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Martin Scherzinger

Martin Scherzinger

Faculty Fellow

Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
African Genealogies of European and American Art Music: 1950-1980

Martin Scherzinger is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at Steinhardt. His research specializes in sound studies, music, media and politics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a particular interest in the music of European modernism and after, as well as African music and transnational musical fusions. His research includes the examination of links between political economy and digital sound technologies, the poetics of copyright law in an international frame, the relation between aesthetics and censorship, the sensory limits of mass-mediated music, the mathematical geometries of musical time, and the history of sound in philosophy. This work represents an attempt to understand what we might call contemporary “modalities of listening;” that is, the economic, political, metaphysical, and technological determinants of both mediated and (what is perceived as) immediate auditory experience.