Benjamin Piekut
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Nationality | American |
Education | Columbia University (Ph.D.), Mills College (MA), Hampshire College (BA) |
Occupation | Musicologist |
Notable work | Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem (2019) Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and its Limits (2011) Deadness: Technologies of the Intermundane (2010) |
Website | Benjamin D. Piekut at Cornell University |
Benjamin Piekut is an American musicologist specializing in experimental music and the intersections of music, culture, and politics. He is currently a professor of music at Cornell University, where he serves as the chair of the Department of Music.[1]
Early life and education
Benjamin Piekut earned his Bachelor of Arts at Hampshire College, where he studied music and philosophy. He subsequently earned his M.A. in composition at Mills College. He studied for two years at the University of California, San Diego, and later received his Ph.D. in historical musicology from Columbia University in 2008.[2][3] His dissertation, titled "Testing, testing…: New York experimentalism 1964," was advised by composer and musicologist George E. Lewis.[4]
Career
After graduating from Columbia in 2008, Piekut became a lecturer in music at the University of Southampton that same year. He remained at Southampton until 2011, at which point he became an assistant professor of music at Cornell University. Following a single-semester stint as visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 2014, Piekut earned tenure at Cornell and was promoted to the status of Associate Professor.[5]
References
- ↑ "Benjamin D. Piekut". Cornell University Music Department Faculty. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ↑ "Benjamin Piekut: Alumni". The Department of Music: Columbia University in the City of New York. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ↑ "Benjamin D. Piekut". Cornell University Music Department Faculty. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ↑ Piekut, Benjamin (2008). Testing, testing…: New York experimentalism 1964. New York, NY: Columbia University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
- ↑ Piekut, Benjamin. "Curriculum vitae". Retrieved 22 May 2023.
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