On Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 at 4:00pm, Dr. Stephen Smith will be giving a talk entitled "Music and the Modernity of Nature."
Stephen Decatur Smith is an Associate Professor of Music History and Theory at Stony Brook University. His research deals with twentieth-century musical modernism from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, constellating the history of music with the history of modern philosophy and the other arts. His musical interests focus on the Second Viennese School, as well as popular music and politics. His theoretical interests include psychoanalysis, phenomenology, vitalism, and the Frankfurt School.
Smith’s publications have appeared in Popular Music (an essay coauthored Martin Scherzinger) and the Journal of Music Theory (in a special issue studying the musical thought of Stanley Cavell, coedited by Smith and Brian Kane). Forthcoming publications will appear in the Contemporary Music Review and the Journal of the Royal Music Association. He has presented at conferences including the American Musicological Society, the Society for Music Theory, and the American Comparative Literature Association.
Smith has also taught at NYU, where he received his PhD, and has received fellowships from NYU, the Foreign Language Area Studies Program of the US Department of Education, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Since 2010, he has chaired the Music and Philosophy Study Group of the American Musicological Society, a dynamic new organization devoted to providing a forum for the many varieties of musicological work that deal with music and philosophy together.
Please contact fas.music@nyu.edu for more information or to RSVP.