”

Rural Music and Aesthetics

I’ve published the article “Rural Music and the Rural Imaginary” in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture (2019) and “Rural Noise Today” in Noise and Silence Magazine (2016), and have presented on these topics and the work of the Rural Noise Ensemble at New Interfaces for Musical Expression, NIME (Shanghai, 2021), the International Society for Electronic Arts, ISEA (Montreal, 2020), and “Locations and Dislocations: an ecomusicological conversation” (Princeton NJ, 2016).

Recently, I’ve been researching the relationship between eugenics, folk music, and the social construction of the rural, and presented the paper “Rural Aesthetics as a Eugenic Project” at Political Ecologies of the Far Right (Uppsala, Sweden 2024).

Critical Pedagogy and the Arts

I published “That entertainment called discussion: The critical arts pedagogy of John Cage” in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (2015) and have presented on ungrading and critical pedagogy (2022) and anti-racist pedagogies (2021) at the American Musicological Society.