Eric Drott 5406 Avenue G, Austin, TX 78751 Phone: (512) 371-7929 E-Mail: drott@mail.utexas.edu Employment University of Texas at Austin Associate Professor of Music Theory 2011-present Assistant Professor of Music Theory 2004-2011 Yale University Assistant Professor of Music Theory 2002-2004 Visiting Assistant Lecturer 2001-2002 Education Yale University 2001 Ph.D., Music Theory University of Pennsylvania 1995 B.A., Music Book Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981. University of California Press, 2011. Articles The End(s) of Genre. Journal of Music Theory, vol. 57 no. 1 (Spring 2013). What Inclusiveness Excludes. Journal of the American Musicological Society vol. 65 no. 3 (Winter 2012). Lines, Masses, Micropolyphony: Ligeti s Kyrie and the Crisis of the Figure. Perspectives of New Music vol. 49 nos. 1-2 (2011). The nòva cançon occitana and the Internal Colonialism Thesis. French Politics, Culture & Society vol. 29 no. 1 (Spring 2011). Fraudulence and the Gift Economy of Music. Journal of Music Theory vol. 54 no. 1 (Spring 2010). Free Jazz and the French Critic. Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 61 no. 3 (Winter 2008). Class, Ideology and il caso Scelsi. The Musical Quarterly, vol. 89 no. 1 (Spring 2006).
Page 2 Conlon Nancarrow and the Technological Sublime. American Music, vol. 22, no. 4 (Winter 2004). Ligeti in Fluxus. Journal of Musicology vol. 21, no. 2 (Summer 2004). The Role of Triadic Harmony in Ligeti's Recent Music. Music Analysis, vol. 22, no. 3 (October 2003). Book Chapters Music, Resistance, and Social Movements. In The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music, ed. John Shepherd and Kyle Devine. Routledge, Forthcoming. The Peasant s Voice and the Tourist s Gaze: Listening to Landscape in Luc Ferrari s Petite symphonie intuitive pour un paysage de printemps. In Ecomusicology: A Field Guide, Ed. Aaron Allen and Kevin Dawe. Routledge, Forthcoming. Music, the Fête de l Humanité, and Demographic Change in Postwar France In Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945. Ed. Robert Adlington. Oxford University Press, 2013. Music and May 68 in France: Practices, roles, and representations. In Dissenting Across Borders: Music and Protest in 1968. Ed. Beate Kutschke and Barley Norton. Cambridge University Press, 2013. Spectralism, Politics, and the Post-Industrial Imagination. In The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music, ed. Björn Heile. Ashgate, 2009. The String Quartets of Giacinto Scelsi. In Intimate Voices: Aspects of Construction and Character in the Twentieth Century String Quartet. Ed. Evan Jones. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009. The Politics of Presque rien. In Sound Commitments: Avant-garde Music and the 1960s. Ed. Robert Adlington. Oxford University Press, 2008. Poor man's musique concrète : Luc Ferrari's tape music after 1968. In 1968: Musik und Gesellschaftlicher Protest, ed. Beate Kutschke and Arnold Jacobshagen. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Other Publications Review of John Street, Music and Politics. Music and Letters. Forthcoming. Spectralism, Ferrari, Luc, and Scelsi, Giacinto. Entries for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (forthcoming). Timbre and the Cultural Politics of Spectral Music. In Proceedings of the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM 2005). Accessible online at http://www.oicm.umontreal.ca/cim05/actes_en.html Presentations The Peasant s Voice and the Tourist s Gaze: Listening to Landscape in Luc Ferrari s Petite symphonie intuitive pour un paysage de printemps. Paper presented at the Ecomusicologies 2012 conference, New Orleans, LA (29-31 October 2012)
Page 3 Re-reading Jacques Attali s Bruits. Paper presented at symposium New Directions in Musical Aesthetics, University of Texas at Austin, February 26, 2011; the 2011 national meeting of the American Musicological Society, San Francisco, CA (10-13 November 2011); and the University of Manchester (May 27, 2013). Genre, Identity, Politics. Lecture presented at University of California at Berkeley Department of Music, March 4, 2011; Eastman School of Music, September 15, 2011; the University of Pennsylvania Department of Music, March 20, 2011; and the University of Wisconsin School of Music Symposium Series, April 13, 2012. Music in the Fête de l Humanité. Paper presented at the conference Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945, British Academy, London, UK (January 13-15 2011) New Music in the Banlieue: Georges Aperghis s La bouteille à la mer, Paper presented at the conference Twentieth-century Music and Politics, University of Bristol, Bristol UK (April 14-16, 2010) Fraudulence and the Gift Economy of Contemporary Music, Paper presented at the 2009 national meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Montreal, Canada (October 28-November 2, 2009). Singing the Internationale during May 1968. Paper presented at the 2009 meeting of the United States chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, San Diego, CA (May 29-31, 2009); and at symposium Post-war Music and Politics, Indiana University, February 27, 2008. Free Jazz and the French Critic. Paper presented at the 2007 national meeting of the American Musicological Society, Quebec City, Canada (November 1-4, 2007). Music and May '68 in France. Paper presented at the 2006 national meeting of the American Musicological Society, Los Angeles CA (November 2-5, 2006); at the Modernist Studies Group lecture series at the University of Texas at Austin (December 1, 2006); and at the 2007 meeting of the International Musicological Society at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (July 10-15, 2007); and at Duke University Department of Music, January 25, 2008. Luc Ferrari: The Politics of Presque rien. Paper presented at the symposium 1968: Musik und Gesellschaftlicher Protest at the Katholische Akadamie Schwerte, Germany (September 28-30, 2005) Spectralism, Politics, and the Post-Industrial Imagination. Paper presented and the International Conference on Twentieth Century Music, University of Sussex, England (August 25-28, 2005) Timbre and the Cultural Politics of Spectral Music. Paper presented at the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, Montreal, Canada (March 10-12, 2005) Ligeti in Fluxus. Paper delivered at the national meeting of the Modernist Studies Association, Rice University, October 14, 2001. György Ligeti's Drei Stücke für Zwei Klaviere. Lecture presented in Prof. Phillip Rupprecht's seminar Ligeti, Carter, Birtwistle. Department of Music, City University of New York Graduate Center, April 12, 2002.
Page 4 Between Control and Chaos: Nancarrow s Studies no. 5 and no. 33 for Player Piano. Paper presented at Music Theory Southeast, March 2001. The Role of Triadic Harmony in Ligeti s Recent Music. Paper delivered at the national meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Toronto, November 2000. Stasis and Semblance in György Ligeti's Atmosphères. Paper delivered at the 2000 meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State, New York University, April 2000. Process and Allusion in György Ligeti s Selbstportrait mit Reich und Riley (und Chopin ist auch dabei) paper delivered at the national meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, November 1998. Awards and Honors Faculty Research Award (University of Texas at Austin) Spring 2013 Grace Hill Milam Centennial Fellowship in Fine Arts (University of Texas at Austin) 2011-12 American Musicological Society Publication Subvention 2011 Special Research Grant (University of Texas at Austin) 2010 Research Grant (University of Texas at Austin) 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 2008-09 Dean's Fellowship (College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin) Spring 2007 College of Fine Arts Research Grant (University of Texas at Austin) 2006-2007 Special Research Grant (University of Texas at Austin) 2005-2006 Summer Research Award (University of Texas at Austin) 2005 Giles M. Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities 1999-2000 Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship 1998 Henry and Lucy Moses Fellowship 1996-1997 Andrew W. Mellon Language Grant 1996 Yale University Fellowship 1995-1996 Administrative Duties University of Texas at Austin Division Head, Music Theory and Composition Music Theory Division Graduate Advisor 2013-present 2011-present Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation committee 2007
Page 5 Plan II Honors Advising 2007 Yale University Director of Undergraduate Studies 2003-2004 Coordinator, Music Department Lecture Series 2002-2003 Coordinator, Freshman Music Theory Sequence 2001-2003 Professional Activities Session Chair, Changing the Tune: Musiques populaires et politique au XXie siècle June 2013 Member-at-large, Cold War Music Studies Group 2012-2014 Session Chair, Society for Music Theory National Conference November 2012 Peer Review Panelist, NEH Summer Stipends Program November 2010 Fellow, Mannes Institute for Advanced Musical Study Summer 2010 Program Committee, Red Strains: Music & Communism Outside the Communist Bloc Summer 2010 Session Chair, Texas Society for Music Theory February 26-7, 2010 Panelist, La Voix Humaine: Understanding and Performing Francis Poulenc, April 2009 Round table organized by Austin Lyric Opera Member, Committee on the Status of Women, American Musicological Society 2007-2010 Program committee member, Texas Society for Music Theory Spring 2007 Panel organizer, Art is in the Streets : Music and Politics around 1968, November 2006 American Musicological Society national meeting Session Chair at symposium 1968: Musik und Gesellschaftlicher Protest, September 2005 Katholische Akadamie Schwerte, Germany Interim Editor, Journal of Music Theory 2001-2002 Editorial Assistant, Journal of Music Theory 1997-2001